The Baseball Trip 2017

Day 8 - August 3, 2017

It's a long way from Saratoga Springs to Erie Pennsylvania. Actually, Presque Isle is our destination for more horse racing. It is a relatively small track, but it also houses a casino. It is also the first track in America made of Tapeta, which is a combination of sand, rubber, and wax on top of porous asphalt. It's like that new artificial surface for high school football fields. You know, where athletes drag those little beads of asphalt all over the hallways. It's that stuff. Sort of.

Anyway, someone left a little voodoo man hex made of twigs for us on the steps at our motel this morning. I didn't think it jinxed me immediately because I won a few bucks at the track. But then I lost it back at the casino, so, who knows?

We had a great breakfast that morning at a real honest to God diner called Crazy Otto's Empire Diner:

Anyway, here are a few pictures from Presque Isle:

 Paddock area: This is Smartina, the horse that won me 85 dollars.

 Rainbow over the track. It just finished pouring as we pulled in. It was the first real ran we've  experienced on the trip.

The starting gate for this race was right in front of the tote board.

Favorite town names: Schroon, NY

                                      Ostelic, NY

Favorite signs: Text Stop Five Miles

                         Sugarbush Road

Things we cannot stick around for:  Diamond Days in Herkimer
                                                              Paris Hill Garage Sale
                                                              Paris Hill Chicken BBQ

Random observation from Randy: I wasn't going to bother betting this race, but then again I always bother.

IAD - 0
KAPO - 1 on a bike
              1- kicking a ball around the yard.

Tomorrow: Cleveland - more racing and baseball.