YouTube star Spicer Cub returns w/o incident
May 25, 2013 23:55:57 GMT -5
Post by Jon on May 25, 2013 23:55:57 GMT -5
For those that missed it:
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But at the end of this clip is the head on - yep - he went between the starting gate and the outside rail LOL
Last sentence of this story is really funny!
YouTube sensation er Cub returns without incident
er Cub, who became a YouTube sensation when his behavior in a maiden race at Pimlico last month went viral, ran without incident in Saturday's opener at that track, a $40,000 maiden special weight at 1 1/16 miles. Click here for a replay of the race.
The Mary Eppler trainee sprinted to the lead with jockey Xavier Perez and led the race at the half-mile pole before giving way in midstretch to 1-2 favorite Tru Greek and finished 5 1/4 lengths behind the winner.
er Cub, the 5-2 second choice, paid $2.40 to place and $2.10 to show. The winner stopped the clock in 1:48 1/5 and won for the first time in his 12th career start.
"I had trouble sleeping last night," Eppler admitted. "I am relieved, very relieved. I told X Man (Perez's nickname) that if he did do anything crazy to pull up. I wanted to make sure everybody was safe."
In his last race on April 13, er Cub took an early lead but bolted midway on the far turn before Perez was able to straighten the four-year-old gelding at the head of the stretch. The bay son of Louis Quatorze regained the lead at the top of the stretch but bolted again, causing Perez to lose his irons inside the three-sixteenths pole.
The duo then raced between the parked starting gate and the outside rail in midstretch and closed determinedly under strong urging to just miss winning, losing by a nose to Turbin.
The race replay has been viewed more than 116,000 times on YouTube, more than any other race on the Maryland Racing page.
"It was a solid effort," Perez said. "I was very happy there was a horse outside of me around the far turn because he did look around at the same spot. I can take a big exhale and get on with the rest of the afternoon."
The starting gate crew took extra precaution this time around by moving the gate all the way up the stretch past the finish line after the horses broke from the gate.
Brisnet
paddockpros.freeforums.net/index.cgi?board=midatlantic&action=display&thread=1296
But at the end of this clip is the head on - yep - he went between the starting gate and the outside rail LOL
Last sentence of this story is really funny!
YouTube sensation er Cub returns without incident
er Cub, who became a YouTube sensation when his behavior in a maiden race at Pimlico last month went viral, ran without incident in Saturday's opener at that track, a $40,000 maiden special weight at 1 1/16 miles. Click here for a replay of the race.
The Mary Eppler trainee sprinted to the lead with jockey Xavier Perez and led the race at the half-mile pole before giving way in midstretch to 1-2 favorite Tru Greek and finished 5 1/4 lengths behind the winner.
er Cub, the 5-2 second choice, paid $2.40 to place and $2.10 to show. The winner stopped the clock in 1:48 1/5 and won for the first time in his 12th career start.
"I had trouble sleeping last night," Eppler admitted. "I am relieved, very relieved. I told X Man (Perez's nickname) that if he did do anything crazy to pull up. I wanted to make sure everybody was safe."
In his last race on April 13, er Cub took an early lead but bolted midway on the far turn before Perez was able to straighten the four-year-old gelding at the head of the stretch. The bay son of Louis Quatorze regained the lead at the top of the stretch but bolted again, causing Perez to lose his irons inside the three-sixteenths pole.
The duo then raced between the parked starting gate and the outside rail in midstretch and closed determinedly under strong urging to just miss winning, losing by a nose to Turbin.
The race replay has been viewed more than 116,000 times on YouTube, more than any other race on the Maryland Racing page.
"It was a solid effort," Perez said. "I was very happy there was a horse outside of me around the far turn because he did look around at the same spot. I can take a big exhale and get on with the rest of the afternoon."
The starting gate crew took extra precaution this time around by moving the gate all the way up the stretch past the finish line after the horses broke from the gate.
Brisnet