We've all sure experienced a lot of different emotions in the last 43 days or so. But few of us have felt the feeling that comes with emotionally attaching yourself to a team or an individual participant during a sporting event. So, rooting. We haven't gotten to root.
Well, for a day, anyway, we all now have someone to root for: The horse born on an Easter Sunday with big ears, the one they call "Bunny."
The progeny of Mahvelous Dahling and a sire named Bellamy Road, her proper name is Resurrection Road. She's owned by two St. Louisans, a father and a son. The jockey's silks look like the St. Louis flag. She races Thursday.