Maybe this is Notting Hill as much as Churchill, and she really is Julia Roberts, with her sunglasses and her star power, and the way everyone here just has to meet her and greet her and tell her they are pulling for her yes, her, Jenine Sahadi. Pulling for her to make history. Someone wins the Derby every year. The Deputy would hit the finish line first today, making Sahadi the first female trainer in the race's 126-year history to wear the roses. A race others badly want her to win.
History does that.
There was the woman who, upon hearing of Sahadi's Lebanese ancestry, brought her an authentic Lebanese dinner. There was the woman who learned of Sahadi's way of mixing wine with her horse feed and brought over a bottle. There was ABC News, here preparing a piece that closed Thursday's World News Tonight . The New York Times did a Sahadi blowout last Sunday. USA Today gave her front-page coverage yesterday.