Bryzzo a winner regardless of sport

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Bryzzo can't be stopped.

Even if you change the sport.

The combination of Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo has become a household name around the country as the two Cubs stars have become a joint face of baseball.

The name "Bryzzo" breeds success off the diamond, too, as a horse sharing the same moniker is a champion.

Earlier this month, Bryzzo the horse won Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky in only his second career race. 

Jason Loutsch — Bryzzo's owner and a native Ankeny, Iowa — is a big Cubs fan, but insists he had never heard the name "Bryzzo" before he merged the names of his two favorite players in September 2016 as the Cubs were making their march toward their first World Series championship in over a century:

"We have a tough time coming up with names," Loutsch said in an interview with Carrie Muskat of MLB.com. "We try to name them after family members or an event or people we like who are famous.

"I'm a diehard Chicago Cubs fan and we won the World Series, obviously, so I thought it would be great to name him after my two favorite Chicago Cubs — Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant. I took the Bryant and Rizzo and came up with Bryzzo."

Wait, so a guy who claims to be a diehard Cubs fan had never heard the term "Bryzzo" or seen anything about the fake Bryzzo Souvenir Co. in the eight-ish months leading up to the time he picked the same exact name for his horse?

#ThinkingFaceEmoji 

Eh, whatever.

Loutsch and the Albaugh Family Stable have dreams of winning the Kentucky Derby someday. Maybe Bryzzo can end another drought in a sport that doesn't consist of a ball.

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