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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Mr.Turnpike on August 01, 2025, 06:49:25 AM
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I think I spelled it wrong but anyway
the best or the worst one past or present?
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I think I spelled it wrong but anyway
the best or the worst one past or present?
If corruption is a bad thing ngc3 whomever is doing Yonkers for the last 10 years at least, a cunt that needs to be disappeared!
As much hate I give them, I'm impressed and often appreciative of the match-ups at Mohawk. Something attracts me to that toilet bowl other than the familiarity, purses and the pools!
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I think the RS at Monticello does a good job. He has very little to work with but fields are competitive and handle is above average.
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THE SHORT BUS DROPS OFF HOOSIER PARKS RACE SECRETARY tmbz1
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Hoosier park race secretary is joe zambito, crooked as the day is long, would never trust this guy !
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If corruption is a bad thing ngc3 whomever is doing Yonkers for the last 10 years at least, a cunt that needs to be disappeared!
As much hate I give them, I'm impressed and often appreciative of the match-ups at Mohawk. Something attracts me to that toilet bowl other than the familiarity, purses and the pools!
Up until early 2020 the RS at YR was the late John Brenan who was the first official death from Covid in the United states.
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Up until early 2020 the RS at YR was the late John Brenan who was the first official death from Covid in the United states.
Ya know I remember reading about it then. It was surreal, because everyone was freaking out and we were all wondering what tracks are going to be open. Thank goodness for Will Rogers Downs!
Turns out though he was Covid-19 patient ZERO in NJ, 3/10/20, but I believe you're correct about the reporting then.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2021/03/10/nj-first-covid-death-john-brennan-still-mourned-coronavirus/6887690002/
Covid-19 patient ZERO (and survivor) for the US...
https://www.foxla.com/news/burbank-covid-patient-zero-reunites-hospital-national-nurses-week
or maybe this one, it's disputed...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-americas-first-known-coronavirus-patient-recovered/
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Joe Frasure Jr. at Yonkers is among the worst
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Tom Leasure at the Meadows, Just an asshole.
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Up until early 2020 the RS at YR was the late John Brenan who was the first official death from Covid in the United states.
Wrong....horsemen rep
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I was personal friends with John and spoke to him days before he died
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Ya know I remember reading about it then. It was surreal, because everyone was freaking out and we were all wondering what tracks are going to be open. Thank goodness for Will Rogers Downs!
Turns out though he was Covid-19 patient ZERO in NJ, 3/10/20, but I believe you're correct about the reporting then.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2021/03/10/nj-first-covid-death-john-brennan-still-mourned-coronavirus/6887690002/
Covid-19 patient ZERO (and survivor) for the US...
https://www.foxla.com/news/burbank-covid-patient-zero-reunites-hospital-national-nurses-week
or maybe this one, it's disputed...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-americas-first-known-coronavirus-patient-recovered/
I vaguely remember the reporting at the time saying he was at a dinner with a couple of Fusco's, after the dinner he and those Fusco's died.
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I vaguely remember the reporting at the time saying he was at a dinner with a couple of Fusco's, after the dinner he and those Fusco's died.
That's fucking horrible, so very very sad.
The whole thing was like invisible alien invasion, alien as in never in my lifetime, all of ours, and scary as hell. Families, nurses, doctors, emts helpless and hopeless balling like babies and morgues overflowing.
I spend my time appreciating life even in its simplistic form.
We're all mortals awaiting the grim reaper, act accordingly. ;D
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Smith at redshores pei just about 85years old drawing three pay checks last week non winners of 801 last for or non winners of a race 2023 draw inside
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I think the RS at Monticello does a good job. He has very little to work with but fields are competitive and handle is above average.
Correct!!
And he has to deal with invaders from other tracks (Yonkers, Saratoga, and Pocono) that fit classes that take $$$ away from the locals too!
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Correct!!
And he has to deal with invaders from other tracks (Yonkers, Saratoga, and Pocono) that fit classes that take $$$ away from the locals too!
Not so sure about that, John. There are usually purse caps on most of their races, preventing horses from other Tracks from getting in. Unless they enter as claimers, and risk getting claimed.
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Ya know I remember reading about it then. It was surreal, because everyone was freaking out and we were all wondering what tracks are going to be open. Thank goodness for Will Rogers Downs!
Turns out though he was Covid-19 patient ZERO in NJ, 3/10/20, but I believe you're correct about the reporting then.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2021/03/10/nj-first-covid-death-john-brennan-still-mourned-coronavirus/6887690002/
Covid-19 patient ZERO (and survivor) for the US...
https://www.foxla.com/news/burbank-covid-patient-zero-reunites-hospital-national-nurses-week
or maybe this one, it's disputed...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-americas-first-known-coronavirus-patient-recovered/
March 2 2020 I was in the owners room and Faraldo and Brennan were walking around talking to us. I wound up with COVID-19, that original strain, 3 days later and had fever for 3 days and it passed. I did not feel back to myself for another 10 days. Brennan died a week later. I STILL have the NATURAL antibodies to Covid's original strain 5 years later, so Fauci was full of it when he said NATURAL immunity would not last but vaccines were better! My sense of taste and smell is STILL not 100% as I can eat spoonfuls of horse radish and it does NOT affect my nose at all thanks to the original strain. If you have NATURAL immunity from the ORIGINAL strain it looks like it was the best one to have to protect you long term, which was not the case getting immunity from the weaker variants.
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This is a story Phil Langley told several years ago at a banquet.
It tells of his first job interview at Sportsman's Park. I forget who he said was in charge then so I will just say the boss.
Phil says
"I go in the office to get any job I can get.
I tell the boss I will do anything".
He says "Sorry kid we are full up".
I say "But I will take any job".
Again he says "Sorry kid".
I turn around to walk out and say under my breath "Well I will be a SOB" The boss says "Wait kid why didn't you tell me you wanted to be The Race Secretary".
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Worst secretary in the game hands down is at Yonkers, best is probably the guys at Meadowlands and Northfield.
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THE MORON AT HOOSIER PARK SAYS HOLD MY BEER tmbz1 PLUS GABE IS A COMPLETE ZERO AND HIS 25 MINUTE LAG BETWEEN RACES HATE THE DUMP ALSO PUT WHATEVER U WANT IN THE HORSE THERES NO TESTING AS DAN NOBLE IS SENDING HORSES OVER NOW.
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The worst ever was Steve Staar at Yonkers. A distant second Peter Koch from Freehold and Meadowlands.
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As as RS you are never going to please everyone. It's just the nature of the beast. There are critics and detractors, but Scott McKelvie was RS for the better part of 30 years and spent 40 with WEG, OJC, etc. Open door policy. You didn't always like his answer, but you got one, and you were heard. Also, you can't talk about RC's without talking about Joe DeFrank. Same thing, he may not have agreed with you, and the answer might have been no, but you always had an opportunity to be heard. Not everyone is going to be a raving fan, of Joe DeFrank, but he built the Meadowlands race calendar, backstretch, meet, and all of racing from day one. He personally developed the idea behind the Meadowlands Pace and Woodrow Wilson, and he made both a reality. The Meadowlands would never have become the premier track and the pinnacle of racing, without Joe DeFrank.