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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Any1Left on September 30, 2024, 10:43:19 PM
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This site was unreadable in the past and today we talk harness racing without racism and that is a GREAT job done by the moderator,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Every person i know in racing hates this site and i hope that some start to post as the gamblers have the best racing stories in my opinion,,,,,,,,,, CLASSICS TO ME ARE THE DRIVER GETTING OF HIS HORSE AT DRESDEN AND GOING TO BET WITH HIS SILKS ON OR KEN HARDY BEING TO DRUNK TO DRIVE IN WINDSOR SO HE HOOKED A HORSE UP AND DROVE HIM TO THE BAR AND MANY MORE..........
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Here's a non-gambling story. Back at the old Brandywine Raceway in the 1980's one of the better drivers was Vern Crank. However, he wasn't the most people friendly person. One night my friend and I were standing in the grandstand right next to the track during the post parade. As Crank's horse slowly approached us, we politely asked him how old he was, his response was "old enough to kick your F-in ass!
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Here's a non-gambling story. Back at the old Brandywine Raceway in the 1980's one of the better drivers was Vern Crank. However, he wasn't the most people friendly person. One night my friend and I were standing in the grandstand right next to the track during the post parade. As Crank's horse slowly approached us, we politely asked him how old he was, his response was "old enough to kick your F-in ass!
Vern had a gorgeous blonde groom working for him at Brandywine he might’ve been seeing her on the side not sure. I wonder if she’s still around she was absolutely gorgeous..
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I remember stabling at Brandywine and Calvin Harrison showed up from New Zealand or Australia I can’t remember, he would bring his horses to the farm where I would turn out. (George and Harriet Sharpless farm) It was the first time I ever saw a trainer. Turned the whole barn out together. There were 30 gelding’s and mares one big field. The fencing was all black rubber. I can remember like it was yesterday.
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Speaking of Vern Crank, his top horse Town Drunk was a terrific specimen.!! Won many big opens..
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I know the whipping rules have been modified but when Crank drove Town Drunk, he beat the living crap out of him with the whip and the horse responded well. Crank lived in a trailer at Winterset Farms along with some other drivers during the Brandywine meet.
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Back then, there was this scumbag woman nicknamed Jeannie Bikini. She lived in a trailer at Winterset Farms and used to have sex with some of the drivers. She was a low-lite scumbag slut.
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Back then, there was this scumbag woman nicknamed Jeannie Bikini. She lived in a trailer at Winterset Farms and used to have sex with some of the drivers. She was a low-lite scumbag slut.
What did she look like? Did she work for Vern? I remember she would hang around the pool at the tally ho with Fern, if that’s her.
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I remember back in the day the Tally Ho was next to the Brandywine raceway and used to open the pool to all the grooms and trainers. Cammie Haughton and I would hand out there most afternoons.
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Jeannie Bikini wore a black wig, dark glasses and a push-up bra to make her look bigger. She used to come to the track with some older guy we called her fake husband. Had 2 kids, probably never worked a day in her life.
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She did hang out/ freeload by the pool at the Tally Ho.
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This site was unreadable in the past and today we talk harness racing without racism and that is a GREAT job done by the moderator,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Every person i know in racing hates this site and i hope that some start to post as the gamblers have the best racing stories in my opinion,,,,,,,,,, CLASSICS TO ME ARE THE DRIVER GETTING OF HIS HORSE AT DRESDEN AND GOING TO BET WITH HIS SILKS ON OR KEN HARDY BEING TO DRUNK TO DRIVE IN WINDSOR SO HE HOOKED A HORSE UP AND DROVE HIM TO THE BAR AND MANY MORE..........
You can thank MP for driving away Gagoots
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She did hang out/ freeload by the pool at the Tally Ho.
The woman you describing is not her.... this woman was a tall blonde and she did hang around the pool at the Tally Ho with Vern. A couple years later I saw her hanging around some of the New Jersey Farms alone looking for a place to stay and for work her name might have been Dawn.
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When I used to go down to Brandywine with some of the guys from the Meadowlands, after the races we used to go to some local place-----Redd Fox's-----or something like that. Been a long time, LOL.
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Jeannie Bikini wore a black wig, dark glasses and a push-up bra to make her look bigger. She used to come to the track with some older guy we called her fake husband. Had 2 kids, probably never worked a day in her life.
Add lots of lipstick. I knew of her. Harness people told me all about her. Quite the personality. Cpuldnt miss her. Saw her every now and then. Not a bad person. Probably long gone by now.
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Not familiar with that. There was a bar just down the road called the Hide-Away Inn which is actually still in business.
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She died about 5 or 6 years ago. Before she died she hung around with this real old guy named Moe so she could mooch off his pension check. She also used to come over to my brother and wife's house for leftover food they gave her because she was flat broke. She had a son named Lee who lived close by but he never helped her.
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I believe she had a son, Alan Carter, who hung around Winterset as a kid.
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She had 2 kids, Alan and Lee. Alan was the older one and a smartass. One time we were in the clubhouse at Brandywine and Jeannie was sitting on the bench with her fake husband and my friend looked over at her cleavage and her son Alan saw him and said, "take a picture, it will last longer".
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I know the whipping rules have been modified but when Crank drove Town Drunk, he beat the living crap out of him with the whip and the horse responded well. Crank lived in a trailer at Winterset Farms along with some other drivers during the Brandywine meet.
Did track announcer Roy Shudt call Crank “ the town drunk” in a post parade one night at Brandywine? Or just a story?
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I don't recall. Towards the end Roy's announcing was really slipping and he was forgetting the horses names alot but knew the drivers colors so he'd say, here's comes Jimmy for Jimmy Larente. Late in his career he announced one meet at Harrington Raceway. The track lighting was very poor and he was totally lost calling the races.
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I remember Roy’s calling a photo at the wire “Marbird! No sir” Marbird got nipped at the wire.
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He was a great announcer in his prime but hung on too long.
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I guess nobody FROM Ontario reads this site as i thought people would at least remember the dresdan situation ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i started this thread thanking the MOD for getting rid of the racists as like on this post people are talking horse racing and not stupidity,,,,,,,,,
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Sunday night at Brandywine always had a great card. Top drivers would come in from all over. I remember the grandstand glass would retract on a nice summer night with a beautiful colorful display on the lake in the infield.
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My father first took me there was I was around 13, it was still a 1/2-mile track then. In the years before they closed, I lived only 1 mile away so I was there every night. Their cafeteria had good food too, the clam chowder was really good, and it wasn't that expensive, and they had the best milkshakes around.
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My father first took me there was I was around 13, it was still a 1/2-mile track then. In the years before they closed, I lived only 1 mile away so I was there every night. Their cafeteria had good food too, the clam chowder was really good, and it wasn't that expensive, and they had the best milkshakes around.
Yes the cafeteria had great food! Ted Leonard was a great race secretary always approachable and would have a nice talk with you. Really nice man.