Oliver Stone does horse racing?

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Here is one of my fave anecdotes from Chapter One:

He was there for all the great moments in Thistledown history. A man once collapsed of a heart attack while standing in line to make a bet. A crowd gathered around him.

“Is he still alive?” someone asked.

“Only in the double,” said a man looking at the daily double tickets in the dead man's hand.

“We're a hardy breed,” Junior always said. “We die a thousand deaths before the results are official.”