Day 34 - Kentucky Horse Park
This morning’s trip to the Kentucky Horse Park was both educational and fun at the same time. Yes, I know, a rare combination. The first thing I saw was (side note: I just realized “saw was” is a palindrome) the Man O’ War memorial. For those of you who don’t know Man O’ War, he was the greatest and most dominant race horse ever. In his lifetime he won 20 out of 21 races, coming in second in his one loss in which some say he was facing backwards at the start (no gates back then). Toward the end of his career no one wanted to even run against him. In one of his races he supposedly won by a ridiculous 100 lengths or something insane. For those interested in horse racing who don’t already know the tales of Man O’ War I highly suggest reading up on him. I just found an informative link on espn.com about Man O’ War: click here to be taken to it. After, the Man O’ War memorial I went to the hall of champions to see some of the retired horses residing at the Kentucky Horse Park. I saw a few greats including Da Hoss, John Henry and Cigar (I realize that these names mean nothing to most of you). After that I wandered around and saw a presentation on a bunch of different breeds of horses. They also had a documentary on horses, which I must say was sadly out of date, and a gallery with photographers pictures of horses. Yes, horse, horse and more horse. The place closed at five and I took off toward Charleston, WV. I stopped in Charleston for the sole purpose of going to the Quaker, Steak and Lube, the only one in West Virginia. Anyone thinking I would not talk about food today is clearly a fool. Much to everyone’s surprise I’m sure, I have not gained fifty pounds on this trip, yet... Anyway, I went to Quaker Steak and had a bunch of wings while watching an episode of Monk in which I had to read the closed captioning. Yes, high living indeed. I threw back a few Sam Adams and called it a night. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
KHP to QSL
Friday, August 4, 2006
