Videos tagged with "alydar"

Easy Goer - 1989 Whitney Handicap [02:18]
. ''He had to sit and wait and ran two fifths of a second off the track record. He ran his last eighth in 11 2/5!'' Plenty of horseplayers were howling about Day's ride, but McGaughey and the jockey said they were confident at all times that Easy Goer would find a way through. ''I was never worried,'' Day said. ''I felt like if I ever got some daylight, I'd be OK He'a class act. He's been that way ever since he started running.'' ''I knew we were in a little bit of a jam there,'' said ...
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Easy Goer - 1989 Woodward Handicap [02:20]
Whitney Handicap, the Travers Stakes and the Woodward in succession. The colt will race either once or twice more this fall, and Phipps plans to run him as a 4-year-old next year. Easy Goer may run in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont on Oct. 7, or else train up to the Breeders' Cup Classic at Gulfstream, Nov. 4. His victory yesterday was reminiscent of the Whitney, where he was stuck in traffic on the rail before splitting horses in the stretch. Day called his trip yesterday '' ...
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Soviet Problem -vs- Minidar - 1994 Camilla Urso Handicap
Soviet Problem battles Minidar to the wire.. ... horse racing soviet problem moscow ballet minidar michael wrona tour mark hennig alydar
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Affirmed & Alydar
Pimlico. He didn't disappoint as he got the lead by the 1/4 pole and stayed there the rest of the way, winning in 1:54 2/5. Alydar rallied from 6th but just couldn't get past the stubborn Affirmed. Only three rivals showed up to challenge the pair in the Belmont and the race basically turned into a match race with the pair running 1-2 almost the whole way. The final 7 furlongs of the race they went at it head to head. For a moment at the head of the stretch Alydar actually got his head in ...
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Easy Goer & Pat Day
races at 3 and in the Gotham narrowly missed breaking Dr. Fager's world record for the mile. Easy Goer's second season was marked by his rivalry with Sunday Silence who defeated him in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. Easy Goer then came back in the Belmont Stakes to defeat Sunday Silence by eight lengths in 2 minutes 26 seconds, a time second only to Secretariat's record of 2:24. Easy Goer's 3-year-old season also included victories in the Travers and in the Whitney, Woodward, and ...
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