Videos tagged with "steve"

BCS TV presented by the Armchair Jockeys - Focus on Stayers [05:32]
Steve Mellish looks at some of the great staying horses prior to the opening race of the QIPCO British Champions Series Long Distance category
Tags: stayers, Yeats, armchair jockeys, York, steve mellish, horse racing, British Champions Series

Steve Baster 2012 Singapore Racing Festival [01:38]
2012 Singapore Racing Festival Track work. Previewing the weekends races
Tags: Singapore, Racing, Horse, Horse Racing (Sport)

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

1978 Kentucky Derby - Affirmed -vs- Alydar [22:09]
1978 broadcast of the Kentucky Derby with Jim McKay and Howard Cosell
Tags: 1978, Kentucky, Derby, Affirmed, Alydar, triple, crown, horse, racing, harbor, view, farm, louis, wolfson, patricia, jim, mckay, howard, cosell, steve, cauthen, laz, barrera, allen, jerkens, john, veitch, great, race, rivalry, famous, horses, champions, 1

Glenn talks Kentucky Derby with trainer Steve Asmussen [02:55]
Glenn talks Kentucky Derby with two-time Preakness champion trainer Steve Asmussen
Tags: wnst, baltimore, sports, radio, steve, asmussen, trainer, kentucky, derby, preakness, churchill, downs, louisville, glenn, clark, 2012, horse, racing