First Time

[jms62]

Lets talk about our first bet ever, age and results

My friend and uncle used to frequent Liberty Bell in Philly so I began following in the paper. Gave him a 2.00 bet on a horse named Vinegar nearly 40 years ago when I was 8. Redboard the horse won and I forgot what he paid.... Flash forward about 15 years and I worked in New York at WTC Tower 2 and used to collect 5 bucks from my coworkers each Thursday and take a walk to OTB to place a bet. If we won it was blown on lunch at Luna's on Friday and the remainder Friday night at Jermey's. Hit a horse named Carjack a couple times... I Used to simply look for horses winning last time out at the highest odds...

[pweizer]

Originally Posted by jms62

Lets talk about our first bet ever, age and results

My friend and uncle used to frequent Liberty Bell in Philly so I began following in the paper. Gave him a 2.00 bet on a horse named Vinegar nearly 40 years ago when I was 8. Redboard the horse won and I forgot what he paid.... Flash forward about 15 years and I worked in New York at WTC Tower 2 and used to collect 5 bucks from my coworkers each Thursday and take a walk to OTB to place a bet. If we won it was blown on lunch at Luna's on Friday and the remainder Friday night at Jermey's. Hit a horse named Carjack a couple times... I Used to simply look for horses winning last time out at the highest odds...

My first bets were all at Liberty Bell too. I had a friend in high school whose uncle was a professional gambler. They had a reserved box at the track so we thought we were very important.

I first went to see Niatross run and was hooked from there.

Paul

[GPK]

First bet ever was $10 WPS on War Emblem in the Derby. I have despised him ever since for sucking me into this game.

[trackrat59]

I could never come up with the name of the horse but I can clearly remember the circumstances.

I was three years old . This was at Rosecroft. My parents were from NY and moved to MD. They were big into harness racing. They were close friends with a couple of professional gamblers from NY who used to come down and visit us a lot . (something was going on there but I'll never know)

So my mom started teaching me to read. She used the program from Rosecroft and I would practice with the names of the horses because they were written in big, bold letters. Good thinking on Mom's part

My first bet was my mom or dad taking me up to the win window to get my cardboard, yellow win ticket with the horse's number and other such data printed in ink. This was 1959 (thus trackrat59-my first year at the track). I remember that I got to tell the teller the number of the horse. Back then you didn't have to say the name of the bet because each window was for a specific type of bet. The teller, no matter which one, would always say with a smile, "she's too young to bet" while punching my ticket.

[DaTruth]

Fair Grounds. Between Christmas and New Year's Day during the late 1970s. My mom would take us to the Fair Grounds clubhouse or turf club for a day during the Christmas break. I would have been about nine or ten years old at the time. I remember the horse was named Call Me Henry, although I can't find the name at pedigree query. I hit the double cold with Call Me Henry winning the first leg. The payoff wasn't much; otherwise I would remember it.

[Storm Cadet]

Yonkers back in the late 60's while still in high school.