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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... and are you the type who yells at the jocks and calls all the horses by their numbers only or are you the quiet type
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I bitch at the tv and or computer A LOT. Even when I win or am winning. There is always something that annoys me.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... At the track, do you always hang out in the same area? Do you stay in one place or go to the paddock and the finish line, anywhere and everywhere?
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Depends what track. At Saratoga, I'm almost always at the video replay machines all day - doing trip notes for the races from the day prior in between betting. At PID, I'm almost always at my fathers table in the clubhouse - on the laptop.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... Do you drink? Drink too much? Eat? Get there early for workouts and stay all day? Leave after the big race?
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I lose my edge when I drink alchool. I become a lot less salty, focused, and bitchy - a lot more pleasant and less focused. I drink lots of pop. It keeps me edgy.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... Do you cap the night before or when you're there?
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If I'm not screwing around - I already have the work done by that point and it's about just adjusting to the odds and trying to determine the correct way to be the race.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... Do you have superstitions... a good luck charm of any kind?
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Not really a superstition - but whenever I get a real costly bad break I back off with my betting and try to be more careful. Your instincts are to get mad and start pressing and betting a lot more without thinking clear is how you get killed.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... Are you the type who smacks the form during the races and who barks out orders to the jocks?
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It depends. My favorite cheer is "come on with the juice!" ... I reserve that cheer only for when I'm betting horses solely based on a key trainer change.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... Do you bring your kids, your significant other or go with friends? Alone?
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My laptop. My father is there like the furnature - so I see him and a lot of the same other horseplayers a lot.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... How much does it annoy you when you're in line and the race is about to go off and the person in front of you has no clue what they're doing? Do you feel like you're going to have a heart attack, going to kill them, or both?
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I always buy a betting voucher because of this.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... When you make a great hit do you announce it to the people around you? Do you congratulate strangers if they're nearby and you know they nailed whatever race?
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I like to pretend to be pissed that the horse didn't win by a larger margin. The horse could be 40/1 and win by 5 lengths - and the margin of victory wasn't good enough for me. This goes over really well with other people who have to listen to it.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... Are you helpful to new-to-the-sport types or do you wish they would go the fuc* home?
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It depends. If they are hopeless I won't waste my time.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... Do you tip the tellers?
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As cheap as I am - and even though I bet on the computer and use vouchers - I still do. I mess around with the tellers all day. I know mostly all of them pretty well.
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
... Do you get dressed up at all? Go to the turf club? Hang with the lowlifes? Have a table at a restaurant for the day kinda thing?
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Couldn't care less what I look like. There's no hot girls up there to impress - other than a few waitress ... and after hearing me bitch at a computer screen and tv screen all day .. that would discourage anyone.
08-26-2010, 09:05 PM
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