Forum Overview :: Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones :: They say tomorrow is Derby Day

[quote name="Ray of Light"]<a href=http://www.slate.com/id/2190272>This</a> crazy story of a Dubai sheik trying to buy a Derby win for the last many years (unsuccessfully) led to HST's venerable derby <a href=http://www.derbypost.com/hunter.html>story</a>, which I first read during hour 165 of a 21-hour road trip to Louisville. [quote]I left Steadman sketching in the Paddock bar and went off to place our bets on the fourth race. When I came back he was staring intently at a group of young men around a table not far away. "Jesus, look at the corruption in that face!" he whispered. "Look at the madness, the fear, the greed!" I looked, then quickly turned my back on the table he was sketching. The face he'd picked out to draw was the face of an old friend of mine, a prep school football star in the good old days with a sleek red Chevy convertible and a very quick hand, it was said, with the snaps of a 32 B brassiere. They called him "Cat Man."[/quote][/quote]