I’m no horse racing fan by any measure of anything. I know absolutely nothing about the sport other than that as a kid (in the mid/late 70’s) the Triple Crown seemed very doable.
I was listening to WFAN up here in the New York area this morning on the way home from caddying. I heard the host, Richard Neer, interviewing New York Times William Rhoden (who wrote an article in today’s NYTimes) about yesterday’s Kentucky Derby and the unfortunate ending that cost the only philly in the race her life after breaking both of her front legs. For a moment, the author seemed to be trying to suggest that horse racing is only a second cousin away from dog fighting amongst the pantheon of sports of the rich, famous, and bored amongst us. I turned off the interview. Was he nuts!
Then I came home and read the piece. Here’s the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/sports/othersports/04rhoden.html?ref=othersports
After doing so, I had to rethink his points.
