Posted on 10/04/2011 9:00:38 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Beautiful horse, he was.
Crazy how this ended up disagreement over a spring name!
What was the topic again?
Oh yeah - dredging the river for battlefield artifacts! LOL
(BTW, I put in a query to the HOF historian; maybe he knows for certain about the spring. I can’t find any serious primary sources just using the ‘net.)
I’m sorry I ever brought it up!! I was just making conversation with ml/nj...and, BTW, The Carving Board, I believe was indeed the name of the place. It was on the ground floor, and my buddies and I knew the African American gentleman who sliced the beef and he always gave us the best cuts. Ml/nj, you have a great memory...
When Secretariat was there, there wasn’t even fencing in the saddling area. They walked around trees and the entire area was open to the public. My mom went with us that year. Secretariat was not well enough to race, but they breezed him around the track so we could all see him. We had been there the year before,staying in some attic room on the cheap, and Secretariat brought such a huge crowd, one they had never seen before. Bred and foaled in Virginia, by the way.
Yep...just circles around the trees. Idyllic...
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