Venue for Nov 28, thoughts

[DonGuido]

So we have three nice turf stakes races at DelMar and G2 stakes races for 2YO one for fillies and one for colts at CD. As soon as the entries are posted on DRF, I'll put together a proposed combo card.

Other thoughts?

[RUFFIAN]

California Dreamin In My Ole Kentucky Home

[cal828]

It's a shame they couldn't have run the Clark at Churchill on Saturday. I was thinking that we had played it in the past. There's really no hope for a person when you start remembering things that didn't happen.

[NJ Stinks]

Originally Posted by cal828

It's a shame they couldn't have run the Clark at Churchill on Saturday. I was thinking that we had played it in the past. There's really no hope for a person when you start remembering things that didn't happen.

If it makes you feel a bit better, Cal, I have played the race quite often in the past! I did think it was run the Friday after Thanksgiving because a buddy and I went to a PA OTB near Bethlehem often on a Thanksgiving Friday. I think Thanksgiving Saturday was/is a day with a bunch of 2 year old races.

[cal828]

Originally Posted by NJ Stinks

If it makes you feel a bit better, Cal, I have played the race quite often in the past! I did think it was run the Friday after Thanksgiving because a buddy and I went to a PA OTB near Bethlehem often on a Thanksgiving Friday. I think Thanksgiving Saturday was/is a day with a bunch of 2 year old races.

I've played it a few times too, but sometimes hard for me to remember what I did a few hours ago and almost impossible to remember what I did last year, but ask me where I was when JFK was assassinated and what was going on then and I remember it clear as day. Course I was only 19 then. Seems like eons have passed since those days and speaking of that, was it not 11/22/63? I don't think I saw a thing in the news media about it. Is it possible that America has forgotten or did I just miss it?

[JolyB]

Originally Posted by cal828

but ask me where I was when JFK was assassinated and what was going on then and I remember it clear as day. Course I was only 19 then. Seems like eons have passed since those days and speaking of that, was it not 11/22/63? I don't think I saw a thing in the news media about it. Is it possible that America has forgotten or did I just miss it?

The only mention of 11/22 being the anniversary of JFK's assassination in our local paper was a one sentence entry in the "Today in History" area that AP puts together. It received exactly the same mention as today's entry of 11/24/63 when Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald while live TV cameras were rolling.

Perhaps the noise from a combination of the never ending election cycle and the COVID-19 pandemic have just drowned out everything else; I've had the belief for some time that we don't spend enough time learning about either our history or about basic civics, and we are the worse off for that.