The Many Loves of my Life

[JimP]

Haven\'t seen any mention of Longacres or a Emerald Downs. Surely those are on somebody\'s list.

[moosepalm]

JimP Wrote:
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> Haven\'t seen any mention of Longacres or a Emerald
> Downs. Surely those are on somebody\'s list.

Had it on mine, Jim.  Only at Emerald once.  Very pleasant facility.  Love that part of the country.

[moosepalm]

joemama Wrote:
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> Liberty Bell before the bell was harness , that\'s
> way back.  Latonia, is that in Ohio?

Latonia = Turfway, I believe.  Changed names in the 80\'s?

Joe, you should get some kind of award for initiating the longest TG message board thread without some kind of contentious back-and-forth bickering.

[joemama]

Fills in the time.  I have another one I\'ve been contemplating that\'s sure to draw some posts.  Will try to save it for a time when there\'s a lull in the action.  Hopefully it will draw honest responses.  I don\'t know if that one won\'t cause some bickering tho.

[joemama]

As far as the award goes, a year of free TG\'s would be a great idea.  Maybe JB should start a competition/contest of some sort.  Then he\'d have to buy a bigger server to hold all the posts. :-)

[Tavasco]

Longacres mentioned I think, however didn\'t see Hastings, Woodbine or Kamloops!

[richiebee]

moosepalm Wrote:
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> Joe, you should get some kind of award for
> initiating the longest TG message board thread
> without some kind of contentious back-and-forth
> bickering.


Would that be the \"Ken Sherman Prolific Poster Award\"?

[richiebee]

joemama Wrote:
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> As far as the award goes, a year of free TG\'s
> would be a great idea.  Maybe JB should start a
> competition/contest of some sort.  Then he\'d have
> to buy a bigger server to hold all the posts. :-)


You will probably be offered free lifetime admission to the TG Saratoga seminars.

[joemama]

Can\'t wait.  Sounds like the deal of a lifetime.  BTW who is/was Ken Sherman?

[Tavasco]

Very funny response Joe, whether intentional or not.

An alias of Ollie and a name certain to evoke a Penny Dreadful like response from Richie.

[toppled]

Great Barrington is in Massachusetts, near the NY State line.  I live around Albany & it\'s about an hour east of here.  In an Andy Beyer book, I think it\'s My $50,000 year at the races (written when $50,000 was real good money), he has a chapter about his trip there titled something like: Great Barrington Fair-parsley, sage, rosemary and crime.

[Topcat]

miff Wrote:
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> JB,
>
> A favorite of mine from way back Monmouth Park in
> dire straits.Since Gov Christie threw racing under
> the bus in NJ(pulled slot subsidies/State
> loans)Monmouth on life support, and the future
> looks bleak. Breeding program dried up, lots of
> smaller farms going broke.
>
> In NY they shake in their boots that Cuomo could
> turn on racing as Christe did except the
> implications in NY are far greater upstate NY
> where many farms are. Cuomo being a 100% political
> animal would never try it unless we had a major
> financial crisis.
>
> Gov\'s in PA, Delaware and others looking at
> reducing/pulling racing subsidies which would
> cause more tracks to close.
>
>
> Mike


 Losing Monmouth would be an American Tragedy.   For those who missed the original Gulfstream, it\'s the prevailing stateside survivor most-similar to old GP . . . though GP\'s seating capacity was greater.

[toppled]

Not really, since we worked in the day & they raced at night.  Back in those days I had a season pass to Belmont.  On Fridays, because I was in a field position, we used to be able to end our days at 2:30. I\'d go into the office and as soon as 2:30 hit, I\'d practically run out of the office & head to Belmont.  I had this shortcut through some main & back streets that was the most efficient way to get there from Garden City & I\'d always make it by the 5th race.  Then I could buy the advanced edition of the Form for Saturday and not have to go back to Elmont at night (since my apt was about 40 miles east) to get Saturday\'s Form Friday night at Talk Of The Town deli where on any night fans, trainers & jockeys would be waiting around 9-9:30 PM for the Forms to come in from New Jersey.  In good weather many of us would be outside waiting to spot the car with NJ plates arriving.

[Topcat]

miff Wrote:
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> El Commandante in Puerto Rico was.......a little
> scary.No
> Bowie?...young guys know nuthin!


Black bean soup at El Commandante ruled, the night I went (35% rake WPS).  Called the chart of Mario Pino\'s maiden-breaking win as a jock, at Bowie (had \'im . . . paid 9-1).

[miff]

Psycho friends and I as teens used to drive to Bowie to play those short races. At Bowie, you could bet the bell. We always bet whatever horse broke to the lead.