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<\/a><\/p>\nNeither Konnie nor Michael nor I really knew what was going on, but after Michael found a place to park – which was no mean feat – we plunked down our money and found a seat in the grandstand.<\/p>\n
There were a few horse races first.<\/p>\n It was interesting trying to figure out what was going on. It seems that each race horse had a non-racehouse that escorted him to the gate. A horsey buddy system!<\/p>\n Here they are – heading to the gate.<\/p>\n They go thundering by.<\/p>\n Eventually, they cross the finish line.\u00a0Some are winners, some aren’t. The bets are paid off and about half an hour later, they run another race.<\/p>\n We wandered down from the grandstand to see what else we could see.<\/p>\n We found a guy snapping photos with his own camera and got into a conversation with him. I asked him if he wouldn’t mind taking a shot of us – and here we are!<\/p>\n They had the camels out for us too look at. When they took them away, we figured it was time for the races we came to see.<\/p>\n There go the camels!<\/p>\n Here are the zebras being led to the starting gate.<\/p>\n And there they go!<\/p>\n The last race we stayed for was the ostrich race. Here they are! Coming out of the gate!<\/p>\n They actually rode the ostriches and those birds could really move!<\/p>\n This one managed to go faster that the others because he was able to get rid of his rider.<\/p>\n And the rider came in last.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I admit that I do not normally go to the horse races. I vaguely remember going to the races when I was visiting friends in Chicago decades ago, but I don’t remember much about it. But, this race program sounded interesting. They were going to be running camels, ostriches and zebras! How could we resist? … Continue reading Off to the Races!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[482,483,485,484],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camel-race","tag-ostrich-race","tag-turf-paradise","tag-zebra-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n