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One of the few women trainers Carla Gaines in the saddling enclosure
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Marlane and Dasha
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The crowd
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Doug, Dasha and I went to the first day of racing for the season at Santa Anita about an hours drive away. I was interested to see that Frankie Dettori had some rides as this is his last racing season. I won about $50 in $2 bets to win. Dasha was very interested to see it all. The crowds were pretty bad, Doug had to wait in line for a while to get food. At least I could get a beer right away. I learned how to buy a voucher to use for betting as did Dasha. The lines were so long at the betting windows we just got our bets in before the races started. In the end I just bet the last several races together. The weather was perfect about 70 degrees with some clouds. Several big stakes races of $200 to $300 thousand dollars prize money. It was announced as the afternoon racing ended that the money taken in betting broke all records with 26 million dollars. The attendance was about 41 thousand spectators.
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Marlane with Frankie Dettori in the background
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One of the horses in the paddock waiting for "jockeys up"
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Two time Triple Crown winning
trainer Bob Baffert with his two jockeys heading to the paddock.
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Sounds like a great day out. Hope you had a bet on Dettori and he won. 70 deg. That would be bliss right now!
ReplyDeleteI did he came in at 4 to 1 on Ballet Dancing
DeleteIt sounds like a good day. The weather sounds really good!
ReplyDeleteWe walked about 4 miles looking at everything LOL Weather was just right.
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