- Worked as a stable boy at Santa Anita Race Track as a teenager, where he developed a keen sense of picking winning horses.
- Once won over $250,000 in a single day at Hollywood Park. Lost all the winnings by the third race the following day.
- Top 5 all-time favorite movies are Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing", Akira Kurosawa's "Shichinin no Samurai", David Kellogg's "Cool as Ice", John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath", and Bob Clark's "SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2".
- Known as the "Santa Anita Freak" at race tracks in Southern California for his uncanny ability to pick multiple winners and subsequently lose all the winnings in a series of ill-placed wagers.
- Worked extensively as a pro bono contractor in hurricane-ravaged territories, starting with Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which devastated Central America. His specialty is electrical work.
- Has attended every Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes since 1993, missing only the Belmont in 2006 to hold vigil in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, for Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, who suffered an ultimately fatal injury at the Preakness.
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