Ernesto and Brenda Turner of Louisville cheer on their horses in the ninth race. Photo by Rich Copley | LexGo.

Throughout Churchill Downs there there is dissonance to the sounds rising from the crowd, a steady rumble punctuated by an improvosational “Mint Julep!,” a drunken fan stumbling through, a request to, “take my picture.”

But every 50 minutes or so, the crowd unites in harmonmy: “Go!” “Come on!”

“We’re just trying to make some money out here,” Ernesto Turner says a few minutes before the start of the ninth race at Churchill Downs Saturday. “So far, we haven’t done so well.”

He has No. 9 in the race. His wife, Brenda, has No. 8, following a system she has used since she picked No. 8 in the 2006 Derby: Barbaro.

Alas, the system didn’t pay off this time, though it looked promising for a few seconds.

The Turner’s song turns to groans, while others sound dissonant cheers.

But if Brenda followed that No. 8 strategy to the Derby, she had a good day in the end.