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08-29-2007, 02:06 AM
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Great race video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2wmXP3PiWE
The 1990 Met Mile....Easy Goer's second to last race. The field included four champions... * Easy Goer (1988 Champion 2-year-old. Hall of Famer) * Criminal Type (1990 Horse of the year) * Black Tie Affair (1991 Horse of the year) * Housebuster (1990 champion sprinter) Also in the race was multiple Grade 1 winner Sewickley.....in the last 65 years, only two horses have won multiple runnings of the Gr 1 Vosburgh, they are Dr. Fager and Sewickley. Black Tie Affair was getting 10lbs from Easy Goer and was sent off at 132/1 odds! Easy Goer looked flat in that race from a visual standpoint - however, he actually ran a zero on the Ragozin sheet. (a gigantic figure!) Though, carrying 127 pounds and racing wide on the turn obviously had a lot to do with that. 2nd place finisher was the 3yo Housebuster, he got 14lbs from Easy Goer in this race. He entered the '90 Met Mile on an 8 race win streak, with 7 consecutive stake wins by a combined 32 lengths. After his 2nd place finish in this race, he racked up three more Graded Stakes wins in a row, including a 13 length win in the Grade 1 Jerome Handicap, under 126lbs, handing 2nd place finisher Citidancer (who carried 12lbs less) the only loss of his brief but promising career. Last edited by The Indomitable DrugS : 08-29-2007 at 03:28 AM. 
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08-29-2007, 03:10 AM
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The track announcer put me to sleep until the final seconds when he started to put some enthusiasm in his call.
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08-29-2007, 03:48 AM
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i know you've seen this one sal, but most people here probably have never seen this all time great filly, let alone heard of her.
here is most of akinemod's first attempt at going 2 turns. she wins by 18 in what to this day i believe is the 2nd or 3rd highest bsf ever run by a filly or mare in a dirt route race. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXknPEC9GCU enjoy!
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08-29-2007, 07:48 AM
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Housebuster was definitely an underrated horse. I think he passed away in West Virginia somewhere in the last couple of years.
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08-29-2007, 08:22 AM
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One of my favorite quotes from the Blood-Horse in regards to the battles of Affirmed and Alydar was: "There was a winner and a loser, but the brilliance of each made a hero of the other". I think that applies to Sunday Silence and Easy Goer as well.
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08-29-2007, 08:36 AM
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BTA's gotta be one of my top two or three all-time favs as well. Any horse that runs 45 times through his 5YO season and wins consistently is a great in my book. His 5YO season was pretty amazing when you look at the races he won at many different distances.
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08-29-2007, 12:35 PM
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08-29-2007, 12:47 PM
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You read me wrong...
Though, Sunday Silence was certainly an all-time great horse. He also had all the little intangibles that the more talented Easy Goer didn't. Which really is what allowed him to score three upset victories in the four head-to-head meetings.
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08-29-2007, 12:50 PM
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08-29-2007, 01:16 PM
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* The combination of strong early speed while having the ability to rate if need be always allowed him to be placed in a better tactical position than Easy Goer through the early and middle stages. It also forced Day to use Easy Goer prematurely in order to put him in the race prior to the far turn.
* The ability to accelerate through the far turn. While Easy Goer seemed to struggle with turns at tracks like Gulfstream, Pimlico, and Churchill Downs - Sunday Silence thrived through that stage of the race. * Professionalism through the stretch. Neither horse was really all that professional through the stretch, and both literally gave races away in the stretch before. However, Easy Goer's most dominant portion of the race was the stretch run, so it was much more important that he run professionally. * Ability to handle all surfaces. Sunday Silence won the Derby in the mud. While he never raced on turf, his sire was a Grade 1 winner on turf, his mother was claimed for $32,000 and became a multiple Graded Stakes winning turf horse, he himself was a great sire of turf horses. I think it's safe to assume Sunday Silence would have handled the turf well also. Easy Goer ran two mediocre races over muddy Churchill Downs tracks, when 2nd in the Ky Derby and 2nd in the BC Juvie. Easy Goer was the better horse on speed figures...routinely running Beyers in the 120-to-126 range. He was just a bad match-up for Sunday Silence though. And, Sunday Silence also happened to be a spectacular speed figure horse himself...though not quite as fast as Easy Goer was.
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08-29-2007, 01:28 PM
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So who was the more accomplished son of Alydar; Alysheba or Easy Goer? Alysheba does have more championships, Classic win, KY Derby win, TR holder etc Two neat sites with replays of both for those who do not own a library of videotape  :http://www.hitak.com/home/alydar/easygoer.html http://www.hitak.com/home/alydar/alysheba.html
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08-29-2007, 01:44 PM
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One of the great disappointments of my racing fan-dom was the failure of the scheduled showdown at Arlington between Easy Goer, Sunday Silence and Criminal Type to materialize. --Dunbar
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Curlin and Hard Spun finish 1,2 in the 2007 BC Classic, demonstrating how competing in all three Triple Crown races ruins a horse for the rest of the year...see avatar photo from REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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08-29-2007, 01:59 PM
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The reason why Sunday Silence's athleticism was so important in his victories is because there was no other horse in those races capable of keeping him honest. All four running were essentially match races. Sunday Silence's jockey simply ignored the rest of the field and focused on Easy Goer throughout. Easy Goer's jockey did the same. The other guys were all running for 3rd money. Lets add a new wrinkle and say that Dancing Spree and his jockey Angel Coredero was trained by Wayne Lukas instead of Shug. Dancing Spree won the Grade 1 Suburban Handicap at 1 1/4 miles earlier that year. He was a very good horse, but because he's the stablemate of 1/2 Breeders Cup Classic favorite Easy Goer...Shug instead decided to run him in the 1989 Breeders Cup Sprint instead of the Classic...and Dancing Spree won the BC Sprint closing strongly from mid-pack. Had Dancing Spree been trained by Lukas, or most any other trainer, he'd have run in the BC Classic. His presence in the race greatly changes the dynamics and makes it an outstanding matchup for Easy Goer. This is because he was capable of sitting off of Sunday Silence and applying tremendous mid-race pressure to force him to hold his position. Instead of Easy Goer having to be the one forced to move prematurely, it is now SS who has to. Easy Goer ran a 126 Beyer in defeat in the Breeders Cup Classic, inspite of ducking in towards the gap at the start, being forced to move prematurely, and racing erratically. With a clean break, and with a very classy horse to keep Sunday Silence honest, the Breeders Cup Classic would have been his signature race and I believe he'd have earned a speed figure that was off-the-charts.
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08-29-2007, 02:02 PM
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no love for akinemod
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08-29-2007, 02:03 PM
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In his next start, Criminal Type got 5lbs from Sunday Silence and won a thrilling stretch battle by a head going 10 furlongs. Criminal Type followed that up with a 1 1/2 length win in the Whitney over the previously mentioed Dancing Spree, who was 2nd. A match-up between Easy Goer, Sunday Silence, and Criminal Type at level weights would have been awesome.
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08-29-2007, 02:04 PM
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I can see why Shug would want to shoot for two wins that day, especially how Easy was coming into that race, but it's odd he didn't employ the tactics that you described above. We all know what Dutrow would have done.
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08-29-2007, 02:06 PM
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It was a good race but the two best of the last 10-20 years are clearly You vs Carson Hollow in the States
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCuJjhBBCSs and in my opinion the best is clearly Ouija Board vs Alexander Goldrun. You can pick this one up at the 1:30 mark and it is unbelievable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGsUv...elated&search= The Ouija Board race might be the best race and call ever, with the exception of Affirmed and Alydar, although I think the Ouija Board race was better.
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08-29-2007, 02:12 PM
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