You can be forgiven for not remembering the name of the horse that won yesterday's Preakness Stakes in Baltimore. War of Will got some justice after being forced to slow up in the controversial Kentucky Derby by winning the middle jewel of the Triple Crown. But stealing the show was Bodexpress ("boh-dee" express), who got caught up in a snafu leaving the starting gate, threw his Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez to the ground, and ran the entire race riderless...and didn't finish last. Twitter took to Bodexpress right away.
This is now the home stretch of our season, and we don't have distractions like riderless horses to get in our way. We have plenty of time to prepare for it with our next Mass not until Pentecost which is Sunday, June 9 at Holy Spirit Mission. After that, however, we have 3 Masses in 8 days, or 4 in 14 counting Pentecost:
- First Mass of (soon-to-be) Fr. Patrick Klekas on Saturday, June 15 at Immaculate Conception Church in Sparks, 9 AM (likely an 8:15 call time);
- Trinity Sunday at Assumption in Truckee (snowless this time, we hope!) on Sunday, June 16, 9 AM (also likely an 8:15 call time); and
- Corpus Christi at the Mission with a guest FSSP priest saying a High Mass on Sunday, June 23, 8:30 AM (7:45 likely call time).
We got this.
Fun Fact: I thought Nevada didn't have any horse racing tracks, especially considering you can bet on horse races all across the country at any sportsbook. But each year in Ely, there is horse racing associated with the White Pine County fair in mid-August, and a card in Elko for its county fair just before Labor Day. More info here.
