The Ellet family — Tom, Cindy, and daughter Mary — are well known in the horse racing industry with decades of riding experience between them. For this year’s Breeders’ Cup, they will be ponying many of the Thoroughbred superstars. To keep order, horses known as “ponies” are escorts for the hot and often excitable Thoroughbreds.

Sometimes you just look at a horse and you know. That’s it. In the horse racing business, one must often trust their gut instinct. In 2010, Dean Reeves was reviewing a race and his instinct told him to invest not in the horse who won but in the horse who came in second. That horse was Mucho Macho Man, who had a very exciting career and won the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Classic in a dramatic photo finish.