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04-17-2015, 02:03 PM
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#91
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Location: GA
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When I first started playing the races, at Charles Town, my favorite jockey was William R. Lewis, Jr.
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04-17-2015, 02:11 PM
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#92
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JimG
When I first started playing the races, at Charles Town, my favorite jockey was William R. Lewis, Jr.
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Do you have a favorite there, these days? I plan to watch Shared Belief tomorrow but, otherwise, I ain't too familiar with these guys. I should totally depend on the horses past performances? Or the jocks? Or the trainers?
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04-17-2015, 02:13 PM
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#93
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Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Grits - JD Acosta is an excellent rider and Travis D. is a great big-money rider.
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04-17-2015, 02:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Spaghetti Junction and Frustration Blvd.
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Love Ramon Dominguez. Awesome Jockey and a Class human being. Top notch all the way around.
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04-17-2015, 05:07 PM
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#95
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saratoga_Mike
Grits - JD Acosta is an excellent rider and Travis D. is a great big-money rider.
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Thank you, Mike. Not sure how much I'll watch on a track I'm not familiar with, still I thank you. I look forward to SB. Too, Pimlico and Keeneland have better cards tomorrow than Aqueduct.
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04-17-2015, 05:29 PM
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#96
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Perret, mcbeth, mccarron.
Allan
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04-17-2015, 06:46 PM
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The 19th Hole
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Russellville, KY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tall One
I think both rode at ELP for a couple of meets, FF. I do remember Lumpkins rode on the Ohio circuit, went out to BM/GG, and then came back on the local KY/OH circuits.
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They did. Also remember John McKee becoming my "anti-Christ" jockey. He would lose when he was on my choice and beat me when I didn't have him....
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04-17-2015, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Alta Loma, California
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Bill Harmatz
Rode Silky Sullivan, and Round Table as a sub for Shoemaker.
Won the Preakness on Royal Orbit, 4th in the Ky. Derby with
tons of trouble.
Yeah, I'm old as dirt.
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04-17-2015, 10:33 PM
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I live just outside of Louisville and Im in my early 20s so when I was really young it was Pat Day just like everyone else. When i got a little older (12-14) and thought i was an expert, Garrett K Gomez. Speaking of Garrett...
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04-17-2015, 11:05 PM
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#100
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regular user
Join Date: Dec 2013
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Jose Espinoza , A.R.Napravnik and the MIG
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donut believe the hype...
Last edited by Racetrack Playa; 04-17-2015 at 11:08 PM.
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04-18-2015, 02:04 AM
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broken-down horseplayer
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Portland, OR area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RunDustyRun
Dave Gall at fairmont, except when he was on the favorite in the finale on a Friday or Saturday night...huge bet against and the track made their money
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I forgot about that, but that was absolutely true. Like Pat Day, Gall was a big fish in a little pond, and made a lot of races unbettable - but he plenty of talent. Betting him in the last race at Fairmount was not the road to riches.
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Defying the "laws" of statistics with every wager.
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04-18-2015, 11:01 AM
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#102
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Favorie Jockey
Eldon Nelson at Delaware Park
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04-18-2015, 11:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
Unlike the masses the Shoe disgusts me, first he stayed at least 5 years too long, he was famous for going extremely wide many times to avoid tight spots during his last years. He was someone to avoid betting on unless he was on a lone front runner. Then he charged appearance fees during his farewell tour.
Worst of all getting in a solo drunk driving accident, never taking responsibility for it saying he only had two beers, suing the state for road design, Ford motor company, and worst of all every doctor and
medical worker that came in contact with him.
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Bear in mind 2 beers will get a 102 pound man very impaired, a fact the California DMV icludes with every license renewal.
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04-18-2015, 11:30 PM
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#104
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Join Date: May 2011
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Julie Krone - she seemed fearless with good sense of pace
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04-19-2015, 08:34 AM
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Location: Beaverdam Virginia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dilanesp
Bear in mind 2 beers will get a 102 pound man very impaired, a fact the California DMV icludes with every license renewal.
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He was a .13% that is more than two beers even for a little guy like Shoemaker also I think the body dissipates a drink an hour and he wasn't tested immediately after taking his last gulp. He and his attorney claimed to the end the hospital gave him alcohol in his I.V. which is preposterous. Then all the lawsuits that followed blaming everyone but himself. In spite of all the money he earned riding he didn't have a lot left because he married a succession of socialite gold diggers. He was a winner on the track, but not much of a person off it.
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