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Re: Aqueduct is a dump

Postby Fredo » Fri Dec 28, 2012 9:57 am

Tvghrtvfan wrote:Only Belmont and Saratoga shine while Aqueduct you guys think is a dump.


Lemme ask you this? Have you ever been to a track outside of California?
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Re: Aqueduct is a dump

Postby Southieboy » Fri Dec 28, 2012 10:02 am

The clock is ticking on Aqueduct staying open for racing, I just cannot remember the racing being this bad in NY during the winter and this is with slot purses. I give it 2-3 years before Genting gets the opportunity to expand its gaming facilities and eliminate the track completely.
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Re: Aqueduct is a dump

Postby Claimboxx » Fri Dec 28, 2012 10:26 am

Joel wrote:
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Joel, I have never been to a racetrack with a better backside than Belmont...It is horse heaven...The stalls are huge, there is grass everywhere for the horses to munch on, it is beautiful...I am not crazy about the paddock area, I think they could do more with it and the grandstand is ok... I would hardly call Belmont a "dump', especially the barn area


Well, I don't hang around the backside, like you do.

But when I visited, the front side was figuratively a dump. ie. there was trash piled up EVERYWHERE..



That is very surprising, I wonder if it was an aberration???Everytime I have been there it has been a first class facility...
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Re: Aqueduct is a dump

Postby DegenerationX » Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:10 am

I have been to Toga and still by far my favorite track outside of Cali is Arlington. The place is spotless.
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Re: Aqueduct is a dump

Postby Tvghrtvfan » Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:15 am

Fredo wrote:
Tvghrtvfan wrote:Only Belmont and Saratoga shine while Aqueduct you guys think is a dump.


Lemme ask you this? Have you ever been to a track outside of California?


The only other track I've been to outside of CA is Calder. I still have other tracks I want to go to but I haven't had the time and going on a plane somewhere is so expensive.

Oh I went to Calder over the Summer like several summers ago. Before they built the Casinos. I liked it there it's a nice place but I want to go to a major track outside of SA, Hol or DMR.
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Re: Aqueduct is a dump

Postby Crazykid » Fri Dec 28, 2012 12:27 pm

saratoga has great racing but in the heat of summer with no air conditioning its a miserable experience.
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Re: Aqueduct is a dump

Postby Theiman » Fri Dec 28, 2012 12:36 pm

Crazykid wrote:saratoga has great racing but in the heat of summer with no air conditioning its a miserable experience.



Thank You for the above.
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Re: Aqueduct is a dump

Postby Pathagan » Fri Dec 28, 2012 4:05 pm

Tvghrtvfan wrote:
The only other track I've been to outside of CA is Calder. I still have other tracks I want to go to but I haven't had the time and going on a plane somewhere is so expensive.

Oh I went to Calder over the Summer like several summers ago. Before they built the Casinos. I liked it there it's a nice place but I want to go to a major track outside of SA, Hol or DMR.


Not sure if it's the same Calder I've attended many times. The area around Calder makes Inglewood look like Beverly Hills. Calder is a lovehole and their backstretch area reminds me of the prison camps under the freeway at the beginning of the movie Scarface.
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Re: Aqueduct is a dump

Postby Hollywoodmike » Fri Dec 28, 2012 4:09 pm

Theiman wrote:
Crazykid wrote:saratoga has great racing but in the heat of summer with no air conditioning its a miserable experience.



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Ditto. Saw some of the strangest insects ever in their infield
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Re: Aqueduct is a dump

Postby Crazykid » Fri Dec 28, 2012 4:09 pm

every day on the backside of calder a cuban stabs another cuban unless a hatain does it for him.
right next door to calder is an apartment complex known as viet nam. not because people from there live there
but because its a war zone.
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