Goofonroof Segues to Stewinthestand

For 16 straight years, starting in 1992, Vic Stauffer called the races at the Sonoma County Fair, which no racetracker with any time at all in California calls anything but "Santa Rosa." Stauffer might have become the most recognizable visitor in Santa Rosa since Alfred Hitchcock, who shot the priceless "Shadow of a Doubt" there in the 1940s.

This summer, Stauffer will be back at Santa Rosa, not as the track announcer but as one of the three stewards, whose job among other things is to remind jockeys that a straight line is still the shortest distance between two points...