Something else
Something else
We're horseplayer CLONES just like the horses in them Breeders Cup races, Kelso.
I'll only add that -> "making a Yonkers sized bet (pretty big) on a Carmine driven horse at something like 3/1 and watching him getting on top of the field and bring that cheap claimer home all the way" was all I needed to make a night at that place PRICELESS. There may have been plenty of dirt bags at Yonkers in those day, but they sure as hell put their money where their mouth was and laid it down at the windows; I've seen some mighty big moneybags trading back and forth at the windows there in those days.
One regret I have is that I picked the wrong place to try that dangerous stunt, did it more times at the thoroughbred tracks. and shoulda done it more times at good ole Yonkers (not Roosevelt either). Fact is I've done that less times than the no. of fingers we got on our hand, thank goodness. My guess is I'm prob. about 2 for 5 (wouldn't doubt it that Carmine was on both of the winners) or maybe even 2 for 6, tempting that dangerous addiction. Came a LONG, LONG way asfaras money management and sanity goes and found the game to be
much more friendlier these days.
The way I see it, which of course may be wrong.... IF your objective in this game is this :s1: or even this :0071 . It takes three things to "make it happen" with playing them hosses - Some (or more than that) LUCK, good handicapping and reasoning which comes from experience and learning as much as possible about how this game works (IF IT DOES WORK, that is) , good money management. IF you want to add one more objective -> knowing WHICH RACES to "send in the heavy lumber as in $$$$:", no. 3 goes down the drain and you accomplish this -> :0026 .
BTW, my advanced course :mj07: includes "focus on one or two, at most, wace twacks" I do one.
HERE'S THE BEST ONE (prob. a shocker for almost ALL MJers, LOL) ... . . do you remember how the tellers figured out how to pay off winning tickets back then? Do you remember them
MECHANICAL driven pencils that ran throughout every teller's window? The guy at the end (or front end?) would WRITE down the prices and there were mechanical arms shaped like this -> "/\/\/\/\/\/\" that had a PENCIL attached that would write exactly what he wrote at each teller's window on a regular piece of paper the prices. Totally mechanical process. I used to get a kick out of watching that pencil being driven by the invisable man. The teller would figure out what to pay the bigger or mixed bet types on winning tickets by using a cheap calculater, pad, and pencil.
Yeah, my last trip up north 5 + yrs. ago (N.J./ N.Y. area) was a bit disappointing without hearing Bullet Bob's voice anymo. Also there was a tremendous pile up on the track that night. Harness racing is one dangerous game; too many horses and drivers got killed on them tracks. I've seen, more than once, drivers continuing the race by flying way high over their fallen horse and if more were coming his way, he was in DEEP, DEEP poopie.
Still had a good time that one night we hit Yonkers with a couple of my old RTJ buddies (er.. RaceTrackJacks) during my stay up there
We might be boring the hell out of other members, so I sent you a "friend invitation". Click on my name and you can click (on the left side of that screen --> "Add a friend"). After that you can see and reply to personal (not really that personal cause every member can see them if they go to your profile page or mine as well.. but the "guests" cannot.
If it's too much trouble ..
no sweat, we'll always see what we got to "say" right here in this forum.
G.L.
