The day the music died... where were you?

[Linny]

I watched the Belmont that year in the box section at Belmont. My friend was here from Paris (she grew up here and we went to the track together as kids) and she went with me. We walked through the tunnel and up the stairs and got jammed up in traffic. We were between the tunnel and the winner's circle in the walkway behind the 1st row of of boxes as they started to load the gate. My friend looked over and realized that Mary Lou Whitney and John Henrickson were about 10 feet from us. When Birdstone passed Smarty Jones, MaryLou looked at her husband if my lip reading is correct, said "What have we done?"
Other than once at a Springsteen show at the Meadowlands, I never heard 100,000 people shut up at the same time.