Welcome to DerbyTrail.com's Forum
 

I'd like to welcome everyone, and anyone, who joins us here at Derby Trail...

I've been trying to get the site onto a free-standiong URL for more than a year and offering a moderated Forum was a big part of the plan. I hope it will be a great addition to the Net's Thoroughbred landscape, and your participation will be key to any success it enjoys.

I began Derby Trail on 2/15/03 at Yahoo on a whim, and I never expected it to lead to what it has for me personally. Thanks for your interest, support and encouragement... Enjoy the "new" site and "your" gathering place for horse talk and likely anything else...

With my sincerest appreciation,
Steve Byk

Thanks, Steve...where can I get a hat like the one on the site's banner?

Well done Steve, it looks great! Looking forward to watching this thing take off.

thanks Steve, it looks great!

Thanks Steve! Nice work!
DTS (Wayne)

Well worth the wait. Don't have a lot of time to play or post, but enjoy keeping an eye on this crew......great job.

i believe if you email steve(tpkasept@yahoo.com) you can get one for bout 20 bucks.......might have to pick 1 up myself in support of steve and what hes done

Well,for my 1st post on here,I would like to simply state my objection to having the term "Junior Member" under my name.

Steve, can we get the avatars to work. Would be a nice touch.

Rand..

Definitely will pull the avatar thingee together.. Still MUCH to get familiar with on the management side of this system, as well as the main section(s) of the site...

But overall, off to a good start, and I thank everybody for the support and kind words...

Scuds Junior,

I'm go to try and change those monikers... It's based on posts of course, and I'm thinking of going to "weanling", "yearling", "juvenile", "sophomore", etc.. Another option is to let you all give yourself your own little 'name tag'...

I was going to PM you about that. Those are a great idea. For industry people, you can have a special name for them. IE, Vic Stauffer on the Track Champion site is 'Master Mumbles'

Thanks steve for letting me sign up. I have always read the other site but tired of all the stuff going on over there. Thanks again charles

Steve - re: posters and assigning a "title" or similar ... some candid feedback ...

No one wants to be called "junior", including my son!

Assigning a tag description based on number of posts encourages "quantity" over "quality".

My suggestion would be to assign all members that join the board during the first year the description of "Charter Member".

Monikers thereafter should be based on number of years someone has posted on the board. For example, after two years of posting, a member can become an Allowance Member (or a Charter Allowance Member if he/she joined in year one of the board). After 3 years, Grade III Member (or Charter/ Grade III Member), after 4 years, Grade II Member, etc etc.

Avoid negative monikers (ie "junior" and, certainly, "claimer"!!).

Just my candid thoughts! Junior Member L Robbins :)

Hi Guys,

Got bounced from horeracingtalk.net. Thought I'd say Hello over here.

Oracle has a good handle on the game. Read his stuff from time to time.

Dixie

Hello all. I made it over.

This is a test.

JP

Hey jason!!!
 

Hows my chief engineer in charge of all heating decisions?

Good Mike, how are you?

I took last week off for vacation and i'm trying to get back in the swing of things. This looks like a nice board. It looks like we can actually attach pictures and such. Nice.

Yep
 

Its a great board, and no trolls allowed.

Steve, just a great job, congratulations on getting this off the ground!

Thanks for the invite
 

Site looks real good. Thanks for the invite Oracle. I look forward to learning more and hopefully one day be able to pass along some of my own info. I like the spell check and the icons

WELCOME!!! I think you will be quite pleased with all that you read here. If you love racing this is the spot!!! We have had some debates but no name calling and no trolls as of yet. If you wanna cry check out the selections people made over the weekend. Between us all you had some really nice winners!!!!!

great new forum, even if oracle is still here

thnks everyone for the great site now we can get to business w/o trolls

The same could be said of you Blocky, I mean Secretariat.

Excellent Job Steve... Great selections this weekend... It was a great weekend of racing. The Site is awesome....

Willie

Steve, I forgot to mention, this new format is a really easy way to get distracted from work...and I welcome those at all turns!

Hey everyone...sorry I didn't join you earlier...been crazy lately...glad to see some familiar names.

Yeah, thanks Steve! This is a great new site! Love the format

ah, a light in the wilderness.

an A for effort steve, all the hard work seems to be paying off. here's hoping we have many great, but civilized, discussions here in the days, weeks and months (years??) to come.



um, but where's my mint? don't they usually leave a mint on the pillow?

Hello..Love the layout. Weanling huh. :confused: One of these days I to will be an Oracle:cool:

Thanks for the oppritunity
 

Steve,
Thanks for simply giving me the chance to listen to all the experts in the game. I love your show (at the races and beyond) and enjoy reading all your postings.

Will there be pictures like on the other site? I have a finished basement that I am trying to fill with horse racing artifacts and pictures.

eng, this website might help

http://www.thoroughbredmemories.com/gallery.asp

http://www.nickmartinezart.com/

Hello all
 

Just wanted to say hello to everyone here for the first time. I am new to this board but have been following the ESPN board for a while but haven't posted on there. I have always enjoyed reading everyone's thoughts on racing and figured it was about time I joined up officially. I'm not on the net a whole lot but I will toss in my thoughts as they come in.

Thanks for chaning to a new site too because it was brutal wasting time with the trolls and their messages on the other board.


Saratoga in the Summer!

Hey. A good format. I can't stand the ESPN format. Good job!

okay okay... I finally registered!!! :cool:

testing
 

this is a test of my ability to understand

my preview said I failed
so no faces, quotation marks or italics today

perhaps tomorrow

perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

coupling from the bbc
 

perhaps

perhaps

perhaps

Great Job Steve Love it. And a BIG hello from Saratoga.

LOL, Talk to you soon.