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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Fuguzzi on August 17, 2023, 11:06:47 PM
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That the legendary trotter, Ideal du Gazeau wins his 3rd consecutive RR International Trot by sitting the entire mile and a quarter on the outside of his country mate and wears him down in the stretch to win decisively. Gosh, i can still remember where i was standing watching it in disbelief. Great grilled pretzel on the way out too. Nathans for a hot dog! A great night.
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he had such a powerful stride.
I recall in one of the inernational trots-not necessarily the International, one of the drivers went three wide and drove hard to the finish line at the 1 mile mark-too bad the race was a mile and a half!
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That's right remember his duels in the previous races with Jorky? They would skip, get back on and keep dueling. Amazing
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My Mom loved Norm Jones big trotter BOBBO. She would laugh out loud when Jack Lee would scream his name lengthening the vowels BBBOOOOBBBOOOOOOO OO! Great times!
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My Mom loved Norm Jones big trotter BOBBO. She would laugh out loud when Jack Lee would scream his name lengthening the vowels BBBOOOOBBBOOOOOOO OO! Great times!
BBBOOOOBBBOOOOOOOOO:
https://harnessracing.ws/videos/1983%20RR%20ATC%20Bobbo.wmv
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In some of those races was a trotter named Crown Wood, who would go on to race as a pacer for Larry Summer He was really good and could take a lot of air
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I remember this... I have goose bumps watching this 2023 August....Jackie Lee best harness announcer and Stan Bernstein. Wor channel. 9
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Crown wood. .also Mike Primak and Billy B
.. norm jones.babbbbbbboo oo
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most memorable call was I think the next year Lutin D Isnay
Offstride Bridger, Bridger has collapsed over the guardrail...and Bridger of Canada as fallen
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My Mom loved Norm Jones big trotter BOBBO. She would laugh out loud when Jack Lee would scream his name lengthening the vowels BBBOOOOBBBOOOOOOO OO! Great times!
There were many Bobo fans. Me included. Jack defiantly kicked it up with his race call. Ideal du Gazeau, there was not another one like him. He looked like he was lame or was going to break with every stride. He would just gobble up ground and get faster and faster.
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he had such a powerful stride.
I recall in one of the inernational trots-not necessarily the International, one of the drivers went three wide and drove hard to the finish line at the 1 mile mark-too bad the race was a mile and a half!
I remember this. The driver almost started to turn around and as everyone was blowing past him he realized the race wasn’t over. I thought that guy was going to cause an accident.
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There were many Bobo fans. Me included. Jack defiantly kicked it up with his race call. Ideal du Gazeau, there was not another one like him. He looked like he was lame or was going to break with every stride. He would just gobble up ground and get faster and faster.
LOL You are right My Dad used to say that Isdeal Du Gazeau was a Throroughbred in disguise
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Damn that was a real horse!
That was prior to soda baking soda saga that Pelling started!
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I grew up in northern NJ. I was hooked on harness racing as a teenager. What I remember is the NYC radio station, WINZ, used to broadcast the results of each race from either Yonkers or RR as they became available. If I had a few bucks and gave like $2-$4 to a friend going to the track, I would be glued to my transistor radio waiting to hear if I won. Remember no cell phones and no pay phones were available during the race program. The phone booths were actually locked so there couldn’t be any bookmaking. Wow have things changed.
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Good memory Yes They would lock the phones at YRm both down in the track kitchen card playing room and in the grandstand. Remember CBS News radio 880 would gice results after each race and sometimes replay the stretch call. Same here me glued to the radio with my marked up Sports Eye
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I listened to those CBS stretch calls for years. They were just after the sports news? Crazy how far things have come and how far harness has demised from it's popularity.
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Crazy and very sad
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It is a terrible shame. Harness racing was always a better fit for the regular guys and gals. Thoroughbred racing was always a rich person sport as it is today. As a harness guy I appreciated that I could see the races without the benefit of tv monitors, binoculars etc. The programs were so much easier to understand than the racing form. Sure harness had a lot of games going on in the 60’s and 70’s but at least it wasn’t about designer steroid drugs. Great but manageable crowds in those days with plenty of promotions at the smaller tracks. It is all gone now and will certainly die off as us older fans do the same.
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My feelings exactly I never understood T-bred guys who didn't "get" harness racing.
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1010 WINS and CBS 88 gave the results at 10 minuets before and 20 minuets after the hour. Or call, 212-976-1212 OTB.
Sports Eye was the harness bible.
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Sure was I knew all those guys Geooff Stein Mark Richman Maz Cohen the editor Mike Remy and of course Pandy
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Sure was I knew all those guys Geooff Stein Mark Richman Maz Cohen the editor Mike Remy and of course Pandy
Mike Remy was a great guy. Pandy was and still is a jackass. Jack Rubin was a legend. I never met him but I read every column every day.
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forgot Jack Rubin what about Brewster Smith I think he was Black
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forgot Jack Rubin what about Brewster Smith I think he was Black
I didn’t know Brewer Smith. Sandy Grossman I remember was a funny guy.
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remember the column tall and small??
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My feelings exactly I never understood T-bred guys who didn't "get" harness racing.
I don't "get' though bred racing.
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Neither do I
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I don't "get' though bred racing.
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Please let me clarify my position. I despise thorough bred racing.
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That the legendary trotter, Ideal du Gazeau wins his 3rd consecutive RR International Trot by sitting the entire mile and a quarter on the outside of his country mate and wears him down in the stretch to win decisively. Gosh, i can still remember where i was standing watching it in disbelief. Great grilled pretzel on the way out too. Nathans for a hot dog! A great night.
I still think the late Jack E Lee was the best announcer I ever heard. Pigland calls those pretzels diesel pretzels.
I remember the track program used to have coupons for that Nathans, my favorite was the 2 for 1 chickabuns
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We will never see those times again. I used to go to wrestling at the Garden and Jack Lee was sometimes the ring announcer when RR was closed . RR and The Garden were both owned by Gulf and Western and controlled by Sonny Werblin
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We will never see those times again. I used to go to wrestling at the Garden and Jack Lee was sometimes the ring announcer when RR was closed . RR and The Garden were both owned by Gulf and Western and controlled by Sonny Werblin
Jack was also the race caller for that quarter horse track parr meadows in yaphank ny but that track closed after 1 season in the mid 80's
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Thats right his problem was alcohol and being a nasty drunk Didnt he say something like "Fuck you, Carmine" on a hot mic? Undid his career