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Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"jerry levine" Discussed on Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"I mean, it just goes to show, when they say movie magic, this is movie magic. This is a perfect movie for me. I love it. Well, the director, you know, he was a veteran. He had done things like WKRP and Cincinnati. He brought, he brought that toolbox to that set. And then, you know, you had Jerry Levine and Michael and some wonderful actors, you know, satellite outside of the team, a great bad guy. And in my little role that was just, you know, very small to begin with, which was just the fat friend, the data 20 or something, you know. The obligatory fat buddy in comedy back then. He took the time to develop that character instead of just shooting what was on the page and Michael got behind that the next thing I know. I'm being included in other reindeer games that I didn't sign on for and just loving it. Yes. It wasn't in the script, you know, chubby is involved in the beaver victory at the end. Yeah. But it was just it was just a wonderful time. And he's such a great character. He's such a great character, you know? Let me ask you, do you have a number 55 Jersey anywhere? Because I read where I think Michael J. Fox's Jersey sold for like 30 grand. But I gotta believe that's a hot commodity that number 55 Jersey you wore in the movie. I'm actually getting t-shirts over my. That are coming across my table and they're not, they're just teachers, they're not jerseys. Gotcha. And until recently, all you could get that I could find on the Internet was number 42, which was Michael's number. Yeah. And then somebody, it was actually one of the convention creators of whatever, I guess, came across this in order and was going to wear it at the convention and it came like a day after the convention was over. But he sent me a picture of it and he said, this thing, you know, it took like 6 weeks for him to get it. He came from the orient. And he paid way too much for it. I think. But that is in the works. I want to absolutely make that available and you got to. It's such a great looking Jersey. It's beautiful. Yeah, I want it to be at least the quality of a high school basketball team. And I want it to be made in America. Yeah. Because that's just the way I roll. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I have to say, I thought I read early on Mark where at first Michael J. Fox wasn't thrilled with the movie and he wasn't happy. He was his tune as I think since change. I mean, this is years ago. I hope that was never the case, and that's just online chatter and whatever you want to tribute that to. Well, actually, you know, I think Michael's reasons were probably and I don't know. You know, he'd have to speak for himself on this, but I just suppose that if I suddenly woke up as the star of Back to the Future or in Jennifer's case, leprechaun or wakes up is.
The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
"jerry levine" Discussed on The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
"And I was going to bet on them and just try to have about 15 tickets. And of course, being a gambler at that time in your young Cavaliers had a horse in that I thought was an easy winner. His name was Carney's point. And I decided that some of my money on carnage points and my yeah, if I recall correctly, he got beat and I only ended up with three tickets on secretary, but that was all right three was enough. But it was a great experience. Yeah. Yeah, I can imagine. But just to be so close to him, didn't you even witness a young lady pulling a piece of hair out of secretariat? Well, that's a long time ago, but I do recall that. I was in the paddock. I was grilling a horse named fave count. It was one of I was very young. And so I was grooving this horse and I was working for Jerry Levine. He got a more experienced room to take the horse to the paddock. So I was walking around on the other side. And I remember turning and watching their secretary in front of me and they said he reaches up and just kind of turned one of his hair from his tail into her finger and just kind of give it a little Paul and he didn't even yeah, I didn't move an inch in L and of course she got something to remember for the rest of her life I guess. But I remember seeing that and it was quite I was impressed with how come he was in the paddock. He not much bothered him. Yeah, people will do just about anything for a souvenir like that, especially from a great horse, like secretariat visiting with trainer Dan vela here on trainer talk presented by facing tipton if you're just tuning in, Dan has been doing this since 1972, so a 50 year career and he has so many wonderful stories. Real quick before we move on, Dan, I want to pass this along a bit of housekeeping here for our listeners. This show, of course, presented by our friends at phasic tipton, facing tipping getting ready to host their winter mix sale in Lexington, Kentucky, which is supposed to start next Monday. We are under a ice storm advisory here in the bluegrass. So because of that phasic has decided to push the sale back one day. So the sale instead of being Monday and Tuesday next week, it will now be Wednesday Tuesday and Wednesday. February 8th and 9th to allow everybody to get in here safely and I think a wonderful move by facing tipton. Let's talk a little bit more about your relationship with Frank stronach in the horses that you had the chance to be around with him. What do you remember about the first time he met Frank and how that relationship came to be with you training for him? Well, I had I had it started a gentleman that worked for him. His name was Don Amos. And I had trained a little bit for I was just getting going and I had training to horse that dawn had sold at auction. And I got to know dawn, he would come by the barn. So yeah, I called him up one day, and I said, general Don, I'd love to get to meet Frank, strong. And I'd love to, you know, I mean, you got to be aggressive sometimes. You got to sell yourself. And Dons got me an interview with Frank and that's where it all started. We sat down and talked and we kind of hit it off right away. My father had been a machinist. He was there was a connection there. We talked a little bit about that. Frank was a machinist when he started out and yeah, next thing I know I had four horses in the barn and had some great success with a couple of them and it moved up from there. Which are some of the horses that you're never going to forget when you think back on your career, Dan, whether they were a dean of spring's horses or horses that were owned by other people that you were around, but some of the horses, when you say, boy, I've been doing this 50 years. I'm never going to forget this horse, or these horses. Yeah. One of my first jobs, I trained for Steve stab. He had affiliate names, agriculture. She was not a very big silly, not imposing. But might have been the fastest horse. I was ever around. We took her to I was training kind of in tandem with another trainer at the time, and for her staff role. And we took her to Europe and she got beat ahead and Frito obeyed a long shot. She was an absolute rocket. So I'll never forget her. You know, probably the best horse I was ever around. Well, not probably. He was ghost sapper was, you know, I mean, if you categorize horses allowance horses, their stay courses, there's grade one horses. There's classic horses. Then there's that category that's kind of mysterious almost. And I called them freaks. They're just rigs. They do things that your whole life, you watch horses and they can't do them. Secretary, it was that way. And I go shopper was much the same. I mean, you could watch him and some of his races and he would, you know, he'd run three quarters of a mile in sprint time. And then just keep on going. And horses shouldn't be able to do those things. And he could. I had the pleasure of breaking him as a baby and getting him ready. And send him out to Bobby frankel and it was kind of he was a bit of a lazy horse, so it took a while for him to really clue in, but of course, Bobby was one of the greatest of all times. And we would chat about him and stuff like that, very interesting, but if I'm not mistaken, first start of his life, I think he run one of the best buyers for a first time starter still ever. And ghost rapper was he was a top end horse that you only see a couple in your lifetime..
The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
"jerry levine" Discussed on The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
"10,000 people at the races on weekends. It was everything was jammed. And yeah, there was a lot of. The character and the ambiance to it was fantastic. Yeah, there are so many characters in this sport. It's what truly does make the sport special. And like you said, 50 years ago, things were totally different. The sport, the popularity of the sport was different. And the characters haven't changed, but I don't know if we have the same type of vibe when it comes to the characters in the sport of racing that we used to. Do you? I think that's true with every sport, but especially with horse racing. I mean, there were, yeah, there were grooms that were famous throughout the industry because of their character. There were riders. You know, trainers, Carl Chapman back then, and they called him the arch enemy asylum. He was great guy and always easy to talk to new Cavaliers who was very famous trainer was kind of my go to guy when I was a younger trainer. I'd run things past up all the time. Great experience, always willing to share his experience with you and we're just not as dynamic as we were back then. Some of those guys just had great characters and you know they shot and they made the industry shine. Visiting with trainer Dan vela here on trainer talk presented by facing tipton, Dan back to what I was talking about a moment ago with my relationship with my uncles and going to the races with them and those memories that I'll cherish forever. One of the things that was mentioned in the article, I referenced earlier was that you have a win picture with your uncle from 1961 at fort Erie when you were only about 6 years old. I have several of those types of pictures myself. And they are just so special. Yeah, I mean, you look back at it, my cousins were in the picture, my uncle was in the picture, the horse's name was Leo's jingle. Yeah, you can't forget those type of things. And you know, I mean, everything was black and white pictures back then and you know, but you look at them and it just kind of brings it all back to life for you and the time you used to spend at the races and you know, yeah it was a great time in my life and it was, you know, that's where the that's where it all started for me. But family is it was great to be around the family and go there. When you first started working with horses, it wasn't racehorses, right? No, actually we moved out there oakville Ontario when I was about 12 or 13 years old and I worked for a gentleman named Lauren Siegel on weekends and summers. Show horse show horses, he was a good fellow, a little rough around the edges, which some horsemen were back then, but a great fella and I had a great time there, and I worked there till I finished high school and then I went to work on the race track for a guy named Jerry Levine. What do you remember about that first day that you walked into that barn and started what was that 1972? Jerry Levine was 70 might have been I'd have to think about it. But it was 73, I think, was the first for Jerry Levine and he had a great barnacle horses horses like fave count who ran against secretary at that ball almoner who had won the queen's play to hit a long list of great horses and it was an experience. I mean at first you're intimidated by all of it, right? I mean, it's overwhelming. These great horses and you know you've read about them when you were a kid and you're if you've loved horse racing and then all of a sudden you walk into a barn and you've got these steak horses there and yeah, he trained for AP Taylor too, which was also very interesting. I remember a band pulling up one day with two horses on it and dairy gets on the phone and he calls BP Taylor up and he says, well, which one's mine? One of them was fine, but the van driver doesn't know and he said, I'll take whichever one you want and well one of them ended up being a well they were both great horses. Police car and the other one was lord Durham and he just happened to pull off the one name police car, but he didn't know who the U.S. at the time, but they both ended up you can't go too wrong back then with an EP Taylor Brad horse, right? So yeah, it was how I got started back then. Is it true that you got to ride Donald duck? Yeah. Yeah, they had no pony. I had never ridden much when a kid, but I wanted to learn how to ride. So after work, I would tack up the pony and take him out in the backfield. And I learned. And it wasn't easy at first. You know, I landed on my head a few times, but we seemed to survive it and everything. That's how I learned. And then as I got older, like 1819 I started galloping horses and did that for a number of years too. Yeah, that pony, of course, was named Donald duck. One cool sidebar to the full story of trainer, Dan Bella. When you were riding early on and trying to learn how to ride, Dan, were you thinking, maybe one day you might want to be a jockey or were you still thinking along the lines of, okay, I'm going to train horses one day. You know, when you're that young, you think, jockey, yeah, you think jockey. Sure. I was probably even too big at that time. You know, I'm not tall, I'm 5 four, but I'm currently still hockey. I always was. And I wrestled in high school and you know you put on a lot of muscle doing that and I played football. So I was probably too big at that time, but that's kind of you always dreaming that when you're a kid, but it didn't last too long. I hope you look pretty quick. What position did you play in football? Well, we call that middle guard..