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    A Day at the Races

    Jun 18, 2019 3 minutes
    By Gretchen M. Sanders

    Last August a tip from a man in line at the betting window at the Gillespie County Fairgrounds hit pay dirt. “I like the No. 3, the No. 5, and the No. 10 horse,” he said. The quarter horses looked the same to me, so I handed the clerk $12 and bet on all three. If two of them finished first and second in any order, I’d win some money

    Next I circled round to the

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