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Richard Eckfield's crusade to get a train stop built at Del Mar Racetrack,
As a Chicagoan I come to Del Mar each year for two weeks of racing there. But it’s not me that lives on Cedros in your story. It’s to disruptive with the busses and the drunks. I rent in Encinitas, with its cute downtown where I could walk to the Coaster stop, and would if I could get off at the track. Now I drive. With regard to the “empty suits” – a racing term meaning the substance less folks that end up running some race tracks, we had one back here. Marge Everett bribed Governor Otto Kerner Jr. to give Arlington, which she managed, special race days and new freeway off ramps. She declared the bribe as a “ordinary business expense” on her taxes, and he went to jail. That’s Chicago! However, it appears a plan to give the current “suits” out there an uncontested new 20 year contract just got foiled. Your guys are learning. Of course they do have Duke Cunningham, your former congressman, to look up to as a role model. At Arlington, families ride the train directly to the track where they picnic, and the kids see the horses up close and personal. The parents explain the math of the “odds” and kids learn about “probability.” That could be why our students do better on standardized math tests than yours. Perhaps some of the profits the “suits” are pocketing out there should be used to endow math classes, or equine management classes in the high schools. Think about it, this sport is struggling, and gambling will not be its salvation. Chicagoguy.— October 1, 2009 11:26 a.m.