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husband. father. #twindad #22q . #BeemieAward winner. Current: @hr_nation . Formerly: Buckeye Rubber & Packing Co., @HamptonByHilton , @newarkadvocate , @StateFarm

Goshen, KY
Joined March 2007
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10 days
Handicapping process @KentuckyDerby week
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1 year
@pallnandi Full salary tranparency. Every employee at a company should know what his/her peers and managers make.
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1 year
@shannonrwatts If you outlaw toddlers having guns then only outlaw toddlers will have guns
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4 years
As the field turns for home in the @PreaknessStakes , jockey Robby Albaradoโ€™s agent, lil Roc, gets down to get Swiss Skydiver home.
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5 years
Making some moves in (and hopefully soon out of) the ICU. Happy to see EJ on his feet for the first time in 6 days.
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1 year
@EndWokeness I don't think you know what "insurrection" means
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5 years
We are going home!
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2 years
This horse won her first career race today @JACKThistledown .
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2 years
When youโ€™re involved in this game, the most important question is, โ€œdid you take care of the horse?โ€ Thatโ€™s the final arbiter between success and failure. @CoadyPhoto
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3 years
I got bad news for the haters, going to take a lot to derail this train. #racingisdead #thetrackisback
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1 year
You can feel the top two separating from the pack the first six furlongs. This is an amazing video of Flightlineโ€™s @BreedersCup Classic victory (via @JockeyCam )
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4 years
Really the only way to celebrate what should have been Kentucky Oaks day. Super filly? You bet.
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1 month
@Dermin_ pretty sure that's just stigmata
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2 years
Irad Ortiz should not be allowed to ride on Saturday after this
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4 years
This. Is. Un. Buh. Lee. Vable.
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2 years
Going to listen to this to repeat for awhile โ€œHELLO NEW YORK!โ€ #ForTheLand
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11 months
Kudos @gregoryahall for capturing this amazing display of horsemanship from Greg Blasi @ChurchillDowns , catching a pair of loose horses on the first turn.
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The grandmommy of them all, Zenyatta wins the 2009 @BreedersCup Classic @santaanitapark . Iโ€™m not sure The Great Race Place has ever shook like this.
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2 years
The best @kentuckyderby of my lifetime โ€œit is all Barbaro in a sublime performance!โ€
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2 years
Before there was Flightline at Del Mar there was Falcon Seelster at Delaware. โ€œIf youโ€™ve never been on your feet you better get up now!โ€
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4 years
With no fans present, great acoustics on the sound of horses running @OaklawnRacing
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3 years
RIP Roxie. Weโ€™ll see you on the other side is the bridge
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3 years
A much-needed @PreaknessStakes week timeline cleanser. โ€œThe @KentuckyDerby winner runs at her late ... and the filly did it!โ€ Rachel Alexandra wins the 2009 Preakness
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@jamandabop Now do California versus Wyoming Utah and Montana
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1 year
โ€œSuper filly? You bet!โ€ 14 years ago today, Rachel Alexandra โ€œdestroys this fieldโ€ and wins the 2009 Kentucky Oaks @ChurchillDowns
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6 years
@M_FlyGuy21 Tylenol is really just acetaminophen
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11 months
Flightline was a freak
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4 years
@MDConroy2 @KySportsRadio @MattBevin It's honestly horrifying to think how poorly Bevin would have performed. So bad, that he not only would have hurt Kentuckians but also the whole country. Has to be in the bottom 1% of elected officials in the history of the republic.
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4 months
@StephenKing Have you gotten enough correct responses now that we can start trolling?
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2 years
We have a middle schooler! So proud of my son and the community that has embraced him.
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9 months
Thank god the Ortiz brothers werenโ€™t the pilots
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2 years
Flightline is the best horse since Frankel. Just ridiculous talent.
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5 years
Hereโ€™s your @KentuckyDerby connectionsโ€™ reactions cheat sheet for the post position draw.
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Ed DeRosa
6 years
Please forgive this @facebook cross post, but I really want to share this with everyone here who have read about EJ for 7+ years. As a parent of a nonverbal, severely delayed child of course I worry about peer interaction, but today made my heart sing.
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10 months
Thatโ€™s Eddie Olczyk rooting home a 80-1 @ClubHawthorne to win the Invitational. $52k cash plus $10k prize. Well done #edzo !
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3 years
The day you open a Bookerโ€™s Rye? THATโ€™s the special occasion. But this is a special occasion, as I have accepted a new position at @HR_Nation ! Looking forward to closing out 10 great years @TwinSpires @brisnet & @ChurchillDowns on @BreedersCup ! Cheers!
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2 years
Secretariat huddled with his @BelmontStakes foes
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3 years
I donโ€™t get star struck often, but when you get a picture with the goat... #rachelalexandra
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4 years
Four years ago today. Easily one of the happiest days of my life.
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8 years
The moment: after 4 1/2 years @ejxd3 is trach free!
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2 years
Me explaining why I didnโ€™t have Rich Strike
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2 years
Hey, Jorge, how many years are you going away for?
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5 years
Weโ€™ve made it out of ICU and got our biggest smile in a week!
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4 years
Happy 9th birthday, EJ! I am never so humbled as when thinking about God giving me the opportunity to be your dad and never so proud as when seeing how happy you make those around you with just a flash of your smile
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@nathaliejacoby1 The New York Times
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1 year
Horse racing used to be so popular that two vibrant racetracks coexisted across the street from each other with the greatest racetrack ever built just 25 miles away.
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Replay bros be like โ€œI got a trip for youโ€ then give you Crimson Light
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27 days
fierceness after Sierra Leone closed like a freight train to win the Blue Grass Stakes
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4 years
Everyone loves watching the outriders keeping horses and people safe. Good job @ChurchillDowns crew!
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2 years
D. Wayne Lukas said that Bob Baffert called him earlier in Secret Oath's career and told him the filly "typified [her sire] Arrogate." "He told me the way she looks, accelerates reminded him of Arrogate. I thought that was very complimentary" photo courtesy @JuddmonteFarms
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It's #RareDiseaseDay . I think one of the more existential questions loved ones of those with special needs face is, "What is the afterlife like?" Dominic frequently asks, "Dad, do you think EJ will talk in heaven?" I have no idea, of course. Will he eat in heaven? Will he useโ€ฆ
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3 Years ago today EJ completed his 4 1/2-year trach journey. We are so proud not only of what he has overcome but also the young man he is becoming
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4 years
Hereโ€™s that replay from race 5 @CanterburyPark that @rstanzel referenced. Really is incredible. โ€œTabiaโ€™s tired; Tabiaโ€™s done. TABIA. IS. ALL. DONE,โ€ and then...
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@morenom3383 Crushed red pepper
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6 years
So thankful to have EJ home & happy! Thank you everyone for the well wishes and helping us fight this pneumonia.
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2 years
Iโ€™m sorry, but Spectacular Bid is the ๐Ÿ
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1 year
Japan is showing everyone how breed to race makes better racehorses than breeding to breed does.
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7 years
Big milestone today! I used to wonder "why me" as if special needs were some sort of burden. Now I wonder "why me" because I got so lucky.
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I love horse racing. It is my passion, my vocation, my escape, & my wonderwall. But same-color saddletowels are an abomination. There is no acceptable reason for these, & the only explanation at this point is that those who do use them don't care about the customer.
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@StantonTanks @R_Thompson15 Oh wow. You mean the odds are stacked against the laborer and suit the rich owners?
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7 years
There were two winners in the late Pick 4 today @SHRP . I was one of them.
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9 months
Please. I'm begging all of you. Whether you own horses, bet on them, cheer for them, take care of them, or some or all of the above... stop saying that certain accomplishments mean a horse has done enough. They've all done enough the moment they're born.
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And the filly did it! @StonestreetFarm โ€™s Rachel Alexandra wins the 2009 @PreaknessStakes
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3 years
Happy Oaks day! This weekend means so much to those who love horse racing. I hope yโ€™all enjoy the hell out of it! Itโ€™s so good to be back.
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3 years
Trainer @TheRealChadCBr1 got some advice from @BobBaffert on how to win the @KentuckyDerby
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2 years
Aaron Rogers is the Midnight Bourbon of quarterbacks.
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6 months
Mass exodus from @santaanitapark following the Classic and especially ahead of the @breederscup Sprint. A true championship race & half the crowd headed for the exits. Hopefully the Classic as the ante penultimate race on the #BreedersCup program experiment is a one and done.
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3 years
Wise Dan is the most underrated horse of my lifetime. Here is winning the 2013 @WoodbineTB Mile in course record time under a complete hammerlock from @ljlmvel
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4 years
When youโ€™re stuck in a meeting but live in the Pick 5
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4 years
@MemphisHipShake @CMT Itโ€™s never too late to do the right thing.
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2 years
A rousing ovation for Donald Trump @ChurchillDowns following My Old Kentucky Home ahead of the @KentuckyDerby
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3 years
How it started... how itโ€™s going. May 2020 and May 2021 during live racing @ChurchillDowns
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4 years
Nothing but hooves for half the race. Canโ€™t see the horses. No cheering. No one watching. Chilling spectacle @OaklawnRacing
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2 years
What is the first race you remember? This is mine. The 1989 @PreaknessStakes in my grandparentsโ€™ living room.
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4 years
How about Dorf getting banned at a racetrack run by Ritvo with no proof while Navarro and and Servis did their things for years under that same executiveโ€™s watch?
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1 year
@unusual_whales Debt is a bitch
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5 years
His Travers pick didnโ€™t run, but weโ€™re sure today will be a happy birthday for EJ. Thank you everyone for the support through 8 years. Heโ€™s as lucky to have this community as we are to have him.
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6 months
Ten out of 14 Breedersโ€™ Cups being in Southern California is madness.
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2 years
Happy 11th birthday EJ! I am forever humbled that God chose me to be your faithful steward.
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Happy Woodward eve. โ€œThere will be no free ride for Rachel Alexandra today!โ€ If you were there I am eternally envious of you.
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6 years
Reactions to various @KentuckyDerby post positions
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3 years
The best horse since Spectacular Bid and no one better since
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5 years
One of my talents is chewing shapes into foodstuffs. Here is an Ohio-shaped lemon bar
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4 years
Siblings of a special needs child have special needs too. Watching little brother grow into his role as an advocate for EJ and his ride or die is a blessing I canโ€™t adequately put into words. The way EJ looks up to Dominic is so special. They have an indescribable bond.
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RIP Fusaichi Pegasus. $4-million Mr. Prospector yearling won the 2000 @KentuckyDerby and syndicated to @coolmoreamerica for a reported $60-million. Thatโ€™s $105-million in today dollars.
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2 years
Crazy to think that at this time 13 days from now Iโ€™ll already be out of the pick 5
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3 years
Always struck me that in that moment he said โ€œyou won.โ€ Not We but you. To be so happy for someone elseโ€”thatโ€™s pure joy. A timeless moment in the history of sport
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30 years ago.. Unbridled. "You won the @KentuckyDerby .. Mrs. Genter, I love you" ~ Carl Nafzger visits ATR at 10:30a on what is also the 13th anniversary of Street Sense's Derby.
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6 years
My sweet boy is headed to the second grade. Heโ€™s been through a lot and he keeps going. His family is so proud.
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5 years ago today. One of the happiest days of my life! So humbled to be associated with EJโ€™s villiage of medical professionals, caregivers, and supporters. So proud of all that heโ€™s accomplished and his example of Godโ€™s love in the world.
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8 years
The moment: after 4 1/2 years @ejxd3 is trach free!
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โ€œHere she is! A filly for the agesโ€”a #Haskell legend!โ€ ( @larrycollmus ) This yearโ€™s renewal Saturday @MonmouthPark shaping up to be special as well!
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Iโ€™ve decided my twitter brand demands that breakfast shots replace bath shots so hereโ€™s @TwinSpires Louisiana Derby favorite War of Will having a nosh
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3 years
6 years ago, one of the biggest upsets of my lifetime: Keen Ice defeats Triple Crown champion American Pharoah in the Travers Stakes
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2 years
Iโ€™m telling my kids this was Mike Smith and Chantal Sutherland
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2 years
Wtf is this
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1 year
@gideonheilpern2 Wait until you find out who runs AA meetings
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2 years
An absolute disgrace. The people I work with on a daily basis, and certainly the horses deserve better than this.
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4 years
When someone hits their show bet but youโ€™re out of the Pick 5
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@A__Chevalier @realDonaldTrump People still say with a straight face that was taken out of context.
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