Getting Down

<p> Getting Down is not a typical racetrack story. Seabiscuit Swaps Man o' War John Henry Secretariat and Zenyatta may well be mentioned but this story is about the people of racing not the horses. It's about racetrack workers on both the back and front sides of the track. It's about racetrack owners and managers. It's about those who own the horses and train them and it's about the people who ride them. It's also about the people who pay to go to the races - the patrons including the rich and famous along with the not so rich and famous all the way down the economic ladder to the out and out homeless. </p> <br/> <br/> <p> The above categories include some of the strangest meanest most dangerous most pathetic most ruthless people on the face of this earth. Yet my list of characters also includes some of the nicest kindest most generous funniest happiest people one could ever hope to meet. And since this book is also about me and my over fifty yeras working in this industry I'm going to let you decide in which of the above categories you think I might best fit. </p> <br/> <br/> <p> Getting Down is about getting down. The term getting down is racetrack lingo having to do with the process of successfully putting one's wager on a given horse in the right race before getting shut out. In other words it's about successfully making one's bet before the race begins and betting for that race But the scope of this story is as you will see much broader than that. Indeed it is a story about life because in one way or another ine one form or another life itself is about getting down. </p>