does your sig other like racing?

[Danzig]

tony wouldn't watch another race if i was gone tomorrow.
he finally tried going to the track a couple of years ago, and found it wasn't so bad i guess....but then he always manages to end the day ahead. we have a good time when we go. but we seem to have a good time everywhere we go, so i guess we've got it made!!

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by Hickory Hill Hoff

Can hardly wait for you're reply to my post

I never said NDman was pm'ing you.

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by Danzig

tony wouldn't watch another race if i was gone tomorrow.
he finally tried going to the track a couple of years ago, and found it wasn't so bad i guess....but then he always manages to end the day ahead. we have a good time when we go. but we seem to have a good time everywhere we go, so i guess we've got it made!!

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(Tony is actually a a parot....Dannie has a peg leg.)

[3kings]

My wife just isn't interested in horse racing. She wasn't really a gambler but now I take her to Vegas 1-2 times a year and she enjoys playing blackjack or betting on a game. She tollerates my love for the horses and even acts marginally interested in DT Stables. We have an eight year old son so he comes first, but I go to the track a few times a month.

I think its important for both of us to have a few hours of personal time to do what we enjoy. Its important to have common ground but just as important to have your own interests.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by gallant bloom

i met someone
but when we
went to the
track he didn't
know anything.

it was bothersome
to say the
least.


does your sig
other watch
races?

when u date
do u bring it up?

for the married
ppl, does it ever
cause problems?

There's actually one teeeeny word in here that strikes me as, ummm..... surprising.

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I'm only interested in men who know about the horsies.

The ones who don't get it give you that look like you've just sprouted a third head if you bring it up.

[AeWingnut]

my gambling buddies seem to think it is a bad thing to have a wife who also enjoys gambling. Always coming by asking for money
oh wait

nevermind

[mclem10011]

Loves when I cash a ticket!, Other times she wants nothin to do with racing, nor with me for that matter!

[The Bid]

My girlfriend hates horseracing, thats why I sent her off to Boston to get her mind right

[docicu3]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

To answer your questions:

1.) I don't have a significant other anymore. (Sick of being single too, yuck.)

2.) I tend to bring it up on dates for the sole purpose of being amused... most of the time I get a blank stare. It kinda sucks.

3.) The lack of knowledge about horse racing on my ex husband's part had very little to do with the demise of our marriage (although his disdain for my horse was sickening and certainly didn't help.) It was his infidelity that really did us in, though.

Obviously Cajun the guy didn't deserve you....

[SniperSB23]

I don't think it would be an issue at all until Saratoga season came along. Then it would get very interesting.

[geeker2]

I have a sig other...when she sees me on the computer she says are you doing that horse racing sh*t again...I say no honey I am just surfing porn..

[MaTH716]

My wife (and her whole family) are/were degenerate numbers players. In fact the first time I went to their house for dinner, we were all sitting eating when all of a sudden someone yelled "THE BALLS THE BALLS" and everyone made a break for the living room. Suddenly I was sitting all by myself. About a minute later everyone came back to the table. What happened was the whole family ran to watch the drawing for the daily NY number. Also my mother-in-law (the head degenrate when it comes to numbers and scratch off tickets) works as an operator at OTB. So my wife has gambling bloodlines. She was more of an Atlantic City roulette gambler, but she did adapt nicely to Horse Racing. We would go to Monmouth almost every Saturday in the summer and then go to dinner on the way home. She would read cosmo while I was studying the form. I will never forget the day she hit a $300 exacta the first race after studing the program for about a minute while I was in the form for about an hour. After cashing her ticket, she told my to keep studying as she went back to her Cosmo. She did love Saratoga, except when I dragged her to Saratoga Harness at night. She thought that place was a dump. We are going to try to make it up there this summer for the first time in 5 years. These days she is too busy playing mommy, so she hardly has anytime for herself. So racing is the last thing on her mind when she has a minute. But overall she is a great sport about it, and (almost) never breaks my horns about it. I do hear a little grief about my son having 2 Secretariat and 2 Left Bank pictures on the walls of his room and Seabiscuit, War Admiral and Barbaro beanie babies. And when she hears him say "Daddy look at that Gray speed horse on the rail with the blinkers, I think he is gone" then I do get a couple of dirty looks.

[GenuineRisk]

My husband is resigned to my loving horseracing. He goes to the track with me occasionally.

MaTH- most excellent signature (see below).

[MaTH716]

LOL, Thanks. It still is my favorite show ever.

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

when she hears him say "Daddy look at that Gray speed horse on the rail with the blinkers, I think he is gone" then I do get a couple of dirty looks.

you're just teaching him his numbers and colors