Spectacular Bid's walkover Woodward

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Originally Posted by Merlinsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9JYy...eature=related

Just saw this for the first time. Wow. He hit that time without anybody else there, astonishing.There's commentary at the beginning and end of the clip. The last bit is interesting because they're asking Denny Phipps about some things, like how instead of breeding to race it seems like they're racing to get breeders. This in 1980. Anyway, enjoy. Hard not to be in awe of a horse like this. I could say they don't make'em like this anymore, but I'm not sure they really made them like this before he came along either.

Thank you for sharing Merlinsky

I've mentioned before that I was on the track apron at the Gulfstream Park finish line the day Spectacular Bid won The Florida Derby. Despite the rider.


I noted one of the YouTube comments on your walkover share mentioned they had always looked for a replay of that Florida Derby race. I have, too. I watched the race real time, but never a replay.

I counted at least three, maybe four, times that the rider got Spectacular Bid stopped in that Florida Derby.

Of course the rider was just a kid then.

Spectacular Bid made them both winners, though.