Vox Populi 2013

[Merlinsky]

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...-voting-begins

Thoughts on the nominees? Was anybody left off? Write-ins are allowed. I can't remember if that's how Paynter made it last year or if they added him to the poll after an outcry.

[Calzone Lord]

This is the horse racing equivalent of winning the Lady Byng Award.

The only difference is that the you get your name etched on a cool trophy for the latter:

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

This is the horse racing equivalent of winning the Lady Byng Award.

I was scared to google that. Based on the name, I thought it might've been the Miss Congeniality equivalent in the adult film industry.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

I was scared to google that. Based on the name, I thought it might've been the Miss Congeniality equivalent in the adult film industry.

Yeah, it's just a hockey award for the player who demonstrates the highest level of sportsmanship while also demonstrating a high level of play.

If I ever won an award like that...I'm pretty sure I'd slash some across the head Marty McSorley style and try to instigate a bench clearing brawl in the very next game I played.

The Buffalo Sabres of the Mid to late 90's were one of my all-time favorite Sports teams. They had about five of the biggest goons around. Rob Ray, Brad May, Matt Barnaby, Bob Boughner, and Wayne Premeaux. They were assembled by a drunken Indian named Ted Nolan who won Coach of the Year in 1997 and not only got fired, but was basically blackballed after the very season in which he won Coach of the Year.

That was such a dirty, gritty, nasty, cheap-shotting, goon squad of a tough team. I had both a Rob Ray and Matt Barnaby Jersey. Would wear Buffalo Sabres gear everywhere. They were the most badass sports team in the history of modern sports.

[Calzone Lord]

This was one of the Classics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMOU4Ogzb5I


It starts at about 20 seconds in. Matt Barnaby fakes an injury, and than jumps the Goalie when he's not ready.

[10 pnt move up]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

This was one of the Classics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMOU4Ogzb5I


It starts at about 20 seconds in. Matt Barnaby fakes an injury, and than jumps the Goalie when he's not ready.

damn classic, remember that like it was yesterday.

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Yeah, it's just a hockey award for the player who demonstrates the highest level of sportsmanship while also demonstrating a high level of play.

Just like the Mike Venezia Memorial Award?

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by helicopter11

Just like the Mike Venezia Memorial Award?

Almost every jockey I've met is extremely nice and tries to be friendly.

I actually had one of the jockeys, Anthony Stephen, give me and my girlfriend sealed up chapstick, with a picture of himself and his riding accomplishments on it. Strawberry vanilla flavored.

If you can fit your riding accomplishments onto a thing of chapstick, you still have a ways to go...but he, like most jockeys, is very friendly and very nice to people at the track.

With a hockey player, Gamesmanship is a much better quality than sportsmanship, in my opinion.