Will Kentucky Derby 2026 be one to remember for Louisville's Brad Cox?
Brad Cox grew up in Louisville, blocks from Churchill Downs, dreaming of winning the Kentucky Derby. Is the trainer destined for the winner's circle?
Inside the living room of his childhood home on Evelyn Ave. , a very young Brad Cox grabbed a piece of cardboard so large it rivaled him in size, placed it on the floor and sketched out a racetrack. “What horse are you?
” he asked those around him, escorting plastic equine figurines to his scribbled starting gate. Some were the namesakes of history’s most famous horses. Others figments of his imagination.
“He didn't know much history,” Brad's older brother Doug Cox said, “because he wasn't very old himself. ” What Brad did know was that he wanted to be a horseplayer. Specifically, he wanted to win the Run for the Roses.
His mother Mary still has his fifth-grade drawing prophesizing such. On it he declares: “I’m going to win the Kentucky Derby . ” Some 3 1/2 decades later, Brad has done that.
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