Owner Silks

[Muddy]

Why don't other tracks do like Fonner Park does? They have the jockeys silks and helmet match the saddle pad? IE :5: green It makes it a lot easier to follow your horse during a race. Is it because of tradition?

[airford1]

My silks are Blue and white and if I couldn't afford silks I would race at Fonner Park. Now that I think about it, it would be cheaper for fans to get glasses to see their wage run.

[v j stauffer]

Why don't other tracks do like Fonner Park does? They have the jockeys silks and helmet match the saddle pad? IE :5: green It makes it a lot easier to follow your horse during a race. Is it because of tradition?

It's entirely about tradition. Think of all the great colors over the years. Claiborne's yellow. Calumet and Ogden Phipps black. Juddmonte's and the Moss's light blue and pink. So many others.

Imagine if Secretariat had three different colors from his Triple Crown races?

"House" colors are also not the friend of an announcer. Makes race calling much much tougher.

[Hambletonian]

Why don't other tracks do like Fonner Park does? They have the jockeys silks and helmet match the saddle pad? IE :5: green It makes it a lot easier to follow your horse during a race. Is it because of tradition?

It's a county fair thing. Folks who pay tens of thousands of dollars to race a horse typically want to see it in their silks, regardless of how inconvenient it is for fans. Also keep in mind that on a bull ring it is easy to see the silks... and since the races are generally 8 or less horses, they can keep the silks relatively distinguishable from each other.

[Muddy]

My silks are Blue and white and if I couldn't afford silks I would race at Fonner Park. Wow! That response doesn't sound snooty at all. :D

[Muddy]

It's entirely about tradition. Think of all the great colors over the years. Claiborne's yellow. Calumet and Ogden Phipps black. Juddmonte's and the Moss's light blue and pink. So many others.

Imagine if Secretariat had three different colors from his Triple Crown races?

"House" colors are also not the friend of an announcer. Makes race calling much much tougher.Thanks VJS.

[Clocker]

"House" colors are also not the friend of an announcer. Makes race calling much much tougher.


Are the jockey helmet colors ever of any help in calling a race, especially if a number of horses are in a tight bunch?

[airford1]

Wow! That response doesn't sound snooty at all. :D

I can remember calling the trainer out for putting his blinkers on our horse. He told me that my horse's head was too big for the stables blinkers and he thought the reason was because my Gelding had a lot of Mule in his Blood. Love this game

[Suff]

It bends around, this about half of it.
https://i.ibb.co/LDyCzNp/P0001532.jpg (https://ibb.co/sp4FvW3)

[Elkchester Road]

It bends around, this about half of it.
https://i.ibb.co/LDyCzNp/P0001532.jpg (https://ibb.co/sp4FvW3)



Awesome photo, Suff. Thank you. :)

[PhantomOnTour]

It bends around, this about half of it.
https://i.ibb.co/LDyCzNp/P0001532.jpg (https://ibb.co/sp4FvW3)



Looks like he's holding the colors of Dogwood Stable...boy do I miss those silks, esp at Saratoga

[v j stauffer]

Are the jockey helmet colors ever of any help in calling a race, especially if a number of horses are in a tight bunch?

A massive help. This year for our graded Stakes at OP in which we use the same color saddle cloths. I memorized the entire fields using two sources. Silks only. And caps only.

Announcers only use saddle cloths if were in trouble. But they do help confirm when two sets of silks look very similar.

[HHE10]

Mountaineer is the same was as Fonner with the colours.

All the silks match the saddle pad number

:1: is red so of course it’s going to be red

[devilsbag]

It bends around, this about half of it.





It looks like you accidentally included the caption you use when sending nudes.

[Suff]

It looks like you accidentally included the caption you use when sending nudes.

:lol:

Stop sending nudes was # 12 on my list of reasons to stop drinking.