MARIAH

Laying down tracks where no tracks have gone before...

It is 5:49 a.m. Eastern, and 53.8 degrees F. The wind is roaring, not the scary frEIght train roar, a more moderate one, but roaring none the less. Patrick hasn't gotten up yet.

OK, so dogs, we watched the KEntucky Derby on TV yesterday. We picked HARDSPUN. He led the race pretty near wire to wire and was pulling away in the homestretch. But a phenominal thing was happening behind him. Street Sense was making a fantastic run from 19th (second to last) place. He passed one horse at about the 3/4 pole or so, then zoom zoom zoomed along the rail (talk about LUCK!!!!) until just one more horse to pass, then caught up to our favorite and passed him to win--an unbelievable feat, albeit one he couldn't have achieved if the ENTIRE FIELD had not Given up the rail...

The two hour pre-game show by NBC was good enuff, but it lacked coverage of one crucial element: The HORSES!!!. We didn't get to see much of them. You'd think the owners and trainers were going to run around the track...Very POOR journalism--the MSM sucks big time in just about everything it attempts, except perverting our culture.

So, OK, dogs it was a great, exciting race, but it wasn't that good for me, you know? Because I saw the ULTIMATE HORSE RACE. No, not the match race between Sea Biscuit and War Admiral, I'm not THAT old.

In the summer of 1973, Harmon and I motored down from Mass. to go to the Belmont Stakes to see the great Secretariat win the Triple Crown. We headed for Belmont Park on Long Island, only to discover it wasn't the race track. So we arrived kind of late, the third race was in progress when we found seats in the grandstand.

Even if you weren't familiar with horses , you could pick the Big Red Horse out of the crowd during th Post Parade. He was HUGE and he was MAGNIFICENT! Like if a 45 year old good looking woman walked into a DAR meeting, get it?

The thrill of the finish is etched in my memory forever. The crowd formed a tunnel of vision for me, so that I could see the finish line but not the far turn. Everybody is on their feet screaming bloody murder. What's going on? Suddenly, here comes the big horse, ALL ALONE, but where are the rest of them? Did they ALL break down in some horrendous multi horse crash at the far turn? Now, slowly here comes the rest of the field.

Secretariat won that race by THIRTY LENGTHS!!! to win racing's Triple Crown.

BTW, the Horse with the Big Heart STILL holds the Kentucky Derby Record...

Hollywierd Report: Paris Hilton, famous because, well we have no idea-- she made a amateur porn film, she is NOT attractive, but is RICH, not talented, oh well, has proved once again that her brain is capable of keeping her vital bodily functions going but little else, has to go to jail for 45 days for drunk driving probation violations. SHE MADE THE JUDGE WAIT TEN MINUTES BEFORE SHE SHOWED UP IN COURT! (duh...)

GOGATORSGOGATORSGOGATORSGOGATORS

Heh, heh, heh. Have a nice day!!!