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05-28-2010, 10:14 PM
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 Well I'm glad, since he had to lose, that you were one of the people who benefited anyway. It's always good when you can look back at something and smile or laugh a little... it sucks being and staying sad. Still breaks my heart but yeah.... for some reason your "cha-ching" doesn't surprise me nor does it upset me in the least.  
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05-28-2010, 10:18 PM
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Well you did ask..................
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05-28-2010, 10:54 PM
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lf i remember right that was the day president Reagan died?
anyways, i was working at Emerald Downs in the publicity office and i remember we were all so excited and pumped up for the race. the belmont ran after our 2nd or 3rd race at Emd and i remember after the belmont, we were all so deflated and depressed, and then someone says "damn, we still have 7 races to run here" it made for a long day
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05-28-2010, 11:18 PM
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I was in the 1st Floor Belmont grandstand, right in front of the starting gate.
I saw Smarty load into the gate, but once they opened, so many people were on the outside of the track and packing the grandstand, jumping up and down, I could barely see the race, even on the TV. I managed to see Smarty take the lead and the crowd roared, then between the bodies I saw a yellow saddlecloth coming up towards Smarty in the final strides. Unsure of whether or not Smarty was passed, I figured it out once I heard the deafening silence of the crowd, and one woman saying, simply: "He lost."
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05-29-2010, 08:22 AM
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05-29-2010, 09:05 AM
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I was out to dinner at Mori Moto's in Philly. I left dinner and my party to go to a bar across the street and watched. Pandemonium when Smarty took the lead that turned into stunned silence. I however was estatic as I had boxed 4-9-6-5 in the Superfecta and was looking at a huge payday. I waited forever for the result but alas it wasn't coming from NBC and I had to get back to dinner. I threw a hundred of my soon to be new wealth on the bar and told the bartender to use it till it was gone on my disappointed Philly friends. I returned triumphently back to Mori Moto's only to meet Mori Moto himself as he was making the rounds and had stopped at our table. I had him bring me a bottle of Dom Perignon and I raised a toast Nick Zito who hit with a 36/1 and 27/1 shot.. Enjoyed a wonderful dinner and made the long journey back home. Ran upstairs to log in and see how much my account had grown, was it 20 K, 30 K or more.... Alas there was no additional coin in my account? WTF was there a mistake? Was the system down??? I logged into Equibase and brought up the results... **** YOU Jerry ****ING Bailey and the horse your rode in on ****ing Eddington... A Nose a ****ing Nose and **** you NBC, if you'd given me the result in a timely fashion I wouldn't have bought those losers a round and would've saved a couple hundred on the Dom... Other than that, dinner was great.
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05-29-2010, 09:34 AM
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I was at home celebrating. I hit every exotic bet and that was my 14th winner in a row that day.
No seriously I hit the exacta and had a few dollars on Birdstone because of his mudder ped. Plus I hated Smarty Jones. His name alone was not deserving of a Triple Crown.
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05-29-2010, 12:10 PM
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Sorry you didn't have Birdstone as well. You attempting to "beat me up" is hilarious though. Gotta love the internet.
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05-29-2010, 12:19 PM
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Friendly payback for the Mine that Bird thing... in good humor, of course. (It's not important). Can we all play nice in the sandbox, kids? (That wasn't directed at you, Stone Gossard. You know I'm a fan).  
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