Norman Einstein's
ISSUE 03 (08/09)
"Belmont By Beginners"
by Stephanie Lim & Cian O'Day
I wagered $15 and lost it all. Stephanie won a couple bucks... enough to justify betting a couple more.
Treat the racing form like one of those Magic Eye autostereograms that were everywhere in the 90s, allow your ship to come to you. Or simply read the instructions, it's your pick.
My friend the Counselor says, "I like the paces of the races. Twenty-five minutes is the perfect amount of time to study, make a bet, buy a beer, drink it, and watch a race."
From Wikipedia: The Belmont Park property originally totalled some 650 acres. Because the property stretched slightly into Queens, bookmakers in the track's early days -- when bookmaking was illegal -- could escape arrest from one county's authorities by jumping over the border. It was once even believed that horses rounding the far turn crossed into Queens and then came back to Nassau for the stretch run.
From Wikipedia: Belmont Park being located in Elmont is a coincidence.
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