Favorite going to scratch???

[Dana666]

Will Godolphin ever win a Derby??? I think we need Liam Neeson at the Derby, as this could be the plot of \"Taken 4\".

https://amp.kentucky.com/opinion/linda-blackford/article250972469.html

[hellersorr]

You go down that path and there won\'t be any horse racing.

[Dana666]

Is there any chance this lawsuit could actually yield any action?

[TGJB]

And there will be Amicus briefs filed on his behalf by every commercial breeder and sale company in Lexington.

[sekrah]

0% chance.

[bluechip21]

you should not be playing horses if you think this goes through.

[Strike]

If they allow Crazy Beautiful to run under the Phoenix Thoroughbreds banner -- they will allow anything.

[Dana666]

I wish you had been there to tell me what I shouldn\'t do when I was twelve years old and first walked into an OTB in Staten Island!

[statuette]

On forest ave OTB?

[richiebee]

My favorite was the tiny OTB on Water Street near the Methadone clinic. My father
always looked for me in the other OTBs and my wife was afraid of the neighborhood.
The perfect hiding place. And if you wanted to beat the OTB surcharge, like most
OTB\'s, there was a bookie conveniently located nearby on the sidewalk.

[toppled]

When I 1st graduated college I stayed in the small town in Western NY & was always at OTB.  I took a job that summer in an ice cream plant & after they laid me off , they would call me up to work a day here & a day there.  One day I wasn\'t home & they sent someone to OTB to tell me to go to work.  I could run but I couldn\'t hide.

[statuette]

I thought I was in heaven when I discovered the horse book at Atlantic City would take the bus there

[TGJB]

Richie, screw the fiction, write that stuff. First line is Springsteenesque, and that is high praise.

[Dana666]

I want to say Richmond Avenue? I remember a great pizza place nearby called Gino\'s. I would go with my dad and some of his friends, all WW II Vets--a hardboiled crew to say the least. They mostly went to Monmouth and Jersey tracks, but from that ridiculously young age, I always liked New York racing better. Back then, you could smoke, and the smoke inside was so thick, you could cut it with a knife. People packed in there like maniacs. The bathrooms never worked and smelled god awful. You got these cool little tickets with letters, not numbers! Some tracks, like Monticello and Finger Lakes, just gave you the audio call with no video. Noting better than sitting down at Gino\'s with a nice slice and a racing form--real papers back then, not these little books, handicapping jocks like Jerry Bailey and Angel Cordero. Too many memories! Monmouth Park was always so beautiful and we\'d take my mom and go out to a nice dinner at the beach afterwards, but OTB had the better racing, so you had to endure that place to bet on it, unless you wanted to take the drive east to Aqueduct or Belmont, which I did a lot in my college years. How they don\'t have every Breeder\'s Cup at Belmont is beyond me. Anyway, good luck everyone and good night.

[statuette]

Thank you for reminding me of my teens and 20s Belmont was cool going by ðŸš,