How did you get into racing?

[infield_line]

took me to watch the morning workouts at Hollywood Park in about 1954-55 I'm guessing. Then move to L'ville 40 year later and loved hanging out at the Downs, but did not get serious about learning to handicap until I discovered I was the older brother of the famous Hooves.............lol

Still learning all that I can afford, more or less... will play until they make me stop in the retirement home.

Chris

[2MinsToPost]

Sitting in a bar in Grove City Ohio talking to the guy next to me and he said why don't you come tomorrow, meet me over at such and such place. Hooked since. Made many friends at the track and the barns. Burned a lot of cash. Love every aspect of this game and crave information like mad. Love the stars of the show, the horses, like no other.

Originally Posted by 2MinsToPost

Sitting in a bar in Grove City Ohio talking to the guy next to me and he said why don't you come tomorrow, meet me over at such and such place. Hooked since. Made many friends at the track and the barns. Burned a lot of cash. Love every aspect of this game and crave information like mad. Love the stars of the show, the horses, like no other.

2Mins, where do you go when Beulah is closed?

[2MinsToPost]

Originally Posted by Blue Eyes

2Mins, where do you go when Beulah is closed?

I actually hang at Beulah thru the year. Facilities suck on the whole, but I know a lot of the cats their. I can be found at Scioto Downs from May thru September on many a Friday and or Saturday in Box 53. That is my box now baby, put a deposit down on it for the season next year. I have an online wagering account and prefer the creature comforts of home. I spend every Friday afternoon now at Beulah, simulcast hall lower level usually first table on the left. Ask Herb, he'll point you the way.

Hey Kyrosesinmay, my friend said he'll check to see if anyone has a exercise saddle for sale at the track.

I whored myself! and all it got me was a job hotwalking
at least in Hollywood I'd have a line on Law & Order

[ddthetide]

like so many others, my grandfather would sometimes take me to the track in the mornings, hagerstown fairgrounds. eventually closed but was used for a training facility and stables. horses would then ship to the OLD charles town
or the 3 baltimore tracks.
i would then follow the triple crown races but to me thats all there was to racing until i was much older.
after the internet got big i began to follow it again.
three years ago i spent opening fall weekend at keeneland and the following spring i went to CD for the kentucky oaks. that hooked me. even hooked my wife and she had NEVER been to a track.

[Sightseek]

So I think the solution to the lack of interest in racing is for all of us to have lots and lots of grandkids!

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

Originally Posted by Blue Eyes

Hey Kyrosesinmay, my friend said he'll check to see if anyone has a exercise saddle for sale at the track.

Thanks, I appreciate it...

[sumitas]

i loved watching the races on tv as a kid. and reading about them in the paper...kids really identify with the horses as only kids can. but the feeling always stayed with me...Carry Back was my hero.

[paisjpq]

I have been thinking about this since I saw this thread few days ago, I was amazed at myself because I couldn't remember how I got in to racing...sumitas just jogged my memory...
My very first exposure to racing was reading all of the walter farley books when I was in grade school...no one in my family had or has any interest in horse or racing...but I was bitten early.
My first trip to the track came @ age 11 (saratoga). First time sitting on a TB @ 13 (my best friend had one off the track named Buster Brown).
And it all went down hill from there, my mother is still trying to figure out where she went wrong. I told her it was that we had to drive past a horse farm on the way to my piano lessons when i was 5...