And while even the fastest man on earth, who famously swears by pre-race chicken nuggets, won't dent that supply, Matthews isn't taking chances.
While the virus can race through a chicken farm, killing tens of thousands of birds in a few days, there have been very few die-offs of large numbers of wild birds in any one spot.
The trophy from the Grade II race represented the chicken he could enjoy, the $240,000 first-place check could provide some healthy feed for Graeme Hall's owners, Eugene and Laura Melnyk, and the victory in this prep for the Travers Stakes catapulted Pletcher to the top of the trainers' standing here at Saratoga Race Course.
(Like I said...) 1. "Do you want to go before or after the chicken race?" - The absolute best part of this story: It happened in New York City four weeks ago.
Outsiders tend to equate Louisville with three famous vices: bourbon, horse racing and fried chicken.
They finished fifth, and winning games seemed to be drawing more fans than races with a chicken.
Another is Fiona Glascott as Lot's alternately shrill and flirtatious wife of all of two days, who succumbs to the advances of Lot's mixed-race half-brother, Chicken (David Sturzaker, a good actor in need of greater menace).
Ms. Ward has made "a couple of pitches" to networks and marketers, she said, about bringing back characters that accompanied George in the 1967 series: Tom Slick, a race car driver, and Super Chicken, a, well, superhero chicken.
"He wanted to show all those fancy, highbred Euros in their slick racing suits that a chicken farmer from Texas could beat them at their own game".
In the new world of austerity, with an increasing number of families hit by redundancy and shorter working hours, we're nothing like as desperate as we used to be to squeeze our babies into a strict routine while we race around like headless chickens making our careers work.
In a campaign so far defined by hogs and chickens, the race for the open Iowa Senate seat that most expected to fall to Democrats is now perhaps the closest in the country.
