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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Mrpick5 on May 28, 2024, 11:48:15 PM
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He had 15 drives tonight. And he could only win 2. He matched Grismore for wins tonight. Truly amazing the red headed stepchild is so bad at times.
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He had 15 drives tonight. And he could only win 2. He matched Grismore for wins tonight. Truly amazing the red headed stepchild is so bad at times.
Not too many good races on the card. When the best races on the card are nw3500/4, what does this tell you about how good the horses are at northfield??
Look who actually beat him in some of these races--
Joe Kramp--who is he
Tyler Angus--who is he
Logan Loney--who is he
David Lake--who is he
Elliott Deaton
Eric Tharps Jr.
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I said many times while these two were racing at the flying turd that kakley was way better red had and still has no hands to keep one alive late I'd put Matt down Everytime over red and I'll say it now because I know it's coming reds been leading driver the last few years or so I don't care and also red drives for the bookie out there he always owes
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Northfield cheaper stock and younger stock too go tue and wed nights.
Form is flimsy on many of them..and the 'surprises' show up along with chances for these lesser barns to eat.
THESE ARE THE ONLY NIGHTS TO MAKE Gambling $$$ there. You have to take the shots.
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Save your Merriman night time lovin for Sat Sun.
Or days at Meadows
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Aaron was horrible the other night as well...only had 8 wins.Northfield is the best racing in the USA.
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Aaron was horrible the other night as well...only had 8 wins.Northfield is the best racing in the USA.
Not necessarily the best racing, but bigger pools to bet into!!
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Yeah he's awful LOL
Starts - 1548
Wins - 329
Seconds - 280
Thirds - 218
UDRS - .360
Earnings - 2,683,967 so 5% = 134.2k in almost 5 months of work.
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Yeah he's awful LOL
Starts - 1548
Wins - 329
Seconds - 280
Thirds - 218
UDRS - .360
Earnings - 2,683,967 so 5% = 134.2k in almost 5 months of work.
Had 3 chances with Rhoades “gas” and missed 3 times.
Also got outdrove on a 1/9 favorite being claimed too later in the card! Not good!!
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do you think rhoades gasses these ponies up every single start? maybe he was out? maybe the horse is getting immuned to it. maybe he was gambling on others in the race. maybe the drivers were gambling on others in the race. maybe who ever beat them found something new and tried it on their horse and it improved them. or maybe the horse just wasnt having a great day. i know i have bad days. could be a number of things.
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Yeah there's an unwritten rule at Northfield that Merriman has to share the wealth sometimes. He does take nights off here and there.
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He had 15 drives tonight. And he could only win 2. He matched Grismore for wins tonight. Truly amazing the red headed stepchild is so bad at times.
He had 13 drives
13 - 2 - 3 - 4
he also had a win and was placed 3rd for cutting the last cone going into the super stretch.
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Not too many good races on the card. When the best races on the card are nw3500/4, what does this tell you about how good the horses are at northfield??
Look who actually beat him in some of these races--
Joe Kramp--who is he
Tyler Angus--who is he
Logan Loney--who is he
David Lake--who is he
Elliott Deaton
Eric Tharps Jr.
These 6 combined won’t win as many as Aaron does this year alone.
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Sure AA ron may have his flaws. who doesnt. I will say the guy loves to win. he got into driving race horses the right way. Started at the bottom. working for his dad cleaning stalls. Then jogging and training horses. Winning his first race at raceway park with a mare named alberts filly. He would drive up to that shit hole every week to drive 2 horses. He then made that shit hole his home and learned to drive on bad horse with bad drivers. aaron is very personable and a lot of people like him. he has a great attitude most days and that goes a long way. He put his time in a deserves to be where he is at. he is comfortable making his 400k per yr staying at home close to friends and family. not a bad living if you ask me. i hope he stays healthy and continues to do what he loves to do.
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I don't know about awful, but definitely overrated! tmbz1
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i dont think he is over rated. i think he is exactly what he is. name one top driver who doesnt drive for dopers. its really al about the power in what you have the oppurtunity to drive. a driver may produce a win or 2 here and there but you need power. aaron is personable enough and likeable enuough to get good trainers to drive for because he put the work in. you cant make chicken soup out of chicken shit. i dont care how good your hands are.
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They all driver for dopers. He's just a big fish in a mostly talentless pond. Dave Palone syndrome! tmbz1
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Yeah he's awful LOL
Starts - 1548
Wins - 329
Seconds - 280
Thirds - 218
UDRS - .360
Earnings - 2,683,967 so 5% = 134.2k in almost 5 months of work.
FYI, Deaton won as many races as Aaron on the card with quite a few less drives too.
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i dont think he is over rated. i think he is exactly what he is. name one top driver who doesnt drive for dopers. its really al about the power in what you have the oppurtunity to drive. a driver may produce a win or 2 here and there but you need power. aaron is personable enough and likeable enuough to get good trainers to drive for because he put the work in. you cant make chicken soup out of chicken shit. i dont care how good your hands are.
I don't think he is a top 10 or even a top 20 driver in the country. He's a claiming / overnight driver. He's not a driver he is a gunner. Plain and simple he drives with zero strategy and will never when on the big stage. It doesn't take talent to do what he does. He wins because he drives for dope trainers and he has enough drives to constantly bully his way to the front on a regular basis. I could take anyone of a handful of the cowboys in Ohio IF I had enough horses and Aaron Merrriman would become a distant memory. All it takes is someone with enough horses and enough balls to go to front each and every race and Merriman wouldn't know what to do. If he was so good he should go to Yonkers or Meadowlands but he knows he would get demolished out there.
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I don't think he is a top 10 or even a top 20 driver in the country. He's a claiming / overnight driver. He's not a driver he is a gunner. Plain and simple he drives with zero strategy and will never when on the big stage. It doesn't take talent to do what he does. He wins because he drives for dope trainers and he has enough drives to constantly bully his way to the front on a regular basis. I could take anyone of a handful of the cowboys in Ohio IF I had enough horses and Aaron Merrriman would become a distant memory. All it takes is someone with enough horses and enough balls to go to front each and every race and Merriman wouldn't know what to do. If he was so good he should go to Yonkers or Meadowlands but he knows he would get demolished out there.
And Aaron and this group race to the 1/4 pole with cheaper horses than they do at Yonkers!
Would be fun to add Aaron to the Rosecroft ‘drivers’ and how fast the 1/4 mile times are there!
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i think your high! he would do just fine out east if that was something he would want to do. those top ten guys you all like to blow wouldnt be much with out burke,takter,engblom,cullipher, pelling etc... and to be honest there aint much out east any more. ill list my thoughts
david miller- best chance to win with any horse dope or no dope
yannick needs power and dope
dunn needs power and dope
kakaley drives for power and dope
bartlett drives for power and dope
wrenn drives for power and dope
all the good drivers get the doped ponies. makes their jobs real easy. all the have to do is not get locked in.
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i think your high! he would do just fine out east if that was something he would want to do. those top ten guys you all like to blow wouldnt be much with out burke,takter,engblom,cullipher, pelling etc... and to be honest there aint much out east any more. ill list my thoughts
david miller- best chance to win with any horse dope or no dope
yannick needs power and dope
dunn needs power and dope
kakaley drives for power and dope
bartlett drives for power and dope
wrenn drives for power and dope
all the good drivers get the doped ponies. makes their jobs real easy. all the have to do is not get locked in.
You missed a few names!!
Can you list a few more??
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allard drives for dopers not sure why anyone would use him
trace drives for dopers mainly george
tony morgan gives the dope to people he drives for
palone some dopers but he is very good and i put him with dave miller
zeron is ok but still drives for dopers a lot
brennan drives for dopers
who else do you want?
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These 6 combined won’t win as many as Aaron does this year alone.
Put David or Elliott on Reds stock and they will win just as many 😏 All about horse power tmbz1
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You could take any of the top 6 drivers Tetrick, Gingras, Dunn, Zeron, and McCarthy's and move them to Ohio and they would be number 1 in 3 months. It would be like sending Mookie Betts to Triple A ball. Merriman tried the Meadowlands before and through up doughnuts. He can't drive on a mile track nor can he drive and trip one out. What do Herve, Palone, Merriman and Morgan have in common? - Bunch of meaningless numbers that at the end of the day don't mean much except to stat keepers. BTW if Merriman was so good why didn't Doc Moore have him come drive the colt in the Metro?
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You could take any of the top 6 drivers Tetrick, Gingras, Dunn, Zeron, and McCarthy's and move them to Ohio and they would be number 1 in 3 months. It would be like sending Mookie Betts to Triple A ball. Merriman tried the Meadowlands before and through up doughnuts. He can't drive on a mile track nor can he drive and trip one out. What do Herve, Palone, Merriman and Morgan have in common? - Bunch of meaningless numbers that at the end of the day don't mean much except to stat keepers. BTW if Merriman was so good why didn't Doc Moore have him come drive the colt in the Metro?
Some drivers can 'make speed' and some can't. Looks like he can't. Ron Waples won many big races by giving his horses a good trip (being in the right place at the right time) and reaping the rewards.
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A great driver can win anyway they have to. They are multi dimensional. Merriman has one dimension - go to front. If that doesn't work - abort mission and wait till next race.
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Just remember you guys are witnessing history Aaron will go down as the greatest or one of the greatest drivers to ever sit behind a horse. We are lucky that we got to see him drive or actually had him drive some of our horses. Since the moment Aaron got his license he's never taken his eye off the ball he is the picture of excellence and consistency. He's been knocked down many times but he gets right back up. And no I'm not a family member just somebody that knows talent when they see it.
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Just remember you guys are witnessing history Aaron will go down as the greatest or one of the greatest drivers to ever sit behind a horse. We are lucky that we got to see him drive or actually had him drive some of our horses. Since the moment Aaron got his license he's never taken his eye off the ball he is the picture of excellence and consistency. He's been knocked down many times but he gets right back up. And no I'm not a family member just somebody that knows talent when they see it.
Thank you for your post here. FYI, driving at Northfield and The Meadows isn’t proof of any talent especially with the addition of VLT’S (SLOTS). All it means is bigger purses and bigger paychecks for owners, trainers, and drivers. Look how much Northfield has changed over the years before and after slots. Northfield had bigger betting pools and yes 1500 purses when everyone was trying to survive by taking the pools down, compared to all the medical technology of today. At least Dave Palone drove Grand Circuit and important races. Will Aaron? Probably not, but time will tell.
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Aaron do us all the favor and win the jug with clever Cody this year.
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Aaron do us all the favor and win the jug with clever Cody this year.
If and its a big if Merriman drives Clever Cody in the Jug Merriman will go as far as Cody takes him but that's a long way off. I have no dog in the fight but at Northfield on any given race you are lucky if there are 4 guys that can drive. When Merriman goes to Scioto he is basically lost as the driver colony is great. If Merriman drove every day at Scioto he would be lucky if he made the top 10 in the driver standings. At Northfield he goes to the front and the others are afraid to pull. It is interesting to see at Northfield when Amac and Merriman are in the same race who can get to the top the fastest.
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I wish I was awful as Aaron. Guy gets on my horses and almost always improves them from the prior driver.
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BRING THE TOP 6 TO OHIO AND DONT LET THEM DRIVE FOR NO DOPERS HOW WILL THEY DO? NOT VERY GOOD
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I wish I was awful as Aaron. Guy gets on my horses and almost always improves them from the prior driver.
Who drove for you in the past do we can draw our own conclusions??
While we’re here, who is your trainer??
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THE GUY MAKES BANK AND GET TONS OF ASS. DUDE HAS THE LIFE.
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BRING THE TOP 6 TO OHIO AND DONT LET THEM DRIVE FOR NO DOPERS HOW WILL THEY DO? NOT VERY GOOD
They would make bad horses look good. That's what a good driver can do!
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THE GUY MAKES BANK AND GET TONS OF ASS. DUDE HAS THE LIFE.
Makes bank and has bounced 3 checks in the last year to Northfield to pay fines. ngc3 ngc3 banging 200pd heffers that work on the backside is not getting ass in my opinion.
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allard drives for dopers not sure why anyone would use him
trace drives for dopers mainly george
tony morgan gives the dope to people he drives for
palone some dopers but he is very good and i put him with dave miller
zeron is ok but still drives for dopers a lot
brennan drives for dopers
who else do you want?
Wasn’t Scott Zerons dad part owner & trainer of Atlanta? Didn’t Rick Zeron get suspended in canada for having improperly labeled counterfeit medication labels? Wasn’t Howard Taylor part owner of Atlanta along with the Crawfords? Wasn’t the Crawfords connected with Surick?
Perhaps Connect the dots…
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good driver would not make bad horses look good. you are naive. Without driving for burke,rhoades schillaci,kreiser at northfield you wont be a top 3 driver. i dont care if you are dexter dunn, yannick, or whoever yopu want. you need the good doping accounts to be successful.the good doping trainers have a ton of horses because they win. why do they win? because they dope. they push the limits. see how far they can go. they know people who taught them how to do it or where to get it from. bottom line.
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good driver would not make bad horses look good. you are naive. Without driving for burke,rhoades schillaci,kreiser at northfield you wont be a top 3 driver. i dont care if you are dexter dunn, yannick, or whoever yopu want. you need the good doping accounts to be successful.the good doping trainers have a ton of horses because they win. why do they win? because they dope. they push the limits. see how far they can go. they know people who taught them how to do it or where to get it from. bottom line.
So every grand circuit horse is doped? Every breeders crown, triple crown race, hambo, na cup, medowlands pace, ky futurity, mohawk million, metro? there all doped? So your saying any ol schmuck can drive for a million and win as long as the horse is doped up? You have obviously never had a horse on the grand circuit or raced for anything more than 5 claimer. You should stick to northfield park and keep blowing aaron.
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So every grand circuit horse is doped? Every breeders crown, triple crown race, hambo, na cup, medowlands pace, ky futurity, mohawk million, metro? there all doped? So your saying any ol schmuck can drive for a million and win as long as the horse is doped up? You have obviously never had a horse on the grand circuit or raced for anything more than 5 claimer. You should stick to northfield park and keep blowing aaron.
Yes
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Yes
Exactly and some of em even get caught and have to give the big bucks back.
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So how many races a year would Aaron win if he was a good driver?? Yall always seem to think the dopers just pick a guy out of the cornfield to drive their horses. Aaron and the rest of the top guys paid their dues with cheap stock and showed they had talent .
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He had 15 drives tonight. And he could only win 2. He matched Grismore for wins tonight. Truly amazing the red headed stepchild is so bad at times.
you know how fckin stupid u sound
guy is in top 3 of wins every yr
LOSE YOUR FEW DOLLARS WITH DIGNITY
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you know how fckin stupid u sound
guy is in top 3 of wins every yr
LOSE YOUR FEW DOLLARS WITH DIGNITY
Damn after all these years we agree on something
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All I am saying is you could replace Merriman with 10 different people and get the same result. He drives 4000 races a year one way. Yes he has a talent, his work ethic. It is hard work driving up and down the road like a crazy man every day. You get Jeremy Smith, Dan Noble, Brett Miller, Ronnie Wrenn, or any other cowboy from Ohio and race 4000 times a yr and you will 100% get the same results.
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All I am saying is you could replace Merriman with 10 different people and get the same result. He drives 4000 races a year one way. Yes he has a talent, his work ethic. It is hard work driving up and down the road like a crazy man every day. You get Jeremy Smith, Dan Noble, Brett Miller, Ronnie Wrenn, or any other cowboy from Ohio and race 4000 times a yr and you will 100% get the same results.
This is pretty on point. He's no finesse driver but he puts in the hours and mileage, and probably as a result scores decent drives.
Imagine if someone like Palone logged the travel he does. It'd be no contest for wins/purses.
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All I am saying is you could replace Merriman with 10 different people and get the same result. He drives 4000 races a year one way. Yes he has a talent, his work ethic. It is hard work driving up and down the road like a crazy man every day. You get Jeremy Smith, Dan Noble, Brett Miller, Ronnie Wrenn, or any other cowboy from Ohio and race 4000 times a yr and you will 100% get the same results.
Damn I love these hypotheticals. If the others could they would, but they don't so we are left with the only one that can and will-Aaron.
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Damn I love these hypotheticals. If the others could they would, but they don't so we are left with the only one that can and will-Aaron.
Aaron has no life. He's a methodical robot. Wake up 9am drive to meadows and drive all afternoon. eat in the paddock. Hop back in car drive to northfield drive all night. get home midnight. shower bang some track ho and sleep. wake up repeat. most top drivers have a family / a life / and don't wanna be in a car 4hrs a day.
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I think Merriman is one of the hardest workers in this sport. I respect his amazing work ethic.
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Most top drivers try to make a track ho into a housewife and then they both sleep around on each other so whats the point.
I know you will say so and so doesn't and this guy doesn't. But for the most part it happens. Like carnies.
So aaron just bangs lots of hoes that's all.
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Yes I agree with you and frankly I could care less how many track ho's he bangs. I'm just saying I could get any one of ten drivers in ohio that could do the same exact thing if they wanted to drive in a car 4hrs / day and eat like a slob and bang disease infested hoes from the backside. He has a crazy work ethic but that's it! He outworks the others and makes money. He isn't a special talent as a driver. If Dave Palone drove 4000 races a yr he would win 1500 every yr end of story.
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He has kids from coast to coast.