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[MLC]

Originally Posted by Danzig188

lol about swaps. they were both good. really good. swaps had an amazing year at four. records set everywhere. but nashua....hell, i wouldn't want to have to separate those two. east vs west came to life with those two.
as for their derby, that was a pure jocks race. run it ten more times, maybe nashua comes out on top those next ten. maybe...

That is my sister's take on the Derby. But it seems that the match race was also a pure jocks race. Also, Swaps may have been sore. As a 4 year old, he may have been unbeatable.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by MLC

That is my sister's take on the Derby. But it seems that the match race was also a pure jocks race. Also, Swaps may have been sore. As a 4 year old, he may have been unbeatable.

supposedly had it been any race but the match race with all the attention, swaps would have been scratched because of his notoriously bad foot. swaps had a lot of talent, and a lot of guts.

[MLC]

Originally Posted by Danzig188

supposedly had it been any race but the match race with all the attention, swaps would have been scratched because of his notoriously bad foot. swaps had a lot of talent, and a lot of guts.

I agree with that Danzig.

[jballscalls]

Used to go watch the big gray Captain Condo at old Longacres with my dad when i was just a wee lad. I knew i wanted to call races though when i heard Vic Stauffer call the 2005 American Oaks. "Melhor Ainda might get into second, but NO WAY does she catch the winner, the Japanese Superstar, CESARIO!!!" I get chills down the back of my neck everytime i hear that call.

[Danzig]

oh cesario....classy all the way...looked so much like sunday silence it was almost surreal watching her run. shame that we didn't get to see her again after that tho.

[jballscalls]

Originally Posted by Danzig188

oh cesario....classy all the way...looked so much like sunday silence it was almost surreal watching her run. shame that we didn't get to see her again after that tho.

Indeed, she ran off in the post parade, was washing out and still romped. And Both Melhor Ainda and Singhalese both came back and won stakes later in the year.

[Buffymommy]

My mom made the mistake of taking me to see The Black Stallion when I was a little girl. She laughs to this day stating that she "created a monster!" in my love for horses and wanting my own black stallion to race.

But the first race horse I remember ever loving and who made me addicted to watching the races was the 1985 derby. I will always remember the announcer (sorry, I don't know his name) "It's Spend A Buck with a five length lead". I have watched the races ever since.