Horse Racing and Hollywood

[Horseplayersbet.com]

Since there are quite a few movies/sitcom episodes and scenes available at Youtube, a thread dedicated to these might be kind of neat.

For starters, Abbott and Costello Bet On The Horses
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[Racetrack Playa]

Funny Clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_1wwaG2CM
STEVE BRADY

[cutchemist42]

I know Seinfeld has had a few references to it in the show. Kramer making a big hit on a longshot is one of them.

[BettinBilly]

From "The Odd Couple" Episode 108 "Felix the Horseplayer", one of my favorite episodes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B49fsvFLvc8

[Robert Goren]

Sadly this is all long ago. We don't get movies or TV shows about going to the track anymore because Hollywood now plays poker.

[goatchaser]

I know Seinfeld has had a few references to it in the show. Kramer making a big hit on a longshot is one of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L3KU5eiEBo

[elhelmete]

Nothing will beat this one for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RviRADnyFPs

[goatchaser]

I don't know why I found this one so funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBKgsu-35Pg

[jk3521]

Nothing will beat this one for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RviRADnyFPs

Chico was an original founder of RPM Handicapping Giant! :D

[OTM Al]

Sadly this is all long ago. We don't get movies or TV shows about going to the track anymore because Hollywood now plays poker.

Is it?

http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/releases/view?id=38614

I don't watch the show but it's been on for a couple years so must have some audience. Also remember a few Law and Order episodes from a few years back where detectives Brisco and Greene were discussing playing the horses.

[thaskalos]

From "The Odd Couple" Episode 108 "Felix the Horseplayer", one of my favorite episodes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B49fsvFLvc8

It's amazing how well this show has held up over time. One of my all-time favorites! :ThmbUp:

[elhelmete]

Chico was an original founder of RPM Handicapping Giant! :D

Can you imagine how terrific it would be to spend a day at the track with Chico??

Somewhere in Harpo's autobiography, "Harpo Speaks," he tells the story of how the studio had to keep the set locked up during filming of a Marx Bros. film so that Chico wouldn't disappear mid-day to go to the races. Gonna try and find that passage tonight.

[jk3521]

http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_mentalist/episodes/48889

[cutchemist42]

I also remember one of the few episodes I watched of New Girl featured one of the character's sleazy dads buying a racehorse and trying to sell it off to gangsters. Don't know if actually filmed at Santa Anita or simply a sign was put up.

http://www.spoilersguide.com//wp-content/gallery/new-girl-season-2-episode-13/ng_s2ep13-8.jpg

[Horseplayersbet.com]

Regarding the Abbott and Costello short, I got a smirk when the bookie wouldn't take a $1 bet. That was either the late 40's or early 50's, when $1 was worth around $9 in today's money.

[cutchemist42]

GF was watching the Bachlorette and told me to come watch, they were at Santa Anita on a date. I could only stomach 1 minute of the show. :bang:

[Redboard]

Wife and I are watching the entire series of Perry Mason episodes. We are on season 2. In season 2, episode 8, "The Case of the Jilted Jockey", is about a star race horse who loses a big race, because he was drugged. Who did it, the jockey or the groom? Perry lost $2 on him, and also Stella and (of course) Paul Drake. Shows Hollywood park with large crowds. Those were the days, eh?

[QuarterCrack]

The Three Stooges - "Playing the Ponies"...
Who can forget Thunderbolt eating the hot peppers :)

This is a (very well done) colorized version of the original:
http://vimeo.com/37180242

Anyone know where the racing scenes were filmed? Caliente maybe, or Santa Anita?

[RaceBookJoe]

In at least 2 episodes of 2 1/2 Men, you will see Charlie Sheen's character with either DRF and one with the Todays Racing Digest. Also an episode where he takes his nephew to the track.

[bello]

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/400254/So-You-Want-to-Play-the-Horses/

I saw this on TCM once and cannot find it anywhere else. Called " so you want to play the horses" If anyone can retrieve it, it would be worth the effort.

[kinznk]

On the right track starring Gary Coleman

I don't recall much of the movie but he made race predictions. As a kid I would move the pieces around the track of my APBA Saddle Racing game using the names of fictional horses from the movie to practice my race calling.

[thespaah]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RviRADnyFPs

[thespaah]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PLSyFzk-6g

[JustRalph]

http://youtu.be/glmdhH3aOug

Go to 1:35 in the video and listen to the greatest horse racing double entendre in the history of Hollywood.

This is the colorized version that looks like crap.

Bogey and Bacall in the Big Sleep. In the film Bogey has horse racing pics all over his private detective office. One of my favs

[Aner]

''the racetrack prominently featured in 1937's
"Playing the Ponies" was located on land that is now
Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills!''

http://www.amazon.com/review/R23NXMB8JIU27Zhttp://

" 6300 Forest Lawn Drive (Burbank) "
The Three Stooges: Hollywood Filming Locations

[bello]

http://youtu.be/glmdhH3aOug

Go to 1:35 in the video and listen to the greatest horse racing double entendre in the history of Hollywood.

This is the colorized version that looks like crap.

Bogey and Bacall in the Big Sleep. In the film Bogey has horse racing pics all over his private detective office. One of my favs

Great catch Ralphie Boy...I seen the movie a number of times and never quite heard the dialogue the way I just did after you pointed out the word play...Classic!