We have now experienced another Aussie tradition... a big horse race, part of the spring carnival. Every woman is decked out in fancy dresses, heals and hats/hair pieces of all sorts, and the men are all in suits and ties... But the classiness went no further than the apparel. It was a messy array of drinking, smoking and gambling! Ick! And we barely saw any horses :( I had watched SeaBiscuit the night before and was very excited about the races, but was a bit disappointed... we went with a big group of friends and we had staked out a nice section of lawn right at the rail, about 400m from the finish line. But this meant we only saw the horses for the 1.1-1.3 seconds they passed! And watching on the screen was disorienting because you had no depth perception and could not tell who was winning. I don't think the views were much better for those in the stadium because it is set so far back from the track... it's very odd. If I go again, I'm not going to go to a big race. There were ~120,000 people there with us, and I prefer a smaller crowd!In any event, it was a fun day!
See? You can take the girl out of the honky tonk, but you can't take the honky tonk out of the girl... (don't worry, we picked up all our trash!)
It was CROWDED... this was us, trying to leave...
2 comments:
It looks like you guys should be stopping on divots ....looks very different from good old Bay Meadows.
Love the Sweet Home Alabama reference!
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