There are only six more shopping days until Christmas! If you’re still looking for some last-minute gifts for the horseplayer in your life, allow me to make a few suggestions.
The first time I saw Derby Owners Club was at a truck stop while I was on the road in Texas. It was the biggest arcade game I had ever seen. It had a giant screen that was surrounded by rows of several video terminals with their own seats. On the big screen was a horse race, albeit rendered in what were already outdated graphics by 2005. On the individual terminals there were screens where the players trained their horses to prepare for the next race on the schedule.
Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation and WinStar Farm announced today that WinStar will be the official sponsor of The WinStar-Grayson #GivingTuesday Challenge, to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017.
Del Mar, the host track for this year’s Breeders Cup World Championships, was built in 1937 and has a colorful and star-studded history. It was an extremely popular hangout for celebrities in its heyday and continues to be one of the country’s most exciting and glamourous racetracks to this day.
But late at night, after all of the fans have gone home, the revelry doesn’t stop. Some say that’s just when the party gets started at Del Mar … because that’s when the the ghosts come out to play.
“Morning again in America.” Silicon Valley takes on Big Brother at the Super Bowl. A celluloid poet of teen angst captures the Zeitgeist. The best basketball rivalry of all time resumes, and gets even better. And four music icons dominate the Billboard charts just as a newfangled small plastic disc encoded with digital data hits the music marketplace.
