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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Any1Left on August 13, 2024, 08:18:39 AM
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I remember many moons ago walking into race secretary BARRY HEWSON office after the races and we talked about the races of that night and he told me it was poor as the track had no movement and was boring and he said that he would speak to the track crew to make changes to the track and then he said to me RICK Zeron is trying to get into our circuit and this would never happen on his watch,, Well later Rick got in and i asked him if he had a change of heart and man was he not a happy camper,,,,,,,, Years later blue bonnets closed its doors and most of the people who ruined racing like SYLVAIN FILLION, BENOIT AND MARIO,, RICHARD MOREAU,, RICK ZERON ,,COLLIN JOHNSON AND MANY OTHERS decided to kill racing in ONTARIO AND TODAY ITS NO LONGER A SPORT,,,,, When i started in the game you could handicap,,,, When drivers like DAVE SMITH,, ROBERT LACKEY,, DOUG BROWN,, WILLIAM MEGANS,, BRENT DAVIES,, FRED GILLIS were driving it would be a speed duel and these guys closed holes,,,,,, How can you call it a sport when you do not do everything you can to win a race,,, Today the great trainers of the past like ROGER MAYOTE and JERRY DUFFORD are jokes and guys like LARRY WALKER left the game looking like a fool,,,,, Back then i would walk into the track and knew how a race would go and it was not the chalk on the lead every race and there was speed horses that always left and i looked forward to the weekly FFA PACE AND TROT........ EARL LENNOX to me the best announcer ever as he would call a race without making it a circus like many announcers do today and a hard driven first half meant back runners were going to win and today i am not sure if 53 seconds is to fast with the drugs keeping them going,,,,, Man i did not realize how good EARL LENNOX was as he did not go overboard with telling you were the chalk was the entire race,,,,, For me its sad that this site is all horsemen as 20 years ago horse going from 2-1 to 3/5 when leaving first is not a topic on this site and 20 years ago it would be the number one topic,,,,,,,,
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i have mentioned on multiple threads about betting after the bell....whoever leaves odds drop and whoever lags off the gate, the odds go up.
This has been happening for at least 15 years and getting worse every year
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Doug Brown would just make a quarter pole move and orchestrate the entire race. Especially when Ron Waples was on the decline.
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And he had a good left winger in dave wall but he was a speed driver that looked like a fool at the big m
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Great post Any1Left.
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Here you go:
Drivers statistics for 2024---current!
Top Drivers for the current year---January 1, 2024 Through August 12, 2024
Does anything stand out?
DRIVERS
Sts 1st 2nd 3rd $Won Win% UDRS
James A Macdonald 1125 236 167 147 4,401,931 21.0 .335
Douglas R Mcnair 923 165 153 119 3,393,233 17.9 .313
Louis-philippe Roy 1000 156 162 155 3,570,134 15.6 .297
Sylvain R Filion 1114 152 171 134 3,514,941 13.6 .261
Tyler J Borth 1008 90 89 121 2,011,969 8.9 .178
Trevor S Henry 797 88 106 105 1,906,229 11.0 .228
Jody C Jamieson 684 80 92 96 2,272,414 11.7 .238
Travis A Cullen 671 80 57 72 1,483,381 11.9 .202
Bob Mcclure 647 78 83 82 1,980,694 12.1 .234
Tyler S Jones 636 42 64 59 999,377 6.6 .152
Jonathan L Drury 554 41 51 67 961,322 7.4 .165
Austin Sorrie 330 28 20 26 464,225 8.5 .144
Phillippe Hudon 353 21 20 21 378,851 5.9 .110
Brett A Macdonald 301 18 22 31 513,609 6.0 .134
Ed F Hensley 164 17 12 21 293,880 10.4 .186
Chris Christoforou 144 14 19 23 358,613 9.7 .223
Todd Ratchford 206 12 18 15 301,888 5.8 .131
Scott R Young 236 11 25 22 401,700 4.7 .136
Dale Pr Spence 62 8 8 6 161,510 12.9 .232
Dexter J Dunn 31 7 0 4 384,540 22.6 .268
Tyler Moore 71 6 8 6 169,810 8.5 .175
Paul Macdonell 62 6 8 3 216,122 9.7 .184
Paul G Mackenzie 15 5 4 1 55,780 33.3 .503
Mario J Baillargeon 87 4 6 3 117,445 4.6 .095
Michael W Whelan 68 4 3 9 89,720 5.9 .127
Dagfin E Henriksen 49 4 2 6 90,950 8.2 .145
Matthew Bax 34 4 1 2 124,513 11.8 .153
Tim A Tetrick 20 3 2 1 208,912 15.0 .222
Jean Bernard Renaud 25 3 2 0 45,620 12.0 .164
Richard Zeron 33 2 2 4 41,490 6.1 .134
Lyle G Macarthur 15 2 1 4 33,230 13.3 .259
David S Miller 10 2 1 0 127,125 20.0 .255
Simon Allard 6 2 0 0 25,300 33.3 .333
Yannick Gingras 21 1 3 5 220,115 4.8 .206
Mark G Etsell 8 1 3 0 20,790 12.5 .333
Patrick J Hudon 44 1 2 5 90,663 2.3 .085
Nicholas R Boyd 23 1 1 3 24,060 4.3 .111
Ondrej Gois 40 1 1 3 31,290 2.5 .063
Todd Mccarthy 7 1 1 3 190,164 14.3 .365
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71 win difference between 1st and 2nd tmbz1
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71 win difference between 1st and 2nd tmbz1
73cv.2
Anything else?
Look very carefully!!
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71 win difference between 1st and 2nd tmbz1
There is a reason for that...
he is superior to that cast of characters
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I remember many moons ago walking into race secretary BARRY HEWSON office after the races and we talked about the races of that night and he told me it was poor as the track had no movement and was boring and he said that he would speak to the track crew to make changes to the track and then he said to me RICK Zeron is trying to get into our circuit and this would never happen on his watch,, Well later Rick got in and i asked him if he had a change of heart and man was he not a happy camper,,,,,,,, Years later blue bonnets closed its doors and most of the people who ruined racing like SYLVAIN FILLION, BENOIT AND MARIO,, RICHARD MOREAU,, RICK ZERON ,,COLLIN JOHNSON AND MANY OTHERS decided to kill racing in ONTARIO AND TODAY ITS NO LONGER A SPORT,,,,, When i started in the game you could handicap,,,, When drivers like DAVE SMITH,, ROBERT LACKEY,, DOUG BROWN,, WILLIAM MEGANS,, BRENT DAVIES,, FRED GILLIS were driving it would be a speed duel and these guys closed holes,,,,,, How can you call it a sport when you do not do everything you can to win a race,,, Today the great trainers of the past like ROGER MAYOTE and JERRY DUFFORD are jokes and guys like LARRY WALKER left the game looking like a fool,,,,, Back then i would walk into the track and knew how a race would go and it was not the chalk on the lead every race and there was speed horses that always left and i looked forward to the weekly FFA PACE AND TROT........ EARL LENNOX to me the best announcer ever as he would call a race without making it a circus like many announcers do today and a hard driven first half meant back runners were going to win and today i am not sure if 53 seconds is to fast with the drugs keeping them going,,,,, Man i did not realize how good EARL LENNOX was as he did not go overboard with telling you were the chalk was the entire race,,,,, For me its sad that this site is all horsemen as 20 years ago horse going from 2-1 to 3/5 when leaving first is not a topic on this site and 20 years ago it would be the number one topic,,,,,,,,
Purses funded by gaming created all of this
no need to play hardball or close a hole when next there is another purse to be had-
no need to compete hard and jeopardize future purses when they are friendly out there
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I remember every year watching the PRO BOWL and could not believe how the game looked when played soft and in racing almost every race is soft and it looks way worse than the PRO BOWL ever looked and the one thing i remember most about the PROBOWL WAS THE EMPTY stadiums,,,,,, I remember ROGER MAYOTE WINNING STAKE RACES and paying huge because no holes were given up and he always railed and in fair racing that can win,,,,,,,And yes JMAC IS IN ANOTHER LEAGUE,,, fOR NOW THE DRUG AND SOFT RACING WITH MAJOR ODDS DROPS INTO THE RACE SHOW WILL GO ON AT CANADIAN racetracks and Randy will say another exciting night with a great card on the next day of racing,,,,, exciting my ass,,,,