Keeping quiet about my winnings only added to the mystique. But tally these slips and you’ll see my net loss of $37.90. Small price to pay for free food and beer, a day in the sun and a day out of the office. Still, however, winning is always better. And one guy I know hit the trifecta in the 9th for $500.
Reading a track program is like cracking the DaVinci code. There has to be a science to it. Otherwise, why would real track rats exist? Why all those cryptic descriptions of the horses in the programs? I know a bartender who lives in Red Bank, this town, this primo town, on tips and Monmouth Park winnings. He must have the Racing Form partially deciphered.
Either that, or he has a vice mastered. I like people with vices. I see vices as an issue of defiance, a quiet utterance of strength against the flow. We know something. We know something different. We know IT. We turn the passive glances of others aimed toward us into active statements of rebuttal. I bet on Luvwillkeepusalive in the 9th because it reminded me of a song called Love Will Tear Us Apart by an uber-somber band called the Joy Division. Only we could see the rationale behind that. Behind IT.
I think perhaps I may have gotten too much sun today. Eh?
I just bet on the pretty one. : )
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You would have won like a bandit today.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a fun day. : ) What were some of the other horses names?
ReplyDeleteVowel Play, Image of Approval, Brite Memory, Say It Isn't Sold, But I'm Innocent.
ReplyDeleteGoogle them. All Monmouth Park entries from 9/10/04. I think they were expressly run to f with my mind.
I used to gallop racehorses in the wee hours of the morning. It is exhilerating.
ReplyDeleteYou think of Joy Division and I think of Captain & Tenille - Love Will Keep Us Together. LMAO what does that tell ya...
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