Is there some reason?
 

Why the first race at AQU today is restricted to "grey or roan horses" ?

to be cute and get people like you talking about it.

I thought you were kidding. I would guess that they needed to find a creative way to fill a race.

How has someone not yet named a horse Clayton Bigsby?

I guess there just aren't that many dark and blind race horses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFR9xkZm4ck

How would something like that show up in the PPs next out?

Gr/RNSHP?

That's neat. Grey horses are the coolest.

Do they still run The Gray Ghost Handicap at the Meadowlands?

There should be a symbol of some kind.

It was an incredibly weak race for the class level.

You've got an open Starter Alw with a 38K purse being won by a NY Bred who is slower speed figure wise than Freddy Mo's 5K condition claimer at Penn.

Unbridled Danger wasn't able to snap his impressive streak of 30 straight finishes out of the exacta.

Hcp 16000s is the way it will show up in the PPs.

Yep they still run the Grey Ghost Starter at the Meadowlands.

They used to have the same race at Calder on Extreme Day and called it the Gray Pride race

I believe the Arromanches S. is coming up . That is restricted to greys as well .

Note edit: This race is the Arromanches. A tribute to the beloved NY grey .
http://arromanches.homestead.com/

If they ain't running an "all black" horse race for equality I am calling Al Sharpton.

unbridled danger..
 

I have been following this horse (thankfully not betting on him) since Contessa had him a few years ago. He is interesting because he runs for a trainer that only has him as his only horse. Together they have been able to "pay the rent" running over his head and collecting the (larger) small prizes at this condition. I follow just to see if and when this horse might drop to an appropriate level..Seems to be the quintessential "hobby horse"?

I was going to mention that Calder plowed this field long ago.

now that's funny...

I guess I can sort of see doing it on something called extreme day - or doing it on Thanksgiving night like the Meadowlands ... today seemed like an odd time to run a White Power Starter Alw race.

Maybe they wrote the race just to help him out. If so - it was nice of them looking out for a little guy and that makes it a slightly less silly idea.

Perhaps they can write a race restricted to horses foaled in the state of NY who are also inelidgible to ever be NY Breds. I'll take Freddy Mo in a walkover.

Churchill does an all grey race on Halloween.

Calder has run them too.

It now seems pretty obvious that this race was written specifically and only to help out the owner/trainer of Unbridled Danger.

It's not like that guy hasn't done some favors for the racing sec. - he ran him 24 times last year - and already 4 this year.

Unbridled Danger has now missed the exacta in 31 straight races.

Today was his 51th start for owner/trainer Robert Young. In those 51 races, he was never a shorter price than 6/1. Today he was 3/1 on the ML and went off at 4/1 because the conditions of the race made it as easy as humanely possible for him.

Have to credit the racing secretary for cleverly and sneakily finding a way to give the guy his best shot.

The Special Olympics should have a restricted 100 meter dash for gingers.

Right now someone at the Breeder's Cup is wondering why they haven't thought of this race yet.

is there ever a race written for any color other than grey? i've never seen one, why for greys? other than the grey ghost, i can understand the point there.

story and replay included. most definately a fans race.
http://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/stories/Feb032010b.shtml

The handle would have been higher if it had also been restricted to albino jockeys.

I'm pretty sure Arromanches never won a single race in his life beyond 7 furlongs. I doubt he ever even attempted one. Arthur Wendell did his win streak in.

Everyone is knocking Unbridled Song offspring for their lack of soundness ... well, his son Unbridled Danger is nothing if not sound. This trainer has managed to get him to start 51 times since Nov 28th 2007.

That's 51 starts in about 26 months.

I have a program from May 19th, 1956. Ascot Park, between Akron and Cleveland, closed in 1966 when purchased by Eddie DeBartolo.

May 19th was the running of the "Ascot Gold Cup Handicap" at two miles.

The program has an ad for:

NEXT SATURDAY

Final Day of the 1956 Meeting

Gray Ghost Handicap

$3,000.....SIX and 1/2 FURLONGS

For Gray and Roan Horses

An aside,

James Clemens, Norman Hart and Gail Parker were neck and neck for the meet riding title on that day.

P. Maxwell was by far the leading trainer, with H. Jolley a distant 3rd.


And a further aside, the guy who had this program had 3 tickets on the daily double at $63.20 for a nice $189.60 1956 dollar score. I bought the program on eBay.

Is Arthur still training?I remember that race,too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/sp...l?pagewanted=1

Thanks for posting. Now it would be harder to find the 2 mile race over the gray and roan race.

have to credit mr young..
 

differnt horse today than the one who ran in the one he was suppossed to win (grey)..

I give up

Getting a free ride on an uncontested early lead will make almost any horse seem braver and way better than they really are.

The last time he won - he pulled off an 18/1 upset on the lead every step.

Great to see the iron son of Unbridled's Song finally win for the small-fry trainer.