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Originally Posted by cal828
I think we're going to more than have our hands full with those "fascinating variables" this coming weekend. I think I counted 9 stakes. Do they do brain transplants or is that only in Mary Shelley novels? I don't know about you, but my play on the $200 days has been pretty bad. Hopefully it will improve on Belmont Stakes Day.  I think I would be fairly happy just to get my two C notes back, but maybe there's hope. I have done fairly well a couple of times in the Belmont. Unfortunately, that's about 2 times out of the 40 or so years I've been playing it.  |
When you mentioned 40 years I had to navigate over to Equibase and look up my old friend Pass Catcher who might have been my first longshot winner. That Belmont was 51 years ago. My friend's dad, a trainman, got me a ticket from NYC OTB and after winning I had to take a train to the city and cash it at one of their facilities. That was in the days when the Jersey Derby was a prep or at least before the Belmont. Racing has changed a lot but never really changes. The challenge of picking the right horse is still the same and still exciting.