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Post by Evelyn on Oct 25, 2014 19:18:17 GMT -5
Post your fave BC race here!
My very favorite BC race! (and my new avatar to honor it). The most amazing close ever.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 19:42:42 GMT -5
the gamest racehorse ever!! and a perfect example of why speed is the deadliest weapon. a perfect ride by sibille to keep everyone else fanned out 3-4 across the track behind him dueling for 2nd while he was unbothered early on the front end. but even so, you watch him. he was under an all out shove and asked hard the last 7 furlongs of this raceand was headed and passed by three or four different horses. one of my favorites ever.
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Post by Jon on Oct 26, 2014 0:40:05 GMT -5
Damn Wiz - No one remembers that race. How many did you look at to find a winning frontrunner? Was that run at the speed biased SA? LMAO
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 18:03:56 GMT -5
i remember it because it was won by a real racehorse. so i guess lure only won because of a speed biased turf course at santa anita also, right jon?
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Post by Nostradamus on Oct 26, 2014 21:00:15 GMT -5
The race I get goose bumps when I see on TV being replayed is Tiznow beating the Europeans by coming back after being overtaken in deep stretch. For whatever reason there is no other breeders cup race that I get that much emotional feeling for. Tiznowforamerica!
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Post by Nostradamus on Oct 26, 2014 22:50:04 GMT -5
That was a SNAFU - see next post.
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Post by Nostradamus on Oct 26, 2014 22:50:37 GMT -5
The second best BC race that I get emotional about when I see it on TV is Wild Again's win. I am from New Orleans and know the trainer Vicent Timphony's family personally being good friends with his daughter when I was a teenager (about 5 year later is when Wild Again won) and also my family was friends with relatives of their immediate family although not directly with them but had met them before (you know like we are all part of the Italian NO gang - lol, and my mothers aunt is married to Carlos Marcello's brother, or his son - no really - lol). That was another race a blue collar horse that no one gave a chance and had the determination and will to win to pushed themselves to the limits and would not let themselves get beat by the best in the world at all costs.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 1:01:01 GMT -5
also the worst inquiry ever in that race. gate dancer should have never been disqualified.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 10:32:37 GMT -5
Six year old Da Hoss winning his second Breeders' Cup Mile - off for almost two years and only one comeback race.
Michael Dickinson was a REAL trainer!
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Post by cait on Oct 27, 2014 12:07:11 GMT -5
a race that lived up to it's hype - yeah - bad dq on gate dancer
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 16:16:35 GMT -5
im so sad watching this race for so many reasons. first the worst inquiry ever and they stole 3,000 dollars out of a 12 year olds pocket when they did it. plus gate dancer was my favorite horse at the time. with his earmuffs and shadow roll and running sideways down the track. lol. i didnt realize back then like i do now that my dad was right. precisionist was the much better horse overall. speed kills people!!
also though because i remember it like it was yesterday when they redid that track and built the cary grant pavillion specifically for the breeders cup. they sunk 10 million dollars into it when they owned los al at the same time and would have been a thousand times better off renovating and expanding los al back then like allred did recently. it would have been a much smarter move. but anyway, i remember it opening and checking out all five levels and how excited everyone was at first about it. i remember all the hub bub about the track being a mile and an eigth instead of a mile and the biggest edge in racing was betting the 1-2-3 posts when they ran any race at a mile and a sixteenth because they broke right on the turn. i remember all the times i spent there with my dad at the races and how everytime we went back, the place had fewer and fewer people in it, and then they started shutting down levels of it until the only thing left opn was the bottom track level floor and the very top outside level. the inclosed seating they werent even using anymore. then one day.............poof. they just gave up on it and that was the end of hollywood. they may have stayed open a few years more, but that was the end when they gave up on that pavillion and opened the casino. now i think about how i will never get to ss the lake or the backstretch anymore and it is sad.
but dont misunderstand me here. it had to go. it was time. just like it is time for suffolk and a lot of other tracks you people dont want to let go of. racing is different now and it will never be the same again. you cant hang on to the past or go home again. once racing started down the wrong path, which it did with simulcasting and slot incentives, it was doomed. now all it can do is try to stop the bleeding. unfortunately, the people in charge wouldnt know a turnikit from a turnip.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 16:34:37 GMT -5
Aqueduct was the first thoroughbred track I ever went to, and over the year I've probably been there more than any other track. I remember when they announced that the second Breeders' Cup would be held there. They spent millions in renovating the place - it was beautiful. But I had similar, but different emotions as you on the day I went there about 4 years ago (after not being there for several years) and was greeted with this:  and this:  They used to get 20,000 people there on weekdays and 40,000 on Saturday. Now they don't even count attendance. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 16:51:02 GMT -5
looks a little like pimlico, only no zombies walking around.
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Post by cait on Oct 27, 2014 18:05:51 GMT -5
nope - the zombies are in ny - pimlico has "characters"
(and..........since you've never been to old hilltop and have no regard for history - your comments are ridiulous LOL)
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Post by cait on Oct 27, 2014 18:07:57 GMT -5
gosh George - was that a joke? sorry - way before my time although you probably saw him race and have photos LOL
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 22:12:55 GMT -5
gosh George - was that a joke? sorry - way before my time although you probably saw him race and have photos LOL Which horse are you referring to? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 4:10:50 GMT -5
nope - the zombies are in ny - pimlico has "characters" (and..........since you've never been to old hilltop and have no regard for history - your comments are ridiulous LOL) THERES A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING REGARD FOR HISTORY (WHICH I HAVE PLENTY OF), AND LIVING IN THE PAST AND NOT ACCEPTING REALITY AND THE WAY THINGS ARE TODAY. WHO SAYS I NEED TO BE THERE TO KNOW THE PLACE IS A DUMP? I HAVE SEEN PICTURES, BOTH ON HERE AND OTHER PLACES. ITS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO RACING TO HAVE A PLACE THAT LOOKS LIKE THAT BE A REPRESENTATIVE OF RACINGS TRIPLE CROWN. |
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Post by Evelyn on Oct 28, 2014 9:35:25 GMT -5
Well - I've been there and the Clubhouse is just fine. Good food too! Much better than NY tracks. Nice people and no where near the scary people who hang out at NY tracks! It's not luxurious but it's a nice atmosphere. You don't know what you're talking about Wiz! You just like to trash the East! (Waiting for George to chime in and re-post his awful photos when the place was being renovated and prepared for Preakness Day LOL) You two are both very negative except for your favorites. But George praises NY - go figure!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2014 11:52:24 GMT -5
Well - I've been there and the Clubhouse is just fine. Good food too! Much better than NY tracks. Nice people and no where near the scary people who hang out at NY tracks! It's not luxurious but it's a nice atmosphere. You don't know what you're talking about Wiz! You just like to trash the East! (Waiting for George to chime in and re-post his awful photos when the place was being renovated and prepared for Preakness Day LOL) You two are both very negative except for your favorites. But George praises NY - go figure! The photographs I posted last year were taken weeks after the Preakness, not while the place was being prepared for Preakness Day. The chain link fences (some DO have barbed wire on top) are permanent, not temporary. But whatever. |
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Post by Evelyn on Oct 28, 2014 18:31:20 GMT -5
If you watch this year's Preakness, none of the obvious renovation crap in your photos is there now. What's shown in your photos is NOT permanent. Yes - It's an inner city, ugly, low class neighborhood but the track was fine. And I saw no barbed wire!
You and Wiz are just negative about anything you don't like and refuse to think and understand that others disagree with you! LOL W/E Unimportant!
Cait can chime in anytime since she practically grew up at Pimlico LOL
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