How did you get into racing?

[ddthetide]

like so many others, my grandfather would sometimes take me to the track in the mornings, hagerstown fairgrounds. eventually closed but was used for a training facility and stables. horses would then ship to the OLD charles town
or the 3 baltimore tracks.
i would then follow the triple crown races but to me thats all there was to racing until i was much older.
after the internet got big i began to follow it again.
three years ago i spent opening fall weekend at keeneland and the following spring i went to CD for the kentucky oaks. that hooked me. even hooked my wife and she had NEVER been to a track.