Triple Crown + Travers

[Clip-Clop]

Originally Posted by parsixfarms

A number of top three year-olds "prepped" for the Travers in the Whitney in the 1970-80s, when the meet was only 24 days (and horses didn't need four weeks between races). Alydar demolished a strong field in the 1978 Travers, and Java Gold won the 1987 Whitney over fellow 3YO Gulch.

The amount of weight carried was always one of the impressive things about Affirmed's Jim Dandy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6qUCO_bLns
Not exactly.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6qUCO_bLns
Not exactly.

I think he meant this race:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0zYBc-Z7yo

[Clip-Clop]

That was no doubt what he meant, far more impressive.

[parsixfarms]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

I think he meant this race:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0zYBc-Z7yo

Thanks. I did mean the '78 Whitney.