Saudi Cup Purse Withheld From Maximum Security

[Tessablue]

You are quite mistaken. I do know you. I have been involved in racing for quite awhile and much of it in NY. You are not just a NYRA employee, but quite a shill. Your PR persona may work on others, but not those who have been around you on a daily basis. Hide behind your social media if you will. I respect your views on Saudi Arabian policies & atrocities, and your love of this game. Not much else.

Is anyone else sensing a bit of irony here?

[Modern Renaissance]

You are quite mistaken. I do know you. I have been involved in racing for quite awhile and much of it in NY. You are not just a NYRA employee, but quite a shill. Your PR persona may work on others, but not those who have been around you on a daily basis. Hide behind your social media if you will. I respect your views on Saudi Arabian policies & atrocities, and your love of this game. Not much else.

Is anyone else sensing a bit of irony here?

I'm not even sure why the constant harassment of someone's identity is even allowed, or why people do it. It is creepy at best.

[Curtis]

You are quite mistaken. I do know you. I have been involved in racing for quite awhile and much of it in NY. You are not just a NYRA employee, but quite a shill. Your PR persona may work on others, but not those who have been around you on a daily basis. Hide behind your social media if you will. I respect your views on Saudi Arabian policies & atrocities, and your love of this game. Not much else.

Is anyone else sensing a bit of irony here?

You are making assumptions. I'm sure the name BallyAche60 resides on that poster's birth certificate. Why else would that poster call out Thinair for hiding behind social media especially when anyone not living under a rock already knows who he is?

[thinair]

You are quite mistaken. I do know you. I have been involved in racing for quite awhile and much of it in NY. You are not just a NYRA employee, but quite a shill. Your PR persona may work on others, but not those who have been around you on a daily basis. Hide behind your social media if you will. I respect your views on Saudi Arabian policies & atrocities, and your love of this game. Not much else.

Is anyone else sensing a bit of irony here?

I'm not even sure why the constant harassment of someone's identity is even allowed, or why people do it. It is creepy at best.

I'm just trying to figure out how I hide behind my social media. Is that even possible?

I just hope this poster isn't a disbarred lawyer hiding behind a screen name. That would be special.

[stark]

You are making assumptions. I'm sure the name BallyAche60 resides on that poster's birth certificate. Why else would that poster call out Thinair for hiding behind social media especially when anyone not living under a rock already knows who he is?

He has taken to writing in his second life since his untimely death in '60.

As a two-year-old, Bally Ache made sixteen starts. He won five stakes races, set a new track record at Jamaica Race Course for five furlongs, and finished out of the money just once. He ended the year ranked second in earnings to Bellehurst Stables' 1959 Champion Two-Year-Old, Warfare.

At age three, Bally Ache won the Flamingo Stakes and Florida Derby on the way to the Triple Crown. In the Kentucky Derby, C. V. Whitney's colt Tompion, ridden by Bill Shoemaker, was coming off wins in the Santa Anita Derby and the Blue Grass Stakes[2] and was sent off as the betting favorite. Bally Ache, under jockey Bobby Ussery, was the second choice. However, jockey Bill Hartack aboard 6:1 outsider Venetian Way, whom Bally Ache had already beaten four times, won. Despite Bally Ache's second-place finish, it did not deter the Turfland racing syndicate led by Joseph L. Arnold, who bought the colt for what Sports Illustrated magazine described as the "staggering price of $1,250,000".[3] Bally Ache then won by four lengths in the 84th running of the Preakness Stakes.

Entered in the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, Bally Ache came up lame the day before the race and was withdrawn. After returning to racing, in his fourth outing he suffered a career-ending ankle injury. He was scheduled to stand at stud for his owners but developed an intestinal ailment that led to his death on October 28, 1960. He was buried at Bosque Bonita Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.[4]

[Curtis]

You are making assumptions. I'm sure the name BallyAche60 resides on that poster's birth certificate. Why else would that poster call out Thinair for hiding behind social media especially when anyone not living under a rock already knows who he is?

He has taken to writing in his second life since his untimely death in '60.

As a two-year-old, Bally Ache made sixteen starts. He won five stakes races, set a new track record at Jamaica Race Course for five furlongs, and finished out of the money just once. He ended the year ranked second in earnings to Bellehurst Stables' 1959 Champion Two-Year-Old, Warfare.

At age three, Bally Ache won the Flamingo Stakes and Florida Derby on the way to the Triple Crown. In the Kentucky Derby, C. V. Whitney's colt Tompion, ridden by Bill Shoemaker, was coming off wins in the Santa Anita Derby and the Blue Grass Stakes[2] and was sent off as the betting favorite. Bally Ache, under jockey Bobby Ussery, was the second choice. However, jockey Bill Hartack aboard 6:1 outsider Venetian Way, whom Bally Ache had already beaten four times, won. Despite Bally Ache's second-place finish, it did not deter the Turfland racing syndicate led by Joseph L. Arnold, who bought the colt for what Sports Illustrated magazine described as the "staggering price of $1,250,000".[3] Bally Ache then won by four lengths in the 84th running of the Preakness Stakes.

Entered in the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, Bally Ache came up lame the day before the race and was withdrawn. After returning to racing, in his fourth outing he suffered a career-ending ankle injury. He was scheduled to stand at stud for his owners but developed an intestinal ailment that led to his death on October 28, 1960. He was buried at Bosque Bonita Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.[4]

So he's been living on the QT all these years or would that be the QC?

[stark]

So he's been living on the QT all these years or would that be the QC?

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[BallyAche60]

No, I am not this Chris character often referred to here, nor the disbarred lawyer the poster referred to. Feel free to defend someone who you think you know, since he appears here and other sites on other screen names. Something, BTW, he excoriated another one for doing same. I posted here for many years, on forerunners of this forum, under a different named and only re-upped recently. I didn't mention TA's name, don't really care if others are aware.
My issue, while giving him credit for his stance re: Saudi Arabia, was the points Stark itemized above. I responded to TA's assumption that I didn't know him.
The horse he can relate to best is the high one he rides.

[Modern Renaissance]

I hate everyone, and at this stage of life am too old to be as silly as defending anyone I don't know online.

But calling anyone out with anonymous names while having the luxury of knowing someone's real identity is a slippery slope. This forum has a rather rotten history with it.

[Diver52]

Well, I'm a lawyer and I've been formally stricken off the rolls--but that's because once I retired, I didn't see any reason to continue giving the State Bar almost $500 a year. (Actually, my employer paid it, which made the decision not to take it out of my own pocket a real no-brainer.)

I am almost reluctant to say that I remember Bally Ache and if asked, would have said that he died early. That was probably one of the earliest Derbies I watched, if not the first.

[Diver52]

Well, I'm a lawyer and I've been formally stricken off the rolls--but that's because once I retired, I didn't see any reason to continue giving the State Bar almost $500 a year in dues. (Actually, my employer paid it, which made the decision not to take it out of my own pocket a real no-brainer.)

I am almost reluctant to say that I remember Bally Ache and if asked, would have said that he died early. That was probably one of the earliest Derbies I watched, if not the first.

[BallyAche60]

Stark,
Quite a recap of a horse, like many, time has forgotten due to decade and an early demise. He was tough in a tough era.

[sweettalk]

came here looking for more info, got off topic bickering instead.

did catch someone say it was "pending further investigation" so i guess i'll just keep an eye on the news sites.

[thinair]

I responded to TA's assumption that I didn't know him.

You don't know me and just because you want to pretend you do on the internet doesn't change that. The fact that you don't like me only makes me happy based on your performance here. I wouldn't want someone like you to like me.

[BallyAche60]

I responded to TA's assumption that I didn't know him.

You don't know me and just because you want to pretend you do on the internet doesn't change that. The fact that you don't like me only makes me happy based on your performance here. I wouldn't want someone like you to like me.

Oh, but I do. Internet is irrelevant. I'm glad to make you happy. You're a sad, little man. Struck a nerve, as your rebuttals indicate. Despite what you try to purvey, many you call friends, aren't. Remember this when you hit the pillow tonight.

[Curtis]

I responded to TA's assumption that I didn't know him.

You don't know me and just because you want to pretend you do on the internet doesn't change that. The fact that you don't like me only makes me happy based on your performance here. I wouldn't want someone like you to like me.

Oh, but I do. Internet is irrelevant. I'm glad to make you happy. You're a sad, little man. Struck a nerve, as your rebuttals indicate. Despite what you try to purvey, many you call friends, aren't. Remember this when you hit the pillow tonight.

So you know him but feel the need to come on here to engage him “anonymously”? Sounds a bit like chasing your tail.

[peeptoad]

Seems not much around here has changed. Not sure why I thought it might have after staying away for awhile

[Kurenai]

Seems not much around here has changed. Not sure why I thought it might have after staying away for awhile

I banned him immediately. Things did change here quite a bit.

Edit to say: I know now who it was and it wasn't QC actually.

[Horsebagger]

Seems not much around here has changed. Not sure why I thought it might have after staying away for awhile

Ding! Ding!

[Curtis]

Seems not much around here has changed. Not sure why I thought it might have after staying away for awhile

I banned him immediately. Things did change here quite a bit.

Edit to say: I know now who it was and it wasn't QC actually.

In the scheme of things, it doesn’t really matter. QC is kind of like 007, multiple actors, same basic part. Although, there is that whole good vs. evil thing.