WALKING into Turfway Park these days is like walking into your grandparents’ house. You can still sense the vitality that was once there, but it’s only a sense as the curtains fall off the rods, the lights flicker and the porch swing lies in an overgrown flower bed.

On February 19th, Wesley Ward added some spark to a Friday night card at the Kentucky track – like adding wireless internet to your grandparents’ house – when he walked Acapulco from her barn to the paddock for the ninth race.