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Originally Posted by Da_Nit
I’d like to hear stories of harness racing, seems like the ultimate degen.
I have a good one. I was at the track one day hanging at the bar with Dad. I was probably 10-11. I would go down to the rail, then up to the bar in the grandstand, then down, then up, etc. One time when I was down on the rail, I ran into his friend Joanne(who would become his wife), who was a trainer at the time.
She says to me "Tell your father to bet #5 in the next race." I go back up to the bar and the race goes off and I am 10 and dumb. 5 obviously wins and I say "Oh man, I totally forgot, Joanne told me to tell you to bet on 5 this race.
He does what can only be described as the bert-stare.gif before it even existed, because obviously the 5 horse was like a 40-1 shot.
threeflight,
Pops was Foxboro Raceway, which used to be next door to Foxboro Stadium.