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Kent Desormeaux is on the verge of winning the Triple Crown aboard Big Brown. Some might say victory at the Belmont is a slam dunk. But the 38-year-old didn’t always want to be a jockey; he idolized Michael Jordan as a child. When that dream came up short, he chose a path taken by several others of Cajun ancestry, some of whom cut their teeth by riding in a collection of peculiar races on the bush tracks in small-town Louisiana.
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