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Having now reached the 2010 Dream Stable entry deadline, The Sportsman must again tip its hat to all the hardcore players that come out of the woodwork every year at this time to take part in our little contest.
It is with continued astonishment that we receive the daily crush of tattered Dream Stable envelopes and entry forms, many appearing as though they rode the rails or traveled by pony express through harsh climates to reach us.
We receive entries that have been circled, then re-circled, scratched out, whited-out, ripped up, spilled on, dried out and somehow stuffed in an envelope and forwarded for registration into the contest.
One entry featured the Dream Stable daily double with the paper arriving marked with both a coffee stain and a cigarette burn hole, clearly a sign that the entrant put not only blood, sweat and tears, but also caffeine and nicotine into his or her selections.
Lucky for these contestants, there are no style points awarded so rest assured the only thing that matters is how much money your six two-year-olds and four three-year-olds earn on the track this year. Informally, however, we reserve the right to mock entrants for their deplorable penmanship, arithmetic errors and the ruinous state of many an entry form.
In all seriousness, in one repurposed Dream Stable envelope we received a child’s invitation to a sleepover, wrapped, inexplicably, in a ponytail elastic. A classic case of envelope-switcheroo or a sign that we are one step away from having someone’s thumb sent to us as intimidation?
Either way, it’s all in good fun.
Let the game begin.
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