Visitors to Aqueduct were greeted with this winter wonderland…
…and Marines collecting donations for Toys for Tots. (But no menorah?)
Snow on the Belmont backstretch this morning…
…and around the turf course, rails splintered and on the ground, like so many discarded white matchsticks, waiting to be re-assembled in three months.
Five Nine more New York racing days in 2008…
Brooklyn Backstretch 
i believe racing resumes on the 26th so i think it’s 8 more racing days in 08
sorry i meant 9 more racing days in 08
I tried to get a closeup photo of the horsedeer but for some reason every shot came out blurry—spooky. Like a scene from The Ring.Have to have been fuh-reezing there.
Drat. Forgot those post-Christmas days! Thanks for the correction…Ernie–a bunch of mine came out blurry, too–I had to take several to get a clear one. Weird…