Horse Racing Thread - Sporting Events and Fantasy Sports

Two Plus Two Forums Sports and Games Sporting Events

Horse Racing Thread

Post Reply Subscribe

...

03-09-2024 , 05:19 PM

POGcrazy94

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 14,312

Anyone interested in the horses? I'm from the UK so I follow UK racing more but I do watch the big international/USA races as well

One of the £1M questions on WWTBAM over here years ago was a USA horse racing question, got to assume it would've been an early question in the USA version as it was easy as pie lol

Anyway bring on the Cheltenham Festival!

Quote

03-09-2024 , 09:05 PM

CowboyCold

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 3,952

I got (A) before they put up the rest of the options.

I love the ponies. Just like watching them run even if I'm not bettng on them. Wish horse racing got more love on these forums.

I've got a 3 week vacation planned around golf, horse track, casino in no particular order in Ruidoso NM later this summer when it's 100+ degrees Fahrenheit where I live. 80 degree days and 60s at nights there. Can't wait.

Quote

03-10-2024 , 02:01 PM

POGcrazy94

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 14,312

Nice, sounds good!

I'll be at the Grand National next month, I alternate between going to Cheltenham Gold Cup/Grand National every year, always get lucky and win a few bob but it all gets spent on the ridiculous priced beer lol

Also yeah I wish horse racing got more love on here, no idea why it's not that popular

Quote

03-10-2024 , 09:21 PM

702guy

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 8,425

Quote:

Originally Posted by CowboyCold

I got (A) before they put up the rest of the options.

me too lol

RIP Arlington btw...that was the track I grew up betting

Quote

03-10-2024 , 09:24 PM

702guy

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 8,425

there is a horse betting thread over in the Sports Betting but it doesn't get much traffic these days

also there is a Triple Crown races thread here but it doesn't see much activity other than around Kentucky Derby time (1st Saturday in May)

Quote

03-22-2024 , 02:13 AM

FellaGaga-52

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 8,110

I just did a Kentucky Derby trivia book and I did pick one Derby winner in 50-something years.

Quote

03-22-2024 , 02:17 AM

chuckleslovakian

LYNCH DURRON597

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 35,896

Quote:

Originally Posted by FellaGaga-52

I just did a Kentucky Derby trivia book and I did pick one Derby winner in 50-something years.

Hi this is my new thread

Quote

03-22-2024 , 08:58 AM

POGcrazy94

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 14,312

Quote

03-22-2024 , 04:02 PM

roymunson888

grinder

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 687

Not a horse racing fan but that was some race POG. Wow what a finish. That horse saw daylight on the inside and shot through like a bullet. Everyone else was in slow motion. Watched it like 5 times.

Quote

03-22-2024 , 10:20 PM

#10

smartDFS

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 1,754

great race and well timed by borel. lol call by tom durkin, doesn't say MTB's name until he's well clear and a few strides from the finish

2009 and 2010 breeders cup classics always get me with infinite replay value. i keep thinking maybe somehow 2010 will end differently if i replay it one more time. mike smith is bad and should feel bad. zenyatta and denman respective goats.

Quote

05-04-2024 , 08:03 AM

#11

RichGangi

Laughable false & highly douchey

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 9,552

Happy Derby day! Long time, no post. Hope everyone is well and gl today!

Quote

05-04-2024 , 01:08 PM

#12

C Bids

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 3,387

Dug a deep hole already

Forever Young or bust

Quote

05-04-2024 , 05:51 PM

#13

smartDFS

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 1,754

never trust a chad brown horse on dirt

usually prefer longshots in the derby but fierceness at 5/2 looks pretty good

Quote

05-04-2024 , 06:07 PM

#14

roymunson888

grinder

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 687

love the names. forever young is a great one, but stronghold.. look out. no action, no spare coins right now. will watch. good luck guys

Quote

05-04-2024 , 06:09 PM

#15

POGcrazy94

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 14,312

I've backed Stronghold ew 4pl @28/1 gl all

Quote

05-04-2024 , 07:10 PM

#16

smartDFS

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 1,754

fun race, chad brown proved me wrong.. best horse that race. great ride by hernandez. lol'd when larry colmus said "they're not flying" after 22.8 quarter and 46.8 half at 10 furlongs.

Quote

05-04-2024 , 07:28 PM

#17

FellaGaga-52

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 8,110

Ha I bet Mystik Dan at the last second on a lark. I did it on the "mystical angle" on the heels of Mage last year, in which a psychic type I met on line picked Mage (meaning "magic") in her first ever Derby bet. Anyway it barely covered a bunch of exotics we were pooling. Oh well, you win some you lose some. I waxed last night at Louisville Caesars about a possible dead heat in the Derby, with my Derby chip card guard and Churchill Downs scratch pad. Almost. That's only my second Derby winner ever, I think.

Quote

05-04-2024 , 07:34 PM

#18

roymunson888

grinder

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 687

Grats on the win. Fun race, those two in the middle ran him down but ran out time.

Quote

05-04-2024 , 08:31 PM

#19

Tom Ames

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 45,822

What a finish! So much drama.

Quote

05-04-2024 , 10:22 PM

#20

27offsuit

actions have consequences!

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 38,543

There we go. Running hot on derby donking.

Quote

Yesterday , 04:05 PM

#21

David Sklansky

Administrator

Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 17,107

Secretariat wins by twenty lengths. Literally.

Quote

Yesterday , 04:16 PM

#22

Tom Ames

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 45,822

Damned impressive for a horse that's been dead for 35 years. Literally.

Quote

Post Reply Subscribe

...