Videos tagged with "noses"

Sean Davies 2012 Extreme Mustang Makeover Fort Collins. Horse #2 "Serenity" 5 yo mare [10:01]
Serenity is my big mare for this years Fort Collins makeover. This is unloading day through week three. Both horses came in with pretty snotty noses that the...

1987 Strub Stakes [01:09]
Carl Grinstead, one of the owners of Snow Chief, thought he had won. Trainer Mel Stute, who was standing in an aisle in the box-seat area, said he had a perfect position in line with the wire and thought Snow Chief had lost. Eddie Delahoussaye was riding Ferdinand, the horse who charged to the finish line almost stride for stride with Snow Chief. Unlike Grinstead and Stute, Delahoussaye wasn't wearing glasses, and his view was much closer. But Delahoussaye couldn't be sure who had won. That's how close the 40th running of the Charles H. Strub Stakes was on Sunday at Santa Anita, with 58806 fans just as unsure of the outcome as the principals. Finally, the photo-finish camera showed that Snow Chief had beaten Ferdinand by the smallest of noses, and Charlie Whittingham, the trainer of the runner-up, shoved his hands in his pockets, looked at the ground and walked around just outside the winner's circle. "Just one more jump," Whittingham said wistfully. Whittingham has won the Strub twice, but in three of the last four years he's found himself saying the same thing. In 1985, it was Precisionist over Whittingham's Greinton, by a nose just as short as on Sunday; in 1984, Desert Wine got to the wire a neck in front of Load the Cannons, another runner from Whittingham's barn. Stute should have been the last observer to doubt that Snow Chief had won, because all week long he had convinced himself that his colt was going to dominate the $516750 race. Snow Chief, a victim of a bone ...

1991 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies [02:01]
Pleasant Stage noses out La Spia at the wire to win the 1991 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.

2012 El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate Fields [10:50]
Daddy Nose Best noses out Lucky Chappy in a photo finish in the El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate Fields Saturday in a time of 1:50.46. Daddy is owned by Bob and Cathy Zollars of Dallas and the winning jockey was Julien Leparoux from Florida. See: Larry Stumes, San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, 2012.
Tags: horse racing, Albany California, Daddy Nose Best, Julien Leparoux

2012 El Camino Real Derby - a Photo Finish at Golden Gate Fields [10:15]
Daddy Nose Best noses out Lucky Chappy in a photo finish in the El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate Fields Saturday in a time of 1:50.46. Daddy is owned by Bob and Cathy Zollars of Dallas and the winning jockey was Julien Leparoux from Florida. See: Larry Stumes, San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, 2012.
Tags: horse racing, Albany California