Trivia
 

First 3 career starts for this horse .... name her...




First 5 career starts for this future Grade 1 winner ... name him




Name this Pletcher trained daughter of Saint Ballado ...

3 never ran again.

Freedom's Daughter.

Manistique is the first one. What do I win?

I had to rethink #1. Is it that huge horse that failed in the Alabama in her subsequent start.....Manistique?

Yeah - was hoping the Pletcher/Saint Ballado comment would trick someone into saying Ashado... who also won that race in start 2

(3rd) freedoms daughter, Padua Stable

If I were to stab on #2 I would say Dominion.

Yes - Manistique is the first horse.

Back in the day when just about every John Sherriffs ran incredible 1st time out.

No on Dominican. You'll be surprised you missed this one.

Thought I knew something. Was asked a question by the time I answered it already 5 or so posts

Surely less surprised than the fact that I forgot Dominican's actual name.

Lawyer ron?

Yes. #2 is Lawyer Ron.

Blocking the rider was the key

I guess I was fooled because he didn't even improve until Pletcher got him.

Yeah - Borel did ride him in the maiden claiming race he lost... but it was McKee in the other 4.

dominion, much better than dominican anyway

If I am remembering correctly they continued to race him on the turf after those first five races and only discovered he was a dirt horse by accident when a race he was entered in came off the lawn....and he exploded in the slop to win it easily.

The following horse was 6-for-6 over a certain racetracks dirt course. Below are only his races at that track.

Name both the horse and the track....

Sky Jack - Hollywood Park

The first horse that came to mind was simply majestic at GGF, but no, clearly that was not it.

Correct.

I thought that one might be pretty tough - because of how fragile he was.

He had 3 different knee surgeries and two different stomach operations for colic during his racing career.

When he won his debut - Iggy Puglisi rode him and he won at 38/1 odds while racing very erratic. He was off 9.5 months when he won his 2nd of those six HP races - it was a very impressive race as he dueled head to head through 21 2/5 and 44 flat fractions and drew off while still outfinishing closers.

When he won the Grade 3 stake with the 122 Beyer in his 3rd HP race - he didn't race again for more than 14 months after that.

Very underated talent.

I can't claim to have known that off the top of my head - I was like 12 or 13 when he was running and had been to the track exactly one time at that point. . .

You're only 20 years old? You don't also happen to have a 6yo kid do you?

Damn, I'm feeling old.

Here's the only HP race of Sky Jack I found on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srfkgl_5ZG8

22. . . No kids.

I was going to guess Furthest Land on that one, who had a similar journey in the maiden ranks at TP/Ellis if I remember correctly. "Maker Magic" got that one going. Good trick on the Ashado but the giveaway was she didn't start her career at MTH.

First five starts of career for this future Grade 1 winner....

That one's Kip Deville.

Yep

Way too easy when you see he debuted in a state bred race at RP.

One of the great chemical .. errrrr claims of all-time. Name him...

Shake You Down

Yep. That horse was spectacular for a year.

You made it too easy by leaving a date in. I think you're slipping in your old age.

It happens.

Here's a tougher one ... her promising racing career only lasted for four races. Name her.

Lotta Kim, dam of Rachel Alexandra.

lotta kim?

SYD is pretty cool in that he actually debuted at Suffolk and only finished 4th to start his career - and Robert Cole was entering him in 5k claiming races at the very end of his carrer - which isn't cool ... but goes to show that he started near the bottom and was heading back to it after an awesome string of races at the top.

http://www.drf.com/row/pps/shakeyoudown.pdf

That link doesn't show his final few years.

Yes.

Lotta Kim's half Sis has a Pulpit Colt in the FT Feb sale at Calder coming up.