After a set or two of early morning tennis, among scattered raindrops, I went to the race track to join the people pictured below in our more or less annual trip to bet on the ponies. The hot dogs were free today and so there were quite a few people at the track. The weather was less than perfect. There were a couple of episodes of rain, some of it pretty hard during the day. As usual when I try to bet on the horses, I didn't have much information to go on, other than a couple of tout sheets and the racing program. But, all in all, I did pretty well, only losing a couple of dollars and spending a few more on a Coors NA. Gino and BB brought saurkraut and chopped onions along with grey poupon mustard to enliven the free tube steaks. I had four and could have had more, but my attraction to Hormel products waned over the afternoon. PP, Wireless and Andy (who doesn't seem to have a blog nickname or nick acronym) provided entertainment. It was nice to have them there.
I took a few pictures, including these quarter horses in the paddock before one of the races, to prove that there were athletes present. Animal athletes. Pretty animals.
Serena managed to beat Venus at Wimbledon today to win her third Wimby title and 11th major overall. She's ahead of Venus 11-10 in head to head meetings. I didn't witness the match - except for match point - because I was playing doubles with the GTA. Venus and Serena also won the women's doubles title. Tomorrow we'll see if Federer can win another major, this time against Andy Roddick.
The TdF also began today in Monoco. Lance Armstrong is riding again this year. The first day was a time trial and Lance is now in 10th place. Interestingly, Lance is not the oldest guy in the race. I think there is only one guy older though.
4 comments:
Cavendish is Lance's pick to win today's stage.
More people at your annual track day than usual. The weather sounds lousy. It's been cloudy here for days and days, but only spits of rain. Thankfully -- we're still saturated from previous rains.
BB brought a deck of cards to the race track?
BB was the winner of a promotional drawing at the track and the prize was a deck of used cards (with a hole punched in all the cards) from the Canterbury Downs Card Club. They are like-new cards. No one played cards at the track, especially with all that excitement.
TT
Andy does actually have an acronym/nickname. Kels once called him Emily's Main Squeeze Andy, or EMSA for short. You may adapt this to your own uses as you see fit. Or not at all, as the case may be. :-)
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