Shelly Silver

[Any1Left]

A couple of weeks ago one of the biggest fixtures over the years past away,   I still remember his rough voice been heard when rooting for his horse in a stretch drive ,      Many friends attended his funeral and that made me happy.     When i think of racing to me its the characters and some crazy and some a little less crazy but that was a huge part of the everyday scene.   Not many characters left sad.

[oh canada]

True Legend of the game !!  I remember when he was down as trainer for Steve Bregman in the late 80's. I always loved to chat with him as a kid. Longest serving tout north of the border. Rest well Shelly, you earned it !!

[Any1Left]

Spending more or as much time in hotel rooms over the last 30 years i met tons of characters in gambling but not many if any came from horsemen,     Just look at interviews with CHRIS CHRISTOFOROU  or RANDY WAPLES or BOB MCLURE and you will see people that are not interesting with very little humor in their system and like it or not that is the truth as i never read something that makes me laugh or smile when it comes to standarbred horsemen and even my poker games with horsemen were super boring .              A famous regular in Toronto was a guy they called WOODBINE BILLY and he was f....ing insane and none of his stories were boring and i remember him telling me ine day in university he was super broke and had a 10 STAR HORSE at FORT ERIE and he looked at his roommates prized possession a mini grandfather clock his grandmother gave him and he was off to the pawn shop and hitch hiked to fort erie and went in and bet it all without leaving a dollar to get home with as he told me why leave a dollar that would be 5 after the horse won and he would win,  but he lost and then my favourite part is when he told me i learned a huge lesson and i was waiting for the insanity and he said that i was not good enough back then to have 10 Stars and i loved the insanity he provided