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Old 12-28-2009, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Sightseek
How is this race not on Youtube?!


Surely this race must make your list...

Aqueduct April 8, 2006 - It's cold, bitterly cold. The sleet falling down makes it barely bareable to be outside. It's the kind of day that has you dreaming of August at Saratoga. The stakes are high and the only way into the Derby is with a first or second finish, but even that may not be enough. The field breaks, the tiny bay colt trails the field. The pace is honest up front. The bay colt bides his time waiting to unleash his furious run. At the 3/4 mark he is still last until his little legs start moving - faster and faster. He starts passing horses leaping through the giant puddles of slop. Only the bright star on his forehead remains mud free. As the chart would later read he's "coming fast outside" with only one more horse to catch, but the wire comes much too soon and he finishes second.
Go back and watch the First Saturday in May segment during this race- there's one lonely soul in a yellow rain jacket and a green cap braving the rain and sleet, unbeknownst to him they are filming McLaughlin close by.

You know that guy.
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