Enjoying Historic Hot Springs, Arkansas

On Sunday January 26, my brother and I realxed after breakfast and enjoyed the historic center of Hot Springs, and some of the scenic beauty of the National PArk. In which the town and racetrack are located.

The following photos are doing a look around and a small hike, enjoying the scenic beauty of the Hot Springs National Park.

Southwest Day at Oaklawn Park

Saturday January 25th. Was Southwest Stakes Day at Oaklawn Park. One of the big prep races for the upcoming Arkanasas Derby. My brother John and I enjoyed a very good day enjoying the races!A long shot named Speed King. Lead all the way to win the $1 million Southest Stakes trained by Ron Moquett and ridden by Rafael Bejarano. He won at betting odds of 14 to 1. The weather was very nice for the races on Southwest Stakes race day! Tempertures in the mid 50's F, and lots of sunshine!I have incuded some photos of our fun day enjoying the horse racing at Oaklawn Park.

Winner of the 1st race Baddest Good Boy, jockey Ricardo Santana, Jr.

Kinetic ridden by Flavien Prat

The start of race 7

race 7 winner The Wine Steward, ridden by Juan J. Hernandez

#6 Sandman being lead over for the Southwest Stakes, he would finsih 2nd, after getting having a very bad start in the race!

Southwest Stakes winner Speed King with jockey Rafael Bejarano

The winner of the last race on the day. And a very exciting winner for some very lucky horse racing fans Paramount Paycheck with jockey Walter De La Cruz paid $59.60 $17.60 $11.00. A $2 late double paid $318.80

Mystik Dan Bobblehead were given away at Oaklawn Park, 2024 Southwest Stakes winner, who also won the 2024 Kentucky Derby!

Travel to Hot Springs, Arkansas

My brother and I recently did a short trip to visit the beauotful small city of Hot Springs Arkansas. I soend the winter of 1992-93 there. as ai was still working in the horse racing business. My brother John wanted to enjoy the expereince of enjoying horse. At historic Oaklawn Park Racetrack. I have incldued some photos from Friday January 24. During the live racing. They took a break from the live racing. An had a 1 hour training session. Becasue they have endured lots of bad winter weather. Which has canclled lots of the morning training sessions.

Before this trip, I hadn't flown in anywhere in almost 5 years. becuasue of the terrible Covid pandemic. Happily the trip to Hot Springs went very well and was enjoyed!

Biking Across The Peace Bridge

Today was a very fun day! I finally biked across the Peace Bridge from Fort Erie. A great friend Steve also went on this exciting bike ride. The weather conditions were near perfect. There is a safe pedesterian path on the Peace Bridge. Very suitable for walking or biking across this historic bridge. That opened for traffic between Fort Erie Ontario, Canada and Buffalo NY, USA in 1927. The new entrance for pedestrians or bike riders to enter the Peace Bridge is now located off of Queen St, across from the traffic circle. The length of the Peace Bridge is 1.77 KM. It was a real adventure biking to the USA and back home to Canada today. Enjoy the photos! Steve and I had to enter back into Canada through the car lanes. But bike riders were given priority, for safety reasons! The photos from this adventure today were taken using an Olympus X-42 digital camera. That uses an XD memory card.

Biking to the USA

Great viee of Lake Erie

Great view of the Niagra River

Arrived in the USA

The Mather Arch view from the USA side!

The Bridge across highway 190 to the observation deck!

The observation deck, overlooking the Peace Bridge, Lake Erie and the Niagara River

The Buffalo Marina, located off of Porter Ave.

Biking home to Canada!

Made it back home to Canada!