Jeff writes so well, I think I will let him do his own introduction.\u00a0 He is one of the longest tenured players and I can remember him teaching me how to grill asparagas either in the chat\u00a0 or by IM.\u00a0 It was wonderful and I told all my friends.\u00a0 Thank you, Jeff and here is your snapshot.<\/FONT><\/P> <\/FONT><\/STRONG>\u00a0<\/P> “I have played the game since week 292 and I don’t think I’ve missed a week since.\u00a0 I started the Sim Eclipse Awards with Kingab and the first two years, we wrote almost all the stories and set up the nominations and voting ourselves, with a little help from Snowflake and Roys.\u00a0 At one time, I was the longest tenured SimForm\/BTB writer, about 5 consecutive years of covering the NY track.\u00a0 I was a long time contributor to Iago’s Forum and when breeding started, I had and still continue the first and longest running breeding advice link, first housed at the old NY site and now at DelPenn.\u00a0 I am an original member of the Super Stables and frankly love it that very few people understand what we do, that we have been able to sustain it’s success for 5 years and afc and topicount are the greatest partners to have in the project.\u00a0 I have been very lucky in the game, winning the Derby, Middle Jewel, the New Yorker, the Travelers twice, the Arc, the Sand Castle Classic, Breeder’s Bowl race and a couple of Eclispe’s but it did take me a hell of a long time to win that first graded stake with Midnite Kat, who I believe was the first homebred graded winner in the sim.\u00a0 At one time, I owned real racehorses, and was lucky enough that among the 17 horses we owned, Roanoke was a Gd1 and multiple graded stake winner and Tee’s Prospect was a Gd2 winner and ran 4th in the Travers.\u00a0 I grew up in NY and attended the Belmont Stakes for 20 consecutive years before I moved to Texas and got to see Secretariat, Slew and Affirmed win their Triple Crowns.\u00a0 This is the greatest game in the world, I’ve made great friends from all over the globe, even gotten to meet quite a few and I don’t know what I would do on Saturdays without it.” First name?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> Jeff<\/FONT><\/P> How long have you been in the Sim?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> over 10 years now<\/FONT><\/P> Favorite food?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> French<\/FONT><\/P> Dog or cat?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> Well, we have 4 dogs and 4 cats at home, so it would be tough to say, but all in all, I would rather not have to walk dogs in the winter.<\/FONT><\/P> If you were to take a solo road trip which would you rather drive – a convertible or a motorhome?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> I’m big on comfort and amenities, so a motorhome, as long as I don’t have to drive it.<\/FONT><\/P> Favorite place to hangout?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> Dark, smokey, straight ahead jazz clubs<\/FONT><\/P> Hobby – other than horseracing?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> music, cooking, classic film noir, internet porn<\/FONT><\/P> Sunrise or sunset?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> I have been in the restaurant business for over 30 years, sunrises are nice, but I only see them from the back end and sunsets are the beginning of my day.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P> If you had a celebrity living next door – who would you want it to be?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> Angelina Jolie, but minus Brad and the kids<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P> Last book you read?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> Witness To A Century- George Seldes<\/FONT><\/P> What is a hidden talent you have that no one knows about?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> I am the king of minutia, I hosted a music, movie, tv trivia show on the radio for 2 1\/2 years.\u00a0 When it comes to playing Trivial Pursuit, I’m the guy you want on your team.\u00a0 I can also play a mean didgeridoo What’s playing in your cd player or Ipod right now?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> Cassandra Wilson’s “Blue Light Until Dawn” CD and the Neville Brothers “Yellow Moon” CD<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/FONT><\/P> If you were stuck in a hospital room for 6 months and could chose one person, past or present, other than husband\/wife, relative or in-law,\u00a0to be in the bed next to you – who would it be?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> Either early ’60’s Elizabeth Taylor, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen or Orson Welles, a true American original and the stories he could tell. If you were to take a day trip in your area – where would you go?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> The Jersey Shore in August or the Grounds for Sculpture in the spring or fall.<\/FONT><\/P> Favorite real life racehorse?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> Personal Ensign<\/FONT><\/P> If you could meet one person in the Sim – who would it be?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> Mike, Kingab or the not quite as evil Ryan(lenny) Whirlwind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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