[quote=RockHardTen1985;731167]10f on dirt at Belmont, track is fast but fair.
How does this race end up??? They are all healthy, in there prime. Normal Jockeys riding......

1. Ghostzapper
2. Rachel Alexandra
3. Point Given
4. Bernardini
5. Barbaro
6. Zenyatta
7. Tiznow
8. Giants Causeway
9. Quality Road
10. Victory Gallop
11. Eskendereya
12. Rock Hard Ten
13. Ditka

DITKA!!!!

[quote=VOL JACK;731255]
Not to turn this into a Rachel vs Z thing, but I think Rachel would be in the bottom 4 of this group. Her 10f race was a joke and there was a ton of speed. Z vs Rachel h2h, Z would be the bet of the race. Im really not sure how QR would finish ahead of the 3 you have him ahead. He was entered to give GZ some serious company.

1, 3 exacta box. 10 sucks up for third

Good Asian sprinter won the first 16 races of his career



Name him.

Silent Witness?

Yes.

Didn't handle dirt.



Name him.

Galileo.

Correct. He and Fantastic Light had two great battles.


The backroads of a great city on this fine December day ....



Name it.

That looks like the Bluegrass Parkway when I was trying to get to Keeneland Saturday morning for the contest.

Hollywood Starlet Trivia

1) This filly ran second in the '79 Starlet. Later she produced stallions Storm Cat and Pioneering among others. Name her.

2) The '82 Starlet winner, Fabulous Notion, later produced Test winner Fabulously Fast. A CA-bred, Fabulous Notion was also a half-brother to this European son of Alydar, who upset With Approval in the '90 Turf Classic at Belmont after having placed to the great Nashwan in 3 races that year. Name him.

3) This '83 winner of the Starlet was out of the blue hen Courtly Dee. Two of her daughters produced Grade 1 winners. Destiny Dance dropped Balletto and Aurora dropped 3 Grade 1 winners in Arch, Acoma, and Festival Of Light. Name her.

4) Both the answer to (3) and the 2nd place horse in the '83 Starlet ended up running in the Kentucky Derby. Name the runner-up, who later produced the recent (and modest) sprinter, Simon Pure.

5) This CA-bred runner-up in the '84 Starlet later produced top grass horse With Anticipation. She also won the inaugural BC Juvenile Fillies, but was DQ'd. Name her.

6) This '86 Starlet winner upset BC Juvenile Fillies winner Sacahuista. Later she took the BC Sprint and produced the good grass filly Dianehill. Name her.

7) This stallion produced back-to-back winners of the Starlet in '88 and '89 with Stocks Up and Cheval Volant, respectively. He's best remembered as the maternal broodmare sire of Zenyatta and the paternal broodmare sire of her conquerer, Blame. Name him.

8) The '91 Starlet winner defeated Soviet Sojourn, producer of Indian Charlie. This filly herself produced Grade 1 winner Miss Houdini, who in turn, dropped recent classic colt, Papa Clem. Name her.

9) This ill-fated '93 Starlet winner was a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Imperial Gesture. She was owned by Jerry Moss, best known as one of the founders of A+M Records. Name her.

10) This runner-up to Grade 1 winner and producer Serena's Song in '94, herself won multiple Grade 1 races and later produced the good colt Suave. Name her.

11) Chile Chatte, dam of DM Futurity winner Horse Greeley, ran 3rd to this gray filly by Quiet American, later the dam of streaking stallion Bernadini. Name her.

12) The 2005 Starlet runner-up is best remembered as being the only daughter of Vertigineux to have started in a Grade 1 at Belmont. Name her.

I know most of these pretty easily, but I'm going home now.

Hopefully there won't be any intruders today like the other day.

9. Sardula
10. Urbane
11. Cara Rafaela
12. Balance

1. Terlingua

1. Terlingua
2. Cacoethes
3. Althea
4. Life's magic?
5. Fran's Valentine
6. Very Subtle
7. Kris S

All good except no one answered (8).

Here's a tough one:

At least in the last 25 years, only 3 horses have won both the Discovery and the Queens County in the same year. A fourth horse, Early Warning, one each race in separate years.

Name all 3.

If you can't even get the questions right....

Sacahuista won the Distaff ( and quite a field it was ) and not the Juvenile Fillies.

Two of them are easy....Mr. Sinatra and Evening Attire.

Don't know the third....or #8.

8. Magical Maiden

this all time great horse ran his last race at the meadowlands racetrack.

name:

John Henry. Ballantine Classic.

I thought number 8 was the easiest, but then again, I'm a bit of a fan of both Indian Charlie and the half brother of that Starlet winner, Magical Mile.

Does anyone here remember Magical Mile? Holy shid man, that was one bad ass 2yo.

In case anyone is interested in Magical Mile, here is a link to his pedigree page.

His first two races were devastating, and that included the 56.2 he went going 5 at HP.

I also remember him being an amazing physical specimen as well. You can see a picture of him at this link when he was older, but still looking good.

http://www.pedigreequery.com/magical+mile

Name the top northern hemisphere (USA, Canada) sire that is not tail male to Nearco or Native Dancer

Tiznow.

Excellent. He's tail male to Man O War, Fair Play.
#22 on the North American list.

Same question except who is 2nd highest rated sire with no tail male Nearco or Native Dancer ?

Easy.

Through Intentionally, it's Successful Appeal.

Very good. #48.

well done!



thankfully it wasn't Rheingold.

It takes me on average 15 minutes to come up with these 10-question trivia blocks, so some facts may end up "modified".

I do believe that Sacahuista was favored in the BC Juvenile Fillies if that's any consolation.

The third was the D. Wayne Lukas colt Sports View.

I remember him getting upset in his comeback race. He might have got dusted in the Malibu, too.

Back when the LA Times actually covered horse racing, Magical Mile was certainly all the rage after his first two starts. Of course, those early season 2yos never hold up for one reason or another.

Really? I thought the winner, Brave Raj, was second choice over the second finisher, Tappiano. Was Sacahuista even in that race?

Sacahuista was in the race, she was 5th early before falling out of contention, at least that's how it looks in the video, of which the picture quality is every bit of 24+ years old: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKqihiNMi8c

Sacahuista was 4th as the 1.90-1 favorite.

Some horse racing fan you are.