Your Best moment in Horse Racing?
 

I can name a few but I want to hear other's response. Mine is Pat Day finally winning a Derby with Lil E Tee in 1992. It's what got me into the game because of his Arkansas and Oaklawn connection. My other is me and my buddy picking a 45-1 shot to win one time. We had this thing bet every which way and scored big when were younger. Nothing like that Opening Day beer at Oaklawn for me nothing compares to it.

well, hey packerbacker...i live in arkansas now, so oaklawn is now my hometrack. grew up in maryland, horse heaven back then!

my first big moment was watching the filly, genuine risk, beat the boys in the kentucky derby. i enjoyed racing before than, anything to do with horses really...but that hooked me.

July 16th, 2005. Colonial Downs racetrack. Virginia Derby. First time I laid eyes on "THE MAN"

i guess risk was my first best moment...

best moment lately? walking under the twin spires last summer. man, that was great.

Mr Moto talks me out of another one
 

my favorite moments involved impossible long shots 80-1 and up

Sarava was an ok moment

my most memorable moment was in the '99 Belmont.
I did nothing but talk about Lemon Drop Kid. My uncle hated the horse

I made one bet Vision and Verse over Lemon Drop Kid, Charismatic and Best of Luck. I was going to make another bet but some drunks tried taking over my table when my uncle wandered off. Got in a fight.. Mad I just sat there and said, "I never when these silly bets anyway"

As they dueled down the stretch I knew I was beat. I still hoped otherwise but I could tell LDK was just waiting. Vision and Verse maybe won one more race after that. My uncle loved Lemon Drop Kid from that moment on and lovd to bet him at 6/5

Chalk bettors

is there anything they don't know

My three biggest scores

1) Pleasant Home last year in the BC Distaff

2) Powerscourt in the Arlington Million last year

3) Last Pick Four at Hollywood in 2005 that paid $3500 on the $12 I put into it

oh well if you're talking scores...was proud of a few picks i made at oaklawn this spring. man, we had a great time.

Score wise....$50WP bet on the Yes It's True baby trying turf for the first time at Hollywood earlier this year was sweet. Returned me $1,050. I can picture that baby hauling up the rail coming for home and me SCREAMING in Scavs ear over the phone...LOL:o

Mine was when I had $200 to win on Oh Jazzy Day at 10/1 and he came to the top of the stretch with more than a 15 length lead, only to wilt like a flower in mid stretch and finish 4th.

I like losing more than winning. I can relate to it more.

classic Gander...

I had $10 to WS on Pleasant Home

thanks to Steve for the tip!

biggest pay day was a Superfecta at Mountaineer
got back $4,800+

Unaccounted For winning the 1994 Jim Dandy and then the 1995 Whitney or Buy The Firm's Top Flight win.

I once was living in my car in the middle of winter and needed this horse "Alex Kovalev" to win to get me out of my horribly depressing situation. It was the back end of a double coming back 6 grand. Oracle was there.

He made a huge middle move only to get steadied at the top of the stretch losing any chance. I went back to my car and the parking lot of Applebees and laughed my ass off all night while swilling a 24 oz Heineken. :rolleyes:

i think i feel worse about you having to drink a heineken than about living in the car!!

Oh man here is one Tim you can relate too. It's winter here in Ohio and I am too drunk to drive ANYPLACE, let alone walk to my delapaded (spell check) pos car. I walk to my car, it's the dead of winter and their is like 5 cars in the dark, cold parking lot of Beulah Park. I score enough change under my seat and in the trunk to place an exacta at Sunland Park which I hit. So, I go to this bar (of course I drove) and drank a couple then went to Scioto Downs for some simulcast. All told, I was down to $2 in Nickels and Dimes and hit for $10, drank it down to $5, then rode the wave all night to close to $50 and then the next afternoon down back to nothing.

My exacta at Sunland, remember it well, Key the 9 over 6 and 7. Big $10 score. :D

In the real world, as EVERYONE who is a regualr knows, is my prowess of nailing Silver train over Taste of Paradise and LITF in The Breeder's Cup Sprint.

"too drunk to drive anyplace".....You Curt??? I'd never believe it....just yanking your chain...

yeah i spent the night in my car in Scioto Downs parking lot. always a blanket and pillow ready back in those days.

you yankster :p

Best Moment = 1989 Preakness. I was 12 years old watching the race in my parents living room, and it is still, to this day, the greatest horse race I have ever seen, and Sunday Silence is still my favorite racehorse of all-time.

Worst Moment = Came when I was sitting at the 1/8 pole at Belmont in '04, and it started with the words "and Birdstone is going to make him earn it today."

1983 Kentucky Derby-- at my grandparents' house. My grandfather turns on the race and announces that everyone is to pick a horse and the one who picks the winner gets a scratch-off lottery ticket. My grandfather picked Caveat. I looked at all the names (my betting strategy until oh, about two years ago) and was torn between Sunny's Halo and Desert Wine. I finally settled on Sunny's Halo, but hoped Desert Wine would finish second. I like to think of it as my first exacta (and I didn't even have to box it).

I remember Sunny's Halo went off at 5/2, and the lottery ticket I won paid $5.00.

I'm alot older than the rest of you. It was 1973 and a local sports writer is touting his chioce for the Kentucky Derby, Big Red. I was hooked for life after the Belmont that year.
My biggest thrill was going to the winners circle with my first horse and first time starter. A little 2 yo maiden filly that went wire to wire at Fairplex park in pomona, Calif. That was along time ago with a purse of $21,000 and she paid $17.60.

My greatest moment...mid Sept 1973, Belmont Park. It was my first time to attend live races. The featured race on the card was the inaugural running of the Marlboro Cup. It was a field of champions. The only 3yo in the race just galloped with absolute ease around that field which included the best older handicap horses in North America, running 9fl on dirt in 1:45:2 which stands to this day as the track record at Belmont Park. Unfortunately, I was a horse racing neophyte at the time and did not fully appreciate the magnitude of the horse I saw perform that day.

1974... Hazel Park. Kathy's All Heart, Danny Scocca up. I was 16, working at the pool hall at Cass and 2nd in downtown Detroit. They sent me to bet $300 W/P on the horse. She paid $17.40. I walked out with $3500. They gave me $300. Felt like the kid in Goodfellas.

Oh boy... I can just see the "Bloodhorse" article coming up: "English Channel Takes Out Restraining Order On Fan" and the subheadline, "Says Virginia devotee is going all 'Single White Female' on him"

I do love the little fella....he is what horse racing is all about to me...hes all heart.....just like me:D :D

Watching Captain Condo storm down the lane at Longacres, sitting on my dads shoulders, and hearing Gary Henson call "And here comes the big grey, its Captain Condo."

My happiest (and saddest) moments recently (I'm only 19, lol, so its all recently) came in the same damn race. Intercontinental won the F&M Turf paying on my WP bet, but goddamn Ouija Board got up for 2nd by a neck over Film Maker to **** up what would have been a very nice exacta. 15/1 over 5/2 paid $131.50 for $2. I dont even want to know what 15/1 over 9/1 would have payed for $10.

Best moments were just watching Ghostzapper cruise around the track in low gear, yet still well ahead of anyone else. Wish he hadnt gotten injured last year :(

Getting about two feet away from Kelso at Delaware Park's paddock in...well a long time ago.

wow...now you are showing your age there old man....:eek:

Exactly why I hang out with Bill. I just keep telling him I'm old so he deosn't feel bad when he can't keep up with me..lol

I have to ask you a golf question, but I'll private message you on that.

hanging out with Bill with age you very quickly anyways...:eek:

There's one standout moment for me - when Tempera won the BC Juvenile Fillies a few years back. She had been a monster in her first couple of starts, then had a bit of a tough trip in her 3rd to Habibti in the Del Mar Debutante. All of a sudden, she was not the buzz horse and no one really talked about her. Coming up the Juv Fillies, I thought she was very much an overlay at 10-1 or something like that; I thought the odds were ridiculous because, at her best, she was brilliant..something the other fillies were not. I would have been ecstatic at her victory without having laid a bet, but I wagered $5.00 and won a few bucks. It was sweet vindication..... of course, one of my worst/unhappiest horse racing experiences was her death the next year. Devastating