Just because ...

[magicnight]

... it\'s kind of slow on the board

... and he\'s going into the Hall of Fame tomorrow (long overdue!)

... and he\'s one of my favorite horses of all time

http://www.breederscup.com/gallery/1993-breeders-cup-mile

[P-Dub]

magicnight Wrote:
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> ... it\'s kind of slow on the board
>
> ... and he\'s going into the Hall of Fame tomorrow
> (long overdue!)
>
> ... and he\'s one of my favorite horses of all
> time
>
> http://www.breederscup.com/gallery/1993-breeders-c
> up-mile

Saw him win that BC Mile at Santa Anita.  Tremendous horse.

Of course, it helps when your jockey is one of the greatest of all time.

[boston]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1139643/index.htm

My favorite, but I could not find a video.

I was making my own numbers at the time.  Farma Way in the Pimlico Special by far the fastest number I ever made.  If I remember correctly I rated the Pimlico surface less than a 1/5 of a second fast that day.

[richiebee]

Utilize the most excellent \"SI Vault\" link which Boston has provided to retrieve
the November 6, 1978 issue of SI. The cover story that week was entitled
\"Confessions of a Master Fixer\" and chronicles the tale of Fat Tony Ciulla, who
claimed that he fixed races at tracks up and down the Eastern Seaboard by paying
jockeys ... most of them obscure and now forgotten, some of them who competed at
the game\'s top levels... to keep their mounts out of the trifecta.

A good piece of reporting, and as Pete Axthelm said \"The only thing better than
fiction is a true story which no one believes.\"

[Paolo]

The actual SI link:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1094265/index.htm

[jimbo66]

Not even Mike Smith could go \"wide\" on Lure, with him always 2 lengths clear of the competition......

[Silver Charm]

He was out of a Claiborne Farm Dam named Endear. Back in my distant youth I bet Endear in the TCA at Keeneland and Trainer Woody Stephens was using 2nd maybe 3rd String Jock on her Jerry Bailey....Eddie Maple had his first call.

First career start Lure is going 5 in June at Belmont Park and ties the Track Record. So they spent the next 15 months thinking they had a dirt horse until Shug all but gave up and threw him on grass in a nothing Allowance race. He won by 10. The rest is history. And yes I loved Lure too.;-)

[P-Dub]

jimbo66 Wrote:
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> Not even Mike Smith could go \"wide\" on Lure, with
> him always 2 lengths clear of the
> competition......


Not bad Jimbo.

[Rick B.]

jimbo66 Wrote:
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> Not even Mike Smith could go \"wide\" on Lure, with
> him always 2 lengths clear of the
> competition......

He was 5-wide on the 1st turn on the 1993 BC Mile:

http://www.breederscup.com/history/hall-of-champions/horse/42

Didn\'t matter; as Mike Battaglia quipped when Neumy inquired
about Lure\'s supposed disadvantage from his outside post,

\"Are you kidding? He could start from the parking lot and still win!\"