Finally ... At Last ... A Real Handicap Race

It's the New York Turf Writers' Cup today at Saratoga.

Champion and highweight Hirapour ... gives 10 pounds to the second highweight ... and 26 pounds to the two low weights ... and ... it's not a 5f sprint ... these boys are going 19f over the jumps.

And look at the weights ... Hirapour 164 ... low weights 138.

What a contrast to today's usual "handicaps" ... where the "highweight" carries 118 pounds ... and "gives" three whole pounds to the "low weight."

God bless the jumpers ... the last of the professional thoroughbred race horses.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

It's the New York Turf Writers' Cup today at Saratoga.

Champion and highweight Hirapour ... gives 10 pounds to the second highweight ... and 26 pounds to the two low weights ... and ... it's not a 5f sprint ... these boys are going 19f over the jumps.

And look at the weights ... Hirapour 164 ... low weights 138.

What a contrast to today's usual "handicaps" ... where the "highweight" carries 118 pounds ... and "gives" three whole pounds to the "low weight."

God bless the jumpers ... the last of the professional thoroughbred race horses.

Oh yeah...nothing more exciting than watching a race where half the runners fall down or don't finish.

Oh how I await with baited breath for this race...

Originally Posted by GPK

Oh yeah...nothing more exciting than watching a race where half the runners fall down or don't finish.

Oh how I await with baited breath for this race...

It's "bated" breath ... to bate means to restrain, to modulate ... unless ...

... unless ... as we may suspect ... you have worms in your throat ... in which case your breath may indeed be baited.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

It's "bated" breath ... to bate means to restrain, to modulate ... unless ...

... unless ... as we may suspect ... you have worms in your throat ... in which case your breath may indeed be baited.

Thanks...spelling mistake noted.

On a more serious note...you really are sharp as a marble, aren't you?

Originally Posted by GPK

Thanks...spelling mistake noted.

On a more serious note...you really are sharp as a marble, aren't you?

Now you know why it's called a rapier wit ...

... someone can get cut to pieces if they come too close.

But .. then again ... you might call it a "raper" wit ... since you tend to be a bit duller.

[Gander]

Kev- Be careful with the negative talk about a race. Slot might get upset.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

Now you know why it's called a rapier wit ...

... someone can get cut to pieces if they come too close.

But .. then again ... you might call it a "raper" wit ... since you tend to be a bit duller.

speaking of wits....it would be too much of a bore for me to have a battle of them with an unarmed person, such as yourself.

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by GPK

Thanks...spelling mistake noted.

On a more serious note...you really are sharp as a marble, aren't you?

GP,
Don't waste your time. Bold Brooklynite is the guy I out-debated as if I were Kennedy and he was Nixon. He then crawled back under his rock although he has admitted to me privately that he lives for my posts and would gladly, upon my request, begin sending 10% of his public school pension to the SentToStud foundation. I told him that $50 would be better spent in his own neighborhood.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

GP,
Don't waste your time. Bold Brooklynite is the guy I out-debated as if I were Kennedy and he was Nixon. He then crawled back under his rock although he has admitted to me privately that he lives for my posts and would gladly, upon my request, begin sending 10% of his public school pension to the SentToStud foundation. I told him that $50 would be better spent in his own neighborhood.

LMFAO.....


100 days left B....100 days until Dec. 9th

[whorstman]

Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

It's "bated" breath ... to bate means to restrain, to modulate ... unless ...

... unless ... as we may suspect ... you have worms in your throat ... in which case your breath may indeed be baited.

Which one of you is the "Master" of that word.

Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

It's the New York Turf Writers' Cup today at Saratoga.

Champion and highweight Hirapour ... gives 10 pounds to the second highweight ... and 26 pounds to the two low weights ... and ... it's not a 5f sprint ... these boys are going 19f over the jumps.

And look at the weights ... Hirapour 164 ... low weights 138.

What a contrast to today's usual "handicaps" ... where the "highweight" carries 118 pounds ... and "gives" three whole pounds to the "low weight."

God bless the jumpers ... the last of the professional thoroughbred race horses.

Man BB loves playing the gadfly.
I guess its entertaining, but predictable.