Collecting Tote Tickets

[46zilzal]

Originally Posted by Skanoochies

Ajanks did you ever receive those tickets from Hastings Park I sent?

One good thing I heard from the DRF columnist: all new cameras in all the towers this year...Poor little place is a pitiful ghost of what it was under Jack Diamond

[Skanoochies]

Exactly. The place is not just the same. I do all my wagering thru H.P.I.in woodbine now and haven1t been to Hastings in several years.

[46zilzal]

Originally Posted by Skanoochies

Exactly. The place is not just the same. I do all my wagering thru H.P.I.in woodbine now and haven't been to Hastings in several years.

ALL effort goes to that crappy casino while paint peels off the walls and rails and barn M continues to slide down the hill on the backside

TRIVIA: what race was Gary Stevens first 100 grander win? The British Columbia Derby

[46zilzal]

Ajank.....I found a link to the Sport of Kings Society but it was from 1996....Check out your private mailbox

[Ocala Mike]

zilzal, I was a member of that SOKS too and contributed a couple of articles probably 12-15 years ago now.

[46zilzal]

I was very active in it for many years and collected with a lot of people all over the map....A fun time.

When I was in school in San Francisco, I regularly attended GGF and Bay Meadows with two of the founding members....They got me into parts of the tracks I never would have otherwise...including our photos with none other than Silky Sullivan who came out on St Patrick's Day...GGF executive Kjell Qvale used to get him out yearly.

[clocker7]

Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

How much would an uncashed winning ticket in mint condition (encased in protective wrap) on Secretariat in the Belmont be worth, in your opinion?

Tickets like that come up so rarely anymore, so the present market would be hard to determine. They are not scarce, but people just hold onto them.

Because there are so many out there, a ceiling near 400-500 bucks likely.

I tend to collect the unidentified ones that are much scarcer. That is what my database helps me to do. Tickets from Count Fleet, Citation, Swaps, the first SA Hdcp and Derby, plus all of the earliest KD tickets. Stuff like that. Nobody knows that market because few auction sellers and buyers even know what they are seeing.

[46zilzal]

In around 2002 I sold Secretariat's Triple Crown programs for $250.00

[46zilzal]

I located the last president of SOKS in Chicago, contacted him and found the club is no longer active....HOWEVER he would be a great source to contact to find other collectors with which you could trade or barter.

RICK RADLEIN has a facebook page and lives in the Chicago area.

[clocker7]

Over the weekend, a quality Secretariat Belmont $2 win ticket went unsold for $399.

I suspect that the market is around $300.