2018 Breeders' Cup Points Results

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by Real Quiet

I think you have four now. I was one behind. I thought RYonker won the other one but I was wrong. My apology's to Ruffian who did win in 2016.

2012 Don
2013 Don
2014 RQ
2015 Don
2016 Ruffian
2017 RQ
2018 Don

I am not exactly sure when the Gallivan Cup started. I know that as a group that I have kept scoring for we are in our tenth year. I know the forum was around before I scored but I played in it.

So we started here in November of 2014 but the Format and the Gallivan Cup contest goes back to the Final Turn Forum. And if my memory serves me any where near close I joined the FTF around 2001. I posted now and then on the Vinery Forum before that but got in trouble for being to radical trying to ho d my own with the "Galthouse" boys (I think that's what there group was) and got banned from the forum. Phil Schoenfeld posted then also who is now a trainer in Maryland and doing pretty well for himself. Patty and I all him Pa-fill.

Anyway Final Turn promoted the first Gallivan Cup Award for the end of the year BC in honor of Glen Glenners. Patty and I met Glenners and spent some time with him at Churchill I think the year before he died. Very pleasant man, wheel chair bound and a very knowledgeable handicapper. When FT left her forum I took over the "lead" and boltsterd the Gallivan Cup up and with help from players over the years, including you, made some tweaks and changes to the "rules" for the better but always gave proper credit to Final Turn for the original contest "rules".

So this has been going on for awhile. When I first started, I knew nothing about this sport (but loved the pure beauty and athleticism of the horses and jockeys) but absorbed all I could from the best players. Along with my incredible horse racing "savant" wife over these few years, I'm starting to feel more comfortable in the gate, points picks for sure but lagging at the wagering window. Picking horses, wagering on them is truly the most mind boggling thing I have ever been involved with and that includes helping design the Superconducting Super Collider in the 90's, but long time defunct, right here in Waxahachie, Texas.

I've also learned not to be so damned competitive and that's a good thing or maybe it's simply an age thing. Thanks for who you are and what you and JB and Plen as well all the players for sticking together as much as we can.
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It was the "Galthouse Gang" that got me banned from Vinery. Newsflash, this hit me in the frontal lob as I was driving home.