Fairmount1 Wrote:
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> I'm not a huge PTF or Music fan. That doesn't
> mean I dislike either. But I know several on here
> are Really into music and horses so I post it for
> all of you. Of course, the paragraph below
> resonated with me regardless.
>
> _____________________________
>
> And then came the best part. “Horseplayers are a
> group of people who exist outside the mainstream
> of normal society, and as a musician who grew up
> in the 60s and 70s, I know what that feels
> like,” he continued. “We were mocked, we were
> oddballs, but we reveled in it because we didn’t
> want to be like the squares. The people at the
> racetrack, they are just the same as us. They
> don’t want to lead a normal life.”
>

Pretty much sums it up for me, always related to musicians/artists for just that reason. Great little story of SJ's dad at the track together with Count Basie -- to this day, that Sinatra-Basie team-up on “It Might as Well Be Swing” remains one of my favorite albums.

Likely heading up to Spa a day or two early this week. I’ve learned to avoid that Saturday morning end-of-meet Travers rush like the plague -- highways jammed with broke horseplayers on a last chance power drive…