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Winter at the racetrack: Neither rain, nor snow, nor polar vortexes…

At 6 am on Tuesday, February 24, temperatures in the greater Baltimore area hovered in the single digits. Though classified as below normal for the region, they were all too normal in this winter of 2015, when words like “polar vortex” and “Siberian express” and “biting wind” have become an unwelcome entry into the vernacular.…

February 26, 2015 in Life at the races.

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