Videos tagged with "smith"

1994 Metropolitan Handicap - Holy Bull
win as the even-money favorite, and he enriched Croll by bringing home $300000 and hoisting his career earnings past $1 million dollars to nearly $1.3 million. He has won 8 of his 10 races now, and he has won them by leading almost every step of the way. He couldn't quite match the record time of 1:33 for the Metropolitan Mile set by Conquistador Cielo in 1982, and he just missed the second fastest time shared by five other horses. But he did match the third best time for the race of ...
Tags: belmont, park, horse, racing, tom, durkin, holy, bull, mike, smith, cherokee, run, colonial, affair, devil, his, due, vitginia, rapids, jimmy, croll

1994 Florida Derby - Post Race
new nose band and a new metal bit to keep his mouth closed, won by 5 3/4 lengths and ran one of the imposing races of the year. Halo's Image, equipped with new blinkers to focus his vision on the race, stayed on course and finished third. Holy Bull simply shot from the gate and didn't look back. He held a lead of two lengths or more through fast fractions, chased but not caught by Halo's Image and Ride the Rails. They zipped the first quarter of a mile in 222/5 seconds, the half-mile in ...
Tags: gulfstream, park, horse, racing, holy, bull, mike, smith, jimmy, croll, jim, mckay, florida, derby

Interview with Jockey Charlie Smith
Jockey Charlie Smith piloted some of the greatest Quarter Horses to ever race. He rode the likes of Jet Deck and Goetta just to name a few. Charlie took the time on a recent morning to look back at some of the great horses that he piloted in his career, which featured more than 900 Quarter Horse wins and nearly 100 stakes races. ... "Jet Deck" Goetta AQHA PCQHRA "Los Alamitos" "horse racing" gambling racing "fast horses" TVG
Tags: Jet Deck, Goetta, AQHA, PCQHRA, Los Alamitos, horse racing, gambling, racing, fast horses, TVG