Once upon a time I played in handicapping contests, but after going
0-for-the-World Series of Handicapping I finally gave up the ghost.
That’s not the current Handicapping World Series hosted by the Orleans,
the horseplayer-friendly Las Vegas casino. Rather, it was the original,
at Penn National Race Course hard by the Blue Mountains.
Penn National’s WSH was an original all right, the first major contest
of its kind, one that put the Grantville, Pa. track on the national
racing map.
But that’s when Penn National was strictly a racetrack, not the
successful publicly traded gaming conglomerate specializing in slots
that it is today. Racing is an afterthought to them now, a means to an
end.
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