Could you guys imagine if someone did this today?

[covelj70]

March 14, 1973: In his final preparation for the March 17 Bay Shore Stakes, the first race of his three-year-old season, Secretariat worked three furlongs in a blistering :32 3/5.

holy smokes

[Beginner]

The movie \"Secretariat\" took some poetic license (Sham winning the Wood as someone else already pointed out), but I wonder if the training regimen was real.  In the movie, they had him all out at 8 furlongs a couple of days before the Belmont.  Here\'s a link to his PP\'s:

http://www.secretariat.com/past-performances/

[TGJB]

Whatever they did doesn\'t hold a candle to the nonsense in Seabiscuit, where they had a top racehorse being galloped THROUGH THE WOODS. At night, I think. Forget the branches and trees, how bout the roots and rocks.

[magicnight]

Or how about that scene in \"A Day at the Races\" where Groucho gave Margaret Dumont the same race day medication he had supposedly given to a Kentucky Derby winner?

Oh, wait. Never mind.

[TGJB]

For at least 10 years before I had any interest in racing I had been hearing my father say \"You don\'t have a Breeder\'s Guide?\" without knowing it came from that movie or what it meant.

And once I got in the business I found that concept-- selling crap to unsophisticates trying to beat the game-- is reality based. Those guys were ahead of their time for sure.

[magicnight]

Yeah, some version of \"Tootsie-Frootsie\" being pitched to suckers is right up there with death and taxes. Sounds as if I would have liked your father.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBIsDBC848&feature=related

And, to Cov\'s original post, what about Hard Spun? How many people did not bet him because of that 58 and 1/5 move prior to the Derby?

[P-Dub]

TGJB Wrote:
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> Whatever they did doesn\'t hold a candle to the
> nonsense in Seabiscuit, where they had a top
> racehorse being galloped THROUGH THE WOODS. At
> night, I think. Forget the branches and trees, how
> bout the roots and rocks.


It was in the day time.

It was a movie.

I doubt anybody watched that scene and worried about roots and rocks. They took a bit of license with the movie. Few people care. He was advancing the storyline.

Do you guys pick apart every movie to find discrepancies?? There are any number of great movies that suspend reality.

Doyle Lonnegan is going to leave the parlor with his 2 mil left behind?? Sure he is.  Didn\'t ruin the movie for me.

[TGJB]

Pdub-- now, that was a productive post.

[ajkreider]

Doyle Lonnegan is going to leave the parlor with his 2 mil left behind?? Sure he is. Didn\'t ruin the movie for me

He left it because it was only 500K.  And it wasn\'t his money anyway, cuz Lucky Dan ran second.

Now, Jay Trotter running through a door (literally) to get his bet down - that\'s poetic license.

[alm]

Yeah maybe they could have advanced the Seabiscuit story line some more to the time that Silent Tom got banned for using ephedrine on a horse before a race in NY.  Ooops...it wouldn\'t make much of a story if we thought the champ had help.

[shanahan]

let\'s just have a documentary on Dutrow\'s successful horses and let it go at that.  Hollywood can make it all seem so real!

[P-Dub]

TGJB Wrote:
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> Pdub-- now, that was a productive post.

Right JB.

Talking about rocks, roots, and tree limbs.  That was really productive too.

[P-Dub]

ajkreider Wrote:
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> He left it because it was only 500K.  And it
> wasn\'t his money anyway, cuz Lucky Dan ran
> second.

No, he left it because he was forced out of the room.  The last thing he wanted to do was leave the money behind.

[sekrah]

Wow.. P-Dub with the busted sarcasm detector..  I\'m pretty sure Jerry\'s comments were genuine and that he agreed with you.

[P-Dub]

sekrah Wrote:
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> Wow.. P-Dub with the busted sarcasm detector..
> I\'m pretty sure Jerry\'s comments were genuine and
> that he agreed with you.


Get some new batteries for yours, don\'t think JB agreed with me.  

I should have left it alone after last week\'s ROTW. That is why we use TG, for those opportunities.