But that's when the exercise rider said he felt something tighten.
He would rather drop exercise riders than carry them around the track.
The exercise rider had heard the right stuff but lost his dinner money anyway.
He galloped under his exercise rider and came back fine.
Pickens began his career working as an exercise rider in 1906.
Earlier in the morning, he had reared and tossed his exercise rider.
An exercise rider's job is to get aboard horses during morning training hours.
He takes home 10 percent, which far exceeds his salary as an exercise rider.
As fate would have it, one of the exercise riders came down with appendicitis.
They prepare them for exercise riders to run on the training track.