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Title: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 12:36:47 AM
Nicest - Corey Callahan, just a great guy overall

Least - Jackie Mo, you can have him
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: sfdecoy on August 12, 2023, 01:15:29 AM
Nicest - Corey Callahan, just a great guy overall

Least - Jackie Mo, you can have him


Pete Wrenn is an arrogant prick

My uncle (before my time) said Bill O'donnell was a total asshole
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: ferdinand the bull on August 12, 2023, 01:28:01 AM

Pete Wrenn is an arrogant prick

My uncle (before my time) said Bill O'donnell was a total asshole
JC might be the only really good driver that isnt an arrogant dick
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Balmoral buzz on August 12, 2023, 01:28:26 AM

Pete Wrenn is an arrogant prick

My uncle (before my time) said Bill O'donnell was a total asshole
Pete Wrenn is a snitch and angry old man. He is also an auto toss in most races. As soon as Dana pulls out he’s fucked
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 01:47:40 AM
JC might be the only really good driver that isnt an arrogant dick
Corey Callahan is a very good driver and the nicest man in
 the game
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: shaniaube on August 12, 2023, 06:36:55 AM
Ray Remmen
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Parked on August 12, 2023, 07:26:28 AM
Going back some, Stephan Bouchard always treated me well.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 12, 2023, 08:09:44 AM
The nicest driver (person) I ever met?
Delvin G. Miller
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 09:54:06 AM
Ray Remmen
Good one!  The Remmens were good guys and ran a top outfit
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Kirbys Ace on August 12, 2023, 10:34:43 AM
Luc Ouellette nicest driver I met.

Tony Morgan can be an asshole now and then..But he helps you when needed.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: sfdecoy on August 12, 2023, 11:48:09 AM
Pete Wrenn is a snitch and angry old man. He is also an auto toss in most races. As soon as Dana pulls out he’s fucked

Pete's can still get one around the track and his average speaks to that.

I don't agree that he's an "auto toss."
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: seen2much on August 12, 2023, 12:20:20 PM
Many years ago i met many drivers. Most were polite & some talked more than others. The only a-hole was G. Napolitano. He drove a friend's horse bad & had an attitude after the race.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 12:47:10 PM
Luc Ouellette right in the league of Cory Callahan   I can still remember the day he arrived at YR/RR, 17 and grooming for his uncle. Absolutely a gentleman. Drove for me ALOT   Never a problem, never an attitude, always appreciative
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Balmoral buzz on August 12, 2023, 01:58:48 PM
Pete's can still get one around the track and his average speaks to that.

I don't agree that he's an "auto toss."
I’m telling you he’s an auto toss. He wins only on some of those overpriced yearlings that Dana buys for him that lay over the field. Or when son in law trace sets him up with a nice trip. Other than that he’s lucky he’s alive for wearing a wire and snitching on good people back in the day. Angry old man who is horrible and needs to hang up driving and let the young guys drive. Same thing with Plano
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: White Rabbit on August 12, 2023, 02:00:12 PM
Paul McDonnell from my experiences in Canada over the years.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 02:19:35 PM
Always liked Gregory Annoloro   Joe Marsh jr was a prick
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: hoosierboy on August 12, 2023, 02:41:14 PM
Dave Miller
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 03:04:34 PM
Dave seems very personable in interviews  Seems to have taken on the John Campbell mantle.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: sfdecoy on August 12, 2023, 04:44:55 PM
I’m telling you he’s an auto toss. He wins only on some of those overpriced yearlings that Dana buys for him that lay over the field. Or when son in law trace sets him up with a nice trip. Other than that he’s lucky he’s alive for wearing a wire and snitching on good people back in the day. Angry old man who is horrible and needs to hang up driving and let the young guys drive. Same thing with Plano

Trace is Pete's son-in-law?

I didn't know that
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: shotgunner on August 12, 2023, 04:47:02 PM
Nicest? Probably Chris Page.

I wouldn’t piss on Aaron Merrimen if he was on fire. Same with John Campbell.



Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Gaagoots on August 12, 2023, 07:51:47 PM
Mike Gagulardi great guy and horseman.

Rene Poulin:  Total piece of dog shit.
 
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Open bridle on August 12, 2023, 08:01:01 PM
Nicest? Probably Chris Page.

I wouldn’t piss on Aaron Merrimen if he was on fire. Same with John Campbell.
Chris is very personable, but can come across as arrogant at times.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 08:09:02 PM
Mike Gagulardi great guy and horseman.

Rene Poulin:  Total piece of dog shit.
Mike Gagliardi was a nice guy but he wore a wire on the track and in the lockerroom

Reme poulin was a piece of shit race fixing scumbag, but could be every personable and friendly too
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 12, 2023, 08:35:42 PM
The nicest driver (person) I ever met?
Delvin G. Miller
Nastiest Old Man
Gene Sears
Brian's grandpa
Fifty or so years ago that old bastard ran me all over the Pompano Park Race Track for no other reason, but that he was in a possition to do so. It was one of my few drives at Pompano, and I have rooted against Gene, Jay, and Brian ever since.
Me, carry a grudge? Na Not Me!
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 08:39:55 PM
Ya musta won a few races in 50 years to help get over it
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 12, 2023, 08:48:38 PM
Nicest - Corey Callahan, just a great guy overall


I bet Corey wishes the immigration laws were much stricter, and Dexter Dunn and the McCarthy brothers had to stay down under.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 08:54:58 PM
Corey is not the type to worry about that  He is a cool dude, has plenty of money and realizes everything changes - for the good or bad

Dexter dunn totally rubs me the wrong way    comes off like a twerp
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 12, 2023, 08:55:11 PM
Ya musta won a few races in 50 years to help get over it
Maybe I just developed a few more grudges.
Truth be told I bet all the top catch drivers of today have secret grudges against certain drivers that they race against all the time.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 12, 2023, 08:58:19 PM
Corey is not the type to worry about that  He is a cool dude, has plenty of money and realizes everything changes -
Sounds good, but he is human? Right?
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: harnessplop on August 12, 2023, 09:10:31 PM
Nastiest Old Man
Gene Sears
Brian's grandpa
Fifty or so years ago that old bastard ran me all over the Pompano Park Race Track for no other reason, but that he was in a possition to do so. It was one of my few drives at Pompano, and I have rooted against Gene, Jay, and Brian ever since.
Me, carry a grudge? Na Not Me!
Brian has no. Once from smoking ?
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 09:13:28 PM
Maybe I just developed a few more grudges.
Truth be told I bet all the top catch drivers of today have secret grudges against certain drivers that they race against all the time.
Campbell and Pierce hated each other
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: toothman on August 12, 2023, 09:19:37 PM
Campbell and Pierce hated each other

Wow. Those are two names I wouldn't expect to hear.
Can you expand on that?
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 12, 2023, 09:34:12 PM
Brian has no. Once from smoking ?
I am a little grudge tonight.
 Please run that by us again, but with a little more detail.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 09:44:38 PM
Wow. Those are two names I wouldn't expect to hear.
Can you expand on that?
It developed over time and culminated in a race where they were all over each other and then carried it over to the paddock afterwards. of course, sympathetic sentiment sided with JC   I honestly have no idea what started the feud but it is well chronicled on the backstretch
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: takethereigns on August 12, 2023, 10:54:12 PM
Jack Moiseyev and Mike Forte were cool with me,
and Dan Dube was a douche .

Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Mazola on August 12, 2023, 11:18:03 PM
Ray Remmen for sure.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 12, 2023, 11:22:28 PM
Jack Moiseyev and Mike Forte were cool with me,
and Dan Dube was a douche .
Mike was a pretty cool guy, but Jackie Mo, you cant be serious. Arrogant jerk
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: ferdinand the bull on August 12, 2023, 11:28:24 PM
James MacDonald seems easy going
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Goaldigger on August 13, 2023, 05:38:25 AM
Corey Callahan nicest guy ever! Drove my horse and walked past me and said my horse raced great. It surprised me as I am a nobody. Tim Tetrick drove one of my horses that he couldn’t hold back and went 53 to the half 2 wide the whole mile. He was pissed off. But that does not make him a bad guy. It just surprised me he was pissed.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Harness racer on August 13, 2023, 06:13:40 AM
I'd say Corey Callahan or George Dennis were the nicest.  Both really friendly guys.  Tony Morgan is an asshole!
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Yonkers1A on August 13, 2023, 06:27:29 AM
Mike Forte, great guy, plus he’s a Mets fan
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Post by: The Exporter on August 13, 2023, 07:40:40 AM
The New York Mets? The team that has been outscored, 33 to 3 in the past 3 games. Today, they play the last of 4 against the Braves. All they need is 31 runs to reverse that statt! tmbz1 11.wp 73cv.2
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: whiptherabbit on August 13, 2023, 07:42:16 AM
Campbell always a nice guy, polite to everyone. Dave Miller was the same, he drove one at Mohawk awhile ago, I put the lines back as far as they would go, he grabbed the lines, jumped on and started readjusting them & I was laughing & said to him jokingly, sorry I thought Brett Miller was driving tonight not yourself, he near fell off the bike laughing.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Under The STick on August 13, 2023, 08:30:18 AM
The nicest for me would be
Dave Miller- he’s the same guy he was when he was in Ohio years ago.
George Brennan- is one of my favorites as he always goes out of his way to say hi to me.
Tim Tetrick- has always been nice as I have known him for many years.

Some of the newer drivers aren’t nearly as friendly as the ones that have been around for awhile. There are definitely drivers who act like their shit don’t stink but the majority overall of the guys are always nice.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: ferdinand the bull on August 13, 2023, 10:15:59 AM
A poll of well endowed young men say thay Simon Allard is the nicest driver they have met
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Harness racer on August 13, 2023, 11:01:45 AM
A poll of well endowed young men say thay Simon Allard is the nicest driver they have met

 ngc3  funny and sad at the same time!  What a weirdo!
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Locked in with pace on August 13, 2023, 11:06:10 AM
Dave Miller is very friendly
Tetrick is moody
Yannick and Zeron always friendly.
Sears picks his spots. ( few of them)
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: takethereigns on August 13, 2023, 11:48:57 AM
A poll of well endowed young men say thay Simon Allard is the nicest driver they have met

 ngc3 thats fn hilarious because its factual.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Kole Hanover on August 13, 2023, 01:15:48 PM



 nicest- JAMES MACDONALD (hands down, much diff than the other MacDonalds)
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: getreal on August 13, 2023, 03:51:46 PM
Dave Miller  tmbz1
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 13, 2023, 05:20:14 PM
A poll of well endowed young men say thay Simon Allard is the nicest driver they have met
Love this one  an all time great line
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Generation XYZ on August 14, 2023, 11:48:35 AM
ngc3  funny and sad at the same time!  What a weirdo!


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Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: theokodjak26 on August 15, 2023, 06:52:33 PM
Without a doubt Harold Kelly from Freehold was the most decent person who ever drove our horses. I never heard him curse or say a bad thing about anyone. He was a religious man who wouldn’t drive on Sundays. As far as a bad person I didn’t know any. However the strangest person was Ron Pierce. Most of the time I had no idea what he was talking about but his golden hands it didn’t much matter.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 15, 2023, 07:02:01 PM
Didn't know Harold Kelly personally but he, at least to me, had hands of concrete. except for 1 time when he finished a pick 4 for me that was multi thousand at YR of all places during one of the first daytime cards. the horse was creepshow. Wasn't in sort of "in house" for stanley Dancer, the way Ben Steall was for Haughton


Pierce was definitely weird  Maybe one of the reasons he feuded with John Campbell

Have to feel fro him having his brilliant career cut short by the back surgeries    He is a prospector now out West   more weird   lol
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Chips N Salsa on August 15, 2023, 09:20:50 PM
Luc Oullette was super nice as well as JC.  Now a days it's David Miller, Scott Zeron & Callahan.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 15, 2023, 09:34:22 PM
Spot on for all 5 tmbz1 tmbz1 tmbz1 tmbz1 tmbz1
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Post by: Low Groove on August 15, 2023, 10:53:20 PM
Nicest: Travis Bowman.
Least: Jackie Mo
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 15, 2023, 11:10:07 PM
Agree about Jackie Mo   I started this topic saying he was the worst     
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Assassinator on August 16, 2023, 12:45:19 AM
Dave Palone has always been a good guy for as long as I've known him...always stops and talks to the kids at the track when he sees them.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: jupiter on August 16, 2023, 11:07:02 AM
Cat Manzi, Jeff Gregory, good guys, Stanley could be a real asshole, Vernon great guy. Harold Kelly a great guy.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: Superfecta on August 16, 2023, 11:26:09 AM
A poll of well endowed young men say thay Simon Allard is the nicest driver they have met

Excuse me sir, it should read young black men.  ;D

Luc Ouellette was the nicest guy I ever met. Corey Callahan was as well.
Herve Filion was a nasty prick.
Title: Re: Nicest driver you ever met/least friendly driver
Post by: FirstUpFrom8Hole on August 16, 2023, 12:09:39 PM
I started driving at Lebanon at about the same time David Miller did. He started out being a cowboy on the track but hes intelligent and learned how to use his hands and brain to win races. Super guy. The only problem I really ever saw him have was with Wilder and Carol.

I came home from Scioto one night in the 90s and the wife asked me how i did. This was before the internet so she couldn't watch the races. I said great. Between David and I we won 8 races. She was all excited and said you won 4? I said no, Miller won 7, I scraped out 1
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