Tampa Bay Downs Opening Day

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I did.

I'm the only sucker on earth who would buy a book on how to train horses authored by Janet Del Castillo.

Everything she wrote - I just assume the opposite is true.

I've never had the opportunity to meet her, but I'm hoping she is throwback hippie with the dankest, stickiest in all of Tampa...That would make a lot of sense, and endear me to her

Otherwise I'd be sadly disappointed.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

I've never had the opportunity to meet her, but I'm hoping she is throwback hippie with the dankest, stickiest in all of Tampa...That would make a lot of sense, and endear me to her

Otherwise I'd be sadly disappointed.

You are one sick son of a b*tch. God, I love you.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by GPK

You are one sick son of a b*tch. God, I love you.

Get yer asz down here!!!

[Rudeboyelvis]

Actually a great betting race - the Filmmaker colt will take all the action, but Goncalves' mount 1st turf is as live as the day is long - and 8-1 may well hold up...like the 2 an awful bit as well.

[Habersham000]

Its nice to have a morning line odds maker thats gives a horse like that a 50-1...most tracks would have that rat at 20-1 just so people don't think its an unbettable race because of that horse or even have it at 30-1 is just unrealistic and a disservice to the betting public

[Scav]

Originally Posted by Habersham000

Its nice to have a morning line odds maker thats gives a horse like that a 50-1...most tracks would have that rat at 20-1 just so people don't think its an unbettable race because of that horse or even have it at 30-1 is just unrealistic and a disservice to the betting public

I can't say that I don't love running against her horses down there, but all she does is clutter up a full entry box, in regards to their turf races down there.

LOL, 37 entered in a 2 year old MSW Turf race and 19 entered in a 5f stakes race, and they can only go 10 deep, and they aren't costing themselves money. WIDEN THE TURF COURSE or change something to be able to run 12 per race on the lawn.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Scav

I can't say that I don't love running against her horses down there, but all she does is clutter up a full entry box, in regards to their turf races down there.

LOL, 37 entered in a 2 year old MSW Turf race and 19 entered in a 5f stakes race, and they can only go 10 deep, and they aren't costing themselves money. WIDEN THE TURF COURSE or change something to be able to run 12 per race on the lawn.

There is no excuse for them not to split that stakes except being cheap.

Obviously Del Castillo and others in the similar habit of running hopeless horses are nice to run against but it is ultra frustrating when you can't get in a race and there are 3 or 4 absolutely dogs in there.

The irony is that they will use 12 horses in grass stakes going long in and 14 horse fields in dirt stakes. This was explained why to me one time but the explanation was so ridiclous I immediately struck it from my mind. If the rails are down there is no reason to not run 12.

[phystech]

Originally Posted by Scav

I can't say that I don't love running against her horses down there, but all she does is clutter up a full entry box, in regards to their turf races down there.

LOL, 37 entered in a 2 year old MSW Turf race and 19 entered in a 5f stakes race, and they can only go 10 deep, and they aren't costing themselves money. WIDEN THE TURF COURSE or change something to be able to run 12 per race on the lawn.

I'd guess most of these horses are simply entered to earn a date with no intention, or hope, of actually running in the race. See it all the time......

Why do Tampa purses still suck, bigtime? They brag about handle and then chump out on their purses......

[Scav]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

I've never had the opportunity to meet her, but I'm hoping she is throwback hippie with the dankest, stickiest in all of Tampa...That would make a lot of sense, and endear me to her

Otherwise I'd be sadly disappointed.

I've seen her before, and I also saw how she sends out her horses. We were in the same race last year when I was down there and it was disgraceful. Horse looked like he could have survived in the South Pole with all the hair he had him, ended up heat stroking after the race also.

Come to think about it, it looked like the horse had some of those crusted rotting dreads that some of those hippies rock.