The Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs

[Afleet]

https://www.churchilldowns.com/calendar/2018-06-16

[Thomas Roulston]

Originally Posted by LemonSoupKid

I've been to 4 straight BC, this would be 5, I'm aware of how it works.

Given the ticket prices and bad weather, and the feeling that CD is historic but suboptimal in many ways, I might just have as nice a time in an OTB in sunny Florida. That's all I was considering.

I've only been to one BC: 1990's "Ice Bowl."

[papillon]

Originally Posted by horses4courses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_NOnC2TiRk

Just as a very weird tangent--they wrote California Dreaming in St. Thomas USVI and had never been to California. In fact, Pappa John grew up in Alexandria VA, was a graduate of the Naval Academy, and had a weird knack for being in every Latin American country just before its revolution up to about 1966, starting with Cuba.

Jim Morrison also grew up in Alexandria VA, went to the same highschool as Pappa John and Pappa John's wife, and his dad was the Admiral of the Pacific Fleet and was on the vessel in the Gulf of Tonkin that reported the non-event that resulted in the escalation of the Veitnam War.

Crazy stuff. If you like that era's music, this book is a must read: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JVAW58K...ng=UTF8&btkr=1