How did you come to know so much about horses, Wolf?
I don't know all that much. Like many young girls, I grew up loving horses, well all animals, really. I used to ride in summer camp, and then all through my young adulthood. When I was young, I saw horseracing through a romantic lens. I kicked around quite a bit in my early 20's, because I didn't know what to do with my life back then. I worked for about a year at The Jockey Club offices when they were in New York, then took a job exercising yearlings on a stud farm in Ocala, Fl. That only lasted a short time -- only until that crop of yearlings was sold -- but it was a very happy time for me.
I quite literally started following horse racing as a child. The races from Acqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga were shown on TV on Saturday afternoons back then, and I would hang on every word. I guess over the past 40 years or so I must have seen thousands of races. I've mentioned my involvement with the sport in the 1980's. But also as mentioned earlier on the thread, somewhere along the line, the romantic lens fell away and I couldn't take the harder side of the sport anymore.
Now I just tune in for the Triple Crown races every year more out of habit than anything else.