Videos tagged with "famous"

1989 Belmont Stakes: Full ABC Broadcast [01:05:24]
Easy Goer finally lived up to his spectacular promise of early spring yesterday when he roared past Sunday Silence on the turn for home and won the 121st Belmont Stakes by eight lengths. In doing so, he prevented Sunday Silence from becoming racing's 12th Triple Crown winner. Earlier this year, Easy Goer looked like the next Secretariat, a colt of limitless potential who might set new standards of excellence. Then, after second-place finishes in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, Easy Goer seemed likelier to emulate his father, Alydar, who in 1978 became the only horse to finish second in all three Triple Crown races, losing each leg of the Triple Crown to Affirmed. But yesterday, there was talk of Secretariat again. Easy Goer's winning Belmont time of 2:26.01 under Pat Day over a fast but not unusually quick track was the second-fastest Belmont ever, behind only Secretariat's 1973 world-record clocking of 2:24. Easy Goer's performance ranks as one of the most impressive in the history of the sport. $1 Million Bonus Sunday Silence actually earned more in defeat than the winner's purse of $413520, getting a $1 million Triple Crown bonus for the best overall record in the three races. But he would have earned $2.5 million more, and a certain place in the sport's Hall of Fame, with a victory. Instead, he might be considered only the second-best 3-year-old of this year unless he can beat Easy Goer again. Easy Goer, a chestnut-colored son of Alydar and Relaxing, bred and ...
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Vancouver's Hastings Race Park: Canada's Thoroughbred Horse Racing Mecca!! [00:51]
In 2012 this is the track that made international headlines when little-known Mexican-born jockey Mario Gutierrez won the track's riding titles in 2007 and 2008, and then went on to win the Santa Anita Derby, Kentucky Derby and the Preakness!! Shot on location Sunday, May 27, 2012 at Hastings Race Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with a Canon EOS T3i/600D.
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1980 Kentucky Derby - Genuine Risk [21:00]
Jim McKay, Howard Cosell and Eddie Arcaro cover the 1980 Kentucky Derby..
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1977 Kentucky Derby - Seattle Slew [21:43]
1977 Kentucky Derby
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1978 Kentucky Derby - Affirmed -vs- Alydar [22:09]
1978 broadcast of the Kentucky Derby with Jim McKay and Howard Cosell
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