He sat down with a reporter to talk about his career and his cellphone rang -- Baltimore boxing promoter Jake Smith calling to talk about fighters for his upcoming card. A couple of minutes later, Eric Bottjer, another matchmaker, called hoping Brown knew a boxer good enough to fill a main event bout on ESPN on short notice. Working as a full-time jockey agent for two riders at Pimlico and Laurel Park more than fulfills his minimum daily requirement for action, and the longtime right-hand...

Many of her students will advance from here to college, and from there, they will teach other the life skills they are learning here. They learn husbandry skills, which is what you're seeing today. They learn skills they can pass along to others in the future. It's a two-year class, which emphacizes hands-on training. Through this class in "Equine and Animal Science," horses are made available to the students three days each week. I'd like to work with therapeutic kids. And that's why Mary...