Swifty just called me, his opener was “Guess where I am?” I was half expecting him to have gotten himself invited to some Japanese after party after Casino Drive’s impressive romp. “On a bus”. Not nearly as glamorous.

The Long Island Railroad runs trains to Belmont during race days. Normally they’re pretty good about leaving enough time for folks to make the last train after the last race. In fact, one usually ends up sitting on the train for a good half an hour before it leaves.

Today’s card had 10 races, not the normal 9… apparently no one bothered to tell the LIRR because the last train left before the end of the 10th race!

Swifty described the scene as approximately 200 angry people standing around. He managed to hop on some bus that was behind a horse transport truck. Here’s hoping he has as much luck getting home as he did at the windows!