Sports.. What a Preakness! It took almost the whole home stretch for I’ll Have Another to catch Bodemeister. Did you pay to watch on tv? It was available for free over-the-air on NBC. Going low-tech… TrainGranny is new blogger. Nice post on the simple pleasure of looking out of a train window: Looking Out Train [...]
There were a couple of non-motorized (horse and foot) races of interest this weekend. Preakness I did not see the race live, but watched the 134th running of the Preakness Stakes on Youtube. In another year without a Triple Crown winner, the filly Rachel Alexandra held off a late charge by Kentucky Derby winner Mine [...]
After winning the Kentucky Derby, Big Brown was again victorious at the Preakness Stakes in front of over 112,000 horse racing fans. The large crowd demonstrates the continued popularity the old sport of horse racing has even in today’s hi-tech society. Several years ago, I attended the Preakness at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, [...]
