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Santa Anita paddock. Aggie gives her jockey a leg up on Barbera.
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My step daughter in law Dasha has the privilege of having her Mom and Mom's girl friend to stay with her and her husband for a month. They have come from Russia, Dasha is from Russia. They had quite the journey, traveling by train from their home town and then by plane from Turkey to LAX. Dasha's Mom smokes so extra hard for her and the rules about smoking are different here. They arrived the day before Christmas and Dasha drove to the airport to get them. The airport is about an hours drive from us. Christmas in Russia is on January 7th ! We ate Christmas dinner together on the 25th and included some traditional Russian food such as meat stuffed dumplings.
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| My husband Doug, Dasha, Svetlana and Dash's Mom Elena Chrismas dinner at Dasha's house. |
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Then my step son Jonathan decided that we would go to opening day at Santa Anita. Svetlana and Elena succumbed to jet lag LOL and stayed at home. This is now a family tradition. Sadly we are no longer associating with Doug's daughter and family who also attend. They were there but we had nothing to do with them. We had a blast anyway and the highlight for me was to meet Aggie Ordonez for the first time, she is the former trainer of our horse Additur ( Pesky) She also won with filly Barbera. What an honor for her ! We won some and lost some money betting and the weather did not disappoint. I also met an aspiring (and very young) jockey from York, England as I was cheering Aggie in the winners circle. His name is William Pyle.We had a chat about the differences between racing in the US versus in the UK.
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Dasha, me and Doug Santa Anita race track.
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Me and horse trainer Aggie she was waiting to saddle her horse.
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