Photos from 5/30

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Well, another enjoyable, if not profitable day at Arlington Park. A good collection of Dee Tee stables on hand. I got to the park early and met OneBadBeast (aka Joe the Dude) at the start of the first race. We sat down, handicapped the races and made plenty of "donations" to the track. It was maddening to just miss out several times. While we were sitting on a bench near the paddock I got to talking to an elderly, but spry, woman who quickly told me that she was 93 and still enjoyed going to the races. She was turned on to the racing game by her uncle who trained horses at Woodbine, and won the Queen's Plate twice! I didn't ask for her uncle's name - just hoped that at 93 I still have it going on so I can get to the track and check out the horses.

I took a couple of pictures of Kickin N Screamin and Colonel Klink. The link above will take you to the pictures. In the paddock, Jessica was talking about the horses and mentioned KNS and mentioned something about the "crazy betting" going on - turns out she hasn't linked up the DT stable horses with the crazy odds. During Colonel Klinks run I got a chuckle when the track announcer said something like, "and Colonel Klink is marching down on the outside" I presume he worked on that prior to the race.

I hope everyone had a safe trip home. As always, thanks to Chuck and his crew. Special thanks to Bob for letting us hangers on join him in the paddock for Klink's tacking up.

We'll get 'em next time