Post parade appearance

[CHOWDERMAN]

i have mucho respecto for overseas racing....you never see a pony with a horse there..if there is, then that horse must be a problem....

if you remember the life at ten fiasco at the breeders cup, jerry bailey pointed out the horse looked horrendous as soon as he hit the track...

i was at saratoga when bailey warmed up a zito horse  was scratched because bailey said he didn\'t feel right, and he took a lot of heat from zito for it....

i was at gulfstream when prado was riding in a 6k claimer...he took off from the pony and warmed up the horse when on the backside the horse broke down...

the horse was a speed horse....what if prado was thrown from that horse while on the lead during the race....

these are basic safeguards for horse and jockey....

[CHOWDERMAN]

i was at aqueduct when this slow old beaten down horse named aegeon was racing and looked like secretariat in the paddock....rudy rod was the new trainer and the horse galloped to his looks...it was rudy\'s first win as a trainer....who knew...i\'m just sayin how to use physical handicapping to your advantage....

[kencbs]

I was at Hollypark once when Chris McCarron scratched a Whittingham horse during warmups out of a 4-horse graded stake.  Charlie wasn\'t too happy about it.  I believe next out the horse won another graded stake with a new rider.

[wrongway]

As a young man many years ago I took a young lady who happened to be a mule trainer to Long Acres racetrack. After several races where she expressed no opinion she came back to our seats before the feature race. Small stakes 6 horses where after studying I could only eliminate 1 horse. She said bet all I had on the horse I eliminated. It aired at long odds.  Needless to say we had a wonderful night. See C. McCarron/B.Ledbetter video on Body language of horses. Available on Amazon.

[Mathcapper]

wrongway -- I see I\'m not the only one with a story like that.

In my senior year in high school, I took a girl on our first date to Green Mountain Racetrack. They had converted from horses to dogs by that time, and I had written a program for my computer class that I used to automate my handicapping, and the place was my home away from home in those days.

Anyway, my date didn\'t know a thing about dog racing. Six races into the card she hadn\'t said a single word about any dog in any race, then all of a sudden she leans over and points out a dog to me called Texas Cowboy in the program and says, \"I like that one.\"

Now normally, for obvious reasons, I would\'ve put a win bet on the thing even if I didn\'t like it, just in case. But this dog had never been ahead of a single dog at any point of any race in any of his PP\'s. 99-1 on the board.

You know the rest. The dog breaks like a shot out of the box, opens up five in the blink of an eye, airs by ten lengths and pays $270 to win.

Incredibly, she still went to the senior prom with me after that.

[Edgorman]

\"She looked great in the new leash I bought\".
Sorry.  Couldn\'t resist the set up.

[RICH]

hopefully you had better luck on prom night