My father moved to Washington Dc in 1950 and was introduced to the sport by a friend. He was not a gambler but when you start life in utero at the 1959 Belmont, were named for Christopher Chenery, grew up reading Joe Palmer, the race results in the Post and the Blood Horse, plus studying how Alfred Vanderbilt came up with the names he did.....it was downhill from there. I got really lucky
