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05-31-2015, 04:28 PM
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I spent many good and bad days there .......Sad
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I hate losing more than I love winning......
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05-31-2015, 04:32 PM
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I about cried. so much history up in smoke. I never made it there as I live in the Midwest. 
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05-31-2015, 04:57 PM
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My only west coast trip , 78 , watched Flying Paster win his 1st race .
Lovely track , great memory .
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05-31-2015, 05:03 PM
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I have no inclination to watch that video.
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Want to know what's wrong with this country?
Here it is, in a nutshell: Millions of people are
pinning their hopes on a man who has every
chance of returning to the WH, assuming that
he can manage to stay out of prison. Think about it.
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05-31-2015, 05:19 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Bakersfield, CA
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Did you guys catch the person who showed up to watch dressed in a Rams jersey and toting a Rams flag also?
Karma will get whoever ends up playing football there.
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05-31-2015, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Rex Phinney
Did you guys catch the person who showed up to watch dressed in a Rams jersey and toting a Rams flag also?
Karma will get whoever ends up playing football there.
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The Rams haven't played anything resembling football in quite a while 
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Want to know what's wrong with this country?
Here it is, in a nutshell: Millions of people are
pinning their hopes on a man who has every
chance of returning to the WH, assuming that
he can manage to stay out of prison. Think about it.
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05-31-2015, 06:10 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Originally Posted by Rex Phinney
Did you guys catch the person who showed up to watch dressed in a Rams jersey and toting a Rams flag also?
Karma will get whoever ends up playing football there.
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It's not the Rams fault that Hollywood Park management wasn't able or wasn't interested in saving the track.
Hollywood Park is to Santa Anita and Del Mar as Aqueduct is to Belmont and Saratoga. If AQU went away racing in NY would survive -- besides, it's about time the NY Jets and NY Giants play their games in NY.
I made a couple of trips to Hollywood Park. I won a big win bet there on Skip Away in the Breeders' Cup Classic. A lady sitting next to me got shit on right in the middle of the top of her head by a seagull. I told her to look on the bright side -- be thankful that it was organic. Glad it didn't hit me, though. However, I think it could have been intended for me. My mother said that she wanted to be reincarnated as a bird so she could shit on people she didn't like. Maybe mom had bad aim that day?
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05-31-2015, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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I hope Goof on the Roof made it down before the boom boom.
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05-31-2015, 07:38 PM
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Jets and Giants just got a new stadium. Hopefully one day AQ will be a full blows casino. Doubt it tho.
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05-31-2015, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by dirty moose
Jets and Giants just got a new stadium. Hopefully one day AQ will be a full blows casino. Doubt it tho.
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Honeymooned there and loved it. Unfortunately, my marriage suffered the same fate as the track....
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05-31-2015, 08:03 PM
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In Front
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hollywood Florida
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Its always sad to see something that you have seen for your whole life gone,Just thrown away like it never had any effect on anybody .Im sure it was sad. Me I am dealing with my own feelings watching them do the same thing to the Calder backside..Funny thing is,I was there the winter Calder opened, 1972 Walking a hot horse in the still being built receiving barn after a race to winning the leading trainers title some 43 years later.. On the last day Calder ran Talk about memories, That and my old barn number before they demolished it.
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05-31-2015, 08:21 PM
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Top Horse Analytics
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Hollywood Park was the first track that I ever saw a horse race in person and is where I caught "the bug". My earliest memories were of Ack Ack, Couger II, Kennedy Road, race caller Harry Henson (and there they go), and the Goose Girl who would often walk through the Clubhouse. It's sad to see it go this way with so much history left behind.
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05-31-2015, 08:24 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Originally Posted by nijinski
My only west coast trip , 78 , watched Flying Paster win his 1st race .
Lovely track , great memory .
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Lately, I've been seeing posts from my early days. Flying Paster was very fast and I believe a very good sire.
Do you remember a speedster by the name of Cherry River?
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05-31-2015, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by highnote
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Sad.
also, who does implosions at 6am Sunday morning? I hope there were no residential districts near by
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