"Right now, she's walking the shed row at Churchill Downs, and I'm uncertain when she'll race again."

Dr. Alex Harthill answered his mobile phone while walking the shed row of a barn at Churchill Downs yesterday afternoon.

It was a good, easy run," Sanders said, removing her blue, rain-slickened riding helmet in the shed row, "but there's no skin left on my hands.

Bare light bulbs from along the shed row reflected in the puddles at the horse's feet.

If a groom limps, no one cares as long as he can make it around the shed row.

Wallace put on a helmet, hopped onto Genuine Reward's back and walked the colt leisurely around the barn, time after time, staying under the shed row.

I can still check the shed row.

He took the reins and jogged Bayakoa along shed row for about 50 feet.

And the public, barred from the shed rows of the tracks for security reasons, had little opportunity to find out about the horses.

This was a few minutes before 2, in the shed row of barn No. 23, a brisk walk of several minutes from where the dirt tunnel leads to the track.