A Genuine Horseplayer
“Gerry Ahnstrom is a horseplayer. Eighty-one years young, she has attended the racetrack with ferocious regularity for more than 70 years.” And don’t interrupt her when she’s handicapping, writes Larry Lee Palmer. “Years ago, I made the mistake of bugging her as she was perusing an upcoming race…. Without taking her eye off the Form, she said tersely, ‘Can’t you see I’m trying to play the races?’ I slunk away feeling like a mouse knee-deep in Cheez Whiz.” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
