David Cassidy on the Web
Can steeplechasing save racing?
Hundreds of thousands of Americans pay to watch long turf races
August 16, 2005
By John Pricci
Nbcsports.Com Contributor
www.msnbc.msn.com
Keynoter and entertainer David Cassidy, by Jack Cassidy from Evelyn Ward, a Saratogian via Broadway's bright lights, used the opportunity to ask for a job as racing's ambassador. The game needs a face, he said, a spokesman, and when he said that it truly would be his honor to do so, no one in the house had the sense he was playing a part.