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...There’s an element among people who spend a lot of time at the racetrack of an anti-authoritarian, unconventional—if not entirely anarchic—frame of mind,” Crist says, and this applies to even the most intellectual and rational of gamblers. “It’s a little bit like running away and joining the circus. That characterizes George’s worldview and what he’s gone...
...drove from Los Angeles to Miami, stopping off at every racetrack along the way, from a “dusty dirt fair” in New Mexico to more major establishments. He visited 10 tracks in 15 days and wrote an article about the pilgrimage...
When he arrived in 1994 at the New York Racing Association (NYRA), the company that runs the state’s three largest horse racing tracks assumed that if you wanted to play the horses you would go to the racetrack...
After finishing that manuscript, Crist says he has been spending more time at the racetrack again. Currently that means passing days at Belmont Park, where the New York racing circuit competes in the spring...
Nothing, however, can quite match the physical wonders of Death Valley, says Dave Woodruff, 49, a veteran tour guide who, after 11 seasons here, is still discovering new things. There are the mysterious moving boulders on the Racetrack's remote dry lake bed, for example, or the beehive-shaped charcoal kilns of Wildrose Canyon. Just the other day Woodruff came across a scenic Depression-era back road that runs between Furnace Creek Ranch and Stovepipe Wells. "The magic of this place," he says, "makes me hunger for Death Valley more each year...