OLD DAYS ..when tellers gave out hot tips

[LUCPARK]

Old days at sportsman and Maywood

Every teller had a hot horse every race 

Old days have been replaced by I phones

Ploppers
Any good teller stories out there ?

[Fuguzzi]

 Glory days at YR/RR it went from the paddock, to the judges upstairs to mutuel supervisors to the tellers and clerks  At YR Louie the cop at the paddock gate helped out alot

[harnessplop]

Which were top 3 drivers who fixed races at yr n rr

[Fuguzzi]

Which era?   The great scandal of 73? Or later? Specify

[bestbetter]

There was a teller at Hazel Park that I would avoid, He Always punched in the wrong numbers. One day I was in a longer line and no one was in His and He says to me come on and actually put in the correct numbers...POS.

[Jctoronto]

i hear the PEI track Charlottetown having heck of a time getting enough quality tellers  most old guard gone..young one dont get all of our horse ticket mumbo jumbo = mistakes.

good luck to them.

[Mailbox Money]

40yrs ago at DRC in was in line with a guy known for handling the betting for "fishy" races. When I got to the window I told his regular teller " I want the same tickets and numbers you just punched for Bob,she says "You don't have enough money, besides you aren't worth dying for "!

[Jctoronto]

Mailbox Money
LOL

[harnessplop]

Top 3 drivers who played games rr yr 70s and 80s

[harnessplop]

70s and 80s yonkers and rr

[Jctoronto]

ill leave tellers for a moment..

BLUE BONNETS MONTREAL
70'S
ran into 'boiler room op' in the hallway on a Sunday at BBR....guy came up to me and my friend telling us the #5 couldnt lose.
we then heard him tell guy sitting a few feet from us #6 couldnt lose...and then he went further down the hallway talking briefly to others,,,etc.

Well, race over, #6 the winner....the 'tipster' came back to guy sitting feet from us and told him 'gimme ten bucks and ill tell ya whos gonna win next one too'

didnt get money...moved on.   miss those kinda characters....any still around???

[SeattleSlew]

70s and 80s yonkers and rr

Gilmour/Webster/McNutt (all three now deceased)

ONLY MY OPINION (of course)

[Fuguzzi]

Well early 70s Carmine  Insko  Buddy  Coco  MeNutt  Peter Gerry, the whole crew were indicted for race fixing - none convicted. You had the riots at both HY tracks. At Monti - Larry Rolla was trying to fix everything along with Ronny Ingrassia, Joe Ridcco, Joe Romano, John Gilmour et al.   By the 80s  Rejean Daigneault was the kingpin using many satelite barns as well as his own powerful stable - other drivers involved included Buddy, Jimmy Marohn, Joe Marsh Jr.   Rejean had interests in many barns including Sarama, Lare, Mcardle, Tremblay   He loved betting exactas using him and Sarama   Early 80s at RR the goal was 30k a night split between 7 inner circle drivers using buddy's bagman. they would often meet post races at Gamwah

[balmoralfan]

About 20 year or so ago, a real sharp player with inside access came up to me. He had a pile of those old school, dot matrix paper (the green and white sheets) with all the results from the races going back a while. His "theory" was showing me how many times the leading driver ran 3rd in the superfecta races. This was when they didn't have a super in every race. Then he had circled how often the driver ran 3rd in the last race. It was like 52% of the races!
He never came right out and called the driver a cheat or race fixer, but the stats were 100% accurate and verifiable.

[Fuguzzi]

interesting. On 2 different occasions the person driving my horse told me in the paddock lined up to go out we were going to finish 4th and each time that's EXACTLY where we finished. one was Herve, the other was Gary Mosher. Herve was on a trotter, Gary a pacer.