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“I would say there wasn’t a time I didn’t think I was coming,” McCarthy said Wednesday morning as his horse walked the shedrow at Pimlico Race Course.

He picks up a hose and washes down his horse, mucks his own stall, spreads fresh bedding, while the rest of his team, his wife, walks their 2-year-old filly around the shedrow.

“We can’t imagine a life without horses in it,” said Jaqueline Smith, pacing her shedrow to say good morning to her horses.

Home run horses are scarce, and Knowlton and his partners were grateful Funny Cide had walked into their shedrow.

Midnight Bisou –Midnight Bisou walked the shedrow on Tuesday morning.