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Johnnyt

Johnnyt

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I get a kick out of these guys that won't bet until they see two players warm up before the match. It's like horseplayers going to the paddock to look at the horses before they bet. 95% of them don't have a clue what they're looking for or at. You can ask Hu (shootingarts) about the paddock thing. Johnnyt
 
I know what I am looking for....I am looking for a Dog or Horse that takes a dump right before the race.....Sure Winner....:wink:
 
It is funny

Johnnyt said:
I get a kick out of these guys that won't bet until they see two players warm up before the match. It's like horseplayers going to the paddock to look at the horses before they bet. 95% of them don't have a clue what they're looking for or at. You can ask Hu (shootingarts) about the paddock thing. Johnnyt
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It is funny. Some folks have a clue some don't. My ex was a barrel racer and had been around the barrel horses for years. She was perhaps the best I ever saw looking at the horses before the race, particularly running quarterhorses. She didn't know how to read a racing form so she went entirely on how ready the horse looked and it's confirmation. She wanted to bet a 99-1 longshot. I looked it up in the racing form and told her it couldn't win if they loaded it in a pick-up truck and drove it around the track. She wasn't the one with egg on her face after the race. A little cheap horse named Exploding Star, for some reason I was reminded of the name a few times. :grin: :rolleyes: :grin:

Another quick story you'll get a kick out of, one trainer liked the way a shadow roll across his horse's noses looked in the winning pictures. If you saw one of his horses without a shadow roll you knew it wasn't expected to win.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
It is funny. Some folks have a clue some don't. My ex was a barrel racer and had been around the barrel horses for years. She was perhaps the best I ever saw looking at the horses before the race, particularly running quarterhorses. She didn't know how to read a racing form so she went entirely on how ready the horse looked and it's confirmation. She wanted to bet a 99-1 longshot. I looked it up in the racing form and told her it couldn't win if they loaded it in a pick-up truck and drove it around the track. She wasn't the one with egg on her face after the race. A little cheap horse named Exploding Star, for some reason I was reminded of the name a few times. :grin: :rolleyes: :grin:

Another quick story you'll get a kick out of, one trainer liked the way a shadow roll across his horse's noses looked in the winning pictures. If you saw one of his horses without a shadow roll you knew it wasn't expected to win.

Hu
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Talk about egg on your face. I was out with a jockey (Ronnie Allen until 5 am about 10 years ago. We could hardly stand up when we both went home. Before he left me he told me he was on a horse in the 1st race and to bet him.
Well I go to the track and look at Ronnie up on the horse in the paddock. He looked still drunk and the horse was at 27/1. I didn't bet it...the horse one...Ronnie never talked to me again. Johnnyt
 
I wouldn't have bet him either!

Johnnyt said:
Talk about egg on your face. I was out with a jockey (Ronnie Allen until 5 am about 10 years ago. We could hardly stand up when we both went home. Before he left me he told me he was on a horse in the 1st race and to bet him.
Well I go to the track and look at Ronnie up on the horse in the paddock. He looked still drunk and the horse was at 27/1. I didn't bet it...the horse one...Ronnie never talked to me again. Johnnyt
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Johnny,

I loved to watch the great horses run but I made most of my money betting class in the cheapest races. I bet class in the horse, trainer, and jockey. I wouldn't have bet a longshot with a drunk jockey on top either. Of course it might have been a boat race. Down here the jockeys used to fix one race a day for eating money. If you knew which race . . .

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Johnny,

I loved to watch the great horses run but I made most of my money betting class in the cheapest races. I bet class in the horse, trainer, and jockey. I wouldn't have bet a longshot with a drunk jockey on top either. Of course it might have been a boat race. Down here the jockeys used to fix one race a day for eating money. If you knew which race . . .

Hu
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This was at Tampa Bay Downs...need I say more? Johnnyt
 
inboard or outboard? (grin)

Johnnyt said:
This was at Tampa Bay Downs...need I say more? Johnnyt
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One of my favorite fun tracks was Jefferson Downs in New Orleans. I used to watch towards the infield just after the finish line and often see six or eight batteries fly after a race. One horse spun around like a top and fell down, twicet, on the way to the gates. I don't know if he had elephant juice in him or what but the jockey couldn't hold him, he won by a bunch!

Delta Downs was another dog meat track and was deep sand. They were running $1500 claimers a mile one night. The horse I'd bet came into the homestretch in the lead and I reached into my pocket to throw away my bets, he was bobbing up and down further than he was moving forward. A few lengths back the rest of the field showed up doing the same thing. Saddest excuse for race horses I ever saw on a pari-mutual track. Much to my surprise the horse I bet maintained his lead all the way to the finish.

Hu
 
Johnnyt said:
I get a kick out of these guys that won't bet until they see two players warm up before the match. It's like horseplayers going to the paddock to look at the horses before they bet. 95% of them don't have a clue what they're looking for or at. You can ask Hu (shootingarts) about the paddock thing. Johnnyt
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johnny, are you talking about players the bettors know, or just betting on randoom matches for the action?

G.
 
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