Memories
Kevin Modesti laments the growing respectability of horseracing. “The National Thoroughbred Racing Association has announced that the sixth annual national handicapping tournament in Las Vegas in January will be televised on ESPN. The goal, obviously, is to bring horseplayers, with their speed figures and their hot tips and their hunches, out of the shadows. To take the game of picking winners and make it kind of acceptable. Well, where’s the fun in that? Oh for the bad old days.” (LA Daily News)
