It snowed upstate last week. The races at the Monticello Harness Raceway do not stop – no matter the weather. After training on the icy track in the morning the horses are steaming and the ‘drivers’ spattered with mud. The stable hands bathe the horses and cover them with blankets, the farrier comes by to change their shoes if necessary. The races start after midday. The Monticello Raceway opened in 1958, the track is half a mile.  In 2006 there was a record handle (money wager for a race) of $1,432,217. HBO has a new series ‘Lucky’ about horse racing in Santa Ana and author Paolo Hewitt’s book ‘about some blokes in a pub buying a racehorse, has been made into a film. As for me, I have been wanting to take photographs at the track for a while, finally spent a day there shooting with my friend Gudrun -and need to go back to shoot more.