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1994 Florida Derby - Post Race
new nose band and a new metal bit to keep his mouth closed, won by 5 3/4 lengths and ran one of the imposing races of the year. Halo's Image, equipped with new blinkers to focus his vision on the race, stayed on course and finished third. Holy Bull simply shot from the gate and didn't look back. He held a lead of two lengths or more through fast fractions, chased but not caught by Halo's Image and Ride the Rails. They zipped the first quarter of a mile in 222/5 seconds, the half-mile in ...
Tags: gulfstream, park, horse, racing, holy, bull, mike, smith, jimmy, croll, jim, mckay, florida, derby

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 ...
Tags: horse, racing, affirmed, alydar, john, tom, durkin, belmont, stakes, triple, crown, rivalry, duel, Veitch, Steve, Cauthen

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 ...
Tags: horse, racing, easy, goer, pat, day, preakness, stakes, interview, alydar, phipps, mcgaughey

Jesse W. Hammock racing on Attainable
Jesse W. Hammock racing on Attainable. Delaware Park, Sept. 2, 1979. Race 1 for the day. Length of the race was 6 Furlongs. The horse Attainable was trained by Anthony Dutrow, brother or trainer Richard Dutrow jr. trainer of Preakness winner Big Brown. ... "Jesse W. Hammock" "Richard Dutrow" "Anthony Dutrow" "Big Brown" Preakness "Horse racing" "Delaware Park"
Tags: Jesse W. Hammock, Richard Dutrow, Anthony Dutrow, Big Brown, Preakness, Horse racing, Delaware Park