Fall Meet

Keeneland was as beautiful as ever, although the crowd was not up to what we've seen in past visits. Rich and Bobbi Avery traveled with us to London where we ate at the great Mexican Restaurant in front of Days Inn. We arrived at Keeneland between 9:30 and 10:00 AM and immediately got our programs. It's such fun being the instructor when your guests have never attended horse racing. Between the Breeder's Cup races and the live Keeneland races we sat through 16 races Saturday and pretty much placed bets on all of them. Todd was our biggest winner, $38.60 return on a $2.00 bet and recouped all of his initial betting with a profit of $23.00. I didn't do as well, but did win $22.00 on the last Breeder's Cup race. Lots of exciting moments... #7 horse with 65 to 1 odds led the entire race, falling back to 4th in the last 5 seconds, Todd had bet him to win. And then Dr. Pleasure with jockey Otto took a tumble after the last turn. The horse immediately jumped up but Otto lay there for a good while before getting back on his feet. The Averys stayed in Lexington the entire weekend visiting some of the more famous, local horse farms. But I think they're hooked, their opinion of Keeneland being " even if you never bet on one horse, Keeneland is worth the drive".