Public Thank You to PA [Archive] - Horse Racing Forum - PaceAdvantage.Com

Dave Schwartz

03-18-2011, 12:42 PM

PA,

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your tireless efforts in making PaceAdvantage.com the absolute best website for horseplayers anywhere.

I have been a member here since I do not know when - although I bet YOU do. It has become my "horse racing home." The people I have met because of your efforts have truly molded and shaped the course of my life.

Thank you, PA.

Regards,
Dave Schwartz

Jay Trotter

03-18-2011, 01:58 PM

I'll second Dave's sentiments.

This is absolutely the best place to hang your handicapping hat and call home.

I too, have connected with a fair number of outstanding individuals, Dave Schwartz among them. :ThmbUp:

Thanks Mike for providing the opportunity and for letting me be a small part of it.

Trotter:ThmbUp::ThmbUp::ThmbUp:

Tom

03-18-2011, 02:03 PM

What they said.
Dittos.
:ThmbUp:

RaceBookJoe

03-18-2011, 02:08 PM

Agree 100% !!!! rbj

tzipi

03-18-2011, 02:11 PM

I agree 100% :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:

Spiderman

03-18-2011, 02:22 PM

Well . . . would like to suggest a change: General Topics should not appear intermingled with horse racing. Make General Topics a separate component.

cj's dad

03-18-2011, 02:34 PM

Well . . . would like to suggest a change: General Topics should not appear intermingled with horse racing. Make General Topics a separate component.

What ??

Greyfox

03-18-2011, 02:42 PM

Excellent site that I try to check in on several times a day.

Attention: D.S. Right or wrong, but the record shows your join date as:

Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Reno, NV

Skanoochies

03-18-2011, 02:44 PM

Excellant site. It`s a pleasure to be part of this place.

Thanks P.A. :) :ThmbUp:

Dave Schwartz

03-18-2011, 02:50 PM

Foxie,

There were several incarnations of this forum BEFORE that date. I am guessing that it is like 1994 or 1995.

I look forward to PA's answer to THAT one.

Dave

BillW

03-18-2011, 02:56 PM

Foxie,

There were several incarnations of this forum BEFORE that date. I am guessing that it is like 1994 or 1995.

I look forward to PA's answer to THAT one.

Dave

Sounds like a job for the wayback machine :)

DJofSD

03-18-2011, 02:57 PM

It's almost spring time and it appears love is in the air.

Greyfox

03-18-2011, 02:59 PM

Foxie,

There were several incarnations of this forum BEFORE that date. I am guessing that it is like 1994 or 1995.

I look forward to PA's answer to THAT one.

Dave

If I were PA, I'd say:
"Sorry. You're pensionable service starts from 2001. If you want credit for previous time served you'll have to buy back those earlier years." :D

Greyfox

Tom

03-18-2011, 03:41 PM

Some very nice stuff was lost.......damn!

Beachbabe

03-18-2011, 07:27 PM

As a relative newbie, I'd like to second the thoughts and expressions of both Dave and Jay. There is more worthwhile, informative, interesting posts on this forum in one day than there are in most other "Racing" forums in a month.
It's people like Dave & Jay and many others that make this place the best Horseracing forum around.
Thanks, PA for a really great place .

PaceAdvantage

03-18-2011, 07:34 PM

Actually, it was 1999....July 1999

Thanks to Dave and everyone else for their kind words, but my birthday isn't for six days... :lol:

Foxie,

There were several incarnations of this forum BEFORE that date. I am guessing that it is like 1994 or 1995.

I look forward to PA's answer to THAT one.

Dave

JustRalph

03-19-2011, 01:02 AM

are there archives of the prodigy service anywhere?

PaceAdvantage

03-19-2011, 01:13 AM

are there archives of the prodigy service anywhere?No, but there are archives of PA back then...

http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://www.paceadvantage.com

You used to be able to click on some of the posts from 1999 and read them...now it just returns errors....

ElKabong

03-19-2011, 02:54 AM

i think my first posting on here was around Xmas 1999. Still the best racing board,

Dave Schwartz

03-19-2011, 11:30 AM

Thanks to Dave and everyone else for their kind words, but my birthday isn't for six days...

Well, heck... never mind until then.

joanied

03-19-2011, 11:56 AM

Must be some good reasons I'm still here...one is, never a dull moment at Pace Advantage;)

Mike...HAPPY :jump: BIRTHDAY in advance...what's a few days!!

CryingForTheHorses

03-19-2011, 03:08 PM

Yes this is a great site with a Monkey Man being our top poster.Thanks PA and Happy Birthday to you in advance

domino1891

03-19-2011, 04:46 PM

No, but there are archives of PA back then...

http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://www.paceadvantage.com

You used to be able to click on some of the posts from 1999 and read them...now it just returns errors....

Lots of dead ends,but this caught my eye:

Weekly Poll
9/16/99

Do you think Pat Valenzuela deserves another chance to be a jockey?
Yes, I think if he's sincere in his desire to come back, he should get the chance.
No, he's had way too many chances already, no matter if he's a changed man
I'm not sure.

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19991013114726/http://paceadvantage.com/

I'm mostly a lurker, but appreciate the site......thanks!

JimG

03-19-2011, 04:54 PM

I could not read messages, but did find some interesting topic starters by members, both past and present from back in the day.

JimG

03-19-2011, 04:56 PM

are there archives of the prodigy service anywhere?

I wish there was. We had some great horse racing discussions back then. People were more on point and more civil to one another as real names only were used back then.

Jim

PaceAdvantage

03-19-2011, 07:38 PM

I wish there was. We had some great horse racing discussions back then. People were more on point and more civil to one another as real names only were used back then.

JimThere were a few loose cannons back then too if I remember... :lol:

Helles

03-20-2011, 01:23 AM

I discovered PA about four years ago. Prior to that, I was really studying handicapping in a vacuum. I come from the greyhounds and I had several handicapping buddies to bounce ideas off and to watch races on the net with.

When I decided to switch to thoroughbreds, I didn't know anybody in the game. I've learned a lot lurking on PA and I finally registered awhile back.

I would say PA is directly responsible for the direction my handicapping has taken because without PA, I never would have met the thread-starter Dave Schwartz.

Now I just have to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing. (insert chuckle here)

So let me add my thanks to the list above. "Thank You PA."

Doug

bigmack

03-20-2011, 07:02 AM

Been learning After Effects and threw togetha a little ditty in homage to this joint. Ain't happy with it but it is what it is.

JEDSCuIyLBc

Jay Trotter

03-20-2011, 11:45 AM

That's pretty awesome Bigmack!

CincyHorseplayer

03-20-2011, 04:14 PM

This place is irreplaceable.I thought I discovered gold when I found this place!Seriously,it stinks to be knee deep in this game with nobody to talk to about it.This place fills that void.That was good enough for me then and it is now.But you add in all the contacts and flow of information on this board and wow,what an asset.I need to get out more and meet up with some of you though.I'm sure it'd be a blast.

PaceAdvantage

03-20-2011, 04:19 PM

Been learning After Effects and threw togetha a little ditty in homage to this joint. Ain't happy with it but it is what it is.

JEDSCuIyLBcThat was funny...except for the part about me not following the TOS... :lol:

bigmack

03-20-2011, 08:49 PM

That was funny...except for the part about me not following the TOS... :lol:
Oh come on, cut me some slack. I slid the Holy Bull footage in for you.

In my haste, I clipped off the Beyer footage.

Music was between the whistled light and the intro to The Who's - Eminence Front.

Woolgathering, I'm thinking Helter Skelter would have been apropos.