{"id":14358,"date":"2014-01-17T17:23:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T22:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/horse-racing-blog\/2014\/01\/ode-to-a-horseman-lenny-devito-youre-in-our-hearts-and-the-winners-circle.html"},"modified":"2014-01-17T17:23:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T22:23:35","slug":"ode-to-a-horseman-lenny-devito-youre-in-our-hearts-and-the-winners-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/horse-racing-blog\/2014\/01\/ode-to-a-horseman-lenny-devito-youre-in-our-hearts-and-the-winners-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a Horseman: Lenny DeVito, You’re in Our Hearts. And the Winner’s Circle."},"content":{"rendered":"
OK, so I’m not a poet, and this isn’t a poem to honor Lenny DeVito.<\/i><\/p>\n I met Lenny and Patti DeVito <\/b>on the Fourth of July, 2005, at the home of mutual friends, Robin and Tony Malatino. A lively game of Trivial Pursuit and lots of laughter foaled new alliances and a warmth that I wouldn’t fully realize until the following summer in the Saratoga backstretch.<\/p>\n OK, so I’m not a poet, and this isn’t a poem to honor Lenny DeVito.And it’s taken me 10 days to write this, because it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.Last Tuesday–January 7, 2014, Lenny died. He and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":17140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mares-musings","category-people-you-should-know-in-racing"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<\/p>\n