The Horsey Bacchanal

Saturday, I attended one of Nashville, Tennessee's premier charity fundraising events, the Iroquois Steeplechase that benefits the Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. The horses seemed to ignore the throng of spectators and the crowd mostly ignored the horses. The racing was purely incidental. They could have had a tailgate party in a mud field and charged the same admission. Hardly anyone would have noticed the absence of horses and the hospital would have raised just as much money. Who knew so much of life in high society resembled a frat party?