Del Mar vs Saratoga

Originally Posted by Gander

Boldruler-
Why dont you just sleep in your car and shower at a place like the YMCA, where you can buy a day pass for $7? Why would you rent a house, I mean how much time is actually spent in a house while you are up here for the races? Sounds like a big waste of money to me. Thats money you could burn and donate to the NYRA guys kids college tuitions.

The people I go with "need" to rent a house so they can have people over. Biggest waste of money ever. It is nice to stay up there an entire week but I am going to start just hitting the amtrak for the saturday card and coming back to NYC the same day. I used to love the mornings up there but after a while it is no different than going to Belmont on Saturday mornings.

[Gander]

Smart plan. A week is way too long anyways. You can get all the juice you need here in one day, just do everything larger. That would be like me going to Belmont for 1 week, I would lose my mind. I live here and probably go on average a total of 8-10 times per meet, but never for an entire card. To me theres just too much time between races and I like to spend the night before handicapping so I find 28 minutes between every race unbearable, especially in the heat. It gets extra tough because they throw a lot of 2 year old races at you, which I dont really care for.

Mornings are different, I love them and probably get over there 10-15 times per meet. I go a lot of weekday mornings before work, sometimes at the end or the beginning of my run. I'd rather see 60 horses work out in 1 hour with no downtime.

Originally Posted by Gander

Smart plan. A week is way too long anyways. You can get all the juice you need here in one day, just do everything larger. That would be like me going to Belmont for 1 week, I would lose my mind. I live here and probably go on average a total of 8-10 times per meet, but never for an entire card. To me theres just too much time between races and I like to spend the night before handicapping so I find 28 minutes between every race unbearable, especially in the heat. It gets extra tough because they throw a lot of 2 year old races at you, which I dont really care for.

Mornings are different, I love them and probably get over there 10-15 times per meet. I go a lot of weekday mornings before work, sometimes at the end or the beginning of my run. I'd rather see 60 horses work out in 1 hour with no downtime.

The mornings are great. Some part of me likes to take the Amtrak back the same day and have Sunday to recover from my drinking and losses.

[paisjpq]

best time to go to saratoga is during the yearling sale--can catch the Jim Dandy during the weekend and go to the sale at night on monday/tues--fun if you have money or not.

[Downthestretch55]

I just have to share this...
I talked with a guy that works in the same place I do.
He told me that the nicest thing about Saratoga is that nobody hassled him when he pitched his tent way on the backside so he could wake up early and see the morning works. He unpitched his tent and spent the afternoon loving the races. He didn't say if he won or lost.
Seems he lived in his car (tent), for two days...his vacation.
No grief. Just memories. The "woods" at the far back...near the "dumpster".
Only in Saratoga.
DTS

[sumitas]

how's that mexican joint. ummm is it Filiberto's ? or Leon's ?

[Downthestretch55]

Don't know about the Mex joint...but ribs or chicken at PJ's outside of town is very filling, and reasonable.

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by sumitas

how's that mexican joint. ummm is it Filiberto's ? or Leon's ?

Leon's --only ate there once but it was pretty good. I'm not the worlds biggest Mexican food fan so I may not be the best judge.