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Originally Posted by Real Quiet
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.
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Actually, I just said 40 years off the top of my head. Might not have been possible to even place a bet from where I live on the Belmont 40 years ago. I think simulcasting started here sometime in the mid to late 1980s. It used to be that horse racing was here at Oaklawn for a few months and then gone and you didn't think about it again until it returned in the next year. As you said racing has really made a giant leap over the years, but I guess everything else has too with all our new fangled media most of which I can barely cope..
