Advice for first time vistors to the track.

[Capper Al]

Always bet on the horse with the longest nose. They'll win the photo.
Always bet on any horse with blue in the name.
The jockey is the one on top most of the time.
These are a few things to tell your friends who are at the track for the first time with you. Please add to list. Thanks.

[Canarsie]

It's for the dog track but always bet on the dog that takes a dump. :eek:

[Dan Montilion]

Go to the Clubhouse...

[appistappis]

always bet the grey horse in the slop.

[thaskalos]

If the teller gives you the wrong horse by mistake, always keep the ticket instead of canceling it...because it's guaranteed to be a winner.

[Grits]

If at Saratoga, have the Lobster roll for lunch.

If it calls for a chance of thunderstorms, bring your hip waders. Fly fishing may be an option before the afternoon is over--like yesterday.:rolleyes:

[BombsAway Bob]

Always bet on the horse with the longest nose. They'll win the photo.
Always bet on any horse with blue in the name.
The jockey is the one on top most of the time.
These are a few things to tell your friends who are at the track for the first time with you. Please add to list. Thanks.
1) if you can't afford to tip track workers,
you can't afford to bet either!
2)ALWAYS get there early enough to bet the Daily Double.
You Can bet your Address (i.e.-16 Peters Dr. is a 1-6 DD.)
3)Box your Birth Year/Wedding Year/Graduation Year in a
Ten-Cent Super Box whenever option is available. =$2.40
(of course, i live on 100 Easy Goer Drive,
was born in 1959, graduated in 1977, & i'm Single,
so those last gimmick gambles are of no use to me)

[Robert Goren]

Always bet horses with braided manes

If there is a woman dressed like she is going to get her picture taken standing in a paddock stall, bet that that horse.

[Capper Al]

How can the newbies go wrong with advice like this. LOL!

[Casino]

Wear headphones ,tunes out all the bullshit.

[Irish Boy]

If at Saratoga, have the Lobster roll for lunch.
No, no, no, no, no. Hattie's, day, night, and everything in between.

[DigitalDownsJoe]

Find someone who works in the stalls and sprinkle peanuts in all the stalls but the horse you are going to bet..Works everytime! :cool:

[arno]

Advice for a newbie

When rooting for your horse don't yell the number or the name of the horse.

Yell the jockey's/driver's first name like you know who it is.

Cmon Ramon, thata way Calvin, whip him lefty Jersey Joe, you got him measured Herve.

[Stillriledup]

Advice for a newbie

When rooting for your horse don't yell the number or the name of the horse.

Yell the jockey's/driver's first name like you know who it is.

Cmon Ramon, thata way Calvin, whip him lefty Jersey Joe, you got him measured Herve.


This is good, people who cheer for the number or name of the horse expose themselves as people who don't go very often. (but, maybe thats a GOOD thing~!)

I think that if your horse is hanging on the incorrect lead you can yell for the horse to SWITCH. I've gone to the 'get him to switch' calls on occasion.

[Stillriledup]

1) if you can't afford to tip track workers,
you can't afford to bet either!
2)ALWAYS get there early enough to bet the Daily Double.
You Can bet your Address (i.e.-16 Peters Dr. is a 1-6 DD.)
3)Box your Birth Year/Wedding Year/Graduation Year in a
Ten-Cent Super Box whenever option is available. =$2.40
(of course, i live on 100 Easy Goer Drive,
was born in 1959, graduated in 1977, & i'm Single,
so those last gimmick gambles are of no use to me)

I disagree with #1, not affording other expenses actually GETS you to afford to be able to bet. If you're out there tipping every Tom, Dick and Dexter in the free world, you can run out of money!

[Producer]

Bring whatever your willing to spend in CASH and leave your debit/credit cards at home.

[Grits]

No, no, no, no, no. Hattie's, day, night, and everything in between.

Irish, I live in the South, I've been eating fried chicken, as good as, and better even, than Hattie's all my life. Promise.

[pondman]

A show ticket is a winner... if the horse comes in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.

[Irish Boy]

Irish, I live in the South, I've been eating fried chicken, as good as, and better even, than Hattie's all my life. Promise.

I think urban centers have been doing fried chicken better than the south for a while now. BBQ, you need to get south of the Mason/Dixon line. Fried chicken is more universal.

[Tape Reader]

Have no allegiances.

[5k-claim]

My family all went to The Red Mile harness track here in Lexington last weekend and I was able to corru....er... introduce my niece who is in first grade to betting. (Ironically enough since I rarely bet.)

She really got into it. Even taking a pencil out and having me tell her who was in front at various points of the race so she could (....more or less) write the numbers down at the bottom of her program. Even better, at one point just before a race started one of my other nieces tried to give her a hug, and she turned her cousin away and said, "Look, I love you- but you can't hug me right now... I have to focus!" (Not bad for a first-grader.)

Anyway, she won Race 3 and had the biggest smile on her face- skipping back to the rest of the family really excited. As it turned out she had won just enough money for an ice cream cone. My brother (her dad) told her that she could either buy the ice cream or bet the money back on the next race.

She looked at me as the family "expert". Looking down at her face, I gave her the only advice that I possibly could: go and get the ice cream cone.

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[Capper Al]

My family all went to The Red Mile harness track here in Lexington last weekend and I was able to corru....er... introduce my niece who is in first grade to betting. (Ironically enough since I rarely bet.)

She really got into it. Even taking a pencil out and having me tell her who was in front at various points of the race so she could (....more or less) write the numbers down at the bottom of her program. Even better, at one point just before a race started one of my other nieces tried to give her a hug, and she turned her cousin away and said, "Look, I love you- but you can't hug me right now... I have to focus!" (Not bad for a first-grader.)

Anyway, she won Race 3 and had the biggest smile on her face- skipping back to the rest of the family really excited. As it turned out she had won just enough money for an ice cream cone. My brother (her dad) told her that she could either buy the ice cream or bet the money back on the next race.

She looked at me as the family "expert". Looking down at her face, I gave her the only advice that I possibly could: go and get the ice cream cone.

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Good Advice!

[ranchwest]

Watch "Let It Ride". Learn to ask everyone who they're betting and mark out all of their choices. Don't forget to ask about the pick of the brother in Cleveland.

[sonnyp]

Irish, I live in the South, I've been eating fried chicken, as good as, and better even, than Hattie's all my life. Promise.


when hattie, herself, was sitting under the tree selling "her" fried chicken and corn on the cobb it was great. the "yuppie" granddaughter ? i'll pass.

[judd]

Watch "Let It Ride". Learn to ask everyone who they're betting and mark out all of their choices. Don't forget to ask about the pick of the brother in Cleveland.

dont watch the gambler (with james cann)

[sonnyp]

dont watch the gambler (with james cann)


now that's an accurate portrayal of gambling.

2 scenes:

he's in the bathtub listening to the lakers. jerry west shooting 3 to make 2. he needs him to make 1. 0 for 3.

big, big leads in the college basketball games at half. "they're over" as he goes out celebrating. bookmaker wakes him up to collect next day. "what, they blew ? those fags from brown came back ?"

one more:

after begging his doctor mother to give him the money for the bookmaker and swearing never to do it again, he can't even make it home. stops at a pay phone to get the line.

sick, but accurate.

[judd]

now that's an accurate portrayal of gambling.

2 scenes:

he's in the bathtub listening to the lakers. jerry west shooting 3 to make 2. he needs him to make 1. 0 for 3.

big, big leads in the college basketball games at half. "they're over" as he goes out celebrating. bookmaker wakes him up to collect next day. "what, they blew ? those fags from brown came back ?"

one more:

after begging his doctor mother to give him the money for the bookmaker and swearing never to do it again, he can't even make it home. stops at a pay phone to get the line.

sick, but accurate. he stopped to bet harvard (college hoops)

[Blenheim]

Get to the rail at the top of the stretch and watch em' kick up dirt, listen to em' pop the whips and feel the thunder of the hoofs . . . always bet the blue.

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[Shemp Howard]

A good jockey, a good horse, a good bet.

[CincyHorseplayer]

Handicap before you get there and be around the horses as often as possible on race day.

Get a pair of binoculars and watch your own race and how it unfolds.

Bet nothing on what doesn't move you and more on what does.

Don't get drunk til afterwards.

If a tough beat is wrecking your mentality,don't get a shot or take prescription medication,self serve in the john and then go about your business.It works.

Find the humor in a bad beat so you don't become that bitter in defeat psycho witnessed daily at hippodromes around the world.

Enjoy the experience.

Get your brain into it.

Find the gratitude and rush of winning.

And have a sense of humor about some of my suggestions!!:cool:

[Uncle Salty]

Get to the rail at the top of the stretch and watch em' kick up dirt, listen to em' pop the whips and feel the thunder of the hoofs . . . always bet the blue.

If you bet the blue, always bet the green with it.

[raybo]

A good jockey, a good horse, a good bet.

Amen, Pittsburgh Phil!