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High school friend (Larry Collmus) tried talking me into going for a while, was never interested. Finally one day I bit and we went to Bowie. My first race we watched from the announcer's booth. It was Dick Wooley at the time. Had no idea what I was doing of course. Dick mentioned that a trainer in the race, Odie Clelland, was great with first time starters. This was way before trainer stats or anything like that. Not knowing any better, I put $5 to win (a fortune for me back then!) and the horse won at 8-1 or something like that. Pretty sure I gave some of it back that day, but hooked ever since. Got my first look at a DRF and was fascinated by all the information.
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