Name This Horse
 

HE WAS A LEGEND AMONGST LEGENDS




NO FAIR CHEATING

tim tam......or...butterface...

sorry not correct ..amongst old timers..he is a legend

Silky Sullivan

you da man... probably the most talked about hoss by the over 60 set

Thats appropriate....Dell is like 64...:D :D

I'm youger than that but spent my "yout" talking horses with G-pa and friends. They always loved horses that came from way off. Did Shoe ride him?

yes...the legend says this one was 40 lengths behind in a 6 1/2 furlong race and won ..ran in derby in 1958 ..with the shoe

yea ET's dad Bobby Baird loved that horse. I miss that old jock.
He told me stories before they had "movies" replays of the back stretch local jocks would actually do their best to knock visiting jocks off their horses should they want the rail. They must have had better health insurance back then LOL.

When Silky ran in the 1958 Kentucky Derby, the network used a split-screen technique to cover the race. One camera was focused on the leaders, while another, the image from which appeared in the lower corner of the screen, covered Silky's progress at the back of the pack, waiting for the come-from-behind colt to make his move.
When Silky died in 1977, he was buried at the track under a bronze plaque bearing the epitaph: "out of the gate like a bullet of red, dropping behind as the rest sped ahead, loping along as the clubhouse fans cheer, leisurely stalking the field in first gear."

Except ... the split screen didn't work.

The guy operating the trail camera never did get Silky in the picture ... he kept panning back-and-forth ... and the whole thing was a farce.

Didn't matter though ... 'cause Silky was really a closing sprinter/miler ... and didn't have the stamina to close at 10f.

He was a colorful character though.