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Originally Posted by pandy
This reminds me of a day at Belmont when I was 19 years old and hanging with a friend of mine. We were admiring a pretty, well-dressed, young lady in the paddock and he dared me to talk to her. I walked up to her and tried to start a conversation about the betting prospects in the race. She rebuffed me rather quickly with "I don't bet on horses. I own them."
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Funny...as if owning thoroughbreds was a more dignified way to lose thousands of $'s instead of "investing" in "expensive slips of paper"...