Remember horse racing??

Do they still do that on some cruises? I haven't seen it !!!

Our favorite was on the old Seawind Crown. Passengers would bid on and
"buy" the horses, then give them a name, decorate them and carry them
all over the ship for days, then race them on the last sea day. We bid
for awhile, but one group got up $600 for their horse (a little rich for
my gambling budget) and we quit. Bets on the races were otherwise the
same. I have not seen this on another ship until the Norway this year.

Candy

Ebbtide wrote:
Do they still do that on some cruises? I haven't seen it !!!

"Ebbtide" wrote in message
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Do they still do that on some cruises? I haven't seen it !!!

My first "gambling" experience. : ) 1971 on the Italian Line. They had
horse racing every night after dinner.

I think a bet was a .25.

RCCL has it on alot of their ships.. We buy a horse and thoroughly enjoy it.

Susette
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I always betted on the idiot on #1. It's not as far to the finish line.

"Ebbtide" wrote in message
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Do they still do that on some cruises? I haven't seen it !!!

They had it on the Grand Princess in October.

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"Ebbtide" wrote in message
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Do they still do that on some cruises? I haven't seen it !!!

I sailed on the Norway Jan. 2003 and they did not have horse racing.
The last time I saw racing was on the WORLD EXPLORER CRUISE in 1995.
(Alaska) The logo for our horse was a cow, we dressed him/her in black and
white. A real loser.
Crusing in the 70's and 80's they would make racing a weekly event.
Happy Holidays.

Joyce


"Candy" wrote in message
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Our favorite was on the old Seawind Crown. Passengers would bid on and
"buy" the horses, then give them a name, decorate them and carry them
all over the ship for days, then race them on the last sea day. We bid
for awhile, but one group got up $600 for their horse (a little rich for
my gambling budget) and we quit. Bets on the races were otherwise the
same. I have not seen this on another ship until the Norway this year.

Candy

Ebbtide wrote:
Do they still do that on some cruises? I haven't seen it !!!

"Ebbtide" wrote in message
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Do they still do that on some cruises? I haven't seen it !!!


The Grand Princess had it last week, but it wasn't highly promoted...


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My guess is that most have stopped doing them because it probably doesn't
generate enough revenue for the effort.

Frank

We just returned from the Radiance and we put together an "ownership group"
to purchase a horse. We bid and won. On the advice of one of our group, a
real gambler, we took # 4, apparently her lucky number. We trained it all
week, carried it around with us everywhere, got her picture taken with the
captain and fed it a steady diet of pizza and Budweiser. Our jockey, Kimmie,
showed up in a bikini with a coconut shell top and a feathered Mardi Gras
mask. Very distracting for the other jockeys! (All part of our strategy).

We even foiled a horsenapping plot!

Anyway, our horse won! It was a double overtime, come from behind, down to
the wire, PHOTO FINISH! I'm not making any of this up. We won a bundle and
had a ball doing it. There is a picture of our "Winners Circle" on
www.webshots.com search for user mrtractor1.

This was our first experience getting involved in this since our first
cruise in 1990. I've seen it on most of the ships but haven't bothered doing
it. Besides being an old cruising tradition, it can be great fun! I am
writing a story about this and will try to get it in one of the paper mags
this coming year. Stay tuned.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

MrTractor

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They had it on the Grand Princess in October.

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Do they still do that on some cruises? I haven't seen it !!!