Scott Jordan is the head starter for the Kentucky Derby, responsible for loading 20 horses into the starting gate in under two minutes. Jordan and his team of 26 horsemen familiarize the horses ...

“They’re off,” Scott Jordan stands atop a small metal perch on the track’s inside rail. Directly in his sightline, 20 jockeys sit astride 20 adrenaline-fueled thoroughbreds squished into a ...