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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Meadow Ford on July 23, 2023, 12:35:33 PM
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Friday July 21
12:31 PM post time for his first race at Chester.
Drives in 12 races.
Drives to the Meadowlands.
Drives in 10 races.
Saturday July 22
Meadowlands Qua
Drives in 5 Qua. races.
Flies to The Meadows.
Drives in 9 races.
Flies back to the Meadowlands.
Drives in 8 races.
His last post time 10:44 PM.
44 races in 34 and a half hours.
Hello
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Friday July 21
12:31 PM post time for his first race at Chester.
Drives in 12 races.
Drives to the Meadowlands.
Drives in 10 races.
Saturday July 22
Meadowlands Qua
Drives in 5 Qua. races.
Flies to The Meadows.
Drives in 9 races.
Flies back to the Meadowlands.
Drives in 8 races.
His last post time 10:44 PM.
45 races in 34 and a half hours.
Hello
Hardest working man in Show Business.
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Does he really have a private plane he takes between tracks on two-a-days?
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Yes, that's all true. And Monday and Tuesday he's going home to Geff, Illinois to bury his Father who just passed.
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Does he really have a private plane he takes between tracks on two-a-days?
He doesn’t have his own plane many of them rent one together
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He doesn’t have his own plane many of them rent one together
They used to. Now they also fly commercial as tough as that may sound.
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Flying private has doubled in cost in recent years making it impossible to use unless absolutely necessary. Most of the owners are slow or no pay when it comes to plane fees so most of the big drivers skip flying or just go commercial.
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I doubt the will be going commercial next Saturday when they drive in the Adios then have to get to the Meadowlands.
Lol they don’t fuckibg fly commercial from qualifier at meadowlands to the meadows and then back to the meadowlands
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rip mr tetrick
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These top tier guys have to get every dime they can in today's game! Everyone of them are one happenstance from never being able to drive again. With the things that trainers do to make horses go like raped apes nowadays, the chances increase! Every time the purses increase ,so do the odds of a catastrophic event. Tim hustles alot more than some are willing to!,that's for sure. I applaud his work ethic.
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I was at the Red Mile last September. Overheard a east coast trainer mentioning flight from Cincy since Lexington was too expensive. I doubt drivers are getting private jets. Jockeys maybe, drivers no.
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I remember the days of Campbell, O'donnell, Waples, Remmen , Lew Williams, Rankin, etc etc helicoptering back and forth to YR and RR summer stakes season from the Big M, especially on Saturdays for Yonkers Trots, Cane Paces, Messengers even some opens I know guys from Canada would do the same or charter private jets to the US for major events there are some Zeron produced youtubes from inside the aircrafts
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Helicopters would land in the parking area behind the backstretch fence at YR and sometimes inside the sand backtrack at RR great days to reflect on
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I saw a selfie pic few yrs back. Onrario 'B' circuit boys, I believe, driving together on way up to Georgian, north of Tor...might have been ont grass roots tuesday night trek up after mon night at moh/grand river poss.
And unlike the old days of pro wrestlers, heels in one car heroes in another, the 3 or 4 mugging for the pic, who were about to '$$ duke it out', seemed pretty happy 'kicking it around' and prob saving gas.
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Not sure if Southern Ontario horsemen hockey league still exist but lots of comradery among the troops despite the nightly 'at work $$ competition'
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Timmy still concentrating on racing; sears im not so sure mind or heart in it any longer In all sports, at the very top not much separates the top competitors. Lack of intense concentration can sink a n athelete. Say, and show us it aint so mr sears. Big m stats less than brian of old.
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I am not here to post scurrilous rumors but I have been told by people close that brian sears has problems with alcohol and that his voice is almost gone from vodka. is this true?
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Teterboro to Washington County airport back to to Teterboro. Very easy, ya don't even have to take your colors off. Commercial sucks, almost impossible to get from track to track, lots of flight cancelations, airports suck. It's a nice write off
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Helicopters would land in the parking area behind the backstretch fence at YR and sometimes inside the sand backtrack at RR great days to reflect on
the glory days
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76za.dcg for sure
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76za.dcg for sure
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Yes, that's all true. And Monday and Tuesday he's going home to Geff, Illinois to bury his Father who just passed.
Yes So Sad!
I just now googled Tom Tetrick obit.
The funeral was at noon today.
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Yes. Deep condolences to the entire Tetrick family :'(
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Brian Sears drove for my group’s horses regularly back in the 2004-2012 years. He was always a gentleman even though we basically owned horses worth $30-$60,000 range. He always tried hard and took the time to speak with us after the race. I never smelled alcohol on him. We never owned any stakes horses just overnight types at the Meadowlands. My guess is he made a ton of money and as a single guy doesn’t have the bills that most people have especially with kids. Then his father died suddenly a few years back and I wonder if he decided to help his mother in Florida breaking and training young horses. I also see he basically drives for only a few trainers. That being said who knows how Sears or anyone else can change. Life throws us all a lot of curveballs and some just get us going in a bad direction.
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Lets hope the booze excesses are exaggerated. That, like other things though, can get claw hold on a person. For a long time he was superb at positioning horses. Just looks disintetested to me now. And, any athelete at a high level in competive sports, has to maintain intense concentration. Usually not too much difference talent wise in guys at the top.
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Athlete?
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Outstanding driver IMO and person. Just make sure y’all understand he and others like him don’t pay for those private flights, owners do. His wife sends the bills, divided out for each owner for their % if his cost
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Athlete?
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Lol. Somewhere on the athletic scale btw bocce ball players and race car drivers. Probably closer to the former.
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If curling is an olympic sport then I think we can call harness drivers athletes.
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I've known a few who belonged in the special olympics
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One more thought on Brian Sears. I always felt it was unfortunate that CNN picked up that story about Brian molesting some woman at a bar in Fla. a few years back and ran with it on the primetime national news. Don't even know if he did it or not. It was like simple battery with 1k bail - not a felony and CNN has it all over their news shows complete with his mugshot.
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I remember the time he flew into Mohawk and was catatonic sitting on the bench outside the paddock all coked out of his mind. Judges were gonna take him off all his drives but someone acted on his behalf. He went out and won three stakes that night.
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Things go better with coke.
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If curling is an olympic sport then I think we can call harness drivers athletes.
Thing i like is biathalon. The olympic event on skis with .22 caliber marksmen. Strange shit. Smart olympic wannabes should single that event as a possible shot at getting into olympics - cant be more than ten people in world competing. Easier to break into field than say gymnastics.