10 lb Bug Wins w/ His First Mount Ever

[Ian Meyers]

6th race @ TAM Mike Straight wins @ 26-1 with his first career mount. I understand the kid's a graduate of McCarron's school and has been riding in trial races for a while. Congrats to him.

Didn't have one nickel of my money but he looked good out there. :)

[rokitman]

He should quit right now at #1 in career ROI. ;)

[swami13]

I hear the kid's a pretty straight shooter. :)

[samyn on the green]

Around this same time Andria Terril won her first race at (http://drf.com/drfPDFChartRacesIndexAction.do?TRK=AQU&CTY=USA&DATE=20090306&RN=5) The Big-A and paid paid $131.

[Brogan]

I understand the kid's a graduate of McCarron's school and has been riding in trial races for a while.

What's a trial race???

[Ian Meyers]

They've got some non-betting (trial) races in SC (Aiken) and LA (FG and EVD) and I think some small fair circuits. I wouldn't have known that myself. Richard Grunder told me that before the races today.

[Pace Cap'n]

Don't know if they still do this, but years ago at Remington, in order to run in a real race, a first-time-starter needed a certain amount of gate training, and to have run in what they called a training race. These races were held in the AM out of view of the general public.

At the time they had a recap show on every evening, and sometimes they would speak of horses who had done well in their training race. That was often some good info to have.

[JustRalph]

fairgrounds or LA downs used to run full blown "training races" no betting etc.........in the mornings if I remember right...........

I used to watch the replays on some website a few years back. I actually caught one nice price out of watching those races........ I forget what horse.......out of AP Indy if I remember right..........went on to some slight notoriety I believe..........

[jotb]

Around this same time Andria Terril won her first race at (http://drf.com/drfPDFChartRacesIndexAction.do?TRK=AQU&CTY=USA&DATE=20090306&RN=5) The Big-A and paid paid $131.

This result chart from the drf is wrong. It shows the winner was 24 lengths behind at the stretch call.

Joe

[phatbastard]

ummm.....that means winner was 6th....24 lengths in front of next hoss....

[ezrabrooks]

ummm.....that means winner was 6th....24 lengths in front of next hoss....

Some things never cease to amaze me....

Ez

[jotb]

My mistake....Sorry

[jballscalls]

read on another site that the kid stood up before the wire!! get on your belly young man!!