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99 PERCENT OF TRAINERS THEY LEAD FALSEHOODS AND PROMISES LIKE SHEEP TO A KILL PENSums it up pretty good. There is a certain type of human that is susceptible to the average sales pitch of a trainer, and they salivate when they find one.
Not a single time. That is because I decided the money was made in bonus/rebate/discount, as well as off-shores that did not co-mingle. Now if you want stories about those, I'd have to have an idea of who you are, but I imagine I could tell a few. I fell in love with the game, that's for sure. But it was obvious to me that there were few people in it that I could, or would, trust. I'll add one more to my list! Just my opinion, based on my life.
It took about 10 years for me to discover you could get something back on every bet. I call that my "tuition" phase. After paying that for a decade, I spent the next 3 decades riding that education. The past few years I have cut way back. My handle is down to about 20% of what it was, and that is sometimes forced. When TRN (not RTN, but its precursor) debuted, I was in heaven. I was not tied to the track anymore. That led me to discover a sequence of ADWs and other options that turned it completely around for me. I don't need to be as hungry any more, but it will always be on at some point, every day. My nuclear family is all gone, so that makes this the longest mainstay in my life. I met my wife after I met harness racing.
I was 17 1/2 when I met harness racing. I was almost 19 when I met my wife. She has certainly put up with me. I thank her often.
I got so much kitty 20 years ago telling girls I owned horses taking them to balmoral letting them pet and feed the horse a carrot late nights at the barn Good old days
