Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, March 05, 2009




With some businesses you wonder that anyone gets into them -- like horse racing. A firm called Magna Entertainment Corp., which owns Pimlico among other tracks, "has lost $638 million since 2002." There's been talk of the Preakness being moved from there. When we think horse racing we think broken-down men with cigars. We hope some semblance of the races can stay on, if only to remind us of what gambling was like before it became an industry, and because horses are such good and noble creatures, even when racing.

(Photo added 3/6/2009 at 9:50 a. m.; Magna owns a track outside Berkeley)

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