The New York Times actually published (a condensed, impotent version) of my letter.
This won’t change anything, except for the feeling of powerlessness I have being the slightest, tiniest bit less.
May 12, 2008...5:26 pm
Holy Crap.
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May 12, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I’m glad the letter was published, shame they didn’t publish the whole thing.
Had no idea you were located in Falls Church. I leave VA and suddenly I’m getting to know all these VA/DC bloggers. Figures.
May 13, 2008 at 12:38 am
so pumped they published it.
May 14, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Congrats!
April 18, 2009 at 10:12 am
[...] Thoroughbred Racing and Me, One Year Later Jump to Comments As of today, it’s exactly two weeks away from the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby, and I can’t help but reflect on what happened at, or after, the 134th running. Being present at Churchill Downs on the day thoroughbred racing’s most visible tragedy (yes, I think, bigger than Barbaro) threw me (and Scott) into an emotional tailspin that lasted weeks (if you’re a glutton for punishment you can revisit my post from directly after the Derby here, the letter I wrote to the New York Times regarding it here, and my shocked post when the NYT actually published said letter here). [...]