For Dickie Small: the '86 PA Derby
Apr 8, 2014 12:43:49 GMT -5
Post by cait on Apr 8, 2014 12:43:49 GMT -5
i remember being with out of town friends and visiting balto's inner harbor - there at the far end of the parking lot was a horse trailer with a horse! - walked over - it was dickie - he didn't really know me, but he knew my dad and our trainer - so he explained - in the trailer taking in all the sights was broad brush! dick said the horse liked to go to the inner harbor and people watch so he took him! a wonderful man - a wonderful trainer - big loss for racing
RIP Mr Small
Remembering Dickie Small
Dick Jerardi
DRF
They can call the track Keystone, Philadelphia Park, or Parx Racing. They can run races there for the next million years, and they won’t ever have a race like the one Broad Brush ran to win when survival seemed unlikely and winning impossible.
Find that 1986 Pennsylvania Derby on YouTube and watch it again. You won’t believe it, even now.
Broad Brush was not all that interested in being told what to do. So, even as the horse was on his way to dominating the race, he decided he wanted to go straight at the head of the stretch instead of turning left.
Angel Cordero considered jumping off. He stayed on. Eventually, Broad Brush was coaxed into making that left turn and started to run again. The horse went from first to nearly last to first in about 300 yards – and eventually became a star, a tribute to his trainer’s understanding of animals and his belief in the horse.
We lost one very unique trainer when Dickie Small died. His work will live on through the records of his horses and a moment in time that nobody who was at the track that day will ever forget.
RIP Mr Small
Remembering Dickie Small
Dick Jerardi
DRF
They can call the track Keystone, Philadelphia Park, or Parx Racing. They can run races there for the next million years, and they won’t ever have a race like the one Broad Brush ran to win when survival seemed unlikely and winning impossible.
Find that 1986 Pennsylvania Derby on YouTube and watch it again. You won’t believe it, even now.
Broad Brush was not all that interested in being told what to do. So, even as the horse was on his way to dominating the race, he decided he wanted to go straight at the head of the stretch instead of turning left.
Angel Cordero considered jumping off. He stayed on. Eventually, Broad Brush was coaxed into making that left turn and started to run again. The horse went from first to nearly last to first in about 300 yards – and eventually became a star, a tribute to his trainer’s understanding of animals and his belief in the horse.
We lost one very unique trainer when Dickie Small died. His work will live on through the records of his horses and a moment in time that nobody who was at the track that day will ever forget.
