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DG: And so at Santa Anita, then you, tell us a little bit about your housing and bringing your children.

MH: Santa Anita is a horse place, isn't it?

DG: Right.

MH: Ano barrack, uma to -- uma raku, ano tanoshii [Inaudible] uma-no tanoshii place.

DG: So place for a horse.

MH: Barrack. See, because still manure in bottom and then put all the grass on the top of it, so shoes go into the heel.

BF: Sink in.

MH: [Nods] So smells so bad and then people...

DG: Did they get sick from that?

MH: Oh, yes. They have a, still an army bed was there and no mattress. Mattress is a bag with hay in it. You have to go and get the hay and then put it in the... so hurt.

BF: The mattress was uncomfortable.

MH: Mattress. And it smelled. That's the Santa Anita.

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