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...grandparents brought me into the fraternity of horse-players when I was about six, whisking me from midtown Manhattan to Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, Queens. We would make the 45-minute bus ride on a 20-passenger van owned and operated by a man named Gus, who, I would learn years later, died of a heart attack in the men's room at The Sands in Las Vegas. Gus had been married several times, and his last marriage ended when his wife gave him an ultimatum: me or horses. Gus chose horses...
...called an authoritarian method for picking horses. Before hopping Gus' bus, my grandfather would pay $2 for a handicapping sheet xeroxed on bright orange paper in the cigarette store across Second Avenue from his apartment. This sheet, which was compiled by "Clocker Lawton," tipped three horses in each of Aqueduct's nine races that day. Lawton--the only clue to whose identity was a grainy photograph of a man in a trenchcoat and a wide-brimmed hat, a cross between Elliott Ness and John Wayne, printed above his picks--mystified me with his expertise. Invariably, Lawton would recommend a rank...
SPORT OPTION: Try your luck at races beyond Wonderland at Belmont Stakes or the Aqueduct track...
...achieves a tremendous faceted density, that crouched lion of rock. In between there are lyrical tributes to it, as in Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue, 1882-85, where it appears almost shyly on the left of a tender, early springtime landscape, all new green, traversed by an aqueduct (sign of the ancient Roman roots of Provence) and crossed by a pale road whose kinks are tied to the branch forms of the pine that rises in the foreground to bisect the canvas...
Sounding again the major themes of his visit to America, Pope John Paul II told congregants at an open-air mass Friday morning at New York's Aqueduct racetrack that they must show more compassion to the poor and the weak, and return to traditional family values. As a crowd estimated at 75,000 listened,the Pope told them: "Not everyone here is powerful; not everyone here is rich. In fact, America's sometimes extravagant affluence often conceals much hardship and poverty." Moving to family concerns, the Pontiff called for an immediate end to abortion, and more family stability. "Society...