smarty jones!!!$@^&!

[FDavid]

I missed the superfecta at the derby by not having lionheart in the top 4 and it payed $41000.



Anyways God must love me because I just hit the super at the preakness!!!! i was about to have a heart attack lol. I thought for sure it was pay day and I'd have 10-20 grand coming my way. It turns out that son of a ^$%&^$ race only payed out $460 lousy dollars for a $2 straight super

 

[HEMI®Dart]

FDavid,



It's tough enough to pick the winner of a horse race, never mind picking 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.



You did well. Congratulations!



This winter I put an order in for 4 tickets for this years Belmont Stakes. Ticket requests go into a lottery. The number next to my mailing label was 600,361 The park holds about 100K.



I have not heard anything yet. They cashed my check though.



I'm praying my ticket request will be filled. We tried to get tickets last year. Cheapest I could find was about $800 for a $7 face value ticket. I would love to be @ Belmont Park in 2 weeks.



I was reading Smarty Jones was not bread for distance. I wonder if this will hurt him in 2 weeks?

 

[FDavid]

hey buddy, i pray you get those seats. I've never been to a big live race (always watch the simocast and crappy live racing here at riverdowns) but i would imagine it would be a hell of a memory. As for me picking a super, i'm a horrible handicapper and depend more on luck especially when you got 50 superfectas picked out :{

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good luck and hope to see ya in the crowd on tv at belmont!

 

[QRTRHRS]

All bets aside, the story behind Smarty Jones kinda reminds me of Seabiscuit. If you read through this clip off CNN, even the jockey has a "past". Hope SJ's pulls it off. http://sportsillustrated. cnn.com/2004/more/05/15/preakness. race. ap/index.html?cnn=yes

 

[Will24]

Ahh... Smarty Jones, a good old chester county PA horse

 

[Proram]

Uh sorry Will, but smartys a BUCKs county horse.





Scott

 

[Will24]

From Grandparents that live in Chester (somewhere down the line his relatives are from chester... )

 

[HEMI®Dart]

A Pennsylvania bred colt can't win the Triple Crown. I just does'nt happen.

 

[Will24]

lol

 

[bulabula]

Preakness was a blast - we were in the Grandstand seats; thank god it wasn't in the infield - it was getting pretty hot and humid out there. Losta "eyeball" liberty too - all those thin white sundresses with polka dots and flower bonnet hats - very nice.



We came home with more $$$ than we took there. But woke up this morning with a mighty fine headache... .



Everything I've read says Chester County too. Gotta go see if I remembered to bring the program home with me.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Lest there be any doubt, read this.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_2smartymay21,0,555397. story?coll=all-news-hed

 

[HEMI®Dart]

Great Picture

I love this picture. It's Secretariat & Ron Turcott near the wire at the '73 Belmont Stakes. Secretariat won the race by 31 lengths and crushed the world record for 1½ miles on dirt by 2 1/5 seconds. The record still stands today (2:24) and probably will never be beaten.



I was too young at the time to appreciate Secretariat.





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[HEMI®Dart]

Look At This...

2 Tickets, Belmont Stakes, Prefrerred Grandstand $18. 00? Face Value each.



http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=16122&item=2245590779&rd=1

 

[Will24]

All that bickering between the bensalem/philly crap... blah blah blah Confirmed he WAS born in Chester county though...

 

[Rhondasway]

Re: Great Picture

Originally posted by HEMI®Dart

I love this picture. It's Secretariat & Ron Turcott near the wire at the '73 Belmont Stakes. Secretariat won the race by 31 lengths and crushed the world record for 1½ miles on dirt by 2 1/5 seconds. The record still stands today (2:24) and probably will never be beaten.

There is a video, "The Life and Times of Secretariat" or something like that. I bought it for my Mom and it is incredibly moving. All real stuff; a must-have for horse race fans. He's my all time favorite for sure.

Don't overlook Seattle Slew, who ended up being a better producer than Secretariat (too bad they lost the foal when they bred to Genuine Risk... ). I met Slew's stud managers at a repro course at CSU a few years ago, and they were still galloping him a mile a day (at 20+ years old), and breeding 70+ mares/year at $100,000 per. So sad when he died...

 

[HEMI®Dart]

THANK YOU BELMONT PARK!!!!

YES!



I will be @ Belmont Park June 5th. Got seats on the 2nd floor, a little? before the finish line, between the 8th & 16th pole.



No doubt this will be the most exciting 2 ½ minutes I will ever see in a sporting event.



Probably will be about 120,000 people there.



CAN"T WAIT!





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Rhondasway,



I have that video "The life & Times of Secretariat". I got a bootleg copy off of eBay a couple years ago. GREAT video!