52nd City

Fairmount

Timing's so interesting.

On Friday night, I went to Fairmount Park, to take in the whole "track experience" and to lose a couple dollars. Some years, I'll skip the season entirely. Others, I'll find myself in Collinsville once, or twice. This was my second trip of the season - and the first time I bet two winners in two races. (Which was plenty; we split with our winnings and good luck right after Our Motel paced the field in the fifth.)

The Post-Dispatch today has an interesting piece on the Park scaling back its operations in 2008 and how that will impact the workers, many of them seasonally employed:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/8E45C5AA198425B786257360001023CA?OpenDocument