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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: PineHurstPacer on June 08, 2023, 06:53:53 PM
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https://twitter.com/RonBurkeRacing/status/1665344853469806592
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https://twitter.com/RonBurkeRacing/status/1665344853469806592
Maybe he should go pout in the corner.
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Hey Ron, GSAC
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Did touch a nerve.... a month gap between tweets and this is what he puts out. Do JK Victory and Brookview Bolt run off the screen this weekend? He WILL be working extra hard.
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Did touch a nerve.... a month gap between tweets and this is what he puts out. Do JK Victory and Brookview Bolt run off the screen this weekend? He WILL be working extra hard.
LOL Good Point. But Gaskin's statements are by no means ungrateful or out of line.
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Is Emily Gaskin, by any chance, related to Ernie Gaskin who use to train for Billy Haughton Stable?
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Is Emily Gaskin, by any chance, related to Ernie Gaskin who use to train for Billy Haughton Stable?
Good question. I think she's from Ohio originally was Ernie from the midwest?
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Don't know where Gaskin was from originally but he WAS Billy Haughtons listed first trainer at YR and RR somewhere around the time of Billy's death and I believe she is his daughter
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Don't know where Gaskin was from originally but he WAS Billy Haughtons listed first trainer at YR and RR somewhere around the time of Billy's death and I believe she is his daughter
Yep, your right.
by Victoria M. Howard
Harness racing is nothing new to Emily Gaskin Ratcliff. At one time, her father, Ernie, trained for the late, great Billy Haughton. In fact, that is where he met his future wife and Emily’s mother.
Today, Ernie is one of the leading trainers at the Anderson, IN harness racetrack Harrah’s Hoosier Park.
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https://twitter.com/RonBurkeRacing/status/1665344853469806592
Burke could grow a pair Bitch less and be a Sportsman.
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Burke could grow a pair Bitch less and be a Sportsman.
He's using his large stable presence as leverage. If on air handicappers comment poorly about him, he will just threaten to pull horses. Microcosm here of the entire industry
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He's using his large stable presence as leverage. If on air handicappers comment poorly about him, he will just threaten to pull horses. Microcosm here of the entire industry
1 less horse in each races makes it better/easier for everyone else!
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Does anyone know if Burke ships in or is stabled on the grounds at HP?
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Yep, your right.
by Victoria M. Howard
Harness racing is nothing new to Emily Gaskin Ratcliff. At one time, her father, Ernie, trained for the late, great Billy Haughton. In fact, that is where he met his future wife and Emily’s mother.
Today, Ernie is one of the leading trainers at the Anderson, IN harness racetrack Harrah’s Hoosier Park.
Ty for the answer to my question. Yeo, he was listed in the programs for sure along with Al"Apples" Thomas. I remeber watching the haughton stable train in sets - Ernie, Apples, Ben Steall, Donnie Miller and Billy Usually 5 or 6 horses training as a group on the main track - it got crowded in those days - lol Each horse would pull out and pass the group for like 3/8ths and then another horse would do the same. Sometimes they would fan out at the end. you had to be alert if you were jogging one. But, hey it was the Haughtons.
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Ty for the answer to my question. Yeo, he was listed in the programs for sure along with Al"Apples" Thomas. I remeber watching the haughton stable train in sets - Ernie, Apples, Ben Steall, Donnie Miller and Billy Usually 5 or 6 horses training as a group on the main track - it got crowded in those days - lol Each horse would pull out and pass the group for like 3/8ths and then another horse would do the same. Sometimes they would fan out at the end. you had to be alert if you were jogging one. But, hey it was the Haughtons.
Pretty cool. Some of the big guys still train that way in Florida during the winter months. Enjoyable to watch.
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Pretty cool. Some of the big guys still train that way in Florida during the winter months. Enjoyable to watch.
Cool! TY Hard to put into words how much I miss those days. Harness racing 1980 to 2000 give or take a few years was, at least to my way of thinking, the best ever. I lived and breathed it every second of every day. I just cant feel the same way about today's product.
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Cool! TY Hard to put into words how much I miss those days. Harness racing 1980 to 2000 give or take a few years was, at least to my way of thinking, the best ever. I lived and breathed it every second of every day. I just cant feel the same way about today's product.
Svanstedts train that way at his farm, but a majority of the Swedes still train in that style.
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Does anyone know if Burke ships in or is stabled on the grounds at HP?
They do have cameras all the barn area now@ HP
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Does anyone know if Burke ships in or is stabled on the grounds at HP?
They do have cameras all the barn area now@ HP
He was shipping in from a training center nearby, and from his Ohio barn.
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I looked up stats on Trackmaster. Burke started 0-27 at Hoosier. It's strange since he was killing it everywhere else.
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From 01/01/2023 thru 06/09/2023
Burke Ron 40 6 5 8
15% 13% 20%
Thats an interesting drop in performance.
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The whining and moaning, blabbing, was the start of Richard "Rick" E. Dutrow's Jr. downfall, where he got ev1s attention with Big Brown, steroids, Belmont Stakes performance - the Congressional committee 15 years ago - and he was a die hard gonna show and testify....
Until he got very sick, and then banded! ngc3
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I looked up stats on Trackmaster. Burke started 0-27 at Hoosier. It's strange since he was killing it everywhere else.
That's not a lot of starters. 2nds/3rds?
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The whining and moaning, blabbing, was the start of Richard "Rick" E. Dutrow's Jr. downfall, where he got ev1s attention with Big Brown, steroids, Belmont Stakes performance - the Congressional committee 15 years ago - and he was a die hard gonna show and testify....
Until he got very sick, and then banded! ngc3
That's exactly what happened, but finding it hard to believe he was 100% out of horse business and racing until his recent return. Suddenly he has owners sending horses from other good trainers, and a barn full at Monmouth and Belmont. But he believes it only appears coincidental. ngc3
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When Macomber left, Burke started downsizing his Indiana operation I think. Doesn’t buy too manny babies out there now compared to a few years back.
But really, who wants to ship in to a place and being told your horses are auto tosses from someone employed by the track?
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When Macomber left, Burke started downsizing his Indiana operation I think. Doesn’t buy too manny babies out there now compared to a few years back.
But really, who wants to ship in to a place and being told your horses are auto tosses from someone employed by the track?
The economics of his base in PA, NJ, and OH. Is pretty much the main focus. It doesnt make much sense to race in IN.
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That's exactly what happened, but finding it hard to believe he was 100% out of horse business and racing until his recent return. Suddenly he has owners sending horses from other good trainers, and a barn full at Monmouth and Belmont. But he believes it only appears coincidental. ngc3
Good point, maybe he deployed a beard colony upon exit! 73cv.2
He won his very "official" race back too, not that great ever since. HP members were too distracted to catch his return before it happened.
https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=People&searchType=T&eID=110865
What makes this a great forum if we focus we catch things as they're happening, also fearless to pick up a phone / use email and call a track, trainer, driver and get the 411 on whatever is on our mind, or go wild on regulatory. tmbz1
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What makes this a great forum if we focus we catch things as they're happening, also fearless to pick up a phone / use email and call a track, trainer, driver and get the 411 on whatever is on our mind, or go wild on regulatory. tmbz1
I find that when you call a track, trainer or driver you are always spoken down to and lied to so I don’t bother anymore. That’s also why the trainer/driver interviews usually suck. More lies most of the time.
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I find that when you call a track, trainer or driver you are always spoken down to and lied to so I don’t bother anymore. That’s also why the trainer/driver interviews usually suck. More lies most of the time.
I've never had that experience thus far and reported my back and forth communications herein.
The racing secretary at Jonkers now ignoring us is another story, when he's ripped in front of his parent company MGMIR and the media...he can go find something else to do.....definitely inside dealing going on there with selective horseman / parties - and the shittiest racing with the highest purses.
Joe Frasure Jr., fuck you pal! ;D
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I find that when you call a track, trainer or driver you are always spoken down to and lied to so I don’t bother anymore. That’s also why the trainer/driver interviews usually suck. More lies most of the time.
Unless you get greg peck behind a camera with a mic...lol
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I find that when you call a track, trainer or driver you are always spoken down to and lied to so I don’t bother anymore. That’s also why the trainer/driver interviews usually suck. More lies most of the time.
99.9% of race track employees are lazy As Fuck.
They would much rather lie to you if doing so allows them to keep their fat ass immobile.