Videos tagged with "irish"

2003 American Handicap - Candy Ride [01:49]
In the mid-1990s, trainer Ron McAnally showed Sid Craig tapes of an Argentine-bred colt who looked like the real goods. The asking price for Gentlemen, the horse in the tapes, was $1 million. That was about $700000 more than Craig had paid for his future champion, the Argentine-bred Paseana, a few years before, so he and McAnally passed on Gentlemen. The happy end to the story belonged to RD Hubbard, who eventually became the principal owner of Gentlemen as the horse carved a US career that totaled $3.3 million in purses. Early this year, McAnally went to Del Mar to show Sid and Jenny Craig more race tapes of another Argentine prospect. The asking price for Candy Ride would be high, McAnally knew, but the Craigs had been known to open their vault before. They paid $2.5 million for Dr Devious, their 1992 English Derby winner. To get the undefeated Candy Ride, who won his three races in South America by 28 lengths, the Craigs were going to have to spend $900000. "That's a lot of money," Sid Craig said Friday, "but I've never seen Ron this excited about a horse before." He was standing in the winner's circle at Hollywood Park on the Fourth of July, wearing a red-white-and-blue necktie and celebrating Candy Ride's first stakes victory in the US, a three-quarter length victory over Special Ring in the $150000 American Handicap. Candy Ride has won five in a row overall and earned $124800 for the Craigs, whose accountants will be pleased to know that bigger days might be ahead ...
Tags: 2003, American, Handicap, hollywood, park, horse, racing, candy, ride, special, ring, gary, stevens, vic, stauffer, ron, mcanally, jenny, craig, sunday, break, irish, warrior

Traveller's Sulky Race, Cork - Mallow Road [06:40]
Illegal sulky race on the Cork - Mallow Rd. Apparently the horses' names are Russian Lady and Chrissy's Philly. I am not the original uploader, the original uploader ended up figuring out that featuring this on YouTube was a bit of a bad idea. Thought that might happen and re-uploaded so this gem didn't disappear.
Tags: Irish, Travellers, County, Cork, Ireland, Horse, Racing, Mallow, Near, Car, Crash, N20, Gardaí

Dullahan at Churchill Downs, 5/1/2012 [00:22]
Dullahan (Blue Grass Stakes winner) skips along the stretch during the morning of May 1, 2012 at Churchill Downs.
Tags: Dullahan, Churchill Downs, Kentucky Derby, Blue Grass Stakes, Louisville, Kentucky, colt, horse, horse racing, Run for the Roses, Irish, Donegal Racing, Dale Romans, Paddy O'Prado

Irish Grand National 2012 [08:23]
Lion Na Bearnai sprung a 33-1 shock for small time trainer Tomas Gibney and claiming jockey Andrew Thornton, but a closer inspection of his form never warranted such a lofty starting price. In the end he fended off the gallant Out Now with Alfie Sherrin in third and Paddy Pub in fourth.
Tags: Lion Na Bearnai Horse Racing, Irish Grand National, Ten Up Novice Chase, Fairyhouse Racecourse, Navan Racecourse, Horse Racing

Eliza interviews injured jockey Christian Williams at the 2012 Cheltenham festival [01:36]
After sever injuries to both Christian Williams arms and 8 operations; he came back on Boxing day 2011 only to be injured again a month later. Eliza interviews him.
Tags: Christian, Williams, jockey, injured, jockeys, fund, ELIZA, Festival, Irish, Thoroughbred, Marketing, Interview, Cheltenham, Horse, racing, jumps, national, hunt, steeplechasing, ladies, day, fashion, veiled, hat, Yvette, Jelfs, millinery, model, feathers