Batavia downs deep in the toilet

[EPM]

What was the horse back then..Held for Ransom or Head held High...Cant rember the guys name that had the horse

[Frank the Zipper]

Mancuso's was a great spot for pizza & pasta + the waitress's always talked horses.

[railbird steve]

when i first started playing horses in 88,i had a guy mentoing me-he owned kacthme hanover, he told me when he was at the track to load up on his horse,when he was at otb when katchme was runnig :hes a little sick-drew the 8 hole,his trainer was one of the lamprwas(SP) ?-handle whent down when western ny otb shut branches down in my area(corning, hornell, &bath)-now they want us to bet at ez bets-NO WHAY! if you hit a bet over 600$ have to go to batavia to cash-screw that!

[EPM]

What was the horse back then..Held for Ransom or Head held High...Cant rember the guys name that had the horse

this name just popped up in my head...James Compton..Might be the guy i was thinking of..didnt race much but had some good stock

[EPM]

This cat was a pleasure to shoot the breeze with Pual Szalay..Sad he died young..Last time I talked to him he was tellin me how this 1 dude pulled some shit on him..

[The Exporter]

I recall Paul had his share of troubles.

[EPM]

Railbird Steve you talking Lamframboise? Around 88 i think 1 of them passed away shipping/racing on the road...Then there was Rodney the younger one i more remember driving in western ny..The one passed away might have been named Rodney also

[EPM]

Wasnt there a solid trotter named Inherit the Crown..

[EPM]

Cant believe I cant remember shit...Father time is undefeated...That's about all the horses names I can remember...I bet at these tracks everytime they raced back then..

[getreal]

Rick Laframboise died in a Car Crash
Inherit the Crown was owned by the Barsuk family and did race in Batavia
Paul Szalay wasnt a bad guy, served our country, had some demons
Katchme Hanover was an open Mare trained by Phillipe Laframboise
James Compton trained and usually drove Held for Ransom
Head Held High was a Buffalo Horse, I believe trained by Gene Neamon could be wrong
Batavia is a shell of what it was just a year ago. Handle is down, making it even harder to bet, food not nearly as
good as the old buffet used to be. Todd the previous GM was very fan friendly, Hoover looks drunk all the time and
loves himself. The announcer they got from Buffalo is a want to be announcer--Copies the styles of the great announcers
of the past but his projection and voice are annoying at best. Too many races are won by horses that are 3 seconds the best. Bring me back
to the 70's and 80's. I loved both Buffalo and Batavia.

[EPM]

Thanks Getreal..Didnt know Paul served...He was heavey set but from seeing him in the paddock he wasnt afraid of work..Just went and got a 12er of diet pepsi on my way there a horses name popped in my head out of the blue....Wee Jimmy.... Gun to my head think Maynerd Cornell horse..

[getreal]

I vaguely remember wee jimmy, but Im not sure who was the trainer/driver. For some reason I thought
Tom Agosti or Fred Griffin had something to do with him, but im very unsure. How about lake shore dolly
one of my all time favorites. Gaston Guindon was the usual pilot.

[EPM]

Agosti...Aint heard that name in ages...Dont remember the Dolly horse but remember one guy who i aint seen in a while and was wonderin if he still alive always called Guindon "The Gas Man"   and remember Rothfus was the "Raibird"

[getreal]

Last i remember the gasser was still kicking. Back in my day, him, ed mcnight, haslip vance and swift were the best.

[OnTheBoiler]

I remember when Bethlehem Steel plant was open and there were double headers and full fields, The GM at the time actually cared about racing at Buffalo, now they have a pervert as a GM that single handily ruined the place. When Mango dies horsemen will come from miles around to piss and shit on his grave!