Da Coach at Arlington Park [02:14]
This season at Arlington Park, you might just run into "Da Coach" Mike Ditka while watching the races. Grab a Ditka product and enjoy your day!
Tags: Arlington Park, Mike Ditka, Da Coach, Da Bears, Bears, 1985, 1986, horse racing
Secretariat - The Meadow Monster [01:27]
My tribute to the mighty Secretariat. In the first two racing clips you can see this horse's big, powerful stride eating up the turf. His jockey, Ron Turcotte, once said that Secretariat was even better on the grass, after he easily won the Man o' War Stakes, and his piston-like action does seem to handle this surface effortlessly. The super slow motion clip of "Big Red" destroying the field is from the Belmont Stakes. Secretariat was bred by the Meadow Farm in Virginia, and was foaled on March 30th, 1970. kentucky derby preakness stakes belmont triple crown ruffian forego marlboro cup horse racing track
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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
Horse Racing 1979 Craven Stakes.avi [01:42]
Lyphards Wish destroys the mighty Tromos.
Tags: horse, racing, 17979, 2000, guineas, one, in, million, standaan, 1000, newmarket, horseracing, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, el, gran, senor, dancing, brave, craven, stakes
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