[click image]... and you can watch online. Easy to sign up and lots of topnotch Thoroughbreds to ogle.
This is, without a doubt, my mother's biggest deal of the year. Nothing unglues her from it, and she has dreamed of having one of the horses she's bred win here for decades and decades. After all that effort she really does get checks a few times a year from one of her horses winning something... it's just never very much. Her very last race horse, the one she's running and going to use as a broodmare if she does well, has won both of her starts. The problem is: she keeps getting minor injuries between races and has to lay off until she's healed. I figure this will end up producing a nice completely solidly developed race horse and she can then win a bunch of races and then go on to produce a bunch of extremely valuable foals... making me an heiress at last....
[Yipes! This is some transcendental horse racing today. Goldikova knocked me out! And Conduit just blew my mind too. Big day for coming from the back of the pack late bids... which are the most exciting kind.]
Don't those horses know Halloween is over?
ReplyDeleteDude. I just saw the filly, Goldikova, win the most amazing race. It was gorgeous! She blew their doors off from the back of the pack. What a filly! OMG!
ReplyDeleteThe seriously big deal race of all these races is coming up in the next hour or so and, whoa, the streaming is working great. So you should watch these costumed beauties if you can.
I was gone most of the day - not able to catch the races. Went to a comedy show at Cache Creek Casino.
ReplyDeleteRin went to google maps which pegged the drive time at over 1.5 hours - don't know what route they were looking at. I did a quick mapquest to see where it was. I can look at a map and get there. I don't need their routing - I'll find my own route. Mapquest and google both had it at over 80 miles distance. My route - 49 miles, 55 minutes.
I thought the show was at 7:00 and going by the 1.5 + hour estimates we headed out early to have time for dinner and to take a few pictures along the route.
I saw several stunning pictures I wanted to get, but there was no where to pull over to take the picture - narrow 2 lane road, no shoulders and deep ditches. Not to mention the fact that the show wasn't until 8:00 and it only took 55 minutes, we were several hours early to the casino. So we just drove past the place and kept going until we found a small park on Cache Creek where we spent several hours watching the sun set.
We each joined the Cache Club and received $25 in slot play on the member card. We also got coupons at the show for an additional $10 on the card.
We each now have $35 in free slot play when we return in December to see Dave Mason - also free with our Club Cards.
What really sucks about the casinos is that the slot machines are all digital. No more coins dropping into a pan - takes the excitement out of it!
ReplyDeleteWhat I was amazed at was that even though most of the casino allowed smoking, few people were in fact smoking and the air was very clean.
The last time I was in a casino I could hardly breathe my asthma was kicking up so bad from the smoke. Consequently my casino visits have been few and far between.
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