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06-24-2015, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Kash$
Just a few
Trotter-Bobo
Pacer-Division Street
Trotter-Ideal e Gazuea
Pacer-Millers Scout
Good ole days
Jimmy Marohn,John Patterson,Lucien Fontaine..good ole days
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Ideal de Gouzow( or something like that) won two Roosevelt Internationals
I know I butchered the name
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06-24-2015, 11:05 PM
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One name
Cinzano
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"How empty is theory in the presence of fact"
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06-24-2015, 11:10 PM
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No, one name - Lebon.
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06-24-2015, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by reckless
Wow, talk about old memories.
Does anyone that followed the harness game in the 70s recall a horse by the name of Mirror Image? That poor sucker must have been sore as a boil, he wore bandages almost up his entire front legs. He was always 'right there' for me when I'd bet him.
And these gladiators raced every week. Also, did any horse ever break 2:00 minute miles at Yonkers or Monticello before the modified sulky came around?
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Jack Lee, announcer at Roosevelt referred to a sub 2:00 time as a "magic mile".
One half mile tracks, under 2:00 was pretty rare in the 70's....At the turn into the 80's the modified bike became the norm which produced sub 1:58 miles all the time...
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06-24-2015, 11:23 PM
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Ideal de Gouzow( or something like that) won two Roosevelt Internationals
I know I butchered the name
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Ideal du Gazeau....
No worries.
The international was cool because it was different.
1 1/2 miles. Three laps...
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06-24-2015, 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Prytanis
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I think the back page sports headline in the NY Daily News read
"Is this horse....That horse"...
Oh...."that horse" was Lebon
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/sp...raud.html?_r=0
Last edited by thespaah; 06-24-2015 at 11:29 PM.
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06-24-2015, 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Ocala Mike
No, one name - Lebon.
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If you'd like to reminisce, I posted a link below.
I remember this story like it was yesterday.....
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06-24-2015, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Kash$
Just a few
Trotter-Bobo
Pacer-Division Street
Trotter-Ideal e Gazuea
Pacer-Millers Scout
Good ole days
Jimmy Marohn,John Patterson,Lucien Fontaine..good ole days
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Benny "the whip" Webster..."Stormin" Norman Duplaisse. Johnny Chapman. Bill O'Donnell. The Popfinger brothers.....
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06-25-2015, 12:01 AM
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The DRF that had to be carefully opened on its semi-perforated edges ....
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06-25-2015, 07:49 AM
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was that back when you still had to pay for parking there?
I give your dad about a 105 beyer for the trip!!  |
This was back in the early 90's or late 80's. I do recall always paying for parking at MTH but never at PENN. I remember coming up the hill at PENN (after that right turn). Seeing that beautiful white entrance (where the valet parking was) and just picking a spot anywhere as close as possible.
I hate what that parking lot looks like now. Stupid Racino 
I'll tell my dad about his Beyer Figure !!!
I remember him speeding the whole way!!! Awesome times I tell you.
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06-25-2015, 10:04 AM
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I'd rather bet on 5 days of good races than 3 days of crap races.
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06-25-2015, 10:06 AM
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These are the good ole days for some.
All it takes is being young at heart.
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06-25-2015, 01:40 PM
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Some of the posts on here bring back some good memories of the "good old days". I remember when just about every newsstand and candy store sold The Morning Telegraph . Tip/tout sheets were a pretty common site. The old Turf and Sports Digest . Getting a bet down on the horses was no problem in the neighborhood or wherever you worked. Good crowds at the track. But with all that good nostalgia, I of course do much better now. We have better info and figs at our fingertips and the ability to wager at home and cancel bets etc and so much more we could not do back then that now helps the bottom line.
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06-25-2015, 01:45 PM
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The Sports Eye
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06-25-2015, 02:15 PM
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Russ Harris
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