Batavia downs deep in the toilet

[Parked]

Track surface is NOTbad as stated! Where do you people come up with stuff?

A driver told us the track is terrible!!!

[OnTheBoiler]

The track surface is a disaster right now! Two horses broke their back leg a few weeks ago, in back to back nights! The race office is in total disarray allowing a trainer to race horses in the same race under another trainers name. Horses are being allowed to drop multiple class. Saturday 10/29 open was a sham! Shame on the management of Batavia Downs you traded one set of crooks for another!

[Brkn Headpole]

Use to Love the Buffy/Batavia back in the day...Vance,Rapone,Eddie Mcnight etc...Remember a horse Chicoppe Chimes..How about the time this just when you could bet tracks from all over pretty much at otb..dont think Jersey yet..so im home mowin the lawn..come up with the bright idea to play whatever letters are on the 3 $1s in my pocket..Looked F B C..=623....pretty sure it was a Sunday...play 623 at every tracks tiple that day...But Buffy or Batavia..Said I can Cap that track so I saved $4 bucks...think it was about the 5th race...Crash happens..sure is shit comes 623 Pays 10 K....Pretty sure the winning driver was Alexsander Guilianni...

Chicopee Chimes. I remember that name. I think my father owned part of her early on before being sold to Batavia. We had another mare Chicopee Star that went onto produce a few nice racehorses.

[batavia24]

On the boiler 100% correct!! Handle is beyond belief bad But it wil get 100x worse in every aspect when they stupidly race Jan/Feb A once great place is just a shell of itself Only the casino matters

[EPM]

Chicopee Chimes. I remember that name. I think my father owned part of her early on before being sold to Batavia. We had another mare Chicopee Star that went onto produce a few nice racehorses.

She might a been a 3 claimer for all i remember..I know i bet on her a few times and thought the world of her...Seen her race think some pretty cold nights..Jim Boyd with the call...If i had that sight to look horses up id do it..Just to look her up

[EPM]

Lol i bet on her a few times..that really says alot

[EPM]

I remember not that anybody gives a flying F@ck my otb by my  my crib closed at 8pm...Id stay there for the early DD and have a cab pick me up at 8 and dont be late acoss my village across then another village and way way on the other side of the next ccity...$6. Bucks...hate to think what that would cost now days..hit the bar at that otb then have a cab get me all the way past where he first spot i got picked up thru another Village and into the next City $20 (for the ride)and party my balls off to all Crazy hours of the morning...Then be at my otb for Aquaduck around Noon..After that go home freshen up and walk back down to Otb for some Bat/Buffy..Oh the good old days..But then again theses are the good old days

[EPM]

Same Cabby got me 99 percent of the time..he liked the ponies also..Poor guys face looked like a mack truck ran him over...Got robbed one night b4 i ever met him..He had balks though to go back to driving Cab..Hes gotta be long gone now..Rip

[EPM]

You think that guy have a valid excuse not to work..he was older to..This fall we had a kid 30 years old from the city never had a job b4..I didnt show up for a few days and axed my boss what happened to him..said i had to let him go after day one..Fn joke..I can do it..im alot older,lame as all F@ck etc. And kid couldnt cut it a day

[EPM]

What ever happened to the "hot dog"  Pete Sazmanski (spelling)  First announcer i ever heard say stick a fork in him hes done..

[jupiter]

He's at Ocean Downs, was also Race Secretary. Had a great show on the radio, gave his pics. That was at Buffalo, don't think he ever worked at Batavia

[EPM]

Ty..I thought Boyd was Buffy hot dog was Batavia..Im talking 1990..Pete didnt have a son in the racing Bizz did he?

[EPM]

Just looked it up Boyd was Batavia

[EPM]

Article on web from 1988 if you search his name...He was colorfull thats for sure behind the mic

[EPM]

I remember a horse Pete Called getting "Udalafaceta"   Spellings off...There was a horse cantogourdsdo..Fu lla Gas,Philly Simms.Molto Benny,Wisco wilton..Cant forget old Magic Willie Lol. I told a guy I later became friends with at otb I like Magic Willie tonight..I don't think the horse ever won a race after that..til this day he calls me magic...