does your sig other like racing?
 

i met someone
but when we
went to the
track he didn't
know anything.

it was bothersome
to say the
least.
:D

does your sig
other watch
races?

when u date
do u bring it up?

for the married
ppl, does it ever
cause problems?

To answer your questions:

1.) I don't have a significant other anymore. (Sick of being single too, yuck.)

2.) I tend to bring it up on dates for the sole purpose of being amused... most of the time I get a blank stare. It kinda sucks.

3.) The lack of knowledge about horse racing on my ex husband's part had very little to do with the demise of our marriage (although his disdain for my horse was sickening and certainly didn't help.) It was his infidelity that really did us in, though. :(

It's always much easier to date someone who enjoys racing. I used to date a jockeys daughter, thinking it would be a good idea..........

I was wrong.

I brought up a racing conversation one evening and it was met with "will you shut the **** up about the horses, I get enough of this at home"

:D

The guy that I am seeing isn't into horseracing at all, but when he found out I liked it he read a little about it online, asked me lots of questions and went to one of the sales with me. It probably wouldn't bother me at all if he didn't show any interest in racing since we're both fitness nuts so we have that common ground.

Don't have a sig other now, but I prefer that the person is at least interested in doing some very basic learning about it. I don't need to go find a grizzled horseplayer by any stretch, but I'd at least like the person to be mildly amused/interested/excited about going to the races with me every now and then and being open to learning more about it.

So far so good.

my gf hates to gamble, I love to gamble. She will not go to the casino with me, but when there was live racing at Great Lakes Downs she would go with me. After seeing me lose a lot of money one night, she told me to give her $10 and she would show me how it's done. She ended up .60 and I laughed at her the whole way home, but then I realized I had no room to talk because if I was up .60 I would have been damn happy.

She wants to go to Arlington a few times this summer because her family is originally from Chicago, so if it means a day at the track she is down with it. Horse racing never causes problems with us, but the gambling sometimes does, but I already told her it is what I do, take it or leave it.

also, I never write on her facebook wall or send her any emails or things like that, so when she came up to me when I was on derbytrail.com and saw 1,000+ post she was a little upset! :D

are you japanese?
i ask because of the form.
the sound of water.

i met someone
but when we
went to the
track he didn't
know anything.

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Seals don't have good recall.

1.) I don't have a significant other anymore. Try an insignififcant one.(Sick of being single too, yuck.) The second thing...make two of you.

2.) I tend to bring it up on dates for the sole purpose of being amused... most of the time I get a blank stare.See my comment on seals. It kinda sucks. They balance beach balls better...but whatevah.

3.) The lack of knowledge about horse racing on my ex husband's part had very little to do with the demise of our marriage (although his disdain for my horse was sickening and certainly didn't help.) It was his infidelity that really did us in, though

He shouldn't have messed with things he knew nothing about.

The guy that I am seeing isn't into horseracing at all, but when he found out I liked it he read a little about it online, asked me lots of questions and went to one of the sales with me. It probably wouldn't bother me at all if he didn't show any interest in racing since we're both fitness nuts so we have that common ground.
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Please...I'm doing the best I can.


Give me a break already.

also, I never write on her facebook wall or send her any emails or things like that, so when she came up to me when I was on derbytrail.com and saw 1,000+ post she was a little upset!
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Wait until she finds out how to read all of your pm's.

Well, my "better half" has tolerated me for almost 18 years...so the racing comes with the package. She's interested in the Triple Crown races and will go to Saratoga a few times (she watches the people and reads her newspaper flyers) When we first met, she enjoyed it more and has gotten use to it through the years. Although, if she is winning - she enjoys it a lot more!

Can hardly wait for you're reply to my post :rolleyes:

mrs d had never been to the track or played the horses. i had just started to get back into it when we started going out.

she really likes live racing, just tolerates the OTB's but doesn't mind watching it on tv from home or on the computer.
i don't mind explaining things but she has learned alot from here and from Dee Tee Stables. mrs d. lurks on DT pretty regular, mostly in Dee Tee Stables and listens some to steve on the radio on they way home from work. she has learned more than she gives herself credit for.

This is the part that I find the most shocking of your entire story.

you assume too much about the meaning on "g".

I'm sure this thread will take a "turn" real soon.

i just checked my keyboard. likely a typo.

I've been going out with her for almost two years now, we both go to Michigan State so it works out well.

Keep being an ass, it works out well for ya.

tony wouldn't watch another race if i was gone tomorrow.
he finally tried going to the track a couple of years ago, and found it wasn't so bad i guess....but then he always manages to end the day ahead. we have a good time when we go. but we seem to have a good time everywhere we go, so i guess we've got it made!!

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(Tony is actually a a parot....Dannie has a peg leg.)

My wife just isn't interested in horse racing. She wasn't really a gambler but now I take her to Vegas 1-2 times a year and she enjoys playing blackjack or betting on a game. She tollerates my love for the horses and even acts marginally interested in DT Stables. We have an eight year old son so he comes first, but I go to the track a few times a month.

I think its important for both of us to have a few hours of personal time to do what we enjoy. Its important to have common ground but just as important to have your own interests.

There's actually one teeeeny word in here that strikes me as, ummm..... surprising. :p

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I'm only interested in men who know about the horsies.

The ones who don't get it give you that look like you've just sprouted a third head if you bring it up.

my gambling buddies seem to think it is a bad thing to have a wife who also enjoys gambling. Always coming by asking for money
oh wait

nevermind

My wife love it.....
 

Loves when I cash a ticket!, Other times she wants nothin to do with racing, nor with me for that matter!;)

My girlfriend hates horseracing, thats why I sent her off to Boston to get her mind right

Obviously Cajun the guy didn't deserve you....

I don't think it would be an issue at all until Saratoga season came along. Then it would get very interesting.

I have a sig other...when she sees me on the computer she says are you doing that horse racing sh*t again...I say no honey I am just surfing porn..

My wife (and her whole family) are/were degenerate numbers players. In fact the first time I went to their house for dinner, we were all sitting eating when all of a sudden someone yelled "THE BALLS THE BALLS" and everyone made a break for the living room. Suddenly I was sitting all by myself. About a minute later everyone came back to the table. What happened was the whole family ran to watch the drawing for the daily NY number. Also my mother-in-law (the head degenrate when it comes to numbers and scratch off tickets) works as an operator at OTB. So my wife has gambling bloodlines. She was more of an Atlantic City roulette gambler, but she did adapt nicely to Horse Racing. We would go to Monmouth almost every Saturday in the summer and then go to dinner on the way home. She would read cosmo while I was studying the form. I will never forget the day she hit a $300 exacta the first race after studing the program for about a minute while I was in the form for about an hour. After cashing her ticket, she told my to keep studying as she went back to her Cosmo. She did love Saratoga, except when I dragged her to Saratoga Harness at night. She thought that place was a dump. We are going to try to make it up there this summer for the first time in 5 years. These days she is too busy playing mommy, so she hardly has anytime for herself. So racing is the last thing on her mind when she has a minute. But overall she is a great sport about it, and (almost) never breaks my horns about it. I do hear a little grief about my son having 2 Secretariat and 2 Left Bank pictures on the walls of his room and Seabiscuit, War Admiral and Barbaro beanie babies. And when she hears him say "Daddy look at that Gray speed horse on the rail with the blinkers, I think he is gone" then I do get a couple of dirty looks.

My husband is resigned to my loving horseracing. He goes to the track with me occasionally.

MaTH- most excellent signature (see below). :)

LOL, Thanks. It still is my favorite show ever.

you're just teaching him his numbers and colors:rolleyes: