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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: theokodjak26 on September 09, 2023, 08:27:03 AM
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With all the excitement building for today’s big race, what is your prediction for the live attendance at Yonkers Raceway?
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Can it be separated and measured from slot attendees? I dont know how it works there now.
At RR in the glory days it was a 3 week event spanning the arrival of the foreign horses, the Int Trot and then the grueling Challenge Cup
TV crews at the airport, nightly news updates, back pages of the News and Post and a great vibe on the backstretch. Seeing these enormous big boned equine athletes was such a treat. Race day was buzzing. The grandstand would surge and at the top of the stretch with Jack Lee screaming, a roar would build from the crowd pressed to the rail shaking their fists in the air and jumping up and down, some happy, others not!
Always thought it was funny to see the horses post parade with little flags of their home country attached to the top of their bridles,
It was a circled event and we never missed it..
Un De Mai, The Onyon, Bobbo, Kash Minbar, Ideal Du Gazeau, Jorky and many more
What days!
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I was at many of the RR International Trots. Those races were absolutely electric environments. I think the most exciting one was the first time Un De Mai came to the USA. Coverage by the press was everywhere. The crowd that night was definitely in excess of 30,000. I also think the pretzel/hot chestnuts vendor had his best night ever as the regulars left for the night after the races.
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I was at many of the RR International Trots. Those races were absolutely electric environments. I think the most exciting one was the first time Un De Mai came to the USA. Coverage by the press was everywhere. The crowd that night was definitely in excess of 30,000. I also think the pretzel/hot chestnuts vendor had his best night ever as the regulars left for the night after the races.
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I was a bit too young to see Un de Mai, but I knew all about it later. How he loved cake donuts. Daily News had pics of schoolkids bring him some at his stall.
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With all the excitement building for today’s big race, what is your prediction for the live attendance at Yonkers Raceway?
I think the better question is , what will the handle be? Maybe $1.3 million? Usually pathetic racing on their championship day.
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Great card only problem is half mile track.
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Great card only problem is half mile track.
You are always so fucking negative and out of step. A vast majority of the tracks in the halcyon days were half mile tracks, so what's the problem...
3 times round RR with horses stacked up was a spectacle of great trotting.
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Nice card. Ill watch the big race. College football is my preference. Not going to play p5 though with the two unusual back-to-back p5 carryovers (lucky timing there mgm) will be a very very nice wager for those with deeper pockets than mine. Id have to sink 3 bills to have the coverage id like and thats a little more than im willing. The stoebe bartlett horse in last leg 9th looks far and away best and isnt prone to breaking. If i were playing that would be mine (and probably 75 % of the other punters) single.
Good luck; love to see a north american hit over one of those sunbitchin french snail eatin fucks that dragged us into ww two. Be fitting if john frank army hit.
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I think the real contenders are 1,2,3,9. But with 2 trailers and the added distance anything can happen.
I’m rooting for Its Academic here. Win here puts him over a million for the year and 2 mil for his career. With a lot of money left in the year, he could be close the greatest season for an aged trotter ever.
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With all the excitement building for today’s big race, what is your prediction for the live attendance at Yonkers Raceway?
Less than 2000
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Peace Corps - 62 wins / 93 starts $4,5 million earned
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Less than 2000
MGM management should a huge party if YR draws 1,500-1,999. I was thinking maybe 500 with about 450 stoned on weed.
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Peace Corps- Those are incredible numbers. I don't care what he's been racing against. Its a feat to win 67% of the time even if there are only 2 of you in the race
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Greatest International of all time 1969. Two mares Une De Mai and Fresh Yankee go against the immortal Nevele Pride .. Une De Mai gets parked the entire mile and a quarter first over and wins anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQfh5Q5eSEA
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MGM management should a huge party if YR draws 1,500-1,999. I was thinking maybe 500 with about 450 stoned on weed.
You have to be stoned to go there. You have so many other places to watch and wager from.
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The guys on the Jonkers broadcast have $90 and $150 pick 5 tickets. I don’t think either guy is putting any cash on their picks.
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2 / 4 / 1,2,5 / 6,7 / 5
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Jenn B in the winners circle with Joe and as usual, she never looks like a trainer.
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Jenn B in the winners circle with Joe and as usual, she never looks like a trainer.
What does a trainer look like?
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Should be a TBred trainer. She sure isn't a standardbred trainer.
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Jenn B in the winners circle with Joe and as usual, she never looks like a trainer.
Did she look like Sears knocked the bottom off of her? I bet she was all smiles with those gapping horse teeth.
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Well luck did not prevail at Yonkers today. They got hit hard by rain storms early on and needed a delay to fix the track surface. Obviously this kind of weather held whatever crowd would have shown up. The International race was another half mile wire to wire effort by a good Italian trotter and his Italian connections. They were all excited even if the race wasn’t. The good news was only 4 favorites won and some bombs came in. MGM even put up a $250,000 Pick 5 guarantee which paid over $9,000. The total handle was pretty strong. I think, outside of the weather, Yonkers had a decent day.
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Great performance by the Italian trotter. Head down - jog. Cool watching the driver pull the plugs left handed. I get Dave M's intentions but he tried that sweep waaaay too early. I thought it was a fun race to watch others don't seem to think so.
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From a different perspective they opened up the trackside restaurant today, and most of the tables were full and it had a nice buzz. That said, I'm sure shortly after the last race, they cleaned it out and shut it back down, not to be opened again to next year. It was a nice remembrance of days gone by.
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From a different perspective they opened up the trackside restaurant today, and most of the tables were full and it had a nice buzz. That said, I'm sure shortly after the last race, they cleaned it out and shut it back down, not to be opened again to next year. It was a nice remembrance of days gone by.
If that's true about it closing for a year, that's sick.
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If that's true about it closing for a year, that's sick.
What I should have said is that they closed the trackside restaurant about 5 or so years ago, and only "open" it a handful of times a year.
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kinda figured thats what you meant still sick
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She's overrated ..she's ok...Sears grabs titties at bar florida..what,a,loser.
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Attendance wasn't 2000..lol
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Well if live attendance was light the trackside restaurant can re-freeze what food they didn’t sell in 2022 and again in 2023. The triple frozen duck breast should be a fan favorite.
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Can it be separated and measured from slot attendees? I dont know how it works there now.
At RR in the glory days it was a 3 week event spanning the arrival of the foreign horses, the Int Trot and then the grueling Challenge Cup
TV crews at the airport, nightly news updates, back pages of the News and Post and a great vibe on the backstretch. Seeing these enormous big boned equine athletes was such a treat. Race day was buzzing. The grandstand would surge and at the top of the stretch with Jack Lee screaming, a roar would build from the crowd pressed to the rail shaking their fists in the air and jumping up and down, some happy, others not!
Always thought it was funny to see the horses post parade with little flags of their home country attached to the top of their bridles,
It was a circled event and we never missed it..
Un De Mai, The Onyon, Bobbo, Kash Minbar, Ideal Du Gazeau, Jorky and many more
What days!
Yes , Fuguzzi a couple week long calibration indeed. The parade down Post Ave., daily TV appearances with horse and connections of that country. I loved when they would turn out all the lights on track for the post parade. Then a huge spotlight on the horse with Jack doing the bio. A real professional show. Always made the hair on my arms stand up. Let's not forget the international and quarentine barns. No stopping the trailer at the local Hess station and filling up the truck and horse before shipping in.
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Absolutely, my friedn Forgot to mention quarantine barn. Great recall, ty! No, LOLOLOL, no tube at the gas station.....