Went off at 20 to 1, finished at 5:45
New tires on my rig, a recording of Gaetano Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” suffusing the interior of the car; me, flush with the ducats from when humans raced horses and wagered on the outcomes in Lexington and Cincinnati and Louisville and Paducah. And flusher yet after touring the Maker’s Mark distillery in Loretto, it …