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View Poll Results: What is the most irritating behavior DURING A RACE?
Finger Snapping 16 27.12%
Smooching 10 16.95%
Whipping ones self with folded DRF 9 15.25%
"Just one Time" 5 8.47%
Yelling and Cussing 25 42.37%
Other 7 11.86%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 59. This poll is closed

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Old 07-19-2017, 06:40 PM   #16
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The person who keeps yelling out their horse number ("C'mon with that 6!") even though it's obvious the horse will lose badly and keeps fading back in the stretch and comes in last or near last and they still keep yelling out its number as it nears the finish line. They have no idea how to judge time or distance and do it every race. Usually done by noobs.
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Old 07-19-2017, 06:59 PM   #17
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Smoochers lead in Twitter Poll. Can only use 4 responses. 350 Votes.

14%Finger Snappers
34%Smoochers
22%Whipping self with DRF
30%"Just One Time"
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Old 07-19-2017, 07:08 PM   #18
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I'm guilty of saying "one time". Just as a holdem player looking for a card "on the river', I have used my "one time " with a horse coming down the stretch a thousand times.
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Old 07-19-2017, 07:11 PM   #19
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I can deal, and often enjoy, most everything except unfiltered swearing and/or throwing things.
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Old 07-19-2017, 08:03 PM   #20
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For the record I punched a guy in the bathroom circa 1998 about the "break a leg" thing.

If you are reading this and you were that guy=you deserved it asshole! LOL!
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Old 07-19-2017, 08:29 PM   #21
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For the record I punched a guy in the bathroom circa 1998 about the "break a leg" thing.

If you are reading this and you were that guy=you deserved it asshole! LOL!
He probably posts here.
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Old 07-19-2017, 08:50 PM   #22
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Without a doubt, the asshole that yells "Drop dead three horse!", "Jump the rail!", "Fall off the horse Ortiz!".

With any luck he gets run over by the bus that he's waiting for once Los Al is done.

+1

guy at Hastings racebook would always be yelling "beat the chalk" - that wasn't bad, the worst would be when he would be yelling "fall on your head Russell" (for Baze), or "fall on your head Ramon"
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Old 07-19-2017, 08:55 PM   #23
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That guy that points out to you in his black and white program what he missed about the winner after every race. I know it isn't during the race, but it is always right after the wire.
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Old 07-19-2017, 08:57 PM   #24
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"stop the race"....when they are at the 1/2 mile pole
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Old 07-19-2017, 09:47 PM   #25
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The smooching drives me nuts.

You can choose two or more behaviors.
Other wins the top spot- "Stop the race" drives me nuts for some reason- but they're all obnoxious when done loudly.

The whipping never bothered me much. A few years ago Haskell Day at Monmouth, and of course we were playing Saratoga too. Large throng gathered underneath the first mutuel bay in the picnic area. I have the 12 in a two-turn grass affair and he's a decent price and coming from way back, but you could see he was rolling and had a chance. It's 2pm on Haskell Day so I have a few in me at this point. I started the rythmic whipping but into my palm at the 3/16ths and started saying "come on with the 12" which I repeated 5 or 6 times whilst whipping. He wins of course (otherwise there's no story) and some guy turns around and says "that was the best display of racetrack cheering I've ever seen."

Which brings me to my point- why do people cheer like that esp the simulcast crowd? They only do it when they know they have a big shot so all the other players know they won! Yes, I was the a-hole!
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Old 07-19-2017, 09:54 PM   #26
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Boy it is amazing we go to different tracks but the stupid comments/people
are the same!!!

I used to be really bothered by the "break a leg" or insulting
the jockeys stuff when I was a kid.

I went home almost in tears if one of my local favorite horses
had a fatal breakdown.

As I got older I really came to understand that in order to win it takes
morons to bet into the pools. This took my anger out of it though I still
don't like it.

The ones I really don't understand are the "every race is fixed" but
they handicap the next race for who they think is the best horse???
Why do they bother its all fixed??
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Old 07-20-2017, 12:31 AM   #27
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Without a doubt, the asshole that yells "Drop dead three horse!", "Jump the rail!", "Fall off the horse Ortiz!".

With any luck he gets run over by the bus that he's waiting for once Los Al is done.
I never rooted for a horse to die or injure itself but when another horse accosts mine I am frequently guilty of rooting for him to go "back to the barn (#)."

in my prime I developed a vicious finger snap where my arm and hand would shake violently after the snap. I did this to honor the finger snappers.

in this poll I did vote for "one time." I always found this to be very unbecoming of supposedly mature horseplayers collecting social security.
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Old 07-20-2017, 03:16 AM   #28
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a lot of the guys I play with get quite irritated with the people around them...as a craps dealer I know people are always looking to blame their losses on somebody or something that happens around them.

I guess I'm insulated from this because nothing anybody does bothers me.
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Old 07-20-2017, 10:55 AM   #29
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Not yet mentioned....

Great thread!

Not yet mentioned (and it's more between races, not during) is the "Hey, can you place a bet for me?" guy...

As the "responsible" one in our older peer group I seem to be the only one with a Twinspires account. I constantly get asked to make bets for people both at the track (if the lines are long) or at home while we watch TVG. ("Wait , you can bet FROM YOUR PHONE?" )

* I gotta run to the car, can you place a bet for me?
* I'm stuck at work, can you place a bet for me?
* I'm out of money, can you place a bet for me?
* I have a hunch on today's race, and can't get to OTB , can you place a bet for me?
* Oh, its derby day, and this one horse has my Aunts name, can you place a bet for me?


Understandably the 20 somethings of the group all have and responsibly manage their own ADW accounts...

Further, I score a sliding scale of allowable celebration on calling home winners.

You should urge home a 2/1 favorite at Penn National with a simple smile....

However, if you are on a 18/1 that is in lockstep with the chalk coming to the wire, feel free to slap on that DRF all you want!

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Old 07-20-2017, 11:09 AM   #30
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Pounding the bar or table with your fist.
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