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This shouldn't be to hard if you work backwards.With the standard 5% for training and 5% for driving, you would need more then one horse in the race , or if just one horse the purse would have to be over two million. How many races have gone for over two million?
Dave Willoughby
Eldon Harner. Fortune Teller
A really nice horse, a JFA at Yonkers and Roosevelt. The driver was blind in one eye and his name is on the tip of my tongue.
I can still see him in the sulky. Might his name be Henry Thomas or something like that?
Dick Thomas
Abercrombie Meadowbranch Skipper
Well there goes that idea!
Please Don't give up my friend.See if you can guess this.Atlantic City Race Course early 70'sAftert the races I walk into the horseman's parking lot.There just kind of walking around is one of my many idols of that era. He had been there to drive Meadow Split.I say something like"Is everything ok"?Who was he? Why was he just walking around?
In the 70's Jack Keiser wrote a horse racing column for an east coast newspaper.It was required reading every morning in the track kitchen.Keiser hated Stanley Dancer.He wrote that the only way Stanley could win a race was to have 2or3 seconds on the field, and just go down the road.He also wrote that the only guy Stanley could out drive was the dr/tr of . The arch enemy of Most Happy Fella.
Bernny was a long time groom back in the day.He would get drunk every weekend. When drunk he would keep repeating"You got to today because you are going to be a long time "Can you fill in the blanks?