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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Billsmafia on February 05, 2026, 12:56:33 PM

Title: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: Billsmafia on February 05, 2026, 12:56:33 PM: Take a look at Winter Asher-Stalbaum winning the first race at Monti today. Winter who has less than an unblemished record at a good number of tracks, passes the lead horse driven by Jim Taggart just past the three quarters. Winter then turns around and waves bye-bye to the field. What a classless thing to do.

Ron Pierce did something similar a few years before he retired--the judges and the public ate him alive for doing the identical thing. Do Monticello judges have enough in their arsenal to send Winter a message?

By the way, Winter also won the second race at Monticello. Both were by large margins. Not bad for someone with UDRS of .186.
Title: Re: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: Checked Up on February 05, 2026, 01:01:11 PM: The Waving" will stick in the minds of his fellow drivers for a while. There will be no "courtesy tucks " for him for a long time. Typical Bonehead move!
Title: Re: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: toothman on February 05, 2026, 01:53:47 PM: he would benefit from some advice to slow his roll a bit.
No one likes getting shown up.
Title: Re: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: Racetime on February 05, 2026, 02:40:19 PM: The kid has a bad habit with the whip and left Maine after receiving 3 fines in 3 days. He made a deal to not return to Maine if they dropped the fines and days.
Title: Re: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: seriously on February 05, 2026, 04:22:23 PM: It was either harness racing or medical school.
Title: Re: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: YonkersFinest on February 05, 2026, 06:20:46 PM: Judges did call for him, I assume for that move.
Title: Re: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: Raging pace on February 05, 2026, 06:50:14 PM: Kid is an idiot like his father ! Plain and simple !
Title: Re: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: dougie on February 05, 2026, 07:25:10 PM: I think it was a classless thing to do. But is there a specific rule against it?
Title: Re: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: Billsmafia on February 24, 2026, 11:14:17 AM: There is a history of this at Monticello--long before Winter was born. November 27, 1983 a month after Gilmour and Allen were arrested for allegedly throwing a race at the track. Watch driver Leon Wunderlich's antics in the stretch. It's too bad the horse Deficit Spending was so far in the front that the camera zeroed in on the other horses so you can only see Leon waving a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QM0IlWfhVQ
Title: Re: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: Calhoun on February 24, 2026, 02:12:26 PM: What about whip drags?

I do enjoy a proper whip drag.
Title: Re: Monticello Race 1 2/5/26
Post by: Harness racer on February 24, 2026, 06:40:38 PM: That kid can’t feed himself on what he makes in this business. He would make more if he mastered the phrase “would you like fries with that?”