Videos tagged with "70s"

DSCF3487.AVI- Tribute to the Great Red Rum- BBC 1995 [04:55]
In 1995 Red Rum passed away age 30. This was front page news and main headlines across the world. The BBC produced a great tribute video to a horse that had captured the nations hearts. All the great moments from the horses career combined along with the famous muscial peice from the film Champions. Red Rum will never be forgotten!
Tags: Great, Red, Rum, Grand, national, Aintree, Racing, Ginger, mccain, BBC, jockey, Racecourses, 70s, Sport, Liverpool, News, Horse, Legend, Champions, Film

Comedy Of Errors- The 1975 Champion Hurdle (Cheltenham) [01:14]
Comedy of Errors was a champion British racehorse of the 1970s, winning the Champion Hurdle in 1973 and 1975, and finishing second in 1974. He was trained by Fred Rimell and ridden by Bill Smith and Ken White. The horse was the first to regain British hurdling's top prize. Here he is winning the 1975 Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.
Tags: Comedy, of, Errors, 1975, Champion, Hurdle, Cheltenham, Fred, Rimell, Bill, Smith, Ken, White, Horse, Racing, steeplechase, National, Hunt, gallop, trot, Fat, Jockey, winner, odds, bet, tip

Comedy Of Errors- The 1973 Champion Hurdle (Cheltenham) [01:08]
Comedy of Errors was a champion British racehorse of the 1970s, winning the Champion Hurdle in 1973 and 1975, and finishing second in 1974. He was trained by Fred Rimell and ridden by Bill Smith and Ken White. The horse was the first to regain British hurdling's top prize. Here he is winning the 1973 Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.
Tags: Comedy, of, Errors, 1973, Champion, Hurdle, Cheltenham, Fred, Rimell, Bill, Smith, Ken, White, Horse, Racing, steeplechase, National, Hunt, gallop, trot, Fat, Jockey, winner, odds, bet, tip

Horse Racing at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn 1897 [00:29]
Edison Manufacturing Co. Filmed June 22, 1897, at Sheepshead Bay Race Track, Coney Island, New York. From Edison films catalog: The finish and weighing out of a running race with nine starters, won by famous Clifford, Sloane up. Sheepshead Bay Race Track was an American thoroughbred horse racing facility built on the site of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Old railroad track diagrams for the Long Island Railroad spur that served both the club and the racetrack show the entrance to the club was located on the east side of Ocean Avenue between Avenues X and Y. The racetrack was built by a group of prominent businessmen from the New York City area who formed the Coney Island Jockey Club in 1880. Led by Leonard Jerome and the track's President, William Kissam Vanderbilt, the Club held seasonal race cards at nearby Prospect Park fairgrounds until construction of the new race course was completed in 1884. - excerpt from wikipedia Sheepshead Bay Neighborhood in southeastern Brooklyn, overlooking an ocean inlet of the same name to its south and bordered to the north by Marine Park, to the east by Shellbank Creek, to the south by Manhattan Beach, and to the west by Gravesend. The area was the site of a large Canarsee Indian village and remained undeveloped for more than a century and a half after the English settled Gravesend in 1645 only a short distance to the northwest. During the 1870s John Y. McKane, the notorious political ''boss'' of Gravesend ...
Tags: newyorkcity, new, york, city, nycny, nyc, ny, brooklyn, sheepshead, bay, brighton, beach, gravesend, coney, long, island, railroad, lirr, horse, racing, race, thoroughbred, equine, equestrian, clifford, starters, track, ocean, avenue, jockey, club, actual

Machoi15_870SherburnMay2011.mpg [00:20]
Raise A Blister aka Macho by Rare Bars Lil Doc and Rickys Sugar. Full brother to my 2009 Futurity Horse Royal & 2010 Futurity Horse Bell.
Tags: Rare Bar, Rare Bars Lil Doc, Macho, Horse, Barrel Racing, Barrel Racing Futurity