RIP Mickey Rooney

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Wow, 93..RIP Mickey and cash a few tickets up there..

He will later say, "There is nothing wrong with a second childhood," but the first thing Mickey Rooney says is, "Call me Mickey."

The next thing he says is, "Del Mar's a toilet."

Del Mar is a racetrack near San Diego, and Mickey Rooney knows racetracks. He is standing in front of the betting windows in the private dining club, the Turf Club, at Arlington International Racecourse, poring over the program for the first race.

"There isn't a racetrack in the world that I have not attended," he says. "I've been to tracks in Beirut before the trouble, to tracks in France and England. Of all the tracks, and I'm not vacillating, Santa Anita (near Los Angeles) is No. 1. Arlington is No. 2."

"I lost a $2 bet 65 years ago and have spent about $3 million trying to get it back," he says typical horseplayer

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