On Preakness morning I would arrive at 4:30AM. The track was open for training from only around 5-6:30 AM or something close to that.
I had to drive through the parking lot behind the far turn to get to my barn and there would typically be about 200 or 300 people there drinking beer and blasting Lynyrd Skynyrd or something like that in the dark. They were in full party mode 13 hours before the race. It was incredible. Lolol.
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