If anyone in the highborn sport known as thoroughbred horse racing has swagger these days, it is Baffert.
He is a career rather than a conviction politician, but too highborn to be written off as a mere scaler of the greasy pole. He is a scion of the class that, deep down, believes it was born to rule.
Mrs Monteith was able to tell her son about their high-born slave ancestor because he had left a memoir.
Gearhart is worth taking a bit of time to ogle the highborn homes along the backroads near the beach.