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All The Pretty Horses

By E.J. Hradek

Monday, December 8, 2008

It's a sweet spring morning at Lexington's Keeneland Race Course, with the scents of hay and bluegrass in the air. But Nick Zito doesn't have time to stop and smell anything. His cell phone is ringing. And ringing. And ringing. So much so that the repetitive, unidentifiable musical tone is piercing the serene green setting. "How do you stop this thing?" Zito asks, his raspy New York voice rising. When you're on a sizzling run like Zito, a trainer with the chance to saddle five top 3-year-olds ...

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