22-Year-old Owner Dreaming Big With Possiblemente

Possiblemente, the name of 22-year-old owner Taylor Logan's horse in Saturday's $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland, is presumably a variation of posiblemente, a Spanish word for possibly or maybe. As it turns out, Possiblemente proved an omen of some pretty amazing possibilities for Taylor and her parents, Elliott and Carol Logan of Lexington. Taylor, in consultation with Canadian trainer Martin Drexler, claimed Possiblemente 13 months ago for $50,000 out of a two-turn race at Woodbine Race Course near Toronto. Possiblemente finished sixth that day. Then sixth again. Then fourth by a total of 14 lengths. With Drexler going to Florida for the winter, Taylor sent Possiblemente to trainer Joe Sharp's Turfway Park stable. But Drexler encouraged her to keep the faith in the horse. Indeed, the 6-year-old gelding comes into the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint with four wins in his last six starts, capped by the $2 million, Grade 2 Light and Wonder Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint at the all-grass track in Franklin, Ky. In addition to earning $1,018,675, Possiblemente was awarded a fees-paid automatic berth in Saturday's 5 1/2-furlong turf race as part of the Breeders' Cup's "Win and You're In" program. "It's crazy that this is actually happening," Taylor said last Saturday at Keeneland, where she came out with Elliott to watch Possiblemente work on the turf. "I don't feel like it's even going to feel real until he's in the gate. It's just been fun to get to watch him train. He's so happy and so healthy right now. He's a little spunky, too." The same could be said of the gelding's owner. Taylor arranged to acquire Possiblemente amid a year-long hospitalization for debilitating autoimmune conditions, where the immune system mistakenly releases autoantibodies that attack healthy parts of the body. The graduate of Lexington Christian Academy says horse racing—her own stable of four horses racing as T & E Racing, plus about 30 others racing as the family's TEC Racing—provided an important escape from what she described as "feeling like you're living like Groundhog Day" in the hospital. In fact, Taylor would get so excited watching Possiblemente run remotely that she would unplug her heart monitor during the race, she said, lest the sudden spike send medical personnel into her room. "I grew up an athlete," said Taylor, whose medical condition was diagnosed in her teens, "so this is almost a way to—even though I can't do it anymore—I feel like I'm a part of a sport." To rewind a bit: After Possiblemente finished a good third in a $40,000 claiming race at Turfway Park in his first start for Sharp, two important decisions were made. Sharp and Elliott thought Possiblemente should run right back for $40,000, but Taylor didn't want to risk losing the horse in another claiming race. Sharp subsequently made the other fortuitous decision: to sprint the gelding. The immediate return: two allowance victories over Turway's synthetic surface, earning the gelding more than $60,000 each time. "I think if you'd ask either one of us 10 things to do with this horse that would have improved him, cutting him back to a sprinter would not have been one of them," said Elliott, a Lexington businessman who is president of the upscale men's store Logan's of Lexington. "That was a really good idea by Joe to do that... When he ran the first time at Turfway, he was very hard to handle on the lead, and Joe said, 'I think I'd like to cut this horse back and get him to drop his head and relax.' And he's just been a different horse since. "I give Taylor a lot of credit for wanting to protect the horse and believing in the horse. When I gave her the advice to run back for $40,000, she said, "Dad, I think there's more to this horse than that.'" After the Turfway victories, Taylor floated a bold idea past Elliott. "'How stupid do you think it would be to try to aim for the Breeders' Cup?'" Taylor said she asked her dad. "We called Joe, and I was like, 'I know he'll be straight up with you at least and be like 'That's not a good idea.'" Sharp surprised the Logans, however, saying, "Well, don't count it out yet." "As time went on, it started to become a reality," said Sharp, who is the Logan family's main trainer. "We sat down, and I told them, 'Look, we have to have a fresh horse going into Breeders' Cup. So we have a couple shots to get there, a couple key races that he'd have to win to get in.'" The first was a class check in the Grade 2 Twin Spires Turf Sprint on the Kentucky Derby undercard. Taylor watched her horse close from well back to finish a very close fifth on television from her hospital bed, surrounded by family members and friends holding their own Derby party. At his daughter's insistence, Elliott went to Churchill Downs for the race. Afterward, he put jockey Manny Franco on speakerphone to Taylor, recalling, "Manny thanked her for the opportunity to ride, and said, 'This horse is going to win a big race for you.'" For Taylor, "That race was what I feel like tipped him over the edge to be the sprinter that he is now." Possiblemente subsequently won a Grade 3 stakes at six furlongs over Woodbine's synthetic surface, followed by a second in Saratoga's $200,000 Harvey Pack at 5 1/2 furlongs on grass - the Breeders' Cup distance. In the six-furlong Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint, he dogged a fast pace, took over in mid-stretch and won by 1 1/4 lengths in his second start under jockey Jose Ortiz, who will be in the saddle Saturday. Without that victory, Possiblemente would have been shut out of the Breeders' Cup. "We took one shot at it and won," Sharp said. "It all had to come together, and it took a lot of patience on everybody's part. But now we have a fresh horse going into the Breeders' Cup. He's ready to fire a big race." The Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint marked the first time Taylor was able to see Possiblemente compete in person. Forget the million-bucks payday, forget the trophy guitar signed by Kid Rock. For Elliott and Carol, the biggest thrill and greatest reward was watching their daughter walk Possiblemente into the winner's circle alongside Sharp. "It was a dark time in her life when she was hospitalized for a year, but she continued to stay positive," Elliott said. "She's one of the most positive people I've ever met in my life. She's the strongest person I've ever met in my life, and to watch her have an opportunity to reap a reward that is very well-deserved for a fine young lady is just off the charts. "If this was our family's horse, I would be so excited. But for this to be her horse, it's just a dream come true. He ran six or maybe seven races that she was never able to be there. And for her to be able to be there for that particular race and lead the horse in beside Joe Sharp, I can't even describe it as a dad." And as the owner? "Well, if I didn't have that much adrenaline pumping, I don't think I would have gotten that close to (Possiblemente) walking in," Taylor said. "But it was really cool to be a part of that and actually be there -- not just through the phone." Most important to Taylor was Possiblemente's development. "It was just so interesting to see how every step was not even a step up," she said. "It was like three steps up." Taylor was always around her family's stable, with Elliott owning horses for 38 years, the majority claiming horses and with the family's previous biggest win being the 2024 Modesty (G3) with Fast as Flight. She designed her own racing silks when she was 15, getting her owner's license when she turned 16. (Elliott had to get special permission from the stewards.) "It was something she'd always wanted to do, something I did when I was 18 when I got my first part of a racehorse with my dad," he said. Of all her horses, and her family's horses, "this one is so special," Taylor said of Possiblemente. "How fast he's changed in a year. Just to go from finishing sixth in a long race to winning the Sprint at Kentucky Downs and now being in the Breeders' Cup is crazy." The change in Taylor likewise is dramatic. "She's living her life again, and living it to the fullest," Elliott said. "I think horses are healers. This horse has been so good for her. Horses can really uplift your spirits. They can make dark days better, and they can make great days even better." Whatever happens Saturday, Taylor and Elliott agree that the big win was just getting to the Breeders' Cup. "It was a dream she had, a dream that Joe helped her achieve," Elliott said. Taylor picked up the conversation: "It was going to be a very specific and difficult path; we had to hit everything just right. And he's hit everything just right." Asked if there's a moral to their story, Elliott said, "All things are possible. I think it's very fitting with this horse's name. For a small owner, all things are possible. Dream big, because it can happen. I've seen it happen with her."