I Miss Muddy Days @ Santa Anita

[UpInClass]

Remember the Old Days...
when the daily racing form
had "Mudder" marks?
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http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/UpInClass/saopeningday/SLOPrace2start.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/UpInClass/saopeningday/SLOPfinishrace4.jpg
I have always loved rainy days at the race track
and I miss the days when the horses & jockeys
would return covered in good old fashioned dirt and mud
after competing over the wet and sloppy racing surface.
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/UpInClass/saopeningday/SLOPkylekannel.jpg
KYLE KAENEL
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/UpInClass/saopeningday/SLOPomarfiguroa.jpg
OMAR FIGUEROA
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/UpInClass/saopeningday/SLOPmikesmith.jpg
...and a muddy MIKE SMITH.

(Photographs taken December, 2004 @ Santa Anita Park)
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/UpInClass/saopeningday/SLOPrace3rainbowbreak.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/UpInClass/saopeningday/SLOPrainbowstretchdrive.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n291/UpInClass/saopeningday/SLOPrainbowfinishrace3.jpg
Yeah...
I Miss Muddy Days @ Santa Anita.

[Pronzini]

I love those photos! Very evocative And Mike Smith is in the Paulson silks!

Well done.

[second_glance]

These are terrific! Grinning jockeys with mud on their faces -- what could be better. :laugh:

[cyber slew]

I miss it too!!

gosh I wish we still had dirt tracks!