What is the most irritating behavior DURING A RACE?
 

The smooching drives me nuts.

You can choose two or more behaviors.

Without a doubt, the asshole that yells "Drop dead three horse!", "Jump the rail!", "Fall off the horse Ortiz!".

With any luck he gets run over by the bus that he's waiting for once Los Al is done.

This is why living room downs is a blessing. You can take their money without having to take their BS

One behavior and one person in particular.


The behavior piece is the whole, "come on 1-4! 1-4! Ok 6-5! 6-5!"

Maybe the person had twenty different exacta combinations, but yelling out everyone of them drive me nuts.

The one person is this guy at the Borgata. He yells at the top of his lungs, "PUMP HIM! PUMP HIM!!!!" This goes on every, single, race. I actually plan my trips around days he isnt there.

The behavior of being so cock-sure you're riding a wiretowire winner that you have to keep looking back, over and over to show up the other riders......Biggest offender is Paco Lopez..:ThmbDown:

1)drop kicking the garbage can
2)the Jamaican connection at Aqueduct telling the jocks how bad they are doing
3)the guy who has every single trifecta combination except the one that just won...
4)the "I got this tip from the trainer who said this one can't lose"

Right where I was going to go. I hate that.

Smooching? What the heck are you talking about? Not hip obviously. Actual or other?!

I'd say rooting home single race 1-1's at astronomical volume levels other than the break a leg routine!:cool:

"Come on 1-6...come on 1-6"...the moron screams as the horses near the wire. The race ends up 3-4...and he turns to his friend and says..."I still got it, but not for as much as I had the 1-6".

Kissing sound = Smooching

And there's also the guy next to you telling you "You got it", "You Got it" at the top of the stretch.

Oh man that is hideousness! I am guilty of the latter on occasion. But only at 5-1 or better!

just had one of those at MP last Saturday my pick was up by 8 in the stretch and got nipped at the wire after the guy next to me kept saying you got it you got it...even after the replay he said you got it....

the people who say they had it but really don't...the people who wish misfortune "break a leg"

look on the bright side, these are people that would be molesting small animals if not for the distraction of horse betting.

There is always a guy at the track I call the jinx rooter. If he starts yelling for a horse and it is the same horse you bet on, you can tear up your tickets before they cross the finish line.

The person who keeps yelling out their horse number ("C'mon with that 6!") even though it's obvious the horse will lose badly and keeps fading back in the stretch and comes in last or near last and they still keep yelling out its number as it nears the finish line. They have no idea how to judge time or distance and do it every race. Usually done by noobs.

Smoochers lead in Twitter Poll. Can only use 4 responses. 350 Votes.

14%Finger Snappers
34%Smoochers
22%Whipping self with DRF
30%"Just One Time"

I'm guilty of saying "one time". Just as a holdem player looking for a card "on the river', I have used my "one time " with a horse coming down the stretch a thousand times.

I can deal, and often enjoy, most everything except unfiltered swearing and/or throwing things.

For the record I punched a guy in the bathroom circa 1998 about the "break a leg" thing.

If you are reading this and you were that guy=you deserved it asshole! LOL!:lol:

He probably posts here.:lol:

+1

guy at Hastings racebook would always be yelling "beat the chalk" - that wasn't bad, the worst would be when he would be yelling "fall on your head Russell" (for Baze), or "fall on your head Ramon" :(

That guy that points out to you in his black and white program what he missed about the winner after every race. I know it isn't during the race, but it is always right after the wire.

"stop the race"....when they are at the 1/2 mile pole

Other wins the top spot- "Stop the race" drives me nuts for some reason- but they're all obnoxious when done loudly.

The whipping never bothered me much. A few years ago Haskell Day at Monmouth, and of course we were playing Saratoga too. Large throng gathered underneath the first mutuel bay in the picnic area. I have the 12 in a two-turn grass affair and he's a decent price and coming from way back, but you could see he was rolling and had a chance. It's 2pm on Haskell Day so I have a few in me at this point. I started the rythmic whipping but into my palm at the 3/16ths and started saying "come on with the 12" which I repeated 5 or 6 times whilst whipping. He wins of course (otherwise there's no story) and some guy turns around and says "that was the best display of racetrack cheering I've ever seen."

Which brings me to my point- why do people cheer like that esp the simulcast crowd? They only do it when they know they have a big shot so all the other players know they won! Yes, I was the a-hole!

Boy it is amazing we go to different tracks but the stupid comments/people
are the same!!!

I used to be really bothered by the "break a leg" or insulting
the jockeys stuff when I was a kid.

I went home almost in tears if one of my local favorite horses
had a fatal breakdown.

As I got older I really came to understand that in order to win it takes
morons to bet into the pools. This took my anger out of it though I still
don't like it.

The ones I really don't understand are the "every race is fixed" but
they handicap the next race for who they think is the best horse???
Why do they bother its all fixed??

I never rooted for a horse to die or injure itself but when another horse accosts mine I am frequently guilty of rooting for him to go "back to the barn (#)."

in my prime I developed a vicious finger snap where my arm and hand would shake violently after the snap. I did this to honor the finger snappers.

in this poll I did vote for "one time." I always found this to be very unbecoming of supposedly mature horseplayers collecting social security.

a lot of the guys I play with get quite irritated with the people around them...as a craps dealer I know people are always looking to blame their losses on somebody or something that happens around them.

I guess I'm insulated from this because nothing anybody does bothers me.

Not yet mentioned....
 

Great thread!

Not yet mentioned (and it's more between races, not during) is the "Hey, can you place a bet for me?" guy...

As the "responsible" one in our older peer group I seem to be the only one with a Twinspires account. I constantly get asked to make bets for people both at the track (if the lines are long) or at home while we watch TVG. ("Wait , you can bet FROM YOUR PHONE?" :eek:)

* I gotta run to the car, can you place a bet for me?
* I'm stuck at work, can you place a bet for me?
* I'm out of money, can you place a bet for me?
* I have a hunch on today's race, and can't get to OTB , can you place a bet for me?
* Oh, its derby day, and this one horse has my Aunts name, can you place a bet for me?


Understandably the 20 somethings of the group all have and responsibly manage their own ADW accounts...

Further, I score a sliding scale of allowable celebration on calling home winners.

You should urge home a 2/1 favorite at Penn National with a simple smile....

However, if you are on a 18/1 that is in lockstep with the chalk coming to the wire, feel free to slap on that DRF all you want! :D

Pounding the bar or table with your fist.

I only bet at OTB so I literally have seen or heard all of these comments.

One guy who called for 20 combinations during a race got the nickname

" Call em all". Still comes in and us old timers only know him by that name.

Another guy at the top of the backstretch will yell TAKE THE PICTURE NOW.

Pisses everybody off. One guy will literally stand under the overhanging

tvs and yell Where's the wire or pick up your feet for the entire 1.55 of a

a sulky race in a high pitched voice. It kinda makes me laugh while I'm

writing this but it sure is aggrevating while the race is going on.

I love the guys who scream at the top of their lungs while watching a race and rooting for their horses and then when their horse(s) are out of the race they yell for your horse to get beat. Ha ha though I am not a yeller, I have seen this number take place a bunch of times through out the years. hey, if they aren't going to win the race they don't want you to win either. LOL

Commenting during the race on how things are unfolding. As if I care what someone else's take is on what we are watching.

And don't talk to me during the race, or launch into a story as they are loading. If you're watching a horserace with me, unload your fidgety, self-doubting nervousness in some other manner.

Yeah, like post on PA!

We have a older gentleman at our track who love's to yell loudly for his best bet of the day, usually it will be 1-9 and he has wagered a whole $1.00 on this horse. And then cusses loudly if it does not win.

There was some guy at mnr who specialized in big win bets on 1/5 locks. A rude, dismissive moron who would dash around the grandstand after a winner screaming "I'm so happy for me... SOOOO happy for me,,so happy for ME."

He owned a bakery and , believe it or not (you can't make this stuff up), ended up falling into a huge oven and getting crisped.

When I heard about it, I was happy for me.

Yea, sorry...Guilty as charged.

I have found ,myself doing this, but only to explain to a noob I have with me what the "pace" setup is...

If we are on a closer, and they run the first 1/4 in 21 , I will (quickly) explain why this might be good for us, even though we are running dead last... :)

Point taken though...

I'll try to be a reformed offender :D

I don't mind a guy whipping his hip with his program, but I hate it he whips MINE~!

I hate it when my jock is drinking a coffee during the race.

All of this makes me want to go back to Parx and experience all of this again....okay, i'm over it, I'm fine.

:lol::lol: