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the next race was the $200,000 Grade II All Along Breeders’ Cup for fillies and mares, thus diverting my attention temporarily from the luscious chocolate ice cream cones nearby patrons were consuming, and long enough also to note where Graham Motion, trainer of the favored Film Maker, was standing. This proved a great time-saver, since I trotted down the steps behind him en route to the winner’s circle, interviewing in full stride and leaving plenty of time to find the ice cream stand before the Turf Cup, which was next.
The polite paddock guard, showing good judgment, denied me and my rapidly melting chocolate ice cream cone entrance to the paddock. So instead I stood uninterrupted and ice cream now dripping onto my race program on the outside stairs to the clubhouse and studied the trainers. I knew only Barclay Tagg and Bill Mott by sight.
Back in position for the big event, I spotted Tagg’s slightly balding dome several boxes away. And so it was, when Showing Up surged to the front in the last strides of the Turf Cup, that I rushed forward to grab hold of the shoulders of Tagg’s seersucker sports coat.
As jubilant fans surged around him with cheers, handshakes and congratulations, Tagg said dazedly, “I don’t even know where to go.”
“Don’t wony,” said I, deftly guiding him toward the steps to the winner’s circle.
I had my most pertinent questions answered before we had even arrived, so that I could politely step back from the throng of beaming trophy presenters and “pushy” reporters.
And you know what I
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