The New Yorker Magazine (№ 24th May 2021) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2021-05-23T14:00:00+00:00

disrepute among the general public. The all those mountains, at the base of the 126 went up the Santa Clara River

governor of Pennsylvania has been talking San Gabriel Range, was Santa Anita.

valley. Not the direct route. “It’s still

about slashing his state’s huge subsidies

Alexander was thinking about Alice little Mexican family farms. Old Cal-to horse racing and diverting the funds Marble and her breathing problems. She ifornia. Nobody’s bought them out, and to education.

would probably miss both of the stakes they can’t build casinos.”

In California, where alligator shoes races that he had planned to put her in We took 101. I asked Alexander if he

have been banned and a ballot mea-

this meet. He just hoped that was all.

was worried that opponents of racing

sure to improve the lives of farm ani-

Alexander did move his horses to Los might get the sport’s future on the bal-mals passed by a huge margin, the fu-

Alamitos, but he kept racing at Santa lot in a statewide referendum. He was ture of horse racing is hard to see. But Anita. He had a horse in the fourth today, not, he said. At least not yet. Getting on the state’s Native American gambling a son of Grazen whom he had named the ballot was expensive. You needed juggernaut has a new ballot measure in George Herman Ruth, after some old-more than half a million signatures to

the works for 2022. It proposes to con-

time ballplayer. Young Ruth

start. What did worry him

fine the next wave of gaming, “sports had been hapless in his

was that the Governor would

betting,” to its casinos and approved début, finishing a distant

stack the California Horse

racetracks, meaning Santa Anita, Del eighth out of nine. But that Racing Board with his “min-Mar, Golden Gate Fields, and Los Al-

race had been only five and

ions,” putting himself in a

amitos. Why voters would approve the a half furlongs, and today’s position to shut down racing.

measure is an open question. Why the was eight. It could be that

Newsom was erratic, reac-

casinos, with their deep pockets, would he just needed more room

tive, politically thin-skinned.

extend this proposal to the tracks is an-

to lengthen his stride. “I

George Herman Ruth

other. When it was put to the outgoing think he’s a two-turn horse,”

was a big gray colt with a

chairman of the California Nations In-

Alexander said, hopefully.

sharp eye. He was calm in

dian Gaming Association, Steve Stall-

Ruth would be running

the paddock but had his

ings, he said that he thought the race-

on race-day Lasix. Santa Anita had still head up and turning as if he had some-tracks “need some shoring up to stay not banished it, despite Belinda Stronach’s where to be. His trainer, Phil D’Amato, competitive.” They do.

letter announcing a ban the previous a beefy tan guy with a racing program March. Because Alexander was the chair-sticking out of a pocket, saddled Ruth

Alexander left his ranch for the track man of the Thoroughbred Owners of and gave Alexander a quiet thumbs-up.

early one morning, driving a BMW California, he had been in subsequent The oddsmakers were sending Ruth sedan that his son had loaned him from negotiations with Stronach over Lasix off at 10–1.

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