I woke up this AM and of course had to see what was
going on with the President's Cup...The real time web cast popped up..and on my
computer it is just this little bitsy screen about the size of a playing
card...and I could make out vast numbers of objects in a big pack moving
along in this big cloud of dust ..thought at first they were horses all bunched
up together..which seemed pretty amazing considering it was towards the end of
the race..I put on my glasses and was astounded to find that all the objects
except for one little gray speck amongst them, were vehicles!!! and when they
showed closed ups of the horse and rider..most of the time what you saw were
trucks and landrovers more trucks and landrovers with people hanging out the
window and crammed into the beds of pickups. You have to see it to get the full
effect of the NUMBERS of vehicles Literally..just with this one horse..there
must be 15 vehicles or more!!!!!!!!!! The helicopter shots were the
funniest....especially on my tiny screen...All I could make out were a huge
number of vehicles racing around in the desert. Now I'm sure there must
have been some coverage of the vet checks etc that I missed...but if, in fact,
what I saw is a representation of the majority of the coverage of the
President's Cup...so far it belongs on the comedy channel!
