Aron Wellman will ‘believe big’ in Journalism at Kentucky Derby

DEL MAR — The story of this year’s likely Kentucky Derby favorite began nearly 40 years ago, when an 8-year-old boy convinced an adult to sneak him into the barn area of the local racetrack.

The boy’s parents came from Los Angeles to Del Mar each summer for the races and rented a condo near the track. As it happened, Jude Feld, the adult in our story, was a horse trainer who was renting in the same complex.

That was all the boy needed to pursue his dream of working at the track.