"I'm not a board kind of guy, and I wasn't
looking for a job like that, but to be asked
by Joe Harper and the people on the board
to join on, I thought that's such an honor."
All of which leads to another remark of
Steinbeck's—"the quality of owning freez-
es you forever into `I,' and cuts you off for-
ever from the `we'"—that, while accurate to
some degree, completely misses the mark
when applied to the Hronis brothers.
For, when asked for his first memory of
Accelerate's victory in the Breeders' Cup,
Kosta painted an image of an exuberant
Sadler, typically subdued even in celebra-
tion, bouncing up and down as their horse
swept past the wire well ahead of the rest.
"For us as a family to be involved with John
Sadler, and any successes he has, that's
an honor for us because we just think so
much of him, what he's done for us as a
family and for the barn," Kosta said. "Let's
be honest about it, all the effort and all the
hard work came from him and the fine peo-
ple that are around him."