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At Preakness, Not Everybody’s Idea of Fun

By Joe Drape (The New York Times, 5/17/2011) Excessive drinking at the Preakness Stakes, the second jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown, reached its nadir in 2007 when videos of young men racing atop portable toilets in the Pimlico Race … Continue reading

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They Shoot Slackers, Don’t They? – The Atomic TV Classic

ATOMIC TV CLASSIC Pimlico Race Course June 16, 2001 By Tom Warner (Accelerated Decrepitude, 1/4/2011) I was was doing some winter cleaning last night, realizing — after the Hillendale firemen came to check if I had a gas leak (not … Continue reading

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