Enjoyed watching the Belmont Stakes yesterday. Realized that today is the 40 th anniversary of Secretariats win of the Triple Crown. so what is the memory connected to that. Todays memory is about a road not taken. As a high school student I had a weekend job at a local veterinarian office. Cleaning dog cages, feeding the animals, assisting the doctor. The doctor had both a small animal practice and at the same time he was the vet for the two race tracks in NY- Aqueduct and Belmont.
He was also on the admission board of Cornell School of Veterinarian Medicine.
Being well connected he offered me a certain admission to Cornell and the vet school, if i were to agree to come back to his practice. Being altruistic, foolish and naive I turned it down because my youthful dream was to become a surgeon. I thought that entry into med school would be solely based on grades rather than political connections. I was wrong!
If i had accepted the vet's office I could have been the assisting vet at Belmont that day that Secretariat made history.
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