Bruce Rushton

Kathleen Christ considers her son a trained killer and a mercenary to boot. But you know how mothers are. “I’m very proud of him,” she says. “He’s an incredible human being. We just differ hugely on philosophy.” Christ’s son Joe, it seems, just can’t get enough of Iraq. He was there at the very beginning, […]

Kyle Kaenel doesn’t walk through barns so much as he swaggers, John Wayne-style, as if someone has kicked him in the butt so hard that he can’t sit down. He’s 17 and lighting it up in his first year as a jockey in Phoenix, 2,000 miles from home in Pinckneyville, Ill., and living on his […]