I am going to tell my grandmother on you....

I don't remember the name of the horse, but pretty darned sure it was a $2 place ticket my mother or father bought for me at Ascot Park near Akron, Ohio.


Digressing, someone here was calling "born in 1972" old. Heck, I still have an uncashed win ticket on Seattle Slew in the Belmont from 1977. And I was in COLLEGE then.

Seatrain - Roosevelt Raceway - Late 70's

I have dug up fossils from Eohippus from that time period.

BA$TARD :D

I remember my first signer. it was at Sam Houston. Ted Gondron was on the winner. I boxed 3 horses for $6. $1 tri that paid barely over the limit $715. don't remember the date or the names of the horses. They become numbers after I bet.

My last signer was dime superfecta for $820 at Arlington. :o

Port Conway Lane

now, where have i seen that name before....sounds so familiar...

Arcadian Connection 1983 Suffolk Downs

It was Criminal Type in the 1990 Hollywood Gold Cup. I was 7 years old and my father made a $2 win bet for me. He beat Sunday Silence by a nose that day and was the 5-2 second choice.

He'll be a good stallion IMO. I loved him too. :)

Oh yeah ... to answer the original post ... my Dad bought me a $2 win ticket on Easy Goer in the Wood when I was 8. He was the horse that started it all for me and that's the first race that I really remember. Easy Goer was a :tro:.

Country Pumpkin

Trainer: George Barr

Track: Caliente

Sheikh Albadou in the 1991 BC Sprint

I was 6-7years old at Evangeline Downs and there was a quarter horse named Scooby Doo running and I jumped up and down, held my breath and threw a fit till my dad went and put $5/win just to shut me up, and he won at 26/1!!!! From that day my dad let everyone know I was a chip off the old block.hehe

Easy Goer during the Belmont with Sunday Silence. My middle son bolting toward EG after the race because he wanted to "ride the horsey".
Tackled at the 5 yard line......the little bastard had pretty good foot speed with
a post call father who didn't.:D

I loved Easy Goer. As a son of Alydar, he was my Derby fave horse that year.


But by the time of the Belmont, I was solidly a bandwagon Sunday Silence fan.

I have photos that I love (shot with a "pocket camera!") of Easy Goer up close and personal in the paddock and paddock ring that day.

I had little money invested in the race, but I sure wanted to see Sunday Silence catch the Triple Crown while I was in personal attendance.

When it was all over, I was eventually OK with the Easy Goer win.

And happy.

I was on hand in person with finish line seats when Seattle Slew won the Belmont and The Triple Crown in 1977 at Belmont.

Pretty content to have seen one Triple Crown winner. I'm not greedy.

:)

1985 Ferdinand breaking his maiden at SA under Wesley Ward. I also went on to catch him in the Derby in 1986.

You went against Funny Cide?!?! :mad: lol

That was a good race. Funny Cide almost won...

Y.O. Doublestitch, a Quarterhorse at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa in 1973. $2 to show. I don't remember the payoff though. I was just a kid.