Cool Chip of the Day: Agua Caliente

I won this Agua Caliente chip on eBay the other day with no real thought about where it was from. It's an attractive crest & seal, and that was primarily the reason I bid on it. Plus, I know the seller, who originally hails from Hobbs too.

Coincidentally, I also just received another item I recently purchased online: a second-hand copy of an illustrated version of Laura Hillenbrand's book about Seabiscuit. I only recently saw the movie "Seabiscuit", (yes, I'm a bit behind the crowd on this one) and wanted to read more about the story.

I sat down with my Seabiscuit book last night and noticed one of the illustrations included a postcard of the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico, which figures in the story of Seabiscuit and his owners and trainers. The chip I bought would have been in play around the same time in the Agua Caliente Casino in Tijuana. Cool coincidence, huh?