Does horse racing define you?

[TheSpyder]

I use to hitch hike to the Big T when I was 14. I had my high school senior scheule arranged so I'd make 1st post. I've been to the Derby 7 times and about every race track in the US and several in England. I now treck to Saratoga every year I can 8 out of the last 10 years.

36 years later I have seen that the track has molded me as a person in a very positive way. Each day at the track is a microcausium of life itself. You have winners and losers, you compete against the same people that are your best friends, the puzzles of each race (always different) are like each day you awake and each challenge you face in life.

Living in SC I got away from the ponies only to find them again bigger and better on the internet. Reading the form (I use brisnet) is the anaylical brain excersise that keeps me young and drives me beyond the finish line to each of lifes challenges.

We are a rare breed, especially those of us that love the game to be sitting here now doing this instead of hundreds of other things. In the end, my life is so much better for the challenge. If life is about the journey and not the end result it's a joy to know that it's 5 minutes to post time somewhere in the world right now and always.

Yea, I could quit horse racing and I could quit breathing. I don't see much pay off in either.

Spyder from SC