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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: getreal on October 29, 2022, 11:04:48 PM
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Just home from the races that I used to love going to at Batavia. Its now become close to non-bettable. And non editable. 13 races tonight, 10 favorites won. 8 of the favs were four dollars or cheaper. 2 second choice and one longshot. The races are not competitive and not nearly as exciting as they used to be. The announcer is blah as is the food in the clubhouse. They used to have great food and a wonderful buffet. I go just about every night, now i go every saturday, soon they wont see me unless they do something different. Aweful racing, ashamed of my home track.
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Everything you guys just said can be said about almost every track that is racing.
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Everything you guys just said can be said about almost every track that is racing.
NOT MOHAWK
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NOT MOHAWK
Thank you. That's the track I will take a road trip for.
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excellent racing , no pools , can't fix races
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Track surface is NOTbad as stated! Where do you people come up with stuff????
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Use to Love the Buffy/Batavia back in the day...Vance,Rapone,Eddie Mcnight etc...Remember a horse Chicoppe Chimes..How about the time this just when you could bet tracks from all over pretty much at otb..dont think Jersey yet..so im home mowin the lawn..come up with the bright idea to play whatever letters are on the 3 $1s in my pocket..Looked F B C..=623....pretty sure it was a Sunday...play 623 at every tracks tiple that day...But Buffy or Batavia..Said I can Cap that track so I saved $4 bucks...think it was about the 5th race...Crash happens..sure is shit comes 623 Pays 10 K....Pretty sure the winning driver was Alexsander Guilianni... :P
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Driver might have been Sal Marcheese
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Speakin of Sal...Nice horse..Sal The Barber
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Lets give "Diamond Lou" Russo a Plug...
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"NOBLE LACE"
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Diamond Lou...If you read Plop....You might know who I am by Putting Noble Lace in " " ...After you got her home one night first thing you said to me approaching the wiiner circle was "Noble Lace" Years later when I seen you I told you I liked and remebered you said "Noble Lace" tmbz1
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Track surface at Batavia in about the only good thing about it these days. A buddy of mine owns a 4000 claimer and week in and week out gets to race against horses that were in the opens 2 weeks earlier. Complete non competive racing.
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Shame to see Batavia go downhill. It was my favorite place to race & it was 120 miles from the farm. + the border hassle.
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Just read Joe Sarago died another one bites the dust. The WNY circuit hasn't been the good for years.
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Track surface is NOTbad as stated! Where do you people come up with stuff????
A driver told us the track is terrible!!!
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The track surface is a disaster right now! Two horses broke their back leg a few weeks ago, in back to back nights! The race office is in total disarray allowing a trainer to race horses in the same race under another trainers name. Horses are being allowed to drop multiple class. Saturday 10/29 open was a sham! Shame on the management of Batavia Downs you traded one set of crooks for another!
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Use to Love the Buffy/Batavia back in the day...Vance,Rapone,Eddie Mcnight etc...Remember a horse Chicoppe Chimes..How about the time this just when you could bet tracks from all over pretty much at otb..dont think Jersey yet..so im home mowin the lawn..come up with the bright idea to play whatever letters are on the 3 $1s in my pocket..Looked F B C..=623....pretty sure it was a Sunday...play 623 at every tracks tiple that day...But Buffy or Batavia..Said I can Cap that track so I saved $4 bucks...think it was about the 5th race...Crash happens..sure is shit comes 623 Pays 10 K....Pretty sure the winning driver was Alexsander Guilianni... :P
Chicopee Chimes. I remember that name. I think my father owned part of her early on before being sold to Batavia. We had another mare Chicopee Star that went onto produce a few nice racehorses.
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On the boiler 100% correct!! Handle is beyond belief bad But it wil get 100x worse in every aspect when they stupidly race Jan/Feb A once great place is just a shell of itself Only the casino matters
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Chicopee Chimes. I remember that name. I think my father owned part of her early on before being sold to Batavia. We had another mare Chicopee Star that went onto produce a few nice racehorses.
She might a been a 3 claimer for all i remember..I know i bet on her a few times and thought the world of her...Seen her race think some pretty cold nights..Jim Boyd with the call...If i had that sight to look horses up id do it..Just to look her up
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Lol i bet on her a few times..that really says alot
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I remember not that anybody gives a flying F@ck my otb by my my crib closed at 8pm...Id stay there for the early DD and have a cab pick me up at 8 and dont be late acoss my village across then another village and way way on the other side of the next ccity...$6. Bucks...hate to think what that would cost now days..hit the bar at that otb then have a cab get me all the way past where he first spot i got picked up thru another Village and into the next City $20 (for the ride)and party my balls off to all Crazy hours of the morning...Then be at my otb for Aquaduck around Noon..After that go home freshen up and walk back down to Otb for some Bat/Buffy..Oh the good old days..But then again theses are the good old days
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Same Cabby got me 99 percent of the time..he liked the ponies also..Poor guys face looked like a mack truck ran him over...Got robbed one night b4 i ever met him..He had balks though to go back to driving Cab..Hes gotta be long gone now..Rip
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You think that guy have a valid excuse not to work..he was older to..This fall we had a kid 30 years old from the city never had a job b4..I didnt show up for a few days and axed my boss what happened to him..said i had to let him go after day one..Fn joke..I can do it..im alot older,lame as all F@ck etc. And kid couldnt cut it a day
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What ever happened to the "hot dog" Pete Sazmanski (spelling) First announcer i ever heard say stick a fork in him hes done..
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He's at Ocean Downs, was also Race Secretary. Had a great show on the radio, gave his pics. That was at Buffalo, don't think he ever worked at Batavia
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Ty..I thought Boyd was Buffy hot dog was Batavia..Im talking 1990..Pete didnt have a son in the racing Bizz did he?
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Just looked it up Boyd was Batavia
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Article on web from 1988 if you search his name...He was colorfull thats for sure behind the mic
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I remember a horse Pete Called getting "Udalafaceta" Spellings off...There was a horse cantogourdsdo..Fu lla Gas,Philly Simms.Molto Benny,Wisco wilton..Cant forget old Magic Willie Lol. I told a guy I later became friends with at otb I like Magic Willie tonight..I don't think the horse ever won a race after that..til this day he calls me magic...
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What was the horse back then..Held for Ransom or Head held High...Cant rember the guys name that had the horse
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Mancuso's was a great spot for pizza & pasta + the waitress's always talked horses.
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when i first started playing horses in 88,i had a guy mentoing me-he owned kacthme hanover, he told me when he was at the track to load up on his horse,when he was at otb when katchme was runnig :hes a little sick-drew the 8 hole,his trainer was one of the lamprwas(SP) ?-handle whent down when western ny otb shut branches down in my area(corning, hornell, &bath)-now they want us to bet at ez bets-NO WHAY! if you hit a bet over 600$ have to go to batavia to cash-screw that!
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What was the horse back then..Held for Ransom or Head held High...Cant rember the guys name that had the horse
this name just popped up in my head...James Compton..Might be the guy i was thinking of..didnt race much but had some good stock
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This cat was a pleasure to shoot the breeze with Pual Szalay..Sad he died young..Last time I talked to him he was tellin me how this 1 dude pulled some shit on him..
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I recall Paul had his share of troubles.
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Railbird Steve you talking Lamframboise? Around 88 i think 1 of them passed away shipping/racing on the road...Then there was Rodney the younger one i more remember driving in western ny..The one passed away might have been named Rodney also
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Wasnt there a solid trotter named Inherit the Crown..
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Cant believe I cant remember shit...Father time is undefeated...That's about all the horses names I can remember...I bet at these tracks everytime they raced back then..
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Rick Laframboise died in a Car Crash
Inherit the Crown was owned by the Barsuk family and did race in Batavia
Paul Szalay wasnt a bad guy, served our country, had some demons
Katchme Hanover was an open Mare trained by Phillipe Laframboise
James Compton trained and usually drove Held for Ransom
Head Held High was a Buffalo Horse, I believe trained by Gene Neamon could be wrong
Batavia is a shell of what it was just a year ago. Handle is down, making it even harder to bet, food not nearly as
good as the old buffet used to be. Todd the previous GM was very fan friendly, Hoover looks drunk all the time and
loves himself. The announcer they got from Buffalo is a want to be announcer--Copies the styles of the great announcers
of the past but his projection and voice are annoying at best. Too many races are won by horses that are 3 seconds the best. Bring me back
to the 70's and 80's. I loved both Buffalo and Batavia.
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Thanks Getreal..Didnt know Paul served...He was heavey set but from seeing him in the paddock he wasnt afraid of work..Just went and got a 12er of diet pepsi on my way there a horses name popped in my head out of the blue....Wee Jimmy.... Gun to my head think Maynerd Cornell horse..
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I vaguely remember wee jimmy, but Im not sure who was the trainer/driver. For some reason I thought
Tom Agosti or Fred Griffin had something to do with him, but im very unsure. How about lake shore dolly
one of my all time favorites. Gaston Guindon was the usual pilot.
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Agosti...Aint heard that name in ages...Dont remember the Dolly horse but remember one guy who i aint seen in a while and was wonderin if he still alive always called Guindon "The Gas Man" and remember Rothfus was the "Raibird"
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Last i remember the gasser was still kicking. Back in my day, him, ed mcnight, haslip vance and swift were the best.
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I remember when Bethlehem Steel plant was open and there were double headers and full fields, The GM at the time actually cared about racing at Buffalo, now they have a pervert as a GM that single handily ruined the place. When Mango dies horsemen will come from miles around to piss and shit on his grave!
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Todd was a long time Batavia Downs fan who cared about the fans and about wny racing. This guy they got now was milkshaking horses a few years ago, shows up drunk half the time, doesnt know half the horsemen or 3/4 of the fans. One of the worst moves in Batavia Downs History. I hope the powers to be over there are happy because the place is a stale shell of what it was just recently.
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And may i add the handle is showing it, so whoever benefits from WROTB isnt doing as well as they once were. That could also be because of certain bar bills or should i say bar cost driven up by a few in power.
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When did the rule change in NYS that a trainer could have 2 in a race, or was the amazing Don drunk at the draw. Skowyra with 2 in 1 race.
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Step on the pedal and flush the toilet