WEGs past

[Any1Left]

I remember many moons ago walking into race secretary BARRY HEWSON office after the races and we talked about the races of that night and he told me it was poor as the track had no movement and was boring and he said that he would speak to the track crew to make changes to the track and then he said to me RICK Zeron is trying to get into our circuit and this would never happen on his watch,,   Well later Rick got in and i asked him if he had a change of heart and man was he not a happy camper,,,,,,,,       Years later blue bonnets  closed its doors and most of the people who ruined racing like SYLVAIN FILLION, BENOIT AND MARIO,, RICHARD MOREAU,, RICK ZERON ,,COLLIN JOHNSON AND MANY OTHERS decided to kill racing in ONTARIO AND TODAY ITS NO LONGER A SPORT,,,,,  When i started in the game you could handicap,,,,  When drivers like DAVE SMITH,, ROBERT LACKEY,, DOUG BROWN,, WILLIAM MEGANS,, BRENT DAVIES,, FRED GILLIS were driving it would be a speed duel and these guys closed holes,,,,,, How can you call it a sport when you do not do everything you can to win a race,,, Today the great trainers of the past like ROGER MAYOTE and JERRY DUFFORD are jokes and guys like LARRY WALKER left the game looking like a fool,,,,, Back then i would walk into the track and knew how a race would go and it was not the chalk on the lead every race and there was speed horses that always left and i looked forward to the weekly FFA PACE AND TROT........   EARL LENNOX to me the best announcer ever as he would call a race without making it a circus like many announcers do today and a hard driven first half meant back runners were going to win and today i am not sure if 53 seconds is to fast with the  drugs keeping them going,,,,, Man i did not realize how good EARL LENNOX was as he did not go overboard with telling you were the chalk was the entire race,,,,, For me its sad that this site is all horsemen as 20 years ago horse going from 2-1 to 3/5 when leaving first is not a topic on this site and 20 years ago it would be the number one topic,,,,,,,,

[Papillon]

i have mentioned on multiple threads about betting after the bell....whoever leaves odds drop and whoever lags off the gate, the odds go up.

This has been happening for at least 15 years and getting worse every year

[mwins]

Doug Brown would just make a quarter pole move and orchestrate the entire race. Especially when Ron Waples was on the decline.

[Any1Left]

And he had a good left winger in dave wall but he was a speed driver that looked like a fool at the big m

[Horseshoe]

Great post Any1Left.

[rainman2]

Here you go:

Drivers statistics for 2024---current!

Top Drivers for the current year---January 1, 2024 Through August 12, 2024

Does anything stand out?

DRIVERS
                      Sts   1st   2nd   3rd        $Won    Win%    UDRS

James A Macdonald            1125   236   167   147   4,401,931    21.0    .335
Douglas R Mcnair              923   165   153   119   3,393,233    17.9    .313
Louis-philippe Roy           1000   156   162   155   3,570,134    15.6    .297
Sylvain R Filion             1114   152   171   134   3,514,941    13.6    .261
Tyler J Borth                1008    90    89   121   2,011,969     8.9    .178
Trevor S Henry                797    88   106   105   1,906,229    11.0    .228
Jody C Jamieson               684    80    92    96   2,272,414    11.7    .238
Travis A Cullen               671    80    57    72   1,483,381    11.9    .202
Bob Mcclure                   647    78    83    82   1,980,694    12.1    .234
Tyler S Jones                 636    42    64    59     999,377     6.6    .152
Jonathan L Drury              554    41    51    67     961,322     7.4    .165
Austin Sorrie                 330    28    20    26     464,225     8.5    .144
Phillippe Hudon               353    21    20    21     378,851     5.9    .110
Brett A Macdonald             301    18    22    31     513,609     6.0    .134
Ed F Hensley                  164    17    12    21     293,880    10.4    .186
Chris Christoforou            144    14    19    23     358,613     9.7    .223
Todd Ratchford                206    12    18    15     301,888     5.8    .131
Scott R Young                 236    11    25    22     401,700     4.7    .136
Dale Pr Spence                 62     8     8     6     161,510    12.9    .232
Dexter J Dunn                  31     7     0     4     384,540    22.6    .268
Tyler Moore                    71     6     8     6     169,810     8.5    .175
Paul Macdonell                 62     6     8     3     216,122     9.7    .184
Paul G Mackenzie               15     5     4     1      55,780    33.3    .503
Mario J Baillargeon            87     4     6     3     117,445     4.6    .095
Michael W Whelan               68     4     3     9      89,720     5.9    .127
Dagfin E Henriksen             49     4     2     6      90,950     8.2    .145
Matthew Bax                    34     4     1     2     124,513    11.8    .153
Tim A Tetrick                  20     3     2     1     208,912    15.0    .222
Jean Bernard Renaud            25     3     2     0      45,620    12.0    .164
Richard Zeron                  33     2     2     4      41,490     6.1    .134
Lyle G Macarthur               15     2     1     4      33,230    13.3    .259
David S Miller                 10     2     1     0     127,125    20.0    .255
Simon Allard                    6     2     0     0      25,300    33.3    .333
Yannick Gingras                21     1     3     5     220,115     4.8    .206
Mark G Etsell                   8     1     3     0      20,790    12.5    .333
Patrick J Hudon                44     1     2     5      90,663     2.3    .085
Nicholas R Boyd                23     1     1     3      24,060     4.3    .111
Ondrej Gois                    40     1     1     3      31,290     2.5    .063
Todd Mccarthy                   7     1     1     3     190,164    14.3    .365

[Bitter Truth]

71 win difference between 1st and 2nd

[rainman2]

71 win difference between 1st and 2nd

Anything else?

Look very carefully!!

[Papillon]

71 win difference between 1st and 2nd

There is a reason for that...

he is superior to that cast of characters

[Papillon]

I remember many moons ago walking into race secretary BARRY HEWSON office after the races and we talked about the races of that night and he told me it was poor as the track had no movement and was boring and he said that he would speak to the track crew to make changes to the track and then he said to me RICK Zeron is trying to get into our circuit and this would never happen on his watch,,   Well later Rick got in and i asked him if he had a change of heart and man was he not a happy camper,,,,,,,,       Years later blue bonnets  closed its doors and most of the people who ruined racing like SYLVAIN FILLION, BENOIT AND MARIO,, RICHARD MOREAU,, RICK ZERON ,,COLLIN JOHNSON AND MANY OTHERS decided to kill racing in ONTARIO AND TODAY ITS NO LONGER A SPORT,,,,,  When i started in the game you could handicap,,,,  When drivers like DAVE SMITH,, ROBERT LACKEY,, DOUG BROWN,, WILLIAM MEGANS,, BRENT DAVIES,, FRED GILLIS were driving it would be a speed duel and these guys closed holes,,,,,, How can you call it a sport when you do not do everything you can to win a race,,, Today the great trainers of the past like ROGER MAYOTE and JERRY DUFFORD are jokes and guys like LARRY WALKER left the game looking like a fool,,,,, Back then i would walk into the track and knew how a race would go and it was not the chalk on the lead every race and there was speed horses that always left and i looked forward to the weekly FFA PACE AND TROT........   EARL LENNOX to me the best announcer ever as he would call a race without making it a circus like many announcers do today and a hard driven first half meant back runners were going to win and today i am not sure if 53 seconds is to fast with the  drugs keeping them going,,,,, Man i did not realize how good EARL LENNOX was as he did not go overboard with telling you were the chalk was the entire race,,,,, For me its sad that this site is all horsemen as 20 years ago horse going from 2-1 to 3/5 when leaving first is not a topic on this site and 20 years ago it would be the number one topic,,,,,,,,

Purses funded by gaming created all of this

no need to play hardball or close a hole when next there is another purse to be had-
no need to compete hard and jeopardize future purses when they are friendly out there

[Any1Left]

I remember every year watching the PRO BOWL and could not believe how the game looked when played soft and in racing almost every race is soft and it looks way worse than the PRO BOWL ever looked and the one thing i remember most about the PROBOWL WAS THE EMPTY stadiums,,,,,, I remember ROGER MAYOTE WINNING STAKE RACES and paying huge because no holes were given up and he always railed and in fair racing that can win,,,,,,,And yes JMAC IS IN ANOTHER LEAGUE,,,  fOR NOW THE DRUG AND SOFT RACING WITH MAJOR ODDS DROPS INTO THE RACE SHOW WILL GO ON AT CANADIAN racetracks and Randy will say another exciting night with a great card on the next day of racing,,,,,  exciting my ass,,,,