My Dad. AKA PoP

[Meadow Ford]

thanks for sharing

sorry for your loss

the announcer was the legendary Stan Bergstein

Papillon you are just to fast for me. While you were posting I was looking up how to spell Bergstein.
I also lost my dad to cancer.

[Any1Left]

So when I first joined this forum a little over a year ago, it was mainly to take my mind off of things. It's been a wild ride so far. I've talked to alot of good people, and some not so good. My Dad was fighting cancer at that time. He lost his battle in November on my Mother's birthday ironically enough. Today is his birthday and he would have been 77. He taught me alot about being a hard worker, a dedicated husband, the value of a dollar earned, horses, betting, racing.. and I could go on forever. So the best way I can pay homage to him on a horse racing forum is to post the very first LBJ he saw in person.  I will miss him tremendously during LBJ week. The year.. 1970. Most Happy Fella with the great Stanley Dancer. It took a 3rd heat.. back then a horse needed to win two heats to win the jug...RIP Pop.
PS no need to have the volume down it's pre Roger Huston. I think it's Charlie Hinkle but I could be wrong.
I am a sucker for wonderful posts like this as they always get to me and i hope that never stops,
https://youtu.be/Zzz-MZinVdQ?si=2-_jSJPmOgwrJNT9

[JT]

Papillon you are just to fast for me. While you were posting I was looking up how to spell Bergstein.
I also lost my dad to cancer.

Sorry about your Dad as well. I knew one of you guys would know the race caller

[JT]

Any1Left.. it's great to have you back posting occasionally. I hope the poker tables have been treating you well. Thanks for the kind words. 

[Papillon]

Papillon you are just to fast for me. While you were posting I was looking up how to spell Bergstein.
I also lost my dad to cancer.

please don't hold my youth against me

[Grandstand Handicapper]

Thank you for sharing this. A very touching tribute. Keep the memories and the experiences going, and be present with them. I am sorry for your loss, but glad you have been able to cherish and enjoy the life experiences.

[SwankToliverA]

Happy Heavenly Birthday to your Pops.
Thank you for sharing JT, I really enjoyed watching the LBJ race you shared.

[JT]

Thank you for sharing this. A very touching tribute. Keep the memories and the experiences going, and be present with them. I am sorry for your loss, but glad you have been able to cherish and enjoy the life experiences.

Another one of my favorite posters on here. Thanks Grandstand. Yeah our box in the grandstand at the LBJ will be in our family forever. Originally in  my Grandpa's name,  then in my Dad's name, now mine. New memories will be made and I guess I am the patriarch now. Man it sucks getting old.

[JT]

Happy Heavenly Birthday to your Pops.
Thank you for sharing JT, I really enjoyed watching the LBJ race you shared.

Thanks Swank.. I always enjoy your posts and kindness. Yeah if you are bored the earlier heats were great as well. This was the year before Nansemond with Herve Fillion upset Albatross in 1971.. when Stanley Dancer famously said all he had to do was show up in Delaware with the big bird and he would win the jug. Herve had other ideas. My first LBJ was Niatross in 1980. I was 5, almost 6 years old. My parents always called me in sick to school for LBJ week, although the kids that go to Delaware Hayes schools get Thursday off now.

[kantseeback]

Sorry for your loss JT.
My father passed 26 years ago but for many years we went together to YR, RR, M1, Belmont, and Aqueduct.
We saw a lot of the greats race in person, and it was fun to take in a card of TB's in the day and a card of harness in the same night, great memories.

[JT]

Sorry for your loss JT.
My father passed 26 years ago but for many years we went together to YR, RR, M1, Belmont, and Aqueduct.
We saw a lot of the greats race in person, and it was fun to take in a card of TB's in the day and a card of harness in the same night, great memories.

Thanks kantseeback. Cherish the memories, I know that I will. Pop's and I saw so many great races over the years. Back in the day you had to reserve a grandstand ticket  at Scioto in their massive grandstand and I would do that for him,me and my brother. I always got us right at the wire, but he would always mess with me and say.. these seats aren't bad, but we are not right on the finish line, we need to move over a seat or two. 

[Trigger]

Message from God Almighty...

"I have to layoff JT's Dad's action, he's getting too consistently good at our Parimutuel Chariot Race Cards!" 

It seems like GOD can learn a thing a or two from MST doing Satan's work down here!   

[JT]

 

Message from God Almighty...

"I have to layoff JT's Dad's action, he's getting too consistently good at our Parimutuel Chariot Race Cards!" 

It seems like GOD can learn a thing a or two from MST doing Satan's work down here!   

.. He was a great handicapper. His best 2 lessons for me... #1 Go with your first instinct. #2 Study long.. Study wrong

[SDST2009]

.. He was a great handicapper. His best 2 lessons for me... #1 Go with your first instinct. #2 Study long.. Study wrong

This is legend advice. Not a statistician by any means, but by my calculation, your gut is right 75% of the time.

[JT]

This is legend advice. Not a statistician by any means, but by my calculation, your gut is right 75% of the time.

This advice has served me well countless times. You look at a program page.. within 5 minutes a strong opinion is formed. If you keep looking, you try and talk yourself out of what  you initially thought or in your words "what your gut thought".