In 1955, a bay colt by the name of Sunny Byrd ran and won the two-year-old pace race at the Illinois State Fair, taking home a purse of $16,390.
The next year, he broke the race record in the three-year-old division, twice.
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Sunny Byrd was a fast horse.
Sunny Byrd, the human who played fullback for USC football from 2001 to 2002, was not.
Byrd, the human, is by no means a Trojan great, even if his story is the stuff of legends.