Rahy pensioned at 24

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

You gotta be sh!tting me. Many months? The Bel Air was traditionally run the last weekend of the spring/summer Hollywood meet. The Ramser (when it was a dirt race for older horses) was run opening week of the Oak Tree meet (late September-October). He basically missed the Del Mar meet, and what a shame, whatwith its all important races for older horses at the time (ie the non-graded Cabrillo Handicap).

By my count, he skipped all of 2 months.

Of course, if you believe everything you read in Dr. Seuss's "Wacky Wednesday", well then we still have the month of Octember to deal with, too.

My mistake. It was only 20 years ago. The actual layoff was a bit short of three months.

However, Drysdale had him working long and slow, which was typical of him back then. He was just about the lowest % trainer off a layoff back then on that circuit. I did bet him in his comeback race, but I was not comfortable seeing that his 'best' work coming back for that race was 7f in around 1:30, with the rest even slower.

If you think Present Value was a better horse than Rahy you are nuts.