Did you know during Prohibition women were stellar bootleggers?

It’s true. When writing “Whiskey Women,” I concluded women bootleggers were more effective than men, because many states had laws that made it illegal for male police officers to search women. Back then, it was considered insulting to accuse a woman of such a dastardly crime.

When Dr. Charles Strub founded Santa Anita Park in 1934, he promised the skeptical community that he would never hold horse races on a Sunday. For the next 40 years, that promise became an unwritten rule followed by all of the tracks in California. So much so, in fact, that the California Horse Racing Board began enforcing the tradition by not issuing race dates to any tracks on Sundays.