Bay Meadows is Closing for Good in November
This is a serious bummer. Bay Meadows is closing for good in November. I’m way into the going to the track. Actually, I was just searching for some Bay Meadows photos and found my first ever blog post on the Mesh site, which was about Bay Meadows. Since I started going, I’ve run into some interesting people that I wouldn’t necessarily expect to be way into horse racing, like the guy that runs this thing and someone from this band.
After I wrote this, a flurry of e-mails were sent throughout the office. One guy at my work had this description of a night at the track: “Crappy cover band, sketchy people, semi palatable hot dogs! Its like a really terrible circus where you are the clowns.”
Exactly.
The first Mesh blog post after the jump.
Last Friday, I went down to Bay Meadows Horsetrack for the first time this year. If you’ve never been to the races, let me just tell you, it’s fuckin’ brilliant. Once you learn that you shouldn’t just bet on the horses with the cool names, you might actually win something. Last week with the help of the Fecal Face posse, who told me what to bet on in Race #7, I won $28.50 on a $6 dollar Trifecta Box (pick the top three horses in any order) bet.
I’m down to almost (we’re talking double digits here) no money for the rest of the month and am seriously considering betting it all on the Preakness tomorrow. Smarty Jones’ looking good. But maybe I should just say fuck it and go with the longshot, Little Math Man, at 50-1.
Yeah, that fucker Smarty Jones wasn’t looking so good after all. However, I did know a girl that won $25,000 that day on the trifecta, on like a $5 bet.
