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That is another guy that always seemed to get just a little more out of a horse. And yes Case was that good. If he had a zapper in a boot someone would have given the valet a $100 to get ahold of one. Just to get rid of Case. Yes he loved to brush a hock with his boot but he was an early one to figure out that most raceway horses were whip sour and that gave him an advantage
AH Life on the race track!I loved it!Back 30/40 years ago Daryl Busse would drive some horses for me.Busse "I like driving your horses, but you keep that one owner of your's (Colonel Bob) away from me. I don't need that S O B telling me what I should do, or what I should have done".So the next time a horse of Colonel Bob's is in I tell Busse."You know Colonel Bob is an old stock car man. He brought along his stock car flags. When he waves the green you are to pull and go. If he is waving the white you are to sit in the hole, and if". As Busse is going to the track, and before I could finish, Busse is screaming "You tell that MFer to stick his flags up his ass"!
especially if the horses he drove on the card weren’t tested for blood gas because the trainers were tipped off prior.
That shit still goes on up in Maine I'm told.
A certain someone would contact trainers late afternoon on races they were testing for blood gas. Most of those trainers were gassers using Walter with most likely a full box along with confectionery sugar installed.
The old school drench
I guess Walter is another guy who won all those races----not on talent, ability, etc.----simply because he was driving for chemists.
I say it's BS, nothing more than rumor and innuendo. What's not is his talent.I don't know very many people who go through their life without some struggles, tough times, etc. I know a very few who get worse. Walter is one of them. This is not pity. He paid the price for his own decisions and/or addictions. For those very few who get the worse, their decisions and/or their additions consume and then ruin their lives. Walter is one of them. My feeling is that each of those people must make a decision as to which road they are going to take, and they do that one day at a time. On the other, people, society, everyone here, and so on, can decide as to accepting the person, giving them another chance, and everything else.Now that I got that out of the way, we are not talking about a guy who had a great meet, season, or five. We are talking about a guy who showed his talent over the course of a career. A storied, checkered, and controversial career, but a career time-frame, albeit him missing what, 15 to 20 years in the bike. When Walter first came back, I watched him. He did not look good. I think he was struggling with some things---not using or drinking---and it took him the entire first year to find himself again. JMHO. However, in his second year back he shot about 20%, which is pretty good.....but certainly not Walter Case of old numbers. LOL. Check out Walter's numbers in detail. For a period of 15 years -- 15 years!!! -- the guy won races at a 30% clip!!! 30%!!! 15 years!!! OK, all of them, every single year, he drove for chemists. They knew who wasn't going to be tested. And, btw, more than half those races were fixed! And the Holocaust did not happen. Get my point people?The year Walter set the wins record, he won almost 1100 races and he won at a 36% clip! Any other driver who drove more wins----and there are only two who have----did so and the highest clip was 25%. OK, so Walter only did close to 50% better than the best ever produced. LOL. After those 15 years, his life fell apart. That discussion and debate is older than dirt. Have at it. I am done with that. Now, even during this peak, his record was still controversial. In his last year driving before he went away, I think he had 200 days of suspensions accumulated. A major # of fines, suspensions, etc. I get it. Much more than most other top drivers. Anyway, people can argue Walter's talent, or lack of, all they want. It's nothing knew. People have a similar argument about Jack Moiseyev, Dave Palone, Carmine Abbatiello, and others. In full disclosure, I count Walter as a friend. That doesn't mean I defend or justify his actions. I don't. Not at all. I simply accept that he's turned his life around, and makes a decision every day, one day at a time, to fight a demon. A very nasty, deadly demon. Today, he's far from who he was in the 80's, 90's, and before he went away. He's even different, I say better and healthier, than who he was when he got out of jail, and also just five or six years ago. He's grounded today. He's humble, honest, vulnerable. His motivation today seems to be to simply earn a living. For me, he paid the price. He's made a decision. He is fighting for that decision, one day at a time. I admire that. I respect that. My dad wasn't able to do that. So I feel I have some experience with this. Everyone, all of you, get to make your own decision. Some people will simply not forget his past. I get that. To each their own. If that's the case, then there is no price, nothing can be done about his decisions and actions in the past, and nothing can change that. Again, to each their own. Like I said, I accept the decision he's making every day, and while I don't forget his past, I don't condemn him for it today.
My God. You're so starved for attention you just spent a half hour of what you have left of life to type this diatribe about a psychotic drug addict to the same 20 people on the planet who read this garbage about a dead industry? You are the human equivalent of Monticello Raceway. You exist, but nobody cares yet you think they do. BTW Monte Sachs had nice things to say about you, always paid on time. Even when he made those runs from the paddock between races. As for Walter. When he got out and both my wife and I would get him to his mandatory meetings his attitude never changed. When Mark Ford tried to help him with the USTA his attitude again ruined him. When Jeff Gural would accept his requests for meetings at M1 and he didn't show up his attitude ruined him again. When Jason Bartlett sent him money to eat and bought him colors he left the guy endless voicemails screaming at him like a fucking lunatic that Jason takes money out of his pocket. Yeah, great guy.
