Finally ... At Last ... A Real Handicap Race
 

It's the New York Turf Writers' Cup today at Saratoga.

Champion and highweight Hirapour ... gives 10 pounds to the second highweight ... and 26 pounds to the two low weights ... and ... it's not a 5f sprint ... these boys are going 19f over the jumps.

And look at the weights ... Hirapour 164 ... low weights 138.

What a contrast to today's usual "handicaps" ... where the "highweight" carries 118 pounds ... and "gives" three whole pounds to the "low weight."

God bless the jumpers ... the last of the professional thoroughbred race horses.

Oh yeah...nothing more exciting than watching a race where half the runners fall down or don't finish.

Oh how I await with baited breath for this race...

It's "bated" breath ... to bate means to restrain, to modulate ... unless ...

... unless ... as we may suspect ... you have worms in your throat ... in which case your breath may indeed be baited.

Thanks...spelling mistake noted.

On a more serious note...you really are sharp as a marble, aren't you?

Now you know why it's called a rapier wit ...

... someone can get cut to pieces if they come too close.

But .. then again ... you might call it a "raper" wit ... since you tend to be a bit duller.

Kev- Be careful with the negative talk about a race. Slot might get upset.

speaking of wits....it would be too much of a bore for me to have a battle of them with an unarmed person, such as yourself.

GP,
Don't waste your time. Bold Brooklynite is the guy I out-debated as if I were Kennedy and he was Nixon. He then crawled back under his rock although he has admitted to me privately that he lives for my posts and would gladly, upon my request, begin sending 10% of his public school pension to the SentToStud foundation. I told him that $50 would be better spent in his own neighborhood.

LMFAO.....


100 days left B....100 days until Dec. 9th:D :D

Yep, the real racing begins then. Big Sandy (the REAL Big Sandy) plus the December turf-seeking shippers from the east hit Calder. By far, my favorite betting month.

The horses are NOW .....

But ... before you engage in such a battle ...

... you'll have to learn to start your sentences with capital letters ... and ...

... also learn that an ellipse consists of only three periods ... not four.

You haven't even the basic equipment ... much less the verbal megatonnage ... required for such a prolific campaign.

Fortunately, you don't have to be an English major in order to post on a message board.

But...............ummm............huh?????????
Duz speling counnt???

HMMMMM.....

Kev, ya got him half right!

You said it, sister ... and the most vapid posters on this site prove it every day.

Does it really matter? I pay attention to how I type only because it is one of my job duties to spell correctly and punctuate correctly. (Administrative Assistant.) Kev is a good guy, and believe me, he can spell. ;)

But he has no appreciation for steeplechase racing.

Yet, still again, more advice from the lesser skilled in the language arts. It's likely -- but still shocking to think -- the little BB grandkiddies run around saying "Ummm, "Hmmmm," and "dot dot dot." I suppose it's okay; after all, they need to communicate with him on his own level.

Well, if not having an apprectaion for steeplechase racing makes me a bad guy, I must be one mean SOB.

Cajun,
Don't mind Bold Fraud. He's a bit peeved since the rain took out his refrigerator box and he's getting hassled for taking too much time on the puter from the librarian. How would you feel if people kept trying to run you over on the exit ramp when all you were trying to do was give them a clean windshield, and then you came back to a soaked sleeping bag and the cardboard box is a big brown lump under the bridge.
For sure, he's had it a bit tougher than many. At least he can come here and take out his "stuff" on people that really don't care. If he didn't have that outlet, he'd be back doing jail time.
At least Mrs Brooklynite loves him, but she's also a bit hostile lately, now that the "animal control" has taken away 65 of her 78 cats.
Invest in tuna!

Beginning a sentence with but is a no no. :D :D :D
Is that usual to carry that much weight? It seems mean.