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08-02-2006, 08:28 PM
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classic Gander... 
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#3
08-02-2006, 08:32 PM
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Unaccounted For winning the 1994 Jim Dandy and then the 1995 Whitney or Buy The Firm's Top Flight win.
Last edited by boldruler : 08-02-2006 at 08:34 PM.
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08-02-2006, 08:33 PM
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I once was living in my car in the middle of winter and needed this horse "Alex Kovalev" to win to get me out of my horribly depressing situation. It was the back end of a double coming back 6 grand. Oracle was there.
He made a huge middle move only to get steadied at the top of the stretch losing any chance. I went back to my car and the parking lot of Applebees and laughed my ass off all night while swilling a 24 oz Heineken. 
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08-02-2006, 08:35 PM
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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08-02-2006, 08:47 PM
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Oh man here is one Tim you can relate too. It's winter here in Ohio and I am too drunk to drive ANYPLACE, let alone walk to my delapaded (spell check) pos car. I walk to my car, it's the dead of winter and their is like 5 cars in the dark, cold parking lot of Beulah Park. I score enough change under my seat and in the trunk to place an exacta at Sunland Park which I hit. So, I go to this bar (of course I drove) and drank a couple then went to Scioto Downs for some simulcast. All told, I was down to $2 in Nickels and Dimes and hit for $10, drank it down to $5, then rode the wave all night to close to $50 and then the next afternoon down back to nothing.
My exacta at Sunland, remember it well, Key the 9 over 6 and 7. Big $10 score.  In the real world, as EVERYONE who is a regualr knows, is my prowess of nailing Silver train over Taste of Paradise and LITF in The Breeder's Cup Sprint. Quote:
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#8
08-02-2006, 08:52 PM
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you yankster
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08-02-2006, 09:05 PM
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Best Moment = 1989 Preakness. I was 12 years old watching the race in my parents living room, and it is still, to this day, the greatest horse race I have ever seen, and Sunday Silence is still my favorite racehorse of all-time.
Worst Moment = Came when I was sitting at the 1/8 pole at Belmont in '04, and it started with the words "and Birdstone is going to make him earn it today."
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#10
08-02-2006, 09:23 PM
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1983 Kentucky Derby-- at my grandparents' house. My grandfather turns on the race and announces that everyone is to pick a horse and the one who picks the winner gets a scratch-off lottery ticket. My grandfather picked Caveat. I looked at all the names (my betting strategy until oh, about two years ago) and was torn between Sunny's Halo and Desert Wine. I finally settled on Sunny's Halo, but hoped Desert Wine would finish second. I like to think of it as my first exacta (and I didn't even have to box it).
I remember Sunny's Halo went off at 5/2, and the lottery ticket I won paid $5.00.
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#11
08-02-2006, 09:40 PM
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I'm alot older than the rest of you. It was 1973 and a local sports writer is touting his chioce for the Kentucky Derby, Big Red. I was hooked for life after the Belmont that year.
My biggest thrill was going to the winners circle with my first horse and first time starter. A little 2 yo maiden filly that went wire to wire at Fairplex park in pomona, Calif. That was along time ago with a purse of $21,000 and she paid $17.60.
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08-02-2006, 08:50 PM
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yeah i spent the night in my car in Scioto Downs parking lot. always a blanket and pillow ready back in those days.
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08-02-2006, 09:45 PM
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My greatest moment...mid Sept 1973, Belmont Park. It was my first time to attend live races. The featured race on the card was the inaugural running of the Marlboro Cup. It was a field of champions. The only 3yo in the race just galloped with absolute ease around that field which included the best older handicap horses in North America, running 9fl on dirt in 1:45:2 which stands to this day as the track record at Belmont Park. Unfortunately, I was a horse racing neophyte at the time and did not fully appreciate the magnitude of the horse I saw perform that day.
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08-02-2006, 10:04 PM
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1974... Hazel Park. Kathy's All Heart, Danny Scocca up. I was 16, working at the pool hall at Cass and 2nd in downtown Detroit. They sent me to bet $300 W/P on the horse. She paid $17.40. I walked out with $3500. They gave me $300. Felt like the kid in Goodfellas.
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