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Love at the Racetrack: Going Home Happy, Win or Lose

Stephanie was a senior and I was a sophomore. I worried, perhaps a bit too much, that our age difference was going to be an issue for her. I worried it was maybe something that would be embarassing for her. She was on the drill team. She was blonde. She was rich. This wasn’t the kind of girl I was used to dating. I mean, I was a sophomore, let’s be honest … I wasn’t used to dating at all.

Four Eggnog Recipes From the Pros for Any Season

Usually meant for the holidays, eggnog needs your love. You can add bourbon or rum to any store-bought eggnog, but that’s like getting the ubiquitous whiskey and Coke.

Besides, since grocers don't carry eggnog year round, you must make your own. Take a chance and be the rebel to make these out-of-season drinks.

1. Eggnog recipe from an 1897 issue of Nursing World (slightly modernized)

Ingredients:

Six Pop Culture Icons Associated with Monmouth Park

The Betfair.com Haskell Invitational Stakes is July 29 at Monmouth Park, offering its winner a spot in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 3. The “War at the Shore” (as the Haskell is affectionately known) has garnered legions of loyal fans over its 51-year history, and among those devotees are some serious pop culture icons.

How Harley the Magnificent Became a Breyer Horse Model

Harley the Magnificent! He is an American Sugarbush Harlequin Draft horse officially named “Daisy’s Chief Dane” but now is known as Harley when he escorts Thoroughbred horses to the racetrack. He is noticed whenever he is on the track at Churchill Downs or Keeneland.

Tips for Drinking the Best Wheat Whiskey

When it comes to American whiskey, our history books are filled with bourbon and rye whiskey nostalgia. Forgotten in our annals is the good old wheat whiskey.

According to an 1862 California State Agricultural Society report, wheat whiskey was the “pure article” and became so popular that 75,000 gallons was not enough to supply the state. The whiskey became highly imitated by rectifiers. In one 1860 faux wheat whiskey recipe, it mixed Rhatany root, cinnamon and sugar coloring with neutral spirit and other whiskeys.

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