Where is everyone from?

Quote from tay town blarney on August 14, 2024, 3:04 PM

Ontario

Quote from tay town blarney on August 15, 2024, 9:31 AM

i picked the screen name Tay Town Blarney....i remember this guy racing in the early to mid 70,s.at Greenwood Raceway in Toronto. for a guy named John Millman..  yes im old lol...anyway i remember as a young kid at Greenwood  betting this horse at huge odds...i was sitting at one end of a row of seats at the far end of the East end of the grandstand...near the glass separating the inside from the outside and as the horses entered the stretch i kept yelling cmon Millman, cmon Millman as i waked from one end of the row to another...luckily nobody was in my way..lol...he won  and i cashed a huge ticket...i remember this night because i asked for a cheque instead of cash...thought i would be safer walking  to my car...i had to wait quite awhile for the cheque but it was worth the wait...to this day i remember that night,,,but the irony is,,i cant recall the amount...lol

Quote from Lonnie on August 15, 2024, 10:06 AM

Quote from tay town blarney on August 15, 2024, 9:31 AM

i picked the screen name Tay Town Blarney....i remember this guy racing in the early to mid 70,s.at Greenwood Raceway in Toronto. for a guy named John Millman..  yes im old lol...anyway i remember as a young kid at Greenwood  betting this horse at huge odds...i was sitting at one end of a row of seats at the far end of the East end of the grandstand...near the glass separating the inside from the outside and as the horses entered the stretch i kept yelling cmon Millman, cmon Millman as i waked from one end of the row to another...luckily nobody was in my way..lol...he won  and i cashed a huge ticket...i remember this night because i asked for a cheque instead of cash...thought i would be safer walking  to my car...i had to wait quite awhile for the cheque but it was worth the wait...to this day i remember that night,,,but the irony is,,i cant recall the amount...lol

Millions!  Like a good fishing story, the amount grows through each retelling!  Thanks for sharing!

My last venture to Greenwood Raceway was in November 1980 to see Niatross.  D@mn it was cold that day!  I still get shivers thinking about it (the weather?  Niatross?).  If memory serves me correctly the wind chill was 75° F degrees below ZERO!  (That number may be inflated due to the passing of time.  Like a good fish story!)

Quote from GWChrome on August 18, 2024, 11:00 PM

I'm from Ontario.  I also was at Greenwood that day.  I actually had a connection to the race.  For a short period of time I cared for a horse Armbro Turk who was in the race.

Quote from Lonnie on August 18, 2024, 11:05 PM

Quote from GWChrome on August 18, 2024, 11:00 PM

I'm from Ontario.  I also was at Greenwood that day.  I actually had a connection to the race.  For a short period of time I cared for a horse Armbro Turk who was in the race.

Cool!!

Quote from tay town blarney on August 19, 2024, 8:48 AM

Quote from GWChrome on August 18, 2024, 11:00 PM

I'm from Ontario.  I also was at Greenwood that day.  I actually had a connection to the race.  For a short period of time I cared for a horse Armbro Turk who was in the race.

Armbro Turk?...wasnt that a Harold Stead horse?

Quote from GWChrome on August 19, 2024, 12:33 PM

Yes.  A number of OJC trainers at the time used to turn horses out at a farm I worked at in Rockwood.

Quote from Lonnie on August 19, 2024, 1:11 PM

Quote from GWChrome on August 19, 2024, 12:33 PM

Yes.  A number of OJC trainers at the time used to turn horses out at a farm I worked at in Rockwood.

Are you still involved in the backside part of the industry?

Quote from Tstephens on August 20, 2024, 4:43 PM

From Detroit