The day the music died... where were you?

[docicu3]

Originally Posted by Linny

I watched the Belmont that year in the box section at Belmont. My friend was here from Paris (she grew up here and we went to the track together as kids) and she went with me. We walked through the tunnel and up the stairs and got jammed up in traffic. We were between the tunnel and the winner's circle in the walkway behind the 1st row of of boxes as they started to load the gate. My friend looked over and realized that Mary Lou Whitney and John Henrickson were about 10 feet from us. When Birdstone passed Smarty Jones, MaryLou looked at her husband if my lip reading is correct, said "What have we done?"
Other than once at a Springsteen show at the Meadowlands, I never heard 100,000 people shut up at the same time.

Why go silent at a boss show??

[Kingturf]

Oh and to answer the question? I was at home jumping up and down because I made a pretty hefty score on Birdstone. Not to mentioned I bet him pretty hard in the derby only to watch him get bounced around any did not handle the track that turn into a mess only 30 minutes to post.

[Slewbopper]

It seems everybody on this forum bet Birdstone. Amazing. Everyone bet a 36/1 shot.

[Kingturf]

Slewbopper- It seems everybody on this forum bet Birdstone. Amazing. Everyone bet a 36/1 shot.


It was a reason he was 36-1, most people did bet him....

I would think betting against Smarty Jones in all prior races and the Belmont for this fact. Because I bet Smart Jones sire (Elusive Quaility) when he was a Bill Mott speed ball who broke a world record on a turf course that was hard as asphalt 4th of July weekend about 10 years ago! Can't see him winning at a mile and half.

I took a chance on a horse that I bet in the derby. Besides, if you bet Nick Zito horses in stake races. He will give you a clue in the final workout...either 5f in 1:00 or less or 4f in 48 seconds or less.

I call this the Nick Zito championship blow out. Go back on all of his graded earners...every last one had this workout!

The man trained under the great Woody Stephens who owned the Belmont Stakes in the 80's.

Btw that wasn't the biggest price horse I caught in a Belmont stakes...the IRS knows which one I hit.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Kingturf

Slewbopper- It seems everybody on this forum bet Birdstone. Amazing. Everyone bet a 36/1 shot.


It was a reason he was 36-1, most people did bet him....

I would think betting against Smarty Jones in all prior races and the Belmont for this fact. Because I bet Smart Jones sire (Elusive Quaility) when he was a Bill Mott speed ball who broke a world record on a turf course that was hard as asphalt 4th of July weekend about 10 years ago! Can't see him winning at a mile and half.

I took a chance on a horse that I bet in the derby. Besides, if you bet Nick Zito horses in stake races. He will give you a clue in the final workout...either 5f in 1:00 or less or 4f in 48 seconds or less.

I call this the Nick Zito championship blow out. Go back on all of his graded earners...every last one had this workout!

The man trained under the great Woody Stephens who owned the Belmont Stakes in the 80's.

Btw that wasn't the biggest price horse I caught in a Belmont stakes...the IRS knows which one I hit.

There is so much wrong with this post...but the double longshot redboard in your 20th post has to supercede that Nick didn't work for Woody.

Gee thanks for quoting that drivel, Andy. Now I can't get this image out of my mind...

[Slewbopper]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

There is so much wrong with this post...but the double longshot redboard in your 20th post has to supercede that Nick didn't work for Woody.

I was wondering about that, but thought I would leave it to someone else to respond. Sandy Bruno and David Donk are the two I remember being assistants to the Butcher. And of course when he was lying in his hospital bed dying of emphazema, he took credit for his proteges' wins

[Thunder Gulch]

Was at Kentucky Downs watching. The whole place was nuts and you couldn't hear the person next to you during the race. When they start flashing the splits, I'm screaming "too fast" at my friend...it went dead silent as soon as they hit the wire.

[Patrick333]

Originally Posted by Slewbopper

It seems everybody on this forum bet Birdstone. Amazing. Everyone bet a 36/1 shot.

It is amazing isn't?

[Linny]

Originally Posted by docicu3

Why go silent at a boss show??

Boss had walked off stage for a brief cleanup about 1 1/2 hrs into the show. He comes out with a wooden stool and his guitar over his shoulder. Everyone starts hollering. He sits down with guitar and "shushes" the crowd. Everyone shut up.

[ShadowRoll]

I had seats in the stands at the Preakness that year. When Smarty came down the stretch, even though I was screaming at the top of my lungs, I literally couldn't hear my own voice because the roar of the masses drowned it out. I never experienced such unbridled enthusiasm from a crowd.

So I went to the Belmont with a group of people from work, expecting the best. When Smarty got caught in the stretch, it was like the crowd received a collective punch in the gut. I never experienced such unbridled diappointment from a crowd.

A television news crew made their way towards me because, I guess, they saw that I was wearing a Smarty cap (which I had gotten when I went to Philly Park, after standing in line for a couple of hours, just to watch Smarty work) and they figured it would make good theater.

I think that if the reporter had gotten to me right away, in the moments directly after the loss, I would have, at the least, exhausted in seven seconds George Carlin's list of seven words you can't say on television. However, my boss kind of interposed himself, so the reporter turned to him for a few seconds, allowing me to compose myself. When the reporter got to me, I made some pithy comment that, being from Philly, I was used to disappointment in sports (this was before the Phils' world series win, and at a time when the Philly teams always seemed to fall just short) and that we'd just have to look forward to a Triple Crown winner from the Philadelphia area next year. It was hokey, I know, but when the report was on the news that night, they ended it with my segment. I figure I've still got fourteen minutes of fame due.