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Happy Preakness Day


cravnravn

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Got to tell you, yesterday after an exhausting day on the beach, came home, put on the tube to my favorite channel(TVG) and there it was, full color HD, beautiful Pimlico...Made me a tad home sick.

 

I hate betting favorites, I really do but I cant find another horse in the Preakness field to tire out Bobemeister, I think Bode goes out and "steals" this race on the lead. My only saving grace is to get one of those longshots to run second.

 

I like Daddy Nose Best and Went the day Well to get into that second slot.

 

Great to see Baltimore show cased like this on a national level.

 

To me proud Baltimore!!!!

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I am listening to the radio. They say that the overhead crowd looks much smaller. Is that true?

 

From what I seen on TV the infield crowd did look smaller than prior years.

 

Im highly disapointed in Baltimores non coverage of the day, my mom, sister and aunt all called me and said there was no local coverage.

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That was a great race. It doesn't get much closer than winning by a nose.

Bodiemeister and I'll Have Another were just too strong for Creative Cause.

 

http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/

 

Yea...local coverage was "no coverage".

It used to be great having the TV on all day, catching all the races and the Preakness fans.

The local stations suck for not doing this. They give us the same gloom and doom news, day after day, and when the opportunity comes to show the Baltimore community having good, clean fun....a day when our civic pride blood is up...they won't show it.

 

No...Let's get back to reporting on shootings, fires, crooked goverment officials, perverts and the ever boring weather forecasts.

Every day is Groundhog Day in the TV news stations.

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WOW, they say the Preakness was a record crowd, 121,300 people attended.

 

Didnt look that crowded.

 

 

 

Maybe they used the Orioles method of counting people.

That was a great race. It doesn't get much closer than winning by a nose.

Bodiemeister and I'll Have Another were just too strong for Creative Cause.

 

http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/

 

Yea...local coverage was "no coverage".

 

It used to be great having the TV on all day, catching all the races and the Preakness fans.

The local stations suck for not doing this. They give us the same gloom and doom news, day after day, and when the opportunity comes to show the Baltimore community having good, clean fun....a day when our civic pride blood is up...they won't show it.

 

No...Let's get back to reporting on shootings, fires, crooked goverment officials, perverts and the ever boring weather forecasts.

Every day is Groundhog Day in the TV news stations.

 

They changed the rules and Racing just has no cache anymore so there is nothing to talk.

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Well hopefully that one more win, that I'll Have Another will win it all as it has been a little over forty years. Since someone has won the Triple Crown!

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Well hopefully that one more win, that I'll Have Another will win it all as it has been a little over forty years. Since someone has won the Triple Crown!

 

 

And I was there...well my body was there but that was a time when I had to be on the infield :) So I guess by race time for the 78 Preakness, I was Maxed out.

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Maybe they used the Orioles method of counting people.

 

 

They changed the rules and Racing just has no cache anymore so there is nothing to talk.

 

 

Exactly what rules have changed? You bring out the horses 10 minutes to post, let them walk around get used to the crowd noise, you put them in the starting gate and away they go...No rule change.

 

Now if you want to discuss the pundits that for over 20 years have shot down slots in Md that would have effected the purses of horse races and added more to those purses but elected to do absolutely nothing but watch the connecting states implement slots and increase horse racing purses and draw our horsemen, owners and jockeys to their states, then we can!!!!

 

Now Md gets off the pot with slots, and the connecting states have full blown gambling..

 

It has nothing to do with Rule Changes Papa, its all about the M-O-N-E-Y & P-O-W-E-R

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Exactly what rules have changed? You bring out the horses 10 minutes to post, let them walk around get used to the crowd noise, you put them in the starting gate and away they go...No rule change.

 

Now if you want to discuss the pundits that for over 20 years have shot down slots in Md that would have effected the purses of horse races and added more to those purses but elected to do absolutely nothing but watch the connecting states implement slots and increase horse racing purses and draw our horsemen, owners and jockeys to their states, then we can!!!!

 

Now Md gets off the pot with slots, and the connecting states have full blown gambling..

 

It has nothing to do with Rule Changes Papa, its all about the M-O-N-E-Y & P-O-W-E-R

 

Well I would say that not being able to byob is a rule change. It has lowered the infield attendance.

 

What Annapolis has done I agree is wrong. The Preakness will leave MD and it is Annapolis' fault.

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While in Baltimore, I spoke with major builders, theres a parcel of land by the ATM that has Race Track and Full blown Casino written all over it, Ive heard the rumblings about Md wanting table games..If that would happen Md would then again become one of the mecas of the horse racing industry..

 

FYI the Preakness has already been discussed as to being moved, but unfortunately for Laurel Park and Delaware Park their infields contain lakes, thats just way too much liability to hold the Preakness at those tracks.

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I agree with a downtown race track. It should be attached to a casino with table games and sports book. Also connect an arena and hotel. The 4 things pulled together as a destination.

 

As for the Preakness leaving I believe I recall it was talked about as a possiblity in Fla. Some track down there was said to be perfect.

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