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Quitting One Passion....and Finding Another

Article Category: Entertainment

Author Name: Music Talks.xyz

On Quitting One Passion... and Finding Another

(debut album 'Something's Not Right' available now)

In the Talking Heads' iconic Once In A Lifetime, a song so catchy it managed to be a hit at the same time as being deeply profound, David Byrne opines:

And you may find yourself

Living in a shotgun shack

And you may find yourself

In another part of the world

And you may find yourself

Behind the wheel of a large automobile

And you may find yourself in a beautiful house

With a beautiful wife

And you may ask yourself, well

How did I get here?

Everyone experiences this feeling of disorientation from time to time, the sense that one's role in one's own life is far smaller than one would hope or expect. For me, my story begins at Belmont Park, that enormous racetrack on Long Island, home to the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of Thoroughbred horse racing's Triple Crown. My parents took me there when I was six years old, and I was mesmerized. I loved the way the sunlight reflected off of the horses' polished coats. I marveled at how the jockeys' silks produced a vividness of color. I spent the ride home, red sun setting over the Cross-Island Expressway, imitating the track's race announcer. I began telling everyone I wanted to be a horse racing announcer. A few years later, my parents bought me a plastic, battery-powered racing game which, in that 1975, pre-computer landscape, provided the unmatched excitement of watching six miniature horses shake, rattle and roll their ways down a vibrating racetrack, the outcome of the race in doubt until the final second. I announced every one of these faux races.

At eighteen, I became the youngest full-time racetrack announcer in the country, working at a charming little track named Lake Shore Meadows, near Erie, Pennsylvania. They raced for two years, no one ever showed up, and they were a money-losing venture from day one. But I announced every race they ever held and I made my first set of lifelong racing friends. Near the end of the first season, a horse I had fallen in love with named Flip Collins didn't finish his race and came limping off the track, clearly injured. I knew an injured horse was at risk of ending up at one of the shadowy "kill sales," where if no one bids on a horse, some agent puts up $100 and has the horse slaughtered.

I called the owner the next day. He said if I wanted him for $500, the horse was all mine. I didn't have the money, nor did I know how to take care of a horse. But I convinced my mother to lend me the money, and the following morning I picked up Flip, clipped a leadshank to his halter, started walking him to his new stall. He took off running suddenly and with rope burns exploding on my hands, I watched him run off into the distance, turn left around a barn, and disappear. I took off at a full run and finally turned a corner to see a guy named Terry with a wide smile on his face, toking a joint with one hand and holding Flip, as calm as could be, with the other. Welcome to horse racing.

A year later, after eight months recuperating in the field, and four more training back, Flip won the final race Lake Shore Meadows ever held, and I flew down the stairs from the announcer's booth, my feet never touching the ground. A few years later, I won my first race as a driver, and over the next twenty-five years, I had the good fortune to announce at racetracks in Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Indiana, and to train two world champion horses, and I still driving horses occasionally, thirty years later. Most importantly, I had found a home in a world I loved, and it nurtured me for decades.

But you can have all the vision and focus in the world, and yet you're no match for forces larger than you. As Mike Tyson put it, "Everyone has a plan until they get a punch in the mouth." For me, that punch in the mouth was so gradual it was almost imperceptible, but it was inexorable. The sport of harness racing was dying.

Harness racing had burst on the scene in 1940, and by 1968, 22,000 people were coming to the races per night. Horse racing as a whole surpassed both baseball and football in total attendance.

And then the lottery became legal, and the $2 bettors disappeared, one by one, into the quest to win millions in one shot. And then casino gambling, off-track betting on the races, and slot machines. Over time, the horses were forgotten. My "career year" with my horses was 2010, when Enough Talk, my best horse, won the Breeders Crown. But that championship victory didn't move me nearly as much as Flip Collins' win in that race against.....Read this incredible story on Music Talks.

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