At this very moment, on Sunday morning, if all's going according to plan, Hallowed Dreams is traveling to Lone Star Park. That might surprise some observers, because the sensational filly never has raced outside her native Louisiana. More horse racing The larger surprise, however, should be that she has no police escort.
Heroes deserve honorific escorts.
And Hallowed Dreams has become a folk hero. She is to Louisiana racing what Huey Long is to Louisiana politics, what Billy Cannon is to Louisiana State University football. With an average margin of victory of more than five lengths, she's a dollop shy of perfection. The folk hero cum sensational racehorse is the leading lady in the production that's appropriately called Lone Star Million Day. It's just the sort of stage you'd want for a visiting folk hero.