Spicer Cub behind the starting gate

[heatherk]

He looks like he lost his irons just beyond the finish JB in the ride out, maybe earlier. I\'m sure bailing out entered his mind, but where you going to go. Three bo\'s and he still stayed on. Amazing.

[aceriley63]

Jeez, if I was a jockey, I surely wouldn\'t wear white pants

[richiebee]

Hard to imagine that this entire thread unwound without a single mention of Broad
Brush\'s Pennsylvania Derby of 1986.

Broad Brush, ridden by Angel Cordero, looked to be breaking the race open as they
left the backstretch, opening three or four lengths on the field, then bolted on
the turn, every bit as severely as Spicer Cub did. Cordero managed to straighten
BB out, employing seven or eight roundhouse swats to BB\'s right flank. BB got
straightened out and won going away.

If you get a chance to see the replay, watch closely: After the first roundhouse to
BB\'s flank, Cordero throws a \"purpose pitch\" and catches BB squarely in the jaw with
the right handed whip.

Are jockeys athletes? Cordero was an incredible one, and possibly the only reason
that a Verazzano win at CD would make me happy...

[Lost Cause]

richiebee Wrote:
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> Hard to imagine that this entire thread unwound
> without a single mention of Broad
> Brush\'s Pennsylvania Derby of 1986.
>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmg5pOSBEEE

Wow..I saw the jaw tap to straighten him out quick..happens at 1:42 in the video..Cordero was definitely the man when I was growing up

[FrankD.]

WOW,

As I stated in a post about Johnny V a few weeks back; Angel definitely one of the top 5 to ever sit on the back of a horse. Many \"great\" riders were passengers who kept out of trouble and never got themselves beat, Angel was a difference maker in many a race. He was probably the best I ever saw identifying a track bias and jumping all over it before anyone else knew it existed.

Typical astute NY fans loved to praise him and really loved to boo him whenever he got beat as a favorite.

IMHO: In no particular order it\'s Arcaro, Hartack, Shoemaker, Pincay and Angel at the top of any all time list.

Good luck,

Frank D.