luck renewed for a second season

[bdw0617]

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/nation ... -luck.aspx

[Shammy Davis]

I hope the renewal is a promise of better things to come. The second episode was a step down from the first.

Don't know what was worse, the singer in the Super Bowl half time show flipping the "bird" and spouting expletives or the bald pick six winner in Luck getting beaten up by the two half nude sex crazed broads. Luck might be a comedy series in disguise. Both HBO-E and NBC need to make apologies to the TV viewers.

Luck, in particular, makes the horseracing world look "moronic, seedy and unkept. Nick Nolte's fast horse, probably overloaded with Ace, looks like it is about to keel over on the backstretch like a ship run aground. I'd be afraid to hitch a wagon to him. How about the over acheiving winning horse dropped in class for another tag with "red" wraps on, and this great top class foul mouthed trainer being surprised and pissed the horse got claimed. If the novice viewer took anything from that segment it was to avoid anyone in the horse business who even looks halfway close to knowing what they are doing. Don't even know why Dustin Hoffman is wasting his time on the show. His big line last night was "how much do the carrots costs?" His best scenes find us watching him at the end of the show in a bathrobe laying on a bed talking "stupid" to his limo driver. Do you think they sleep together?

I'm confused about this casino stuff. Didn't think CA had legalized casino gambling so if that is true then the "poker player" must be running to NV during the commercials.

The scene with the probation officer was a tear jerker. Wasn't that sweet when the probation officer turned on the faucet water so Chester could take a leak into the specimen jar? Dustin ought to toss his job on Luck and do an erectile dysfunction or catheter commercial. If we have to wait until the season's last show to figure out what on Chester's mind, we'll all be turning to "Dancing with the Stars" for our entertainment.

I do like the "hover round" that the oxygen deprived paranoid handicapper rides around in. That would be another great commercial. I told my wife last night that if I got to the point that I couldn't walk or breath I wanted a "rig" like that. According to the commercials, they can cost little or nothing. Wow, that's a great deal. Maybe if the Spendthrift breeding deal fails to promote their low end stallions, they'll give the mare owners a deal like hover round.

The cameos of the fat TB Protection Officer are priceless also. So what's in the bag on the hover round? This is sharp TB cop that picks up on something that was not evident to any of the viewers. I'll bet it is a stash of "used condoms." Maybe Luck can pick up viewers by having a short 30 second clip on "safe sex in a hover round while placing a bet at the $2 window."

Have been looking for the "Louis type character," but haven't seen anyone being fitted for a new set of work clothes or steel toes. Then again, I've not seen anyone intently looking over any pedigree charts either. And what about poor Delphi? Dead Delphi as I refer to him. I thought Gary Stevens was going to talk with Nick Nolte about riding the "cart horse" and he ends up as Nick's shrink. "This is your chance" or something to that effect, Gary tells Nolte. Not with this bag of bones, I laughed. Fortunately for Gary, his agent closes the deal at the "Long Shot" bar. That could be an omen.

I guess the young female exercise rider is being written out of the show because it sounds like she is going to Portland Downs. Most TV series kill their characters off and then the characters are haunted by the memory until the series finale. Lastly, I feel so sorry for Jill Hennessey. She would have been better off staying with her police and lawyer parts. Maybe she'll quit being a Vet and become a TB Protection Officer and solve the case about how Delphi was killed. The 10 second segment she plays in each show is definitely worth missing.

If I want to see seedy, crude, and moronic, I can watch "Nancy Grace."

[zinn21]

I'm having a tough time trying to decipher what they are saying. It all sounds muffled. There are kernals of good stuff but too much of it is stereotypical for me. I like Stevens character and Stevens is a fine actor.

[HR LLC]

I think Shammy wants Luck to be gone with the wind or something after 2 episodes. Luck is decent. Some things are over the top. I get that there are people who stay in low budget motels during the week and only gamble their social security or disability check on horses every day. However, maybe in future episodes they will highlight people who are more weekend warriors/big race gamblers who also lead normal lives during the week. Maybe highlight some partnerships of decent people who pooled their money, not owners who are mafia type or looking to commit horse insurance fraud. Although I am sure those elements are in the sport.

I do like they guy who was trying to claim his first horse but lost it in a shake. Some shakes I won I wish I would have lost.

[Patuxet]

Based on what the executive producer of "Luck" says in this interview, it's supposed to develop in an organic way into a more complicated and inclusive project and story line than it might at first seem.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/int ... hael-mann/

[Shammy Davis]

I don't want to get rid of it. I want it to be successful. I guess if I didn't know anything about horseracing, I wouldn't be as critical. After the singer flipped me and 40 million super ball viewers the "bird," I might have been overly stressed out when Luck came on and the two half nude broads tried to beat the bald pick sixer to death in the second rate motel. Probably PTSD. I was stationed as Marine in CA for a time and I was probably suffering from flashbacks of second rate motels and other west coast experiences.

Go Giants!

[bluemoon]

Yeah, the singer is now saying "she got caught up in the moment"
What moment??????
Had to ruin it all, otherwise I thought it was one of the better half time shows presented.

I do agree that I hope Luck does not present a seedy side, at my present job, people tend to look down on "racetrack" people, they kind of look at me like I have some strange disease that is communicable.
It is totally foreign to them, so they will believe anything they see.....

[DDT]

You would think that the powers that be in racing would take a stand against any TV show or movie that attacks the integrity of the game, but as usual they must think that any publicity, even bad publicity, is a good thing. I have not watched it because I knew it would be typical HBO, Hollywood junk. As dumb as it was, Jockeys was not a bad or negative series. For the most part, Hollywood has always portrayed racing as the home of gangsters in their pin striped suits, flipping coins and fixing races. Unfortunately that image is once again being aired by HBO.

DDT

[Shammy Davis]

DDT: I agree with you about Jockeys. I thought it was very positive. Watching the episode with Chantal Sutherland and Mike Smith on a date was interesting. Talking about a boring couple. I told my wife, it wouldn't last. I think each should try E-Harmony or another on-line dating service. It wouldn't hurt if both would loosen up with a couple of stiff drinks either. Aaron Gryder and John Court went on to greener pastures after that show. The tall jockey from IL went back Chicago and I saw him in numerous races on TVG. Wonder what happen to the Aussie girl? Cayla Straw? She was riding in Northern CA for awhile. If I were her, I head back to the land of "roos." Great people, the Aussies.

It might be worth checking out Luck. You can take note of the motels and bars that were used in scenes. At least, you know where not to go. When at SA if you cross paths with the O2 deprived guy (Luck character) in the hover round, turn and run. Nasty fellow. Remembering my single days in OK and KS, I might be able to warm up to a place like the Long Shot bar. It would definitely be a step up from eating at McDonalds and I could wear my old western hat if the moths haven't used it for an appetizer.

The link above is 23 minutes and I couldn't get it to load. Too much cr*p on my laptop. Maybe Patuxet can elaborate for us.

Best wishes.

[oleos93]

My trainer at Los Al called me one day saying "they" producers maybe, wanted to buy my gray mare...I declined....I guess my feelings where good on why. See link below.



http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/nation ... -luck.aspx

[bdw0617]

DDT: I agree with you about Jockeys. I thought it was very positive. Watching the episode with Chantal Sutherland and Mike Smith on a date was interesting. Talking about a boring couple. I told my wife, it wouldn't last. I think each should try E-Harmony or another on-line dating service. It wouldn't hurt if both would loosen up with a couple of stiff drinks either. Aaron Gryder and John Court went on to greener pastures after that show. The tall jockey from IL went back Chicago and I saw him in numerous races on TVG. Wonder what happen to the Aussie girl? Cayla Straw? She was riding in Northern CA for awhile. If I were her, I head back to the land of "roos." Great people, the Aussies.

It might be worth checking out Luck. You can take note of the motels and bars that were used in scenes. At least, you know where not to go. When at SA if you cross paths with the O2 deprived guy (Luck character) in the hover round, turn and run. Nasty fellow. Remembering my single days in OK and KS, I might be able to warm up to a place like the Long Shot bar. It would definitely be a step up from eating at McDonalds and I could wear my old western hat if the moths haven't used it for an appetizer.

The link above is 23 minutes and I couldn't get it to load. Too much cr*p on my laptop. Maybe Patuxet can elaborate for us.

Best wishes.

Kalya Stra and yeah she went back to Golden Gate. She's the goods on the turf track up there.

that show made me really.. I'm really not a Chantel fan. the more she talks the more I really do not care for her.

[Shammy Davis]

I must admit the more I know about Chantal Sutherland, beyond her exceptional riding ability, the less impressive she is. HRTV did a recent Inside Edition on her and Game On Dude at the BC. She went to party given by Gary Stevens for her and then went into a separate room by herself and did her nails. Apparently, painting her nails is relaxing to her. At the end of the segment as the closing credits were running she was pictured doing her nails. How many times a day can someone paint their nails? I'm no shrink but I think a couple of stiff drinks or a valium would do this lady a world of good.

[bdw0617]

I must admit the more I know about Chantal Sutherland, beyond her exceptional riding ability, the less impressive she is. HRTV did a recent Inside Edition on her and Game On Dude at the BC. She went to party given by Gary Stevens for her and then went into a separate room by herself and did her nails. Apparently, painting her nails is relaxing to her. At the end of the segment as the closing credits were running she was pictured doing her nails. How many times a day can someone paint their nails? I'm no shrink but I think a couple of stiff drinks or a valium would do this lady a world of good.

I hate to turn this into a chantel bashing thread but while I have a mintue
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she actually is a better rider than people give her credit for. she doesn't suck as a rider (at least anymore) she just doesn't get the stock. when she gets it, assuming it's not a turf race, she's usually good to go.


what gets me about her, is that for someone who wants to be seen as a Jockey and not a woman jockey, she goes out of her way to make it known that she is a woman. she just isn't very and she's not very... I mean I was following her on twitter and she is tweeting pictures of her damn manicured feet on twitter I mean god damn how unprofessional can you be? I mean why not have a jockey chantel twitter and a chante4l the lady regular person twitter and you can tweet all the pictures of your feet and whatever else you feel like twitting. lol they weren't even like really good looking feet either I mean if you are going to tweet random people pictures of your feet don't have corns and crap all on your feet come on. Anyway she just rubs me the wrong way. I'm a big Anna N fan in the sense that while she is a woman and doesn't try not to be or anything, you think of her as a damn good jockey first. isn't loud or obnoxious or antyhing just goes about her business and does her thing.