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10-19-2013, 09:07 AM
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FemaleJockeys
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: new jersey
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Scariest Things You Have Seen @ a Track
What are some of the scariest things you have ever seen at a track. One memory I will never forget was when I was working at Garden State Parx and we had a horrific jockey spill and I went out onto the track and several jockeys were involved in a nasty spill and not seeing several of them not moving whatsoever for several minutes was downright scary while waiting for help to arrive.
All the jocks involved had numerous injuries, but thankfully nobody got paralyzed, but just being actually on the track and being meer feet from several of the downed jockeys is something I will never forget that is for sure
chris forbes
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10-19-2013, 09:27 AM
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Racing Form Detective
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Lincoln, Ne but my heart is at Santa Anita
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I look in the mirror once while visiting the track facilities.
I did see a race where 6 of 8 horses went down.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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10-19-2013, 10:20 AM
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Dead money
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Baltimore
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Parking attendants and admission gates.....
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10-19-2013, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Horses on the verge of a heat stroke. They get wild and have no regard for their handlers and can hurt themselves or anyone in the general vicinty, flipping and jumping wildly. It is a helpless and scary feeling.
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10-19-2013, 11:06 AM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
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The prices at the concession stand! 
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Who does the Racing Form Detective like in this one?
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10-19-2013, 11:10 AM
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Dead money
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Baltimore
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Originally Posted by Tom
The prices at the concession stand! |
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
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10-19-2013, 11:57 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Men's bathroom at Calder, ......... 
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I hate losing more than I love winning......
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10-19-2013, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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Derby 2013...girl standing right in front of me, probably 20-23, in an epic struggle just to stand in one spot. Once she got her balance (if you want to call it that) she then proceeded to urinate on herself in the middle of the crowded paddock. 
Was also at Keeneland once when 2 or 3 horses broke down in the stretch. This hardly ever happens there, and workers rushed out on the track with those giant shades to shield the view of the audience. Joe Rocco Jr. took a bad spill and lay motionless the whole time, scary afternoon.
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10-19-2013, 12:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: JCapper Platinum: Kind of like Deep Blue... but for horses.
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Thoroughbred Owners of California (TOC) still believing that increasing the exacta takeout from 20.68% to 22.68% was the right move to make.
California Exacta Takeout Compared to Other Major Tracks:
18.50% - NYRA (AQU-BEL-SAR)
19.00% - Kentucky (CDX-KEE)
19.00% - DEL-MTH
20.00% - GPX
20.50% - APX-FGX-HAW-TAM-WOX
22.68% - DMR-HOL-SAX
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10-19-2013, 12:14 PM
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Dead money
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Baltimore
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Oh forgot one
Seeing a bookmaker I used to owe money too Rolling through the grandstand after a bad week of football.....enough to shake up even the strongest minded individuals!!!
Luckily this hasn't happened in last 10 years!!
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10-19-2013, 12:15 PM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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saw a driver get killed at Scioto Downs when I was about 15. Flew through the air and landed right in front of me near the fence. He hit a fence post head first without a helmet...... his helmet had come off.......
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10-19-2013, 01:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 5,005
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Scariest Things You Have Seen @ a Track
The two hatchet men (we nicknamed them Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) sent down from the Human Resources Dept. in Albany to give us the bad news that our Tax Audit unit at the track was disbanded (1991), and we were all laid off.
I landed on my feet, though.
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10-19-2013, 01:46 PM
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Dead money
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Baltimore
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
saw a driver get killed at Scioto Downs when I was about 15. Flew through the air and landed right in front of me near the fence. He hit a fence post head first without a helmet...... his helmet had come off.......
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That can't be beat
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10-19-2013, 02:12 PM
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Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Looking in my pocket and seeing the lint at the bottom. Nothing more scary to me than walking out with "Rabbit ears".
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10-19-2013, 02:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 7,510
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Originally Posted by Tom
The prices at the concession stand! |
And the sh!tty food.
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