Rides and Euros

[Silver Charm]

Awesome Again may have been clean. He had beaten Silver Charm earlier in the year in the Foster when he was receiving 13 lbs. He won the Whitney(?) and prepped at Hawthorne. He was a good horse.  

Pat Byrne also won 13 races in a row at CD the year before when he used Steve Allday as his Vet. Byrne had also been spotted personally medicating a horse (Nani\'s Rose) at Saratoga only a few hours before the horse was scheduled to run in a Stakes race.

I dont know if the horse was clean or Ben Johnson\'ed. I just know that there was a culture of cheats back then. Noel Hickey was busted multiple times. I beleive Hickey served a suspension for about 60 days that very year Bucks Boy won. As I said there were NO controls at CD or by the Breeders Cup back then.

[Silver Charm]

These stories sound like a candidate for \"The Greatest Breeders Cup Trip Ever\"!

Please post the Video......

[Wrongly]

Say what you will about this year\'s crop of 3-year olds but 3-year olds have won the Classic 9 times in the past 26 winners.  Oh and no horse older then 5 has ever won the race, not even the great Cigar.  Just saying.

[smalltimer]

And no female had ever won the Classic, until Zenyatta came along.
I\'m just saying...
Peace out

[Silver Charm]

Lets hope we get a throw down finish like these two. This first one is like a Quarter Horse finish and in the other Durkins final call gets me trembling a little.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfOng-jaIh0&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRrndqe-pbM&feature=related

[jbelfior]

They just showed this one on TVG. What an effort by Judge Angelucci.

Alysheba and Chris Mcarron who IMO was the greatest Classic rider of all time.

Good Luck,
Joe B.

[SoCalMan2]

I though P Dub was asking what did Dickinson say when the microphone was put in front of him.  That is what i am curious about.

[P-Dub]

SoCalMan2 Wrote:
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> I though P Dub was asking what did Dickinson say
> when the microphone was put in front of him.  That
> is what i am curious about.


You\'re right, I was referring to Dickinson.

Glad JB told the other story, what a classic response.

[drbillym]

I agree that Chris McCarron was one of the great money riders (Angel Cordero, too).  Chris won the Travers just a few days after his mother died, in a thrilling stretch duel nosing out the favorite, Behrens.  After the race, we ran into him at an Italian restaurant where he was celebrating with his family.  As he walked past our table and we offerred congratulations, he chatted with us for several minutes.  Great Guy!
My vote for greatest BC race was the inaugural classic.  Owners Allen and Crovo paid $180,000 to supplement Wild Again.  They stiffed (or prepped) him in a 7f race in Northern California and got their price in the BC at 30-1.  Went to Vegas and bet him HUGE-had to hide in the men\'s room first waiting for the photo, then surviving the inquiry!

[HP]

P-Dub - This thread got dispersed a bit...I am assuming you are asking what Dickinson said?  

I don\'t remember his exact words but he\'s on TV and as he\'s thanking everybody he gets to the owners saying something like he was happy they listened to his advice on where and when to run/prep the horse as opposed to \"other advisors\"...which was a reference to TGJB, since in the months leading up to the BC that year there was some disagreement about how to prep Da Hoss.  

So this is what he said instead of just throwing a nice \"shout out\" to Thoro-Graph, without whom he would not have had a horse to train.  Couldn\'t even muster an easygoing \"thank you.\"  It was an additional platform for him to advance his argument and his \"lone, renegade genius\" status.  Awful.  HP

[TGJB]

Dead on, except I think he sarcastically referred to me as their \"very smart advisor\".

[HP]

Yes.  Saracastic is right, his tone was uber-wiseass as only the Brits can do it.  The most graceless \"winner\" I\'ve ever seen...to this day.  HP

[tmon]

Zenyatta wasn\'t at all hard to believe to me. That\'s because I saw Dulcia a mare win the National Thoroughbred Championship back in the late 70\'s.