By Ramon Antonio Vargas | The Advocate
Trainer Tom Amoss would have understood if Gayle Benson, just weeks after burying her husband of 14 years last spring, had wanted to skip the walk from the barn to the paddock with Lone Sailor, the thoroughbred they were racing in the Kentucky Derby.
At the time, a ceremonial walk before a horse race — even one as big as the Derby — didn't much compare to the grief of her loss and the challenge that lay before her: taking the reins of the New Orleans Saints and the rest of a billion-dollar business empire Tom Benson amassed over his lifetime.
But when Amoss arrived at the barn that day, Benson was already there. She was ready to trudge through the rainsoaked, mudlogged track at Churchill Downs with her horse, as the huge crowd expected, and as Tom would have done.
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