Cherie DeVaux is exhausted but hiding it well, running on Diet Coke and euphoria after a life-altering two minutes and two seconds in Louisville. Six days later, after being on the Today show and throwing out an opening pitch in Yankee Stadium and greeting a fresh media wave every morning outside Keeneland Race Course’s Barn 62, she rests her forearms on her desk and laughs at everything that has happened since the first Saturday in May.
“I don’t really think I’m that big of a deal, so it’s been very surreal,” she says. “Al Roker asked if he could have his picture with me. I was like, Are you kidding me? You’re asking me? Come on, man. You’re the famous one. I just watch horses go around in a circle.”
