PEB
 

Funny story about "PEB". I am sure all you Saratogians are familiar with Chez Pierre out Rte 9 in Wilton. Well, one evening back in the early '80s I had finished dining there. While returning to my truck, I noticed this Corvette in the parking lot with the NY plate "PEB." I got a screwdriver from my truck and swiped the plate thinking I had stolen Pierre Belacq's plate. Turns out it was Chez Pierre's owner Peter E. Baldwin's plate. Many years later upon one of my many returns visits and figuring enough time had passed, I mentioned this story to his wife who is the hostess (can't remember her name). She got a good laugh from it. The plate still hangs on my wall.

Good story. By coincidence, the cover story of this week's Blood-Horse is on Peb.

i enjoyed the peb story in bloodhorse, put a story and a face behind those great murals at oaklawn!

I still haven't got my issue yet! :mad:
I love his Gallery at the Museum of Racing. The mural at Churchill is pretty cool too. Some of the expressions on the faces are priceless.

mailman reading it first??

I think he does!

It is really interesting because since being a subscriber I've lived in 3 different states all with 3 very different delivery days....Kentucky being the last delivered!

hmmm..

mine used to be here on fridays, but now it's saturdays. just lucky that i can get it at all, since it covers a sport that has (gasp) gambling! lol

you know i still can't get the newspaper delivered to my home?! life in the boonies...

I get the Thursday & Sunday delivery of the paper and it took like 5 months before it finally started showing up both of those days every week. Good service is so hard to come by!

Blood-Horse does have a really good reimbursement policy if you don't get a week's edition at least.

This is the Peb mural for those who haven't seen it at Churchill:

http://www.pebsite.com/churchill/index.shtml

I just went to the PEB website and looked at the painting, clicking "add to cart" when I liked it.


The bill was over 16,000.


oh well maybe next time

ah, just write a check!

I take it you aren't holding one of the 13 winning pick-6 tickets?

I have two framed PEBs that cut from the DRF. One is John Henry riding in the back of a landscaping truck with a bunch of sacks of money with various names of turf races on them. Sam is driving. On the door it says "Sam Rubin Landscaping". On the side panel is written:
Coast to coast grasscare
Removal of greenbacks from the turf

The second is the front page of the '77 Derby edition. It has a chess board with Mickey Taylor as king, Karen Taylor as queen, Billy Turner as a rook, and Jean Cruget as a pawn. Slew is the white knight. I always thought he should have been a black knight.

I have the Coronado's Quest Travers Day from DRF on my office wall. The title is "A Quest for Redemption" and it's a takeoff of Bill Clinton.