Has anyone ever hung themsleves with a battery....ma'am?



( it's her....I don't have to be told)

How sweet you are Santa. The deep empathy for your fellow man is endearing.

THUD.

Priceless, one of the best lines........ever. Excellent in any scenario always.

I know nothing bout nothing.

Especially the "twins"! ;)

I assure you the degenerate parent gives two shits about me as well. As for my lack of a bleeding heart? Well lets just say I loathe crying so my lack of one suits me well.

Dammit, you'd hate me lately.

What about MEEP-MEEP?

Aqueduct Yes its real depressing...no matter where you try and hide from the multitude of pigeons and the Rastafarian's smoking you know what!:mad:


But BELMONT...


Be it in the clubhouse near the Woody Stevens trophy cases, or upstairs 3rd floor with it's spectacular views relaxing with a nice Cuban cigar or in the paddock area with a picnic table with a cooler of cold ones with friends near the Secretariat statue, there is NO other place to go and unwind from work.
Is this Heaven? No...it's Belmont!:D

Ya but you don't have fine shrubbery out front sculpted into the name of your track.

i agree i love going to the track live. to see the people and horses. my job has me traveling all over the usa so every change i get to go to a track i go. wouldn't want it any other way. i guess that is why i also like my job. :)

Ya got that right!
And, how can anyone that's around horses be depressed?
If that's where your head's at, your gonna get hurt.
Horses don't think that way.
Why should humans?

Oh! Right...we bet on them and not the other way around.


I'll take the barns. Leave the windows to the ones that like depression.
Risks untaken deserve no rewards.

At home,people are much less apt to bet beyond their means.There are other things to do at home.You can change the focus much more easily.You can play ,or watch sports.Go out to eat with friends or family etc. I like the track,and go sometimes.It is different than betting from home though...2 different animals.

I thoroughly enjoy hearing Larry Wallace call races when Meep Meep is running... :p

I live 20 miles south of Boston.Closest track is Suffolk Downs.It's beyond depressing there...tellers are miserable and so are the patrons.I drive down to a harness track (Plainridge) where they have similcasting.Very clean and happy go lucky tellers.Although when Suffolk Downs is running races,Plainridge can only show 2 other tracks...argh....

The OTB is extremely depressing. . . The two tracks I go to mostly are Finger Lakes and Saratoga- obviously Saratoga is far from depressing and Finger Lakes isn't as bad as it seems. . .

Were you beaten as a child?
Good gosh there is just no reason to use so much energy hating. Trying to fill the Repent void I guess. I will stop with the judging. Go about your merry way and have a good day.

I only make it to the actual track MAYBE 6-7 times a year....I relish every trip there.

Did your parents read to you as a child? I never said I hated these people. I just don't care what they do with their time and money. They don't. Why should I?

yes they did

ok

you will quite possibly be footing a bill in some way or another for them

I hope you aren't going to let him get away with that,PP.

Maybe the father, in an act of desperation, will pull out a gun and shoot me in the face while i'm in line to make a wager. Oh oh...maybe the kid will go on to win American Idol someday and thank me for influencing his dad to stop gambling. Or, or maybe I'll just mind my own business because I dislike when people are all up in my business and let that poor family be.

How inspirational.
Guess you dont pay taxes.

If you're so concerned about paying extra taxes then the least of your worries should be a degenerate gambler with a family.

You dont have any idea how much you will be paying for those kids. When they break into your car (insurance), when the screw up a school (local taxes), when they constantly are in and out of jail (police force, courts). When they hit some poor guy in the face and he goes to the local county hospital (local taxes). When they get drugged out and visit a rehab facility (fed. and local).

You think you live on some island. You think you are totally disconnected. Welcome to the U.S. for the first time.

Belmont DOES have fine sculpted shrubbery. Ever check out the horseshoe around Ruffian's grave. If you get up real close, you'll see the plastic flowers and the chips in her stone. THAT'S depressing.

This is Spartaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

I haven't been told in a long time. Thanks for telling me what's up. I'll keep an eye out on those scary babies at the track. :D

Well excuuuuuuse ME.

Its a strange thing but babies become adults. Some can grow up into big ugly thugs under the proper conditions. And you and I will be old when they do. Im not much for hiding out. Kinda into not having to watch my back constantly.

So yes I am a bit concerned when I see parents that dont give a damn about their kids. Im out of this tangent. Just a long term sort of view.

Yeah just think that a kid could become a mass murderer because his father didn't bet Tiago. Scary stuff.

Ok. I give up. Uncle.

No, the track isn't depressing to me, it's exciting. NYC OTB's, however, make me want to bash lightbulbs over my head. Those are depressing.

I guess it depends where you go.

Going to Keeneland on a yearly basis in December, when it's ratty out, is still so beautiful and not depressing at all. Everything there is classy. But the last 2 years when I've gone there, I've stayed in Cincy. So I also make a visit to Turfway. Turfway is clean, but tacky. It's a much more depressin atmosphere there.

Now as for my home track Canterbury, I don't think that place is depressin at all (except when I lose $$$ lol). During live racing in the summer, it has a younger atmosphere. You see young couples there all the time, especially on Thur and Fri nights. Minnesota summers (eventhough we maybe get 3 good months... maybe 4) are for the most part pretty pleasant, especially in the early evenings. So it makes the racing there not depressing at all. Canterbury doesn't have the classiness of Keeneland, but it's a clean and modern-looking place.

I've always felt like I should take a trip up there sometime. Though I'd probably be well served to get Churchill out of the way first...

Oh, hell, come on. Scioto is a MUCH classier place...

ALostTexan

Turfway is about as depressing as it gets, I call it the Dungeon.

I like to go to River Downs, it's not a bad place to go for simulcasting.

You need a school field trip ... calculation of odds ratios, return on investment, diversification of portfolio, allocation of assets to ventures of differing risk .... good life lessons to be learned at the track! ;)

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Aqueduct really sucks these days. It's a mess, the simulcasting screens are poorly laid out (had to walk all over just to find one small TV with the Illinois Derby on Saturday then another with the Apple Blossom), and the degenerates seem to be at an all-time high. Only been to three live days at the Big A this meet- I won't be back until Belmont opens.

No live racetrack is depressing.

Whenever I walk into a racetrack I get a sense of calm anticipation, not a sense of depression.

When I have one in I get the same feeling I would get before a big game when I played competitive sports. So excited you cannot sit down, pacing, looking at the PPs 200 times, wondering if you are in the right spot, already making the horse excuses before he/she runs. Then when they win you know you were right, you cannot beat that feeling and its sure not depression.