Friends seen update:
The Shamrock Pub crowd from South Boston
Mike and Rosemary Shea (Mike is Alice’s sister)
Jeff Beck from Chicago
Jeff Plummer from Connecticut
Mike ‘Mut’ Mutansky, the Red Sox pre/post game show host
(Mut, Jeff, & Jeff are close friends who I have known for years. They in turn are close friend with Mike and Rosemary’s son Stephen who is a professor at St Anslem’s and father of three, soon to be four. Stephen also does highly respected basketball analytics studies)
Saturday was a very good (almost great) day at the track. I had a $25 winner in the second followed by a 5-2 winner in the third. Then I hit the two big races: Cavorting in the Test Stakes ($7.60) and Honor Code in the Whitney Stakes ($9.50). All that made it very good. Great would have been my 15-1 shot leading for one more step in the 11th race, but he got beat on the wire. The winnings for the day guaranteed I will come out ahead for my stay in Saratoga.
It’s Sunday morning now. Just today and tomorrow left for races and I head home Tuesday via Boston. I fly out of Logan on Jet Blue Tuesday late afternoon. It’s always tough to leave Saratoga, but I’m tired and ready to go home. Maybe one more report with pictures; maybe not. Keep checking.
Pictures (Click to Enlarge)
Great pix….and even a picture of Ed and his YANKEE visor! Loved Jerry Bailey, nice homage to him, though back in my dad’s Belmont days Cordero was the man.
Surprisingly good weather for Saratoga. Surprised those floods deluges haven’t hit. Good for you on the $wins, keep it up on the last two days.
Safe travels home. Hope to see you soon.
Nice to see you will go home a winner.
Nice vacation for someone who enjoys horses and race tracks.
F
Great pix of the local scene. King’s Tavern looks like our kind of place. Sorry your trip is near its end, but it sounds like you did well.