i was swinging the bag for bookies for many years. Melb cup day we would get a thousand punters whose experience of racing was the movie a "day At The races" On The Nose NEVER EVER acceptable on an Australian race track

all the best dooks, good to see you're still punching on

wtf does first over crush mean anyway?


Steve Hawkins - following the harness boys (not sure if they still use it?) but he does >>>chewing steel
Paul Dolan - each and every single 1000m race at the Sunny Coast just as they are about to jump says 'One thousand the fly'......wtf?
These that i know of Greg Miles and Chook Fowler -horse in run and at finish 4 instead of fourth


He/She 'insert name of horse' is as GREEN AS GRASS....said horse can comfortably described as either bay, black, brown or grey

I never like it when the caller says my horse 'finished later than a Lets Elope tip'

  classic bulldog

Back in the days when I use to go to the races I noticed "you beauty" use to win a lot.

True Story -I was having a shocking night a few months ago betting on the flea-baggers when I decided to have one last bet . The dog I backed(cant remember its name, lets just call it " shaggy"  missed the start about 6 then went about 25 wide on the first turn even though there were no dogs anywhere near it and went out of the picture. The caller went through the field until he got to mine and the comment was "And shaggy is in another suburb" Even though I had lost plenty for the night and all accounts empty I laughed so hard I nearly fell off the chair.

'the more you put on the more you'll get back'

... well you'll know more about that after the race than before it i reckon

secong, first over is an American term for the deathseath/facing the breeze/outside the leader
the one one is 2nd over, one out two back 3rd over etc
so if anything wins sitting outside the leader Barsby lets rip with the Americanism "first over crush"
if they win easily it "won in a hand drive".......come Chris get original!!
he did say once that the leader was "free balling in front"......I never knew horses wore Reg Grundy's???

and I forgot another annoying thing Jimmy J says "following the one one"

'didn't raise a sweat' ... really ?

The "death seat" is an interesting concept.

I wonder why it's called that.

It's not actually a bad position to be in. Plenty of horses win from there.

I have a theory. When I get into a car with a few passengers and I decide to sit in the passenger's seat at the front I often say "I'll sit in the death seat." By that, I mean that if the car smashes into a stobie pole I will probably be the one who gets killed.

Is that possibly the origin of the term ... that the position outside the leader equates to the front passenger's seat in a car?

thanks for the explanation VK

A classic I heard  one day can't remember who it was I think it was at the locals somewhere such and such is pulling hard than a 14yo boy in running, I nearly pissed myself rolling around on the floor laughing.

Used to love Stuart Shenton's but this will get the bugs bunny for mine, another classic that local commentators used to use is covering more ground than the early explorers, drawn out in the swan river, didn't realise it had swim to start the race, drawn the river see previous comment, such and such has exploded away well if this things exploded how is it going to win???
Skipped nicely clear in regards to both galloping and or pacing if its skipped clear how is it going to win by skipping thought it was supposed to be galloping or pacing, slipped away if its slipped how can it possibly win, finishing like a shot out of a gun, pretty sure if a horse was shot out of a gun it would be dead, stopped as though shot well if it was shot of course its going to stop in its track. Finishing like the kalgoorlie express, finishing like a train, pulling like a train, brown bread, lump of lead, deader than julius caesar, this things swamping them what's it doing carry a swamp around to chuck around opposition horses, this thing's going faster than last weeks pay what happens if you haven't spent any of last weeks pay, you're clearly not going very fast then etc, etc, etc.

On a slightly different tangent there was a classic form comment in the GP racebook one night many, many, years, ago, Abe Brown - hasn't won for many moons and unlikely do so tonight, guess what it duly saluted.

you couldn't have found it with a black tracker very politically incorrect these days

... lol yes probably so

maybe ... "couldn't have found it with an indigineous tracker" would get through

either way it's a compliment to the skill of the tracker i guess

but one of those funny sayings nonetheless

biggest boilover since Polly put the kettle on

No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse

I was fielding last Sat and the gay on-course doctor - who bets with me all the time, says to me with a cheeky grin " hey bookie, your blowing the Favourite"
To which I replied "It hasn't come to that yet Doc"!

We all had a laugh

Whiskers:

"she took off all her clothes"

???

lol finally we agree PP

" he's going backwards"

I 'd like to see that