Day at the Races
By JoeBruin88. Filed in Education and Training and Events |Tags: alumni-association, CSUSM, Del-Mar, education_and_training, Events, Food, horse-races
Today we were at the Del Mar Racetrack for horse racing. The CSUSM Alumni Association sponsored a cool event for $20 to have a meal at the races on Family Fun Day. Josephine and I had never been to races before. I guess not many people wanted to come to this event because Charles (CSUSM, Director of External Affairs) said that only 10 people bought tickets. Too bad because at least the food was good. They had hot dogs and BBQ chicken, corn, beans, salad, and fruit.
The only thing that was kind of a downer was having to eat next to the USC Alumni. God, I hate them. I seriously felt disgusted, like I was going to lose my appetite. I sat with my back to them the whole time. One guy from ‘SC said “No 8 Claps” as we walked by them early on. I wish had thought of something to say, but I guess they disgust me so much that I couldn’t think of anything. Later, I wished that I had replied with “Why are you talking to me?”
After eating a lot of food, we went over to the track, to stand next to the gate. I guess because our tickets were so cheap we definitely were not in the grandstand and we were on the other side of the racetrack. So when the horses went by, you couldn’t really see them very well. They look so small. I put my camera on servo focus (for moving objects) and turned on the motor drive to shoot continuously. So I have lots of shots of the horses going by in sequence, but they look frozen in time because there’s not really any motion blur.
Horse racing in general is kinda boring. I don’t see how people can get so excited about it. I don’t gamble so there’s really no point. I would say even boring baseball is better than horse racing.
We just watched one race and then left. I took some interesting pictures as we were exiting the park.
