Getting your player ready...
Back at the barns, there’s muck and mire. Then there’s Walter Blum, right. Hard to miss this guy, even at a Kentucky Derby filled with sharp dressers. Heck, what other exercise rider trades a mud-splattered helmet for a Dolce & Gabbana hat? And Versace shirt. Plus Prada shades. No faded chaps for this galloping chap. “Just trying to bring a little fashion out here,” he says. “There are a couple of us. Well, actually, I might be the only one.” Walking along, he dodges puddles of slop and piles of hay. Hey, he’s got an image to uphold, be it Churchill Downs or Miami Beach. “I’m definitely regarded as something of a pretty boy,” he says. “That’s how a lot of people around here see me.”
