I have a general rant about how people view horse racing

[gIracing]

How come everytime you see some reference to Horse Racing in TV or a movie (with the exectpion of let it ride), you see some guy either not having a clue what he is doing, or a guy putting his life savings on his horse, only to loose it all by a nose? The guy is labled a degenerate and a loser.

I was watching Footballers Wives on BBC America, and one of the guys placed a 200k bet on a horse he owned... which off the bat I knew was a little too extravagant for a middle of the week wager on a regular non steaks race.

And what happens?

The hrose comes down the stretch, only to fall, and make the footballer a loser, as are all people who have the never to think horse racing is nothing but pure luck:eek:

[cnollfan]

Virtually no fictional horse races are won wire to wire. Some horse on the outside usually flies by the others like they are standing still, often two or three times in the same race.

[Edward DeVere]

How come everytime you see some reference to Horse Racing in TV or a movie (with the exectpion of let it ride), you see some guy either not having a clue what he is doing, or a guy putting his life savings on his horse, only to loose it all by a nose? The guy is labled a degenerate and a loser.

I was watching Footballers Wives on BBC America, and one of the guys placed a 200k bet on a horse he owned... which off the bat I knew was a little too extravagant for a middle of the week wager on a regular non steaks race.

And what happens?

The hrose comes down the stretch, only to fall, and make the footballer a loser, as are all people who have the never to think horse racing is nothing but pure luck:eek:

Plus, they always depict racing fans as people who can't spell, and make frequent typos! I hate that!

[JustRalph]

for a middle of the week wager on a regular non steaks race.

Stakes!!!!

[gIracing]

I type about 90 WPM and didn't catch it... sorry I have to 100% gramatically correct or my post should be deleted:bang:

[JustRalph]

When you use "Steaks" it always conjures up something else in my head. See the thread on horse meat............. :ThmbDown:

[kenwoodallpromos]

If you can type 90 Words Per Mistake you are doing better than me!LOL!!
Horse players are always seen in a negative light because they have no union or lobby.

[Zman179]

I'm your typical horseplayer, I can lose 90 dollars per minute.

[Tom]

Stakes!!!!

Maybe not.....Dick Schmidt is talking about horse steaks in another thread!:lol:

[Ron]

I'm still trying to figure out why gIracing was watching Footballers Wives.

[alysheba88]

Reality and Hollywood do not go hand in hand

[JustRalph]

I'm still trying to figure out why gIracing was watching Footballers Wives.

For the Cheeky Babes!!!

[ranchwest]

I'm still trying to figure out why gIracing was watching Footballers Wives.

Distaff.

[Loserdave]

I think the reason horse racing fans are portrayed that way is because the people writing the scripts don't actually understand it. And to be honest when I go to the track I see lots of clueless people. Most people I tell that I like horse racing have some sort of misperception about it. They tend to think I'm a degenerate gambler(I'm really just a degenerate) and many choose to enlighten me "Well you know that that is all fixed don't you." I just nod my head. I don't bother trying to explain things to people. But I can see how script writers who probably don't understand it themselves think that gamblers are a bunch of clueless idiots and that all racing is as fixed as wrestling.