Videos tagged with "comebacks"

1995 Blue Grass Stakes [12:23]
While the power horses of East and West stalked and chased, and while a medical miracle named Randy Romero hunched down in the saddle, a 30-1 long shot named Wild Syn led every step of the way today to win the Blue Grass Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths over Suave Prospect. And, while doing so, he royally scrambled the traffic on the road to the Kentucky Derby. No horse in the race was given less chance to win, yet no horse in the race ever got in front of him. He simply set a tantalizing pace that no jockey challenged, and at the end of a mile and one-eighth he still had the lead over some of the ranking candidates for the Derby: Suave Prospect, who held off the late run by Tejano Run by the length of his head, and then Thunder Gulch two lengths farther back. No match race developed between Thunder Gulch and Suave Prospect, as expected. No winning drive to the wire in the homestretch by Tejano Run, as expected. No clarifying of the Derby picture, as expected. And with the Canadian champion Talkin Man blitzing the field in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct in New York -- three weeks after he won the Gotham -- the Derby sweepstakes underwent a mighty one-day shakeout. Instead, at the picturesque Keeneland track in the heart of the horse country, it was all Wild Syn. He was running in only his second stakes race, guided by a jockey who retired last year after a career filled with injuries and at least three comebacks and saddled by a 26-year-old trainer, Thomas Arnemann. Not only that ...

DSCF3291.AVI- Champion in many words. [02:00]
john hurt who played Bob Champion in the film champions tells the story of a man who beat cancer and 20 months later won the Grand National. One of the greatest comebacks of all time.
Tags: DSCF3291-, champions, cancer, research, horses, horse, racing, Bob, champion, Aldaniti, Grand, national, legend, comebacks, film, aintree, cheltenham

Another Spectacular Buckpasser horse race - winning the 1965 Sapling Stakes [01:20]
At the start of this juvenile race, Buckpasser gives us a foreshadowing of his legendary talent - after taking his sweet time early in the Sapling Stakes, Buckpasser comes back and outraces the leaders in one of his first SPECTACULAR horse race comebacks.
Tags: buckpasser, winning, 1965, sapling, stakes, sapling+stakes, spectacular, comeback, horse, race, Amazing