Like many twinspires.com customers, I was shut out of the Derby. In fact, I tried to login so many times that I disabled my login. I called immediately after the race, not to complain about the service, but to reinstate my account. "I need to bet the 12th at Arlington." Luckily, this was easily done...

I got my spot early by the #11 tree, so that I could be ready to take some pictures of our girl, Mostly Peace, but she was fashionable late. More probable, she was being kept away from us folks so that she wouldn’t become too excited before the race. Lookbeforeyouleap, The Cliff’s Edge filly, was keeping...