Chicken Salad

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chicagofan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:51:19 GMT

Always enjoy your blog on Saratoga. Just wanted to say thanks for the glimpse of how the Dominion Award luncheon went. I have had the privilege of knowing Barbi Moline for about 4 years now, and she is such a worthy recipient. Glad she and Mr. Campbell kept up my "fashion plate" vision of what a luncheon at Saratoga would be like. :) But even better is that Dogwood has chosen to recognize an unsung hero each year. Bravo to the givers and the receiver of the award!

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Don — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:51 GMT

Blood horse rates what they think the best yearling in the sale will be...do you do that and when should it appear?

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JL — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:55:05 GMT

Once again Vic, you nailed the Saratoga scene picture perfect -- proper lunch of chicken salad and sherbert, and your sharp eye to detail on how one is dressed. Not many know what a spectator shoe is anymore. Many thanks for the fun read.

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vic zast — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:50:40 GMT

This was far from an NCAA or NBA game, Hopalong. They used Kiaran McLaughlin's stop watch to keep time and a flip chart to keep score. I'm sure there are scoring stats somewhere, but I didn't keep them

In any case, my guess would be that Josh Desormeaux, Kent Desormeaux' older son, led the jockeys' team in scoring. If he didn't, it was Victor Santiago - the most talented player on the court.

Kent Desormeaux is a good player, but plays way out of control, throwing wild passes, playing out of position and taking everything too seriously. Eibar Coa was good.

For the horsemen, I'd say Elliott Walden was the high scorer. Todd Pletcher tried hard and has good court sense. He, too, was pretty competitive for a meaningless game.

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Hopalong — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:01:58 GMT

Who was the high scorer???

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Rachel — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:25:03 GMT

Nice article...