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[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Correct.

Life's Magic was also 2nd in the '84 distaff - albeit beaten a pole by the 120 Beyer of Princess Rooney.

She also lost to Bounding Basque, and Tony " never knew the rail " Graell, in the Brooklyn.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

She also lost to Bounding Basque, and Tony " never knew the rail " Graell, in the Brooklyn.

Graell rode a bunch of winners that my father trained in Cleveland. He swears he was the best of a good Thistledown room in the 80's.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Graell rode a bunch of winners that my father trained in Cleveland. He swears he was the best of a good Thistledown room in the 80's.

He was the King of Thistle.

I still see him around fairly often.