TDN Weekend

March 2018

TDN Weekend December 2016 Issue 9

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lawn, most of whom seem to have brought their dogs. I had never seen dogs at a racetrack, even in France, but here it must be a tradition be- cause there are hundreds of them, literally. They're all well-behaved, big and small, watching the horses take a turn in the paddock without so much as a bark. There are regu- lar people, and elegant people; ice cream stands and champagne, all combined so harmoniously togeth- er that it's as if everyone took some sort of happy drug. It occurs to me that it's been a long time since I've seen so many people having such a good time at the races. Hoppegarten crossed my radar for the first time when the New York Racing Association entered into a three-year partnership with the Ger- man track in March of 2017, pledging

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