{"id":14107,"date":"2013-12-02T20:04:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/horse-racing-blog\/2013\/12\/why-horse-racing-in-georgia-because-mucho-macho-man-makes-us-cry.html"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:45:33","slug":"why-horse-racing-in-georgia-because-mucho-macho-man-makes-us-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/horse-racing-blog\/2013\/12\/why-horse-racing-in-georgia-because-mucho-macho-man-makes-us-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Horse Racing in Georgia? Because Mucho Macho Man Makes Us Cry."},"content":{"rendered":"
Horse Racing in Georgia? <\/b><\/i><\/p>\nI acknowledge that the conversation about horse racing and wagering is SO long and complicated–and I know that I’m not the ideal person to argue the economic benefits of bringing the sport in its full form to the great State of Georgia. I’m not an economist. Not a politician. I’m not in Georgia.<\/i><\/div>\n
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Watching Mucho Macho Man <\/b>(whom I really want to nickname, M3 \/ M-Cubed) cross that finish line at Santa Anita made me and every other race fan cry. (The tears are merely the outward expression of something so wonderful, that only a weeping heart can express it, wordlessly.) <\/div>\n
And this story of second chances is one to which 95% of all race fans can relate. <\/b> It’s a very rare human who starts life with all the advantages, and never is thrown a curve in the road. Almost no one is born with all the advantages and lives their entire lives with no near-misses. <\/div>\n
Mucho Macho Man’s heroic journey makes me cry.<\/b> His journey makes me examine my own lifepath, and to know–really know–that I can rise above anything that’s thrown at me.<\/div>\n
Georgians deserve to see racing live in their state,<\/b> and wagering to help their economy grow. They deserve to stand at the finish line,<\/b> screaming their brains out and weeping buckets when their favorite horse wins. When they witness Greatness, horse-sonified.<\/b><\/div>\n