Randy Moss
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
All right. So journalism, sovereignty, journalism, sovereignty, and then underneath that in the third and fourth spots, then you got Sandman, then you got Burnham Square, then you've got the Japanese horse Luxor Cafe. Right. Then you've got this horse Final Gambit. So, yeah, you can spread on the third in the third and fourth spots and maybe get a really nice payoff.
All right. So journalism, sovereignty, journalism, sovereignty, and then underneath that in the third and fourth spots, then you got Sandman, then you got Burnham Square, then you've got the Japanese horse Luxor Cafe. Right. Then you've got this horse Final Gambit. So, yeah, you can spread on the third in the third and fourth spots and maybe get a really nice payoff.
I'm talking I was 12 years old at the time. I had just started handicapping for a newspaper in Little Rock under somebody's name when I was 12 years old. They didn't want anyone to know a 12 year old was dispensing financial advice. There was a horse running in Arkansas that actually wound up coming to Churchill Downs and setting a six furlong track record that held for about 25 years.
I'm talking I was 12 years old at the time. I had just started handicapping for a newspaper in Little Rock under somebody's name when I was 12 years old. They didn't want anyone to know a 12 year old was dispensing financial advice. There was a horse running in Arkansas that actually wound up coming to Churchill Downs and setting a six furlong track record that held for about 25 years.
I'm talking I was 12 years old at the time. I had just started handicapping for a newspaper in Little Rock under somebody's name when I was 12 years old. They didn't want anyone to know a 12 year old was dispensing financial advice. There was a horse running in Arkansas that actually wound up coming to Churchill Downs and setting a six furlong track record that held for about 25 years.
He was a white horse. Not officially white. He was gray, but he was almost white. It was unbelievably popular in Arkansas where I grew up. His name was Barbizon Streak. He even had a great name. He was an Arkansas bred horse who loved to win. After he retired, I went to see him at the farm in Arkansas and would feed him carrots from time to time. I got pictures of him on my office wall.
He was a white horse. Not officially white. He was gray, but he was almost white. It was unbelievably popular in Arkansas where I grew up. His name was Barbizon Streak. He even had a great name. He was an Arkansas bred horse who loved to win. After he retired, I went to see him at the farm in Arkansas and would feed him carrots from time to time. I got pictures of him on my office wall.
He was a white horse. Not officially white. He was gray, but he was almost white. It was unbelievably popular in Arkansas where I grew up. His name was Barbizon Streak. He even had a great name. He was an Arkansas bred horse who loved to win. After he retired, I went to see him at the farm in Arkansas and would feed him carrots from time to time. I got pictures of him on my office wall.
Yeah, Barbizon Streak. That's pretty incredible.
Yeah, Barbizon Streak. That's pretty incredible.
Yeah, Barbizon Streak. That's pretty incredible.
Well, I was through a friend of a friend. I met the guy who actually was doing the picks for a long time for a newspaper in Arkansas called the Arkansas Gazette. It was the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi, believe it or not. And it was a chore to type all the stuff in and make the comments on all the horses and all that.
Well, I was through a friend of a friend. I met the guy who actually was doing the picks for a long time for a newspaper in Arkansas called the Arkansas Gazette. It was the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi, believe it or not. And it was a chore to type all the stuff in and make the comments on all the horses and all that.
Well, I was through a friend of a friend. I met the guy who actually was doing the picks for a long time for a newspaper in Arkansas called the Arkansas Gazette. It was the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi, believe it or not. And it was a chore to type all the stuff in and make the comments on all the horses and all that.
So he paid me $20 a week for a friend of a friend, even though I didn't know how to type, on an old manual typewriter to do all the entries for him every day. And I did speed figures back then. I was a pretty sharp handicapper, even as a 12-year-old. I was a numbers kid. And I noticed that he was not a very good handicapper.
So he paid me $20 a week for a friend of a friend, even though I didn't know how to type, on an old manual typewriter to do all the entries for him every day. And I did speed figures back then. I was a pretty sharp handicapper, even as a 12-year-old. I was a numbers kid. And I noticed that he was not a very good handicapper.
So he paid me $20 a week for a friend of a friend, even though I didn't know how to type, on an old manual typewriter to do all the entries for him every day. And I did speed figures back then. I was a pretty sharp handicapper, even as a 12-year-old. I was a numbers kid. And I noticed that he was not a very good handicapper.
And so I started changing some of his picks very judiciously, very, you know, and I would tell him, I said, hey, Don, that was cocky, you know, cocky ass 12 year old kid. Who do I think I am? You know, I changed this pick. I think this horse is going to win. And like the first five or six I changed wound up winning.
And so I started changing some of his picks very judiciously, very, you know, and I would tell him, I said, hey, Don, that was cocky, you know, cocky ass 12 year old kid. Who do I think I am? You know, I changed this pick. I think this horse is going to win. And like the first five or six I changed wound up winning.
And so I started changing some of his picks very judiciously, very, you know, and I would tell him, I said, hey, Don, that was cocky, you know, cocky ass 12 year old kid. Who do I think I am? You know, I changed this pick. I think this horse is going to win. And like the first five or six I changed wound up winning.