Wednesday Reads

I never understood why people shower in the morning.  Of course, people will get dirty, and of course they won't sleep as well.

I never, ever showered in the daytime unless I showered again at night.  I have seldom had trouble sleeping.
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Another good reason to get rid of fraternities and sororities.
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It should be mandatory to still teach cursive writing in schools.

It teaches students fine motor skills, which they desperate need.
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Obituary:  Fans of racing great Secretariat mourn the loss of one of his exercise riders, Charlie Davis, 78, who died of lung cancer today.   His death was noted on the Secretariat.com website.

Davis, who was born on Feb. 2, 1940, in Orangeburg, S.C., started his vocation by cutting elementary school to watch the Thoroughbreds train on the farm where his father worked. Small in stature but tough and determined, Davis learned how to exercise horses and eventually went to work for legendary trainer Lucien Laurin, becoming a member of the famed “Holly Hills” crew that also included storied groom Eddie Sweat.

Davis exercised some of the era’s top racing stars of the 1960s, including champion filly Quill and Belmont Stakes winner Amberoid. In 1971, when Laurin took over Christopher Chenery’s Meadow string, Davis was assigned as exercise rider for the stable’s champion colt Riva Ridge and later Secretariat. He continued exercising horses until 1981, when he was thrown and suffered a career-ending back injury. Davis later worked as a foaling manager for several farms in the Ocala, Fla., area, and was known throughout the industry as a well-rounded horseman.

In a recent interview with Tim Sullivan of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Davis reflected, “I just wanted to be Charlie, no more than the good Lord let me,” he said. “I don’t want to be more than what I is.”

More about Charlie Davis is here.
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