Oaklawn

HOT SPRINGS—I walked for 52:11 before racing began today at Oaklawn. Afterward, I lost $2 on one bet. After two trips, I'm down $4.

OVERHEARD
"One, three, and ten are the only horses that are winning today. Don't forget it. I'm gonna be your third partner now."
—cat selling parking spots as Pete walked past within a block of Oaklawn's front doors

"Shit, I don't know. I haven't been drinking, and I feel like I have a hangover."
—A 30-something woman, dressed in black jeans, sweater, and skull cap, kind of pretty in an ordinary, very weathered, tired, blonde-headed sort of way, walking as if she were lost near the intersection of Central Avenue and St. Louis Street, a quarter of a mile north of Oaklawn. She asked Pete how he was and responded to his response, "I'm fine. How are you?"