| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 10/29/2006 8:35:07 AM | I would like some input into your standardbred harness racing stories.
Horse you have owned,
funny stories.
wanting to own a horse.
or plain old working with them.
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| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 10/29/2006 8:41:30 AM | | i tried to get into it a few years ago but my teeth hurt and i got sick of dragging that f'n thing around behind me | |
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| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 10/29/2006 9:05:37 AM | I remember being at the breeders cup years ago when it was at woodbine, and in the big race, with all the million dollar horses, this owner who just wanted a horse in the breeders cup entered a ten thousand dollar claimer horse to race along with the millionaire horses. The funny part about it, is the horse was actually bet down to 30 to 1. Shows the blind hope in the underdog.
The race started and he started out near the lead, but by the end of the race he finnished, like 100 lengths behind, the crowd cheered lowder for that horse than the winner of the race. It was kind of funny and no I was not nieve enough to waste any money to bet on him.
That was also the day cigar lost his first race, to alphabet soup. Cigar had a career ending injury in that race. | |
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| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 10/29/2006 9:26:33 AM | ^^^^^^^^ thats TB racing ...she wants stories about the horses who pull the carts...but I agree the TB racing is much more fun.
VVVVVVVVVVV some people just don't like to have fun I guess | |
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| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 10/29/2006 9:33:48 AM | I cant see the Pity attention in this. Perhaps you are looking for pity.
If you choose to have this deleted, I love harness racing and love to hear stories. I found that fun the one post. | |
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| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 10/29/2006 7:15:50 PM | I miss going to the races. My family (on my mother's side) own and train horses. My cousins do all the work now, as all my uncles that were drivers have all passed on.
My dad was taking me to Windsor before I was a year old. Spent many a weekend as a kid at the track. Biggest thrill as a kid was getting to ride in the starting gate, and taking a ride with my uncle around the track a few times.
Funny how life gets in the way when you get older. | |
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| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 10/29/2006 8:07:07 PM | my dad has owned, trained and raced standardbreds for decades [a little longer than I've been around]
When I was about 10, I once climbed up one of the camera towers at Elmira Raceway [our old home track] while Dad was out jogging one of the horses. Surprisingly, they didn't lock the hatch or fence off the ladder on the backstretch tower.... the newer first turn tower had a big barbed wire fence around it, but it was closer to the general public.
Dad also got me to take some of his calmer horses out for a jog in my teens, but the helmet he loaned me was too small for my big noggin and it was difficult to see around the horse's rear end, which was somewhat unsettling. Perhaps he was hoping I'd catch the sulky bug and carry on racing with him... but it wasn't really for me.
So strange now that Elmira Raceway has closed and is slowly transforming into a new housing subdivision.... the barns are gone, replaced with close-together houses [such a silly thing in a small town] the upper levels of the grandstand have been demolished, leaving the base building for whatever purpose they have planned for it, and the track is still there, though without constant use and harrowing, dragging and screening, it is starting to grow over with weeds. | |
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| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 10/29/2006 9:19:22 PM | I used to ride a horse when young. Raced him at fairs and such, barrel races etc. trick riding. Couldn't do it now if my life depended on it...although I can still ride a horse any day with a saddle. LOL!
So the other night after the Memories Dance the guy I'm dating takes me to meet his race horse. A bay, standard bred race horse.....now at stud. I think what the heck.....it's just a horse right? Dayum! That horse was big.....19.5 hands........and considered big for a race horse I guess? Way too Spirited for me. He took him right outta his stall too and chained him with 2 reins either side in the hallway between stalls. Dang thing likes to bite too...not women just guys. He really is a beautiful animal and all, but I was darned glad to get back in the truck and outta there! I think my horsey days are long over now! 
He won $189,000.00 during his racing career too so I guess he was worth it and has had 45 foals produced from the Stud job he has now. Good way to retire if you ask me.  | |
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| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 11/2/2006 9:05:45 PM | I use to work at the track in barrie it was a lot of fun. I worked with the horses walking them after there races.
I also have volunteered for the standard breed adoption where the horses that can't or don't race anymore get adopted.
I would love to won a race horse some day | |
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| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 11/2/2006 9:32:40 PM | My sister and her husband own breed and race pacers at flamboro downs. I love going there for the races and to hang out in the back stretch its a blast!!!!!!!!!  | |
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| Standardbred Harness Racing Fans
Posted: 11/2/2006 11:47:32 PM | Oh yeah Hawk? I used to be more active with OSAS [Ontario Standardbred Adoption Society] when my former stepmom was their chairperson. Heck, I sat in on their inaugural meeting [20 years old at the time with a cheesie looking goatee which I thankfully only kept for a month]. I took photos at their events, did videos, set up the sound system at an educational clinic, did general grunt work at events, safety-out-of-hand-horse-catching-guy at parades, "the guy with the brave, skinny blue horse leading the pack" [aka my bike] when taking our OPP horses out for training rides away from the farm.
I still do a bit of graphic design for them. | |
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