why we love the game....

[jrajf]

As teenagers we used to hop the fence at Suffolk (sometimes stoned sometimes not) and bet the few dollars we had in our pockets. The first time I bet, my buddy and I hit a 600.00 exacta on a two dollar bet. I was rich!! I went home and gave my mother a 50.00 bill and she whacked me in the head because she thought I was dealing drugs. Needless to say we hopped the fence a bunch more times and spent many a fall weekend in the grandstand with 20 bucks or whatever. Eventually fell in love with the problem solving aspect of it..then came Rockingham on Labor day with a morning card ..glorious and also back then Wonderland Park at night was as idyllic and nice a place to be on a warm summer night as I could find. Only 60 day meets ..it was nice enough to bring a date and impress her by going to the 6.00 combo window.

and today it keeps getting better..on my couch with a laptop and TVH/HRTV..multiple Saratoga trips each summer...with buddies..then with faamily then with golf buddies..horse racing remains the center..

just wish the game had more of a future..

[EpBurns]

I went to Bowie Race course when I was 9 years old to see a horse that my uncles friend trained he was running in a stakes race the trainer actually had a starter on belmont day this year his name is Leon Bluewiezs (sp?) well my uncle bet an exacta for me with Isella and another horse and Isella won the race and the exacta paid 172.00 and my uncle gave me all the money and I havent stopped betting the races or playing the horses since and now Im 45 so I have played the races for 34 years, now my uncle has his own just born Filly who he hopes can break her maiden in 2 years her father is Alfeet Alex now the mother is back in foaled to Discreet Cat so hopefully in the next few years my uncle will have bunch of winners for me........the mother is Ms. Diz she has thrown one winner fathered by birdstone and had trouble conceiving a few times with Johannsburg and Lion heart.