Judi Mohn Griggs

Morning Line

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Morning Line's narrator Berny tells the story of going to the horse races with her father so frequently as a child that when stuck for a forgotten first-grade, show-and-tell assignment she called a race as a track announcer  from the top of her head using the names of her favorite horses. From "They're at post... they're off ..."  to a neck-and-neck , see-saw stretch run she had the class on the edge of their seats. At the end of the race, she was promptly seated in the principal's office, where he father was called in -- barely able to keep a straight face at the infraction.
Although the "Morning Line"  is pure fiction -- that's the kind of stuff you can't make up. That was me at six starting a tale I would finally get around to writing a few decades later. I've always been a story teller, this is the first one that went all the way.  The story is set in the mid-1990s, not concidentally the time I worked a in PR for a horse track.
 Enviromentally, the details are right for the time and place. Factually, it is as real as the race I called at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School  in Sloan, NY.
I went for Janet Evanovich meets Dick Francis -- and ended up with a story uniquely informed by my experience as a reporter, a flack, a mother and a passionate supporter of the Sport of Kings.