Mentors.............
 

Would like to start a thread in honour of people who started us on our let us say unenvyable way..............................:rolleyes:

ill start

Ron Crawford : >..........my mentor a man who even when i spouted Sheeeeeeet didnt say your wrong just asked the same question three times & in my pride even tho i gave him the wrong answer 3 times would never say your wrong:rolleyes: .

Bill Downes Sr...a fixture at AP and the owner of the two best seats in Lambeau. Glad he's had a good run with Taylor Madison.

Joe Kristufek, handicapper for Chicago's Daily Herald and Arlington's ML guy among other things, for what it's worth.

ooooh...name play Brian..I pull out the guy who has drank 8 beers a day at Arlington since 1982 and you use a "real" mentor..lol

Fixed that for ya.

ahhh..very true. Thnx Kev.
:eek:

Leroy the mush/ticket thief.

Mortimer Dexter Foxworthy.

will you be upstairs tomorrow? i'm feeling that i might need to get out and tip a couple myself.

Oh sorry, I had yet to realize that the topic was not serious.

Should be at OTB tomorrow.

Yup..will be up there around 2..Scavs shortly thereafter. Hope you can make it Jim

The topic was real question, your post was legitimate...and Downes was my "inspiration" so to speak...But you know him..hard to attach that label with a straight face, so..

Bill Downes became mentor #2 after I went all in on Lewis Michael in the Goodwood last fall and he turned to me, called me crazy, and said, "they will NEVER let an Arlington horse win in CALLLLLLL-I-FOR-NIA!"

Turns out, he was right.

scavarino is coming? now i'm not so sure if i'll be there.

just kidding tom!

sorry to hijack your mentor thread magic-idol.

Yes I will be there, probably at the same time as Bob, and I could be in rare form. Big day tomorrow.

I WANT TO TAKE THE SUMMER OFF DAMN IT...Leaving that place with 20k CASH

HaHahah was gonna delete it as ive had a few Crownies ( Beer ) but it seems to have taken a life of its own ;)

http://www.jockthemovie.com/mbacon.html

I worked the backstretch a couple summers as a kid. I was friendly with Mary Bacon who was ten years older and a whole world wiser than me.

Mother died in childbirth. Father died in an Alkie ward. Second woman to ride in the U.S. (after Diane Crump). Stabbed. Shot at. Posed in Playboy. Revlon "Charlie" girl. Lost the Revlon deal after speaking at Klan rally. Contracted terminal cancer. Blew her brains out. She was 43.

we're on the same page then, let's crush 'em.

good thing you didn't delete it as we've now organized a meet-up at the otb tomorrow.

enjoy your Crownie(s), sounds good.