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SUNDAY SILENCE AND EASY GOER’S

By co-admin • Jan 8th, 2008 • Category: Horse

Intense battle to the wire in the 1989 Preakness evokes images from another dramatic Triple Crown finish — Affirmed and Alydar’s Belmont. Shades of another famous showdown, the East versus West match-up of Nashua and Swaps in the 1955 Kentucky Derby, were present in 1989, as well. Sunday Silence played the Swaps role as West [...]



TITANS OF TURF : Last Episode (10) - Personal Ensign

By co-admin • Nov 26th, 2007 • Category: Horse

     Champions come in all shapes and sizes, and nothing could validate this fact more than a comparison between Cicada and Personal Ensign. Where Cicada had been subjected to an incredibly demanding campaign for three of her four years on the track, Personal Ensign had been exposed as often and handled as delicately as the Crown [...]



TITANS OF TURF : Episode 9 - Cicada

By co-admin • Oct 22nd, 2007 • Category: Horse

No insect produces a louder mating call than the cicada, although the female of the species is mute. The equine that was named for this creature was perhaps mute in terms of a mating call, in fact at stud she produced only one stakes winner, but Cicada’s exploits upon the racetrack were heard all across [...]



TITANS OF TURF : Episode 8 - Dahlia

By co-admin • Oct 22nd, 2007 • Category: Horse

The first filly to win $1 million from worldwide earnings — although she earned much of it in England — was Dahlia. Like Susan’s Girl, she won at a time when the largest distaff purse in this country was a modest $100,000, although major stakes in England and France were much larger. Foaled in Kentucky [...]



TITANS OF TURF : Episode 7 - Susan’s Girl

By co-admin • Sep 20th, 2007 • Category: Horse

     No filly or mare in the top 100 racehorses of the 20th century, compiled by The Blood-Horse, won more stakes or more races than Susan’s Girl. But it was not merely the number of races that she won that made her sixth-best filly of the last 100 years; it was just as much the quality [...]



TITANS OF TURF : Episode 6 - Ruffian

By co-admin • Jul 31st, 2007 • Category: Horse

THE FILLIES

While affirmative action has produced social and economic changes in America, the philosophy that was the impetus for legislating equality between sexes has never carried over to horse racing, here or anywhere in the world; at least on the racecourse, females of the equine species are considered to be inferior to males. In a [...]



TITANS OF TURF : Episode 5 - Seattle Slew

By co-admin • Jul 20th, 2007 • Category: Horse

     The best two juveniles in the country in 1976 were similar only in that they were bought as yearlings at Keeneland for the proverbial song: Seattle Slew for $17,500 and Royal Ski for $20,500. The resemblance ended there. Royal Ski and another useful colt, Run Dusty Run, each won six of nine starts that year [...]



TITANS OF TURF : Episode 4 - Forego

By co-admin • Jul 9th, 2007 • Category: Horse

     Including Forego in my best five was not difficult since I had seen him race on so many occasions. But Kelso, another great gelding, was excluded only because of less familiarity. They were individually recognized as Horse of the Year no less than eight times between them, with Kelso taking a slight edge in longevity [...]



TITANS OF TURF : Episode 3 - Affirmed

By co-admin • Jul 3rd, 2007 • Category: Horse

     Thoroughbred racing can take credit for staging one of the most memorable rivalries between any two competitors in the annals of sports. And when the shouting was over, the “battle of the titans” produced a clear winner: His name was Affirmed, which was indeed fitting, because his position as one of the greatest American racehorses [...]



TITANS OF TURF : Episode 2 - BOLD RULER

By co-admin • Jul 2nd, 2007 • Category: Horse

     It often has been said that the foal crop of 1954 was the finest of the 20th century. Bold Ruler was foaled at Claiborne Farm that year and, although he offered brilliant speed before he ever ran, he would have no monopoly on important races when he came to the track. Although voted Horse of [...]



TITANS OF TURF : Episode 1 - SECRETARIAT

By co-admin • Jun 29th, 2007 • Category: Horse

Ten Of The Finest Thoroughbreds, In This Man’s Opinion
by John W. Russell 
THE COLTS 
To a greater degree than his equine friend, mankind is a capricious animal that will always have widely divergent opinions on any given subject. It is unlikely, therefore, that many people will agree with me on which were the finest horses to [...]



Thoroughbred

By co-admin • May 31st, 2007 • Category: Horse

The term Thoroughbred describes a breed of horse whose ancestry traces back to three foundation sires — the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerly Turk.  Named after their respective owners — Thomas Darley, Lord Godolphin and Captain Robert Byerly — these three stallions were brought to England from the Mediterranean Middle East around [...]



The Vodafone Derby: History

By co-admin • May 31st, 2007 • Category: Horse

The town of Epsom first became famous for it’s natural mineral water, found up in the downs when a local farmer Henry Wicker took his cattle up to a watering hole on the
Downs in 1618. The alleged healing properties of the water brought crowds from
London who wanted to escape the squalor in return for [...]



Kentucky Derby 2007 Order of Finish

By co-admin • May 18th, 2007 • Category: Horse

Source: www.bloodhorse.com



Horse Riding Safety

By digitalmbul • May 14th, 2007 • Category: Horse

Horse riding can be a safe and extremely rewarding hobby when the rider takes steps to minimize risks. As with any of the most enjoyable activities in life, it is impossible to eliminate all risks. But, by educating yourself to equestrian safety, the possibility of injury can be greatly reduced.
Match Horse to Rider Ability [...]



Ruffian - The Tragic Champion

By digitalmbul • May 7th, 2007 • Category: Horse

Ruffian, owned and bred by Stuart and Barbara Janney, was foaled on April 17, 1972, at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. The Janney’s were truly horsepeople. An amateur steeplechase rider, Stuart Janney had won the famed Maryland Hunt Cup four times, and Mrs. Janney was a daughter of Gladys Phipps, one of the top thoroughbred [...]



Seattle Slew - The Undefeated Triple Crown

By digitalmbul • May 7th, 2007 • Category: Horse

Seattle Slew was foaled at Ben Castleman’s White Horse Acres on February 15 of 1974. The dark bay colt was by Bold Reasoning, a grandson of Bold Ruler, and out of the stakes winning mare My Charmer, a female line descendant of the great race mare Myrtlewood. At the time, his breeding seemed modest, but [...]



Secretariat - The Legend

By digitalmbul • May 7th, 2007 • Category: Horse

 Secretariat was foaled ten minutes after midnight, on the morning of March 30, 1970, at Chris T. Chenery’s Meadow Farm in Doswell, Virginia. He was an impressively large and strikingly attractive chestnut colt, with three white stockings and a white star and stripe.His sire, Bold Ruler, was a champion on the racetrack and boasted an [...]



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