Videos tagged with "short"

Aaron Rogers Tribute [04:38]
Aaron Rogers recently retired from competitive race riding. Here are a few highlights of a career shortened

Daydream - 2013 Fair Grounds Maiden Claiming Race - Second Place Finish [01:55]
Daydream just comes up short and finishes second at the Fair Grounds..

Standardbred Canada Video Feature - NHL Hockey Returns [07:07]
Ontario harness racing trainers and drivers discuss their anticipation for the return of the NHL following the four-month long lockout and share their picks for the shortened season in this week's Standardbred Canada video feature.

Dakar Rally stage eight: Salta to San Miguel de Tucuman [02:47]
Stage eight of the Dakar Rally saw riders negotiating a shortened course because torrential rainfall made part of the track unrideable between Salta and San Miguel de Tucuman. David Casteu, on a Yamaha, took the overall motorcycle lead despite finishing in sixth place as rival Olivier Pain lost his way on the drenched course

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 ...