Race 4  look for a replay of race 3
#2 Sriracha Heat..roughed up badly last. Gets top quickly here   top or pocket
#3 Lettuce Nipya will be leaving for the pocket

P3  23/15/36

yoo hoo///johnny///isnt only a drink///its a what ya waiting on

should i tell plop///like in da harness section///johnny

What is the history behind the elephant for Republicans?

The elephant symbol for the Republican Party originated during the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865. “Northern [Union] soldiers used the phrase ‘seeing the elephant’ to mean they had participated in combat,” Singer says.

OR fighters unlike others///in the meantime


What is the history behind the donkey for Democrats?

“According to legend, Andrew Jackson, who was president from 1829 until 1837 and represented the new Democratic Party, was called a jackass by his opponents,” Singer explains. “Jackson owned the image and included it in campaign posters.”

[retty much explains that doesnt it jackass 

Race 3  I cannot separate 2 3 6

#2  Whip It  No real shot last three races  Should get the top quickly today
#3 Spirit Mission..will be leaving for the top or pocket. Ken sherman has a rare good one
#6 Water Slide..may be class of the field but has no early speed and likely tough trip

The Road to Oblivion

The Democratic Party’s collapse is no longer hypothetical; it is happening in real time. To recover, the party would need to undertake a radical transformation: abandoning its failing elites, focusing on issues that matter to ordinary Americans, and rejecting the divisive identity politics and empty gestures that have alienated its base.

But the Democrats show no inclination to change. Instead, they seem poised to double down on the same failed strategies that have left them humiliated and out of power. Unless they chart a new course - and quickly - they risk fading into irrelevance, remembered not for what they achieved, but for what they squandered.

For a party that once claimed to represent the working class, this is a tragedy of its own making. And in politics, as in life, such failures have consequences. For the Democrats, those consequences have arrived.