Charles Town this week

Seems like anything I say is up for criticism from some these days.

What was said about West Virginia that's offensive?

And if one likes a steady diet of basically three distances, suit yourself. Maybe they can be convinced to use the inner track from October late April?

I see no suggestions from Cait. Big A's probably going to close so changing things would be a waste of $ IMO Wiz - The resty of your post has NOTHING to do with this thread. George - Perhaps you should have left out "hills of" as that infers hillbillies.

(Someone has to take on the new "dynamic duo" - or maybe Pres should come back? LOL)

Oh Good Grief Charlie Brown!!! LOL What a big deal about NOTHING! Was your post deleted or edited? No! Was there a report? No! I was just making a suggestion. The one I deleted was "maybe if you said "from the hills of W Va to the slums of Long Is" rather than "hills" to "sophisticated NY'ers" as that sounded balanced, yet, seemed still offensive LOL Seriously, the area around Aqueduct? Aqueduct itself? "Sophisticated"? NOT! Phrasing it the way you did was the problem. People read words on a screen. They may not see them as you intended.

I think most people in the East, like me, think of "hillbilly" as meaning Appalachia. And I believe all of W Va is a part of Appalachia. Google the word and you get Oxford Dictionary: "an unsophisticated country person, associated originally with the remote regions of the Appalachians." Wiki: "is a term (often derogatory) for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas primarily in Appalachia but also parts of the Ozarks in the United States. Due to its strongly stereotypical connotations, the term can be offensive to those Americans of Appalachian heritage."

And I really don't care. I just posted that because that's what you do! Annoying, huh? LOL

FTR - I can't speak for "we guys", but, for me - I never liked John Denver or his music. He never lived in Appalachia as far as I know either.

I happen to like john Denver................

Nobody's "ragging". And no. I don't know who the instigator was! And don't care! It's past my bedtime but I think you and George argued about racing things also, not just politics. No time to look back and not worth the time anyway!

You're so dynamic Wiz, it seems people like having you as a forum best bud (well - not one female but she probably is your real best bud LOL)

We discussed racing issues, and express our differences of opinion. That's not necessarily arguing......

So a post about how Charles Town handles the winter vs. the rest of the year, with an innocent comment about their location vs. the location of Aqueduct was assumed to be "offensive" (yes, that's the word that was used), and I'm making the big deal. Sheesh!

Good thing there isn't a race track in Laguna Beach, I might have made a comment about the people in "the hills" of Laguna.

For the record, I live in the Appalachians, as do all residents of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and most of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, and southern New York (even Queens might be considered in the Appalachians!), and they stretch up into Canada in Newfoundland. Now, being of Canadian descent, let's not talk about "Newfies"!!!

I'm not the one who considered "hills of West Virginia" offensive.

103 horses entered at Keeneland today, 97 of them use Lasix.