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In air and in life, the Donna Barton Brothers from NBC recognizes that spontaneity is as vital as exact planning.
The postcentucky derby of the former jockey derby interview on horseback, a staple food of the network's reporting, reflects countless hours of preparation. She is an insatiable reader who makes extensive notes about everything that affects the 20 starter and their connections. She observes and looks back at the preparatory race, which you brought until the first Saturday in May.
And then there can be situations for which no reporter can prepare.
This was the case when Calvin Borel from the modest beginnings in St. Martin Parish, La., Won his first Kentucky derby with Street Sense in 2007.
When the Barton brothers were on her pony after his dramatic rally on 19th on 19th on Borel, she could see that he was overwhelmed by emotions. And it has expanded. These questions that she prepared? I forgot all. What to do?
“Calvin doesn't know how to do something other than raw emotions. He is basic who he is,” said Barton Brothers. “But it was his raw emotion that made me forget every question that I wanted to ask.”
After experiencing the worst nightmare of an interviewer after a moment of panic, she recognized how she reacted to the emotional collapse, the appearance while the world was watching.
“I just pulled myself into these raw emotions and it was like:” Okay, let's start, “she recalled.
She allowed, what was a sie–is-what you-gget Calvin, Calvin. She gave him the time and the room to thank his brother Cecil that he had contributed to raising him and giving him an invaluable training in the ways of the horses. “I wish my mom and dad were here,” said a tearful Calvin and fought to speak. “This is the greatest moment of my life.”
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Queen Elizabeth II, part of the massive crowd in Churchill Downs this afternoon, was taken by Borel so that she asked to meet him. She invited him to join her during a planned visit to the White House, and went out and left the imagination of how this conversation could have gone.
After the Barton brothers and when she returned from the Borel interview to the NBC site, she was worried about something that was not planned at all. The veteran Tom Hammond, the Charlsie Canty and Mike Battaglia under their early mentors, said to her that she had more than asked the challenge.
“It was talkative. I had the feeling that we had a conversation that was vital,” I said, “said Hammond to her. “You may have forgotten your questions, but you stayed at the moment. And that did that moment.”
Since then, the extensive preparation of Barton Brothers has not been with questions that she wants to ask. She always knows the direction in which she takes.
“My first question will always be aimed at your heart because it is always my goal to keep her in your heart immediately before you come into your head,” she said. “My first question will never be,” tell me how was your trip? Isn't that great? “It will always be aimed at what could be in your heart in my opinion.”
As soon as the most electrifying two minutes are over in sports, the spectators are waiting to hear at least a few minutes from the winning jockey, with the kind permission of Barton Brothers. So also your supporters.
“She becomes personally with the interview and brings everything together,” said reporter Kenny Rice. “It's not just, 'your horse won the race. How did he do it?' She set the standard for everyone else who is doing this now.
The Horsemanship part is simple for Barton Brothers. Her mother Patti was one of the first women who were licensed as jockey in the United States. While Barton Brothers galloped horses for four years, she would never have imagined it after she was her mother's path.
Until she did it.
“I drove my first race to eliminate it as a career choice,” said Barton Brothers. “I just didn't expect it to love it. I thought: 'I'll drive this race and see that it is not for me.' I drove this race and saw that it was definitely for me.
She competed from 1987 to 1998 and won 1,130 races with a wallet profit of 18,658,028 US dollars. Then the passion left it as quickly as it came. She started radio and impressed people around her with her will to be successful.
“She came to television, wanted to learn something about interviews and learn something about everything she could,” said Rice. “She still does that.”
While Barton Brothers worked at Churchill Downs, she didn't know that NBC had been looking for on-air talents there. Her first appearance for the network occurred during the World Cup 2000.
Barton Brothers will be on April 20, 59. She has been married to former coach Frank Brothers since 1998. She is a woman of many interests. She has been an enthusiastic skier since the age of nine. She wanders. She drives. She is a certified teacher at Bikram Yoga. She enjoys traveling and looks forward to her first visit to Royal Ascot in June.
“There are a lot that I want to do in life. And if I want to do a lot in this life, I have to reconcile a lot every day,” she said, making sure that I appreciate any moment.
