DRIPPING DERBY WINNERS
This from today's Horse Race Insider's report on the scant few who bet on longshot Mine That Bird, ridden by jockey Calvin Borel, to win the Kentucky Derby:
"I found somebody in Las Vegas who had bet on Mine That Bird's nose. Well, sort of. Oran 'Pug' Rippy and his wife Janet were on their way home to Dripping Springs, Texas, having cashed a $5 win bet on the Derby winner. But the money belonged to their son-in-law, who according to Pug 'knows absolutely nothing about racing.'
It seems that Gary Garnett, a mechanic who lives across the street from the Rippys, worked years and years ago as an exercise rider at Evangeline Downs, where he got to know Calvin Borel, fledgling jockey. Last week, Garnett came into Pug Rippy's livestock feed store and told him that he ought to bet Borel's horse when he got to Las Vegas.
'I took all that with a grain of salt,' Rippy said. 'How could you bet that horse, Borel or no Borel? When that horse crossed the finish line, I was very happy for my son-in-law, but very sad that I wasn't right there with him with five dollars of my own.'
...Now all of Dripping Springs, Texas, all 1,000 of them, will know the name Calvin Borel."
Read the complete article here.
"I found somebody in Las Vegas who had bet on Mine That Bird's nose. Well, sort of. Oran 'Pug' Rippy and his wife Janet were on their way home to Dripping Springs, Texas, having cashed a $5 win bet on the Derby winner. But the money belonged to their son-in-law, who according to Pug 'knows absolutely nothing about racing.'
It seems that Gary Garnett, a mechanic who lives across the street from the Rippys, worked years and years ago as an exercise rider at Evangeline Downs, where he got to know Calvin Borel, fledgling jockey. Last week, Garnett came into Pug Rippy's livestock feed store and told him that he ought to bet Borel's horse when he got to Las Vegas.
'I took all that with a grain of salt,' Rippy said. 'How could you bet that horse, Borel or no Borel? When that horse crossed the finish line, I was very happy for my son-in-law, but very sad that I wasn't right there with him with five dollars of my own.'
...Now all of Dripping Springs, Texas, all 1,000 of them, will know the name Calvin Borel."
Read the complete article here.
Posted by DSBabble.com at Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:23 AM 
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