Great Story.
That was ('63) my first year on the track.
My first bet after turning PRO, (I was 18)
was Candy Spots at 4/5 a one turn mile at AP,
The only speed; came back with (after much deliberation)
Axe 2, at 8/5 with a $20 saver on B. Major at 10/1 to cover
the deuce. Photo the right way. Next, Bounding Main
was one of two closers and the other one was Charlie's
in from CA. His was 1/1, Mustard Plaster, mine was 36/1,
not a tough choice; I won, and college was not the top
of my list that fall. Which is why I have Infantry experience.
Since I am a survivalist, maybe a coward, it was as a DI and never
in the field. I did lose 33 in a row at Tropical Park in the fall of '65,
worrying about it. I consider that one of the great practicalities
of my life was in limiting that 33 to a $500 lose. So much for
the first round of PRO.

I would think that backstretch was HOT in the summer? I was
Unfortunately an IT director then. That was worse than losing.
That corporate thing was cooler with the neighbors and the wife,
but it wasn't the same. I had more fun tapping out in LA in '64,
that I did using the corporate jet in '83, (although it was cute,G3).
The tap out was on a trotter! By a nose. That's when you know you
have some inventory to do. How was the picnic?
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richiebee Wrote:
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> ...so its sometime around 1963 and Cosell has
> befriended a Louisville boxer
> named Cassius Clay, a friendship which will
> eventually help make both men
> famous. Clay and Cosell are in a car, stopped at a
> red light in downtown
> Louisville, when a beautiful women crosses in
> front of them. Cosell apparently
> stares at the woman intently, which angers Clay,
> who says: "Are you crazy
> Cosell? You're Jewish--they'll kill you in this
> town for looking at a white
> woman like that!".
>
> In 1983 I actually lived on the backstretch at CD,
> working for Bernard Flint.
> Was too lazy to walk to the grandstand that year,
> hung out in the barn area at
> a big Derby Day picnic that race car driver AJ
> Foyt used to have each year for
> backstretch workers.