Yesterday was the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby, and this year I watched the race with mys sister Susan up in Fort Collins. Susan, like me, remembers as the Kentucky Derby as a big deal in our family, with my father Nelson cutting up the names of the horses from the newspaper, putting them in a hat, and then having everyone pick out several in hope they would win the pot. Susan reminisced about how our Grandfather and Grandmother Spillard (our mother Mary's parents) used to take her to Arlington and Washington Parks in the Chicago area to see the horse races, and how our Grandmother Spillard was so good at picking horses that she had a bottom drawer filled with 20s. Nice. And by the way, Justify won the race, with Good Magic, my sister's pick, coming in second. Hopefully she didn't have too much money bet on that horse.
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