Jim Joel

Nothing ages us like old silk--certainly, at any rate, those of us who began on the Turf long before there was an internet. Finding footage today of the races that got us hooked will invariably restore from oblivion the colors of tycoons and aristocrats, once part of our daily lives, that have largely or even totally vanished since. Sic transit gloria mundi. (So passes the glory of the world...) Our memories, moreover, position us in place as well as time. In my own youth, for instance, black jacket and scarlet...