The Greatish Race Place

[Curtis]

So call me a sentimental old fool—well 2 outta 3 ain’t bad—but I’m planning a trip to Santa Anita on April 20. I haven’t been there since January 2010 and while the lock box is not in use and before the relator and potential buyers start to muss up the joint, I thought I’d attend for old time sake. I’d like to reserve a table for two in the Frontrunner. How does one do that? I can’t find a clear way to do it via the in-ter-web and nobody answers the phone. What’s the trick?

I should also add it’s Opening Day of the gala Hollywood at Santa Anita meet. Is black tie required, what does one wear on a red carpet? It’s been a long time since the Seabiscuit premiere and I had no decisions to make then. I gotta say though, it was hotter than all giddy up in the back end of that horse costume.

[Flanders]

So call me a sentimental old fool—well 2 outta 3 ain’t bad—but I’m planning a trip to Santa Anita on April 20. I haven’t been there since January 2010 and while the lock box is not in use and before the relator and potential buyers start to muss up the joint, I thought I’d attend for old time sake. I’d like to reserve a table for two in the Frontrunner. How does one do that? I can’t find a clear way to do it via the in-ter-web and nobody answers the phone. What’s the trick?

I should also add it’s Opening Day of the gala Hollywood at Santa Anita meet. Is black tie required, what does one wear on a red carpet? It’s been a long time since the Seabiscuit premiere and I had no decisions to make then. I gotta say though, it was hotter than all giddy up in the back end of that horse costume.

https://www.ticketmaster.com/live-racin ... 75E0342A44

Click on the Frontrunner, pick the seats, you need to click on each seat individually. Pay an extra $75 to buy through Ticketmaster. This is the only way I could see.

[Curtis]

So call me a sentimental old fool—well 2 outta 3 ain’t bad—but I’m planning a trip to Santa Anita on April 20. I haven’t been there since January 2010 and while the lock box is not in use and before the relator and potential buyers start to muss up the joint, I thought I’d attend for old time sake. I’d like to reserve a table for two in the Frontrunner. How does one do that? I can’t find a clear way to do it via the in-ter-web and nobody answers the phone. What’s the trick?

I should also add it’s Opening Day of the gala Hollywood at Santa Anita meet. Is black tie required, what does one wear on a red carpet? It’s been a long time since the Seabiscuit premiere and I had no decisions to make then. I gotta say though, it was hotter than all giddy up in the back end of that horse costume.

https://www.ticketmaster.com/live-racin ... 75E0342A44

Click on the Frontrunner, pick the seats, you need to click on each seat individually. Pay an extra $75 to buy through Ticketmaster. This is the only way I could see.

Thanks but an extra $75 ain’t happenin’. I thought maybe stark, Diver, Baroque and Missbeholder had some insight. Maybe hot dogs and soda in the grandstand is where I’ll be.

[BaroqueAgain1]

Not me, sadly. I haven't been to Santa Anita in person in.....well, quite a few years.

[Flanders]

So call me a sentimental old fool—well 2 outta 3 ain’t bad—but I’m planning a trip to Santa Anita on April 20. I haven’t been there since January 2010 and while the lock box is not in use and before the relator and potential buyers start to muss up the joint, I thought I’d attend for old time sake. I’d like to reserve a table for two in the Frontrunner. How does one do that? I can’t find a clear way to do it via the in-ter-web and nobody answers the phone. What’s the trick?

I should also add it’s Opening Day of the gala Hollywood at Santa Anita meet. Is black tie required, what does one wear on a red carpet? It’s been a long time since the Seabiscuit premiere and I had no decisions to make then. I gotta say though, it was hotter than all giddy up in the back end of that horse costume.

https://www.ticketmaster.com/live-racin ... 75E0342A44

Click on the Frontrunner, pick the seats, you need to click on each seat individually. Pay an extra $75 to buy through Ticketmaster. This is the only way I could see.

Thanks but an extra $75 ain’t happenin’. I thought maybe stark, Diver, Baroque and Missbeholder had some insight. Maybe hot dogs and soda in the grandstand is where I’ll be.

The $75 was a joke (hopefully), I just know how expensive Ticketmaster fees are for concerts.

[stark]

So call me a sentimental old fool—well 2 outta 3 ain’t bad—but I’m planning a trip to Santa Anita on April 20. I haven’t been there since January 2010 and while the lock box is not in use and before the relator and potential buyers start to muss up the joint, I thought I’d attend for old time sake. I’d like to reserve a table for two in the Frontrunner. How does one do that? I can’t find a clear way to do it via the in-ter-web and nobody answers the phone. What’s the trick?

I should also add it’s Opening Day of the gala Hollywood at Santa Anita meet. Is black tie required, what does one wear on a red carpet? It’s been a long time since the Seabiscuit premiere and I had no decisions to make then. I gotta say though, it was hotter than all giddy up in the back end of that horse costume.

https://www.ticketmaster.com/live-racin ... 75E0342A44

Click on the Frontrunner, pick the seats, you need to click on each seat individually. Pay an extra $75 to buy through Ticketmaster. This is the only way I could see.

Thanks but an extra $75 ain’t happenin’. I thought maybe stark, Diver, Baroque and Missbeholder had some insight. Maybe hot dogs and soda in the grandstand is where I’ll be.

Sorry but I just email Ami Atkinson with my owner license number and she texts me the passes to my phone. I thought they only cost $10 and you pick them out on-line.

[Curtis]

https://www.ticketmaster.com/live-racin ... 75E0342A44

Click on the Frontrunner, pick the seats, you need to click on each seat individually. Pay an extra $75 to buy through Ticketmaster. This is the only way I could see.

Thanks but an extra $75 ain’t happenin’. I thought maybe stark, Diver, Baroque and Missbeholder had some insight. Maybe hot dogs and soda in the grandstand is where I’ll be.

The $75 was a joke (hopefully), I just know how expensive Ticketmaster fees are for concerts.

Thanks but for $75, I’d need to see Tupac open for Elvis and see them do a duet of “In the Ghetto”.

[Curtis]

Okay, score one for the Boomer. I negotiated withTicketmaster down to $4.50 service charge per ticket. For an extra $20 I coulda had my picture taken on the Seabiscuit statue but I don’t ride bareback.

[Diver52]

Sorry, Curtis, but I couldn't figure it out either. My only experience of the Frontrunner was as a guest of a poster called General Challenge from the late lamented DMFF. I'll be at SA for the Derby--every time I was thinking of going this winter, it rained. Then the next day off to Zimbabwe. (yes, I have eclectic tastes.)

[Missbeholder]

Okay, score one for the Boomer. I negotiated withTicketmaster down to $4.50 service charge per ticket. For an extra $20 I coulda had my picture taken on the Seabiscuit statue but I don’t ride bareback.

Well, I guess since you don't ride bareback, both Seabiscuit and Zenyatta are out. But not to worry! Old John Henry is all tacked up and waitin' for ya!!

[Curtis]

Okay, score one for the Boomer. I negotiated withTicketmaster down to $4.50 service charge per ticket. For an extra $20 I coulda had my picture taken on the Seabiscuit statue but I don’t ride bareback.

Well, I guess since you don't ride bareback, both Seabiscuit and Zenyatta are out. But not to worry! Old John Henry is all tacked up and waitin' for ya!!

Even bronzed, he’s too mean for me.

[Curtis]

Sorry, Curtis, but I couldn't figure it out either. My only experience of the Frontrunner was as a guest of a poster called General Challenge from the late lamented DMFF. I'll be at SA for the Derby--every time I was thinking of going this winter, it rained. Then the next day off to Zimbabwe. (yes, I have eclectic tastes.)

General Challenge sounds like an apt description. Mabee I shoulda thought of that.

[Missbeholder]

Sorry, Curtis, but I couldn't figure it out either. My only experience of the Frontrunner was as a guest of a poster called General Challenge from the late lamented DMFF. I'll be at SA for the Derby--every time I was thinking of going this winter, it rained. Then the next day off to Zimbabwe. (yes, I have eclectic tastes.)

General Challenge sounds like an apt description. Mabee I shoulda thought of that.

I see what you did there, Curtis! I'm sure it made John and Betty smile from upstairs!

[Diver52]

Sorry, Curtis, but I couldn't figure it out either. My only experience of the Frontrunner was as a guest of a poster called General Challenge from the late lamented DMFF. I'll be at SA for the Derby--every time I was thinking of going this winter, it rained. Then the next day off to Zimbabwe. (yes, I have eclectic tastes.)

General Challenge sounds like an apt description. Mabee I shoulda thought of that.

I see what you did there, Curtis! I'm sure it made John and Betty smile from upstairs!

Me too.

General Challenge was actually a very nice woman. A friend and I had dinner with her and a very shrewd handicapper called "Traveller" on the forum in Lexington before Street Sense's Derby. We were supposed to join them for a private stallion show at what was then called "Darley at Jonabell," Jonabell being the historic former name of the farm. Well, we put "Jonabell" into Mapquest and wound up. . .in a housing subdivision also named "Jonabell." We missed the stallion show.

[Curtis]

General Challenge sounds like an apt description. Mabee I shoulda thought of that.

I see what you did there, Curtis! I'm sure it made John and Betty smile from upstairs!

Me too.

General Challenge was actually a very nice woman. A friend and I had dinner with her and a very shrewd handicapper called "Traveller" on the forum in Lexington before Street Sense's Derby. We were supposed to join them for a private stallion show at what was then called "Darley at Jonabell," Jonabell being the historic former name of the farm. Well, we put "Jonabell" into Mapquest and wound up. . .in a housing subdivision also named "Jonabell." We missed the stallion show.

General Challenge once shared a field as a weanling with my beloved Anniversary Year. I went to Golden Eagle to meet A.Y.’s parents once upon a time and got to meet both General Challenge and Dramatic Gold as well. Both were characters, the latter fat, huge and happy.