Videos tagged with "bailey"

1996 Kentucky Derby - Full Broadcast [01:07:53]
Sore heel and all, outside post and all, Unbridled's Song set the stage for a storybook finish to the 122d Kentucky Derby today when he swept into the lead with a quarter of a mile to go. But in the next 26 seconds, he tired and faded to fifth place while Grindstone mounted a gripping duel against Cavonnier and won the Derby by a nose before 142668 roaring spectators. It was the closest finish in a Derby in 37 years and the first time in 63 years that a horse won the Derby after only five races. But it was the 17th straight time the favorite had floundered. And it was the sixth straight victory in the Triple Crown series for D. Wayne Lukas, who trained 5 of the 19 horses for three owners and won it for William T. Young of Lexington, Ky., who had tried six times to win the Derby and finally did in a photo finish. The finish was the tightest since Tomy Lee outreached Sword Dancer by the length of his nose in the 1959 Derby, and not even Lukas, the most successful trainer in racing history, could pick the winner. "It was so emotional in Mr. Young's box," he related. "We jumped up and started hugging and congratulating one another. Then it struck me, and I thought, 'Maybe we didn't even win.' " But they did, and there was irony as well as melodrama in it because their dark brown colt is also a son of Unbridled, winner of the 1990 Derby -- yes, a son of Unbridled, just like Unbridled's Song. Both horses were foaled in 1993, both ran in the Derby, but Unbridled's Song weakened ...
Tags: kentucky, derby, horse, racing, 1996, grindstone, jerry, bailey, william, young, overbrook, farm, wayne, lukas, cavonnier, bobbaffert, photo, finish, close, unbridleds, song, editors, note, louis, quatorze, skip, away, jim, mckay, al, michaels, triple, cr

16.2 Keyhole Quick Gun and Bailey Ward [00:40]
fastest time of the day
Tags: barrel, racing, Horse, Riding, running

Turkish Tryst - Dam Of Hard Spun [02:39]
Turkish Tryst, the daughter of Turkoman wins at Belmont in 1996... She'd later go on to produce Fox Hill Farm's Grade I winner Hard Spun.
Tags: horse, racing, belmont, park, turkish, tryst, hard, spun, jerry, bailey, fox, hill, farm, dam, danzig

Slight Cheltenham disappointment for Choc [11:29]
After the Cheltenham Festival threatening so much for Robert Thornton it ended in slight disappointment. Get Choc's report here on his Cheltenham rides.
Tags: Robert Thornton Horse Racing, Alan King, Alan King Horse Racing, Bunbury Castle, Franchoek, Katchit, Nenuphar Collonges, Voy Por Ustedes, Blazing Bailey, Walkon, Medermit, Cheltenham, Cheltenham 2012, Triumph Hurdle 2012, Ryanair Chase 2012

Mister Baileys- The 1994 2000 Guineas Stakes (Newmarket) [02:12]
Mister Baileys (1991--2009) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from June 1993 to July 1994 he ran nine times and won four races. After winning the Vintage Stakes and the Royal Lodge Stakes as a two-year-old, he became the first Northern-trained Classic winner for seventeen years when he won the 2000 Guineas in record time on his three-year-old debut. Here Jockey Jason Weaver secures victory for Mister Baileys in the 1994 2000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket. The horse was trained by Mark Johnston and owned by GR Bailey Ltd.
Tags: Mister, Baileys, Guineas, Stakes, Newmarket, Flat, Horse, Racing, Racehorse, Fat, Jockey, Mark, Johnson, Bailey, Ltd, 1994, 2000, Jason, Weaver, British, Thoroughbred, Vintage, Royal, Lodge, gamble, bet, tips, gallop, run, win