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Scrooster, did you know Cot? Also, can we lobby the help board for a C of C logo?
Posted on 4/7/19 at 7:06 pm
Posted on 4/7/19 at 7:06 pm
Was at the track this weekend and noticed Dogwood box was now Keeneland box. Checked the obits and saw he passed away a few months ago.
Bummed big time.
Bummed big time.
This post was edited on 5/8/19 at 1:28 pm
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Posted on 4/20/19 at 9:41 am to Cheese Grits
Saw a Scrooster post on the CNB / Mizzou thread so appears he is still alive.
Posted on 4/20/19 at 1:06 pm to Cheese Grits
He quit here
Posted on 4/21/19 at 12:22 pm to I Bleed Garnet
I’m back
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:35 pm to diddlydawg7
Oh joy.
Posted on 4/22/19 at 6:45 am to diddlydawg7
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’m back
Good.
You’re a funny poster
Really know how to rustle very well
Posted on 5/8/19 at 1:28 pm to I Bleed Garnet
Bump for Scrooster sighting.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 5:01 pm to Cheese Grits
Yeah I heard about Cot. I had met him a couple of times when my oldest daughter was still riding and doing pretty well although he definitely ran in different circles and in a different discipline .... he just loved to be around horses.
We sold our house in Tryon to one of his attorneys and our house in Edgefield to a close friend of his way back when he hadn’t been here long in the early 90s. I think Cot got here around ‘88 or so. He was a really nice guy.
He sold Dogwood maybe five or six years ago or so. I heard some foreigners bought him out for big money which was fine. Sheeesh, he had to be over 90 because I always looked at him as much much older than me.
We definitely knew some of the same people and ran in the same circles back in the day around Aiken.
I want to say he passed last year over Halloween weekend when we had a buttload of friends in from out of town for the game. I actually think someone came by the Cockaboose late that evening and told us Cot had died.
He was a really nice guy who did a lot for us in Aiken County but his reach came all the way up through Edgefield County, Saluda County and into Lexington County and even clean over into Camden.
His wife was/is a sweetheart too. Her name escapes me at the moment but she always wore some great hats at The Cup.
We sold our house in Tryon to one of his attorneys and our house in Edgefield to a close friend of his way back when he hadn’t been here long in the early 90s. I think Cot got here around ‘88 or so. He was a really nice guy.
He sold Dogwood maybe five or six years ago or so. I heard some foreigners bought him out for big money which was fine. Sheeesh, he had to be over 90 because I always looked at him as much much older than me.
We definitely knew some of the same people and ran in the same circles back in the day around Aiken.
I want to say he passed last year over Halloween weekend when we had a buttload of friends in from out of town for the game. I actually think someone came by the Cockaboose late that evening and told us Cot had died.
He was a really nice guy who did a lot for us in Aiken County but his reach came all the way up through Edgefield County, Saluda County and into Lexington County and even clean over into Camden.
His wife was/is a sweetheart too. Her name escapes me at the moment but she always wore some great hats at The Cup.
This post was edited on 5/9/19 at 8:22 am
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:15 pm to scrooster
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Yeah I heard about Cot Cheese.
You did this on purpose
Posted on 5/8/19 at 7:20 pm to scrooster
I did not realized he had sold Dogwood as he was still in his box.
You see a lot of crossover where the husband did thoroughbreds and the wife did hunter jumper. As stated before my grandmother and some of her side were equestrian in Aiken going pretty far back.
I knew he was old but was in pretty good shape for his age which is what caught me off guard I guess. when they made Secretariat they made Penny a bit younger which I guess makes me feel bit older at the end of the day.
When did your oldest give up riding?
Don't know why I did not ask you years ago when you were up at Keeneland as I always forgot he was down in SC. I used to get his partnership and that one that ran out of Georgia crossed at times.
If he had folks with him when he passed seems like he went out well without long illness or suffering.
He did get a lot of new faces in the business in an age when many agents and partnerships were turning folks off by gouging them. He will be missed.
You see a lot of crossover where the husband did thoroughbreds and the wife did hunter jumper. As stated before my grandmother and some of her side were equestrian in Aiken going pretty far back.
I knew he was old but was in pretty good shape for his age which is what caught me off guard I guess. when they made Secretariat they made Penny a bit younger which I guess makes me feel bit older at the end of the day.
When did your oldest give up riding?
Don't know why I did not ask you years ago when you were up at Keeneland as I always forgot he was down in SC. I used to get his partnership and that one that ran out of Georgia crossed at times.
If he had folks with him when he passed seems like he went out well without long illness or suffering.
He did get a lot of new faces in the business in an age when many agents and partnerships were turning folks off by gouging them. He will be missed.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 8:21 am to CNB
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You did this on purpose
Good Lord no.
I hate autocorrect and maybe it was big thumbs too but I can’t seem to duplicate it so I have no idea how that happened,
I’ve been trying to get more in the habit of previewing before I post lately so I don’t know how I missed that.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 8:35 am to Cheese Grits
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When did your oldest give up riding?
My oldest still rides, just not competitively any longer. She’s out in California married with kids now and well into her 30s but she rode from the time she was six and she rode NCEA HS for Carolina and I think she was part of Boo’s second class maybe, or third, I can’t remember. She had taken lessons from Boo for years. My oldest is 36 about to turn 37. Boo got here I wanna say around twenty years ago or so. So maybe she was in Boo’s second class I guess.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 8:39 am to scrooster
Isn't one of your brood a C of C alumni?
Not sure why we don't have a logo for them if we have a UAB logo.
Not sure why we don't have a logo for them if we have a UAB logo.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 8:50 am to Cheese Grits
Yep, my second oldest. She is 35. She didn’t ride competitively but she was a good rider. That was partially my fault because we moved during her impressionable years from horse country down here to horse country just across the border in Tryon and nearer her maternal grandparents in Hendersonville. She was an excellent athlete though and went to C of C to play soccer but ended up at C of C just playing. Great grades but she was my party girl, my wild child. She’s settled down a lot - is doing real well running some restaurants for a big chain up in Eastern Tennessee.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 10:06 am to scrooster
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Great grades but she was my party girl, my wild child.
I like C of C but it does appear to be a party school. Have a friend who's kid is walking this year but did the 5 year plan and partied a lot.
I think a spin off group has the Waffle House's up I - 75 in TN and KY. If that is where she is managing, tell her I appreciate her work.
Breeders Cup comes back to Keeneland in 2020, you going?
Posted on 5/9/19 at 10:21 am to Cheese Grits
We’re talking about it just not sure yet. My youngest is in Florida and I love those grandbabies so I’ve been spending a lot of time down there.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 2:05 pm to scrooster
Grandbabies are pretty awesome!
North FL or South FL?
Atlantic or Gulf?
I miss my youth down in the Keys eating stone crab when they were huge because they were a trash fish back they and only poor folks ate them. Nor the "Jumbos" are about 1/2 or 1/3 the size of the "Jumbos" of my youth.
Best thing about FL - especially South Florida - is all the food!
North FL or South FL?
Atlantic or Gulf?
I miss my youth down in the Keys eating stone crab when they were huge because they were a trash fish back they and only poor folks ate them. Nor the "Jumbos" are about 1/2 or 1/3 the size of the "Jumbos" of my youth.
Best thing about FL - especially South Florida - is all the food!
Posted on 5/23/19 at 1:01 am to Cheese Grits
I went to CofC for undergrad. Can confirm, party school.
Def need a CofC logo.
Def need a CofC logo.
Posted on 5/23/19 at 11:20 am to Cheese Grits
South Florida. Jupiter. My pilot takes me right into Fort Pierce and I drive up from there, it's not far.
Posted on 5/23/19 at 11:32 am to TheGasMan
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Can confirm, party school.
Aren’t they all?
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