getting a job at a track

GPK · #1 06-21-2006, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by BOMBTHREAT

Yeah - I work about 3 minutes from Yorktown and live in Newport News. We take a trip each year to Ocracoke Island so I know where Kittyhawk is as well. We went to Colonial for live racing on the 17th and had good results.

Dude....I was there on Saturday.

I was born and raised in Hampton. Moved to York County as a teenager. Graduated from Tabb H.S. in 1990.

GPK · #2 06-21-2006, 04:02 PM

You from the area originally?

disappearingdan_akaplaya · #3 06-21-2006, 04:24 PM

well video i wish you the best of luck as well as you jessica if you both are seriously gonna follow through with a career in the sport! if you have no luck in KY video or wherever you try contact me and i can try and get you started on the backside here in chicago

john

videogirl10 · #4 06-21-2006, 07:15 PM

i would definatly love that. i will keep you updated. what do you do at the track?

disappearingdan_akaplaya · #5 06-22-2006, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by videogirl10

i would definatly love that. i will keep you updated. what do you do at the track?

i own a racehorse and i help pick out horses to claim for some of my trainers other clients

paisjpq · #6 06-21-2006, 08:50 PM

if you want in on a farm in KY--learning how to prep yearlings or starting yearlings etc. which can segway into a track job if that is what you want--look into the Kentucky Equine Management Internship (www.KEMI.org ) --no other program except perhaps Darley's Flying Start will give you as much opportunity to work and make valuable contacts in the Lexington area.

videogirl10 · #7 06-21-2006, 09:47 PM

i am 25. i do not have experience with racehorses but i have ridden my whole life. i do know there is a difference. i would just like to get into the business somehow, and i do not mind working at a farm. i wouldn't care to just muck out stalls, just so i can be around the track/farm. i live in southwest va now, so there isn't really anything close by...if there is, can anyone give me a heads up....

oh off topic, does anyone know david doane...he is a breeder that lives in jonesborough, tn. i think in 2000, he bred the NY 2 year old of the year...le grande dansier (sp?) does anyone know where that horse is or has heard of david. i think he was going to breed his mare back to skip away the next year, but i lost touch.

thanks everyone for their help!

Cajungator26 · #8 06-21-2006, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by videogirl10

i am 25. i do not have experience with racehorses but i have ridden my whole life. i do know there is a difference. i would just like to get into the business somehow, and i do not mind working at a farm. i wouldn't care to just muck out stalls, just so i can be around the track/farm. i live in southwest va now, so there isn't really anything close by...if there is, can anyone give me a heads up....

oh off topic, does anyone know david doane...he is a breeder that lives in jonesborough, tn. i think in 2000, he bred the NY 2 year old of the year...le grande dansier (sp?) does anyone know where that horse is or has heard of david. i think he was going to breed his mare back to skip away the next year, but i lost touch.

thanks everyone for their help!

Le Grande Danseur was by Citidancer. He now stands in New Mexico for $1,500. Not sure about David Doane, although he would be 84 years old now, wouldn't he? I remember he was in his late 70's or early 80's.

DiscreetCat=Monster · #9 06-22-2006, 02:23 AM

Show a little SKIN!!! That the only chance in the corporate thoroughbred world you got LMAO!!!!

GPK · #10 06-22-2006, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by BOMBTHREAT

I graduated from Kecoughtan in 1990. Played football against Kirby and Slade in 1989. I was born in Hampton.

I went to Bethel my 10th grade year before going to Tabb. Never knew Terry that well, but Chris was a friend and hands down the nicest guy you will ever meet. Even after all those years with the Patriots he will still come home and be the same old Chris.

Do you go to the Hampton OTB much? I'm undecided between there or actually going to New Kent and watch them live.

GPK · #11 06-22-2006, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by BOMBTHREAT

I graduated from Kecoughtan in 1990. Played football against Kirby and Slade in 1989. I was born in Hampton.

You play any baseball growing up? I was in the Northampton Little League.

GPK · #12 06-22-2006, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by BOMBTHREAT

I graduated from Kecoughtan in 1990, played football against Kirby and Slade in 1989. Born in Hampton.

There an echo in here???

GPK · #13 06-22-2006, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by BOMBTHREAT

Phoebus little league. I go to the Hampton OTB from time to time - it's so much easier than going to New Kent. You just have to put up with being surrounded by scum all day at the OTB. I have a couple of young kids so lots of days I end up playing online.

At least you didn't graduate from Phoebus...lol

Im a non smoker, so the best thing they ever did was enclose that non-smoking section at the OTB. I have spent many an hour in that OTB.

What area you living in now?