YOUR BEST CHICAGO HARNESS RACING MEMORY

[Mohawk mac]

   wrong gender you rotten atheist bastard

Maywood Park: Getting an awesome  after the races in my car parked behind the ship-in barns across 5th Avenue.  I was surprised what an aphrodesiac the faint aroma of horse manure can be on a warm Spring evening.





Terry Towne or Gil Levine?

[Bernie Madoff]

Sorry, I thought you might be one of those twinkies.


 

[Grandstand Handicapper]

Not my best, byt my oldest memory was watching Le Baron Rouge beat Rambling Willie at Sportman's Park.

[Grandstand Handicapper]

Bomb Rickles paying $380 plus to win the Windy City.

[GOAT]

Back in the late 1970's there was a guy on Cicero Ave near  Sportsmans Park, standing in the street  selling the previous days " Green Sheet ".

[Gaagoots]

1976 sportsman park   remeber like it was yesterday
 it was a sat night  my dad wood always take me on saturdays 

i was 14,,,

watching my dad hit the tri ,,,i dont how m,uch for must have been big he was screaming and kinda happy  (HE WAS NEVER HAPPY),..

threw me 500 and we went for pizza at connies pizza in chicago  on the way home

that 500 bucks was like a million to me back then
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he  loved sportsman park meet in the summer...

grandstands were perfectly set to watch racing  ..

miss those days ,,miss my father :'( :'(

[Dingus]

Watching my uncle buy a horse in the mid 90s, that was racing at Maywood, and seeing the horse go several seconds slower at Yonkers.  Convinced me that Maywood was a short 1/2 mile track.

[ROOSTER COGBURN]

Quikpulse Mindale winning at Balmoral Park.

[LimeTime]

Sometime around 2000, At Balmoral,  I had a $10 perfecta 45-1 on top with 9/2 for 2nd , got back $ 2200. Homer Hostetler won it.

[She Dont Know]

Race Track Rosie

[The Doctor]

Race Track Rosie

That's an image i want erased from my memory.

[LUCPARK]

Race Track Rosie

DISGUSTING FAT LADY SMELLED LIKE AQUA VELVA FOR WOMEN

[LAW AND ORDER]

DISGUSTING FAT LADY SMELLED LIKE AQUA VELVA FOR WOMEN

                                  SHE WAS FUCKING BUSSEE UPSTAIRS IN THE DRIVERS ROOM. SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH BUSSE. I THINK THEY USED TO CALL HER WHITE CASTLE QUEEN CAUSE SHE COULD EAT 24 OF THEM WITHOUT TAKING A BREATH.

[Meadow Ford]

Race Track Rosie

"A Chicago Original"
She dressed like a hooker, but she wasn't.
Google "Racetrack Rosie" (Dancer Rosemarie Black) to see.
One of my favorite SP Park winners circle pictures is with her.
Her shoulder nicely tucked up in my armpit and me looking down at her big chocolate breasts.
No! She did not smell bad!
No! She was never in any driver's room.

[goblue]

I'm much younger, but I'll never forget seeing Captaintreacherou s win the American National in 2014 at Balmoral. Walked through the barns earlier that night and saw Foiled Again and all the champions at that time. Very cool considering I grew up in a time where the best horses raced in Chicago only a few times a year.