{"id":9453,"date":"2017-06-25T21:36:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T01:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9453"},"modified":"2017-06-25T21:36:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T01:36:18","slug":"us-watching-this-horse-racing-replay-is-the-most-jmu-sports-offseason-move-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9453","title":{"rendered":"Us Watching this Horse Racing Replay Is the Most JMU Sports Offseason Move Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qMF-9VeXktA?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Life moves pretty fast. One moment it&#8217;s January and you&#8217;re in Frisco celebrating the Dukes winning the National Championship. Next thing you know, it&#8217;s June and you&#8217;re combing Youtube for replays of 8th race at Florida Gulfstream Park. Yep. These are some dark days. I actually paid attention to a random Sunday afternoon horse race at a track 1,037 miles from my house. Honestly though, even if the track was just down the street it would be no less ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t interested in the race because I&#8217;m some degenerate gambler. There&#8217;d be at least a shred of dignity in that. Sadly, my situation was much more pathetic. I was interested in the race because it featured a horse by the name of Dravite. And Dravite and his jockey were decked out in purple and gold silks today. They were wearing purple and gold because Dravite&#8217;s owner is Frank Payne, a proud member of the JMU graduating class of 1989. So I attempted convinced myself that in some very, very small way, today&#8217;s race passed for a JMU sporting event. I need help.<\/p>\n<p>If you too are sick in the head, you can watch the replay of Dravite in action. Fair warning though, depending on how bad your JMU sports affliction is, the race might make you a bit upset. Because Dravite (horse #7), pretty much goes straight backwards from the start, before eventually falling off the screen all together. I have no idea what happened, but he definitely didn&#8217;t win. The announcers didn&#8217;t mention him at all. Maybe Dravite did something awesome like jump the rail and kick a Richmond owned horse in the head. Maybe he&#8217;s still running. I have no idea. But I do know there are only 69 (nice) more days until JMU football season.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D9453&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life moves pretty fast. One moment it&#8217;s January and you&#8217;re in Frisco celebrating the Dukes winning the National Championship. Next thing you know, it&#8217;s June and you&#8217;re combing Youtube for replays of 8th race at Florida Gulfstream Park. Yep. These are some dark days. I actually paid attention to a random Sunday afternoon horse race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3746,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3746","url_meta":{"origin":9453,"position":0},"title":"Dukes Hosting WNIT Sweet 16 Game","date":"March 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In case you didn't know, and honestly you didn't, Kenny Brooks' team had a huge OT comeback win against Wake Forest last weekend and is now set to host South Florida in the Women's NIT Sweet 16 this Friday. 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