Racing Trivia

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

You should be careful about trying to appear sharp about races that took place while you were still in diapers. Holy Bull, and of course the duel cooked him, is one of the few horses that genuinely seemed to displace in the Fountain of Youth.

I think Ride the Rails was more famous for beating Dehere that day.

BTW, My post was in responce as to why Holy Bull wasn't made the favorite.

I realize something was almost certainly wrong with him that day...however, I pointed to his bad race in the FoY as the obvious reason why he wasn't the favorite.

It wasn't like..., say, Afleet Alex's Rebel..where the horse seemed to have no excuse at all and just laid an egg...HB and HI really went at each other.

Far more people know Ride the Rails as the sire of Candy Ride...then they know him as 'The horse who beat Dehere in an allowance race.' If you had the misfortune of talking with West Coasters a lot...you would know this!

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

If you had the misfortune of talking with West Coasters a lot...you would know this!

Thankfully I don't.

I'm also joking as it is the only thing I remember about Ride the Rails.

What top 2YO ( and later top 3YO and 4YO ) made its debut on that Florida Derby card?

[blackthroatedwind]

Sorry...I meant 3YO debut.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Paradice Creek?

Unaccounted For?

[blackthroatedwind]

Paradise Creek? He was a 3YO in 1992 ( 2nd to Lure in the BC Mile at Gulfstream ).

Unaccounted For didn't debut until he was 3...but it was at Gulfstream. Did he lose to that Brothers short lived uber-phenom in his debut...Carnivale or something like that? I know he ( Unaccounted For that is ) lost by a neck at 8:5ish in his debut.

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Paradise Creek? He was a 3YO in 1992 ( 2nd to Lure in the BC Mile at Gulfstream ).

Unaccounted For didn't debut until he was 3...but it was at Gulfstream. Did he lose to that Brothers short lived uber-phenom in his debut...Carnivale or something like that? I know he lost by a neck at 8:5ish in his debut.

Yeah it was canaveral. The Relaunch horse Brothers had.
I remember that card and where I was that day and this question is driving me crazy.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

I looked up PC...he came back in March of his 3yo season, at GP, in '93...not '94...so couldn't be him

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I looked up PC...he came back in March of his 3yo season, at GP, in '93...not '94...so couldn't be him

God, how embarrassingly wrong can you continue to be.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

God, how embarrassingly wrong can you continue to be.

I was 12 back then....it wasn't till about that age when I finally mastered how to tie my shoes

[mark2061mn]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Far more people know Ride the Rails as the sire of Candy Ride...then they know him as 'The horse who beat Dehere in an allowance race.' If you had the misfortune of talking with West Coasters a lot...you would know this!

You're obvious attempt at misdirection by denigrating West Coasters cannot hide that you are the internets biggest fan of Aaron Hesz.

Nice try dude.

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RGesture is a very nice horse. unlucky many times, but he has run competitively with some of the best turf horses in this country over the past 3 years.
is going to remain in training in 2007?



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