Videos tagged with "stevens"

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 ...
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David Stevens Qipco 1000 Guineas Interview [02:43]

Tags: David Stevens, Qipco, 1000 Guineas, Interview, horse, racing

Point Given - 2001 Belmont Stakes [02:57]
Point Given suffered the worst defeat in his career in the Kentucky Derby. He came to assert himself as the best of his crop with decisive victories in the Preakness and Belmont. His 12¼-length triumph made him the 17th horse to complete the Preakness-Belmont double. Final time: 2:26 2/5 Owner: The Thoroughbred Corporation Trainer: Bob Baffert Jockey: Gary Stevens
Tags: horse, horse racing, racing, Belmont, Belmont Park, Belmont Stakes, Point Given, Bob Baffert, Baffert, Gary Stevens, Triple Crown, New York, 2001

1997 Preakness Stakes - Full Broadcast [01:08:08]
Silver Charm, who won the Kentucky Derby over Captain Bodgit by the length of his gray head, provided a smashing encore today when he won the 122d Preakness by the same head over Free House, with Captain Bodgit third by another head in a three-horse blanket finish. And he set the stage for the Belmont Stakes in three weeks, when he will be racing to become the first colt in 19 years to sweep the Triple Crown. The three rivals re-enacted their photo-finish performances of two weeks ago before 88594 spectators at Pimlico Race Course with a slight reshuffling of the order behind Silver Charm -- but with the same tingling drive to the wire -- in the closest Preakness in 65 years. The top three once more delivered a formful race, outrunning the leading outsider, Touch Gold, who did not appear in the Derby and who stumbled badly at the start of the Preakness. He closed to finish fourth, within 1 1/4 lengths of the three front-runners flying at the head of the field of 10. 'And we're going for the Triple Crown,'' shouted Bob Lewis, the California beer distributor who owns Silver Charm with his wife, Beverly. ''We need this badly in thoroughbred racing. May the best horse win at Belmont Park.'' Silver Charm is the first horse to have a chance at the Triple Crown in the Belmont since 1989, when Sunday Silence lost the Belmont to Easy Goer, whom he had outrun in the Derby and the Preakness. Bob Baffert, the white-haired, blithe spirit of racing who trains Silver Charm, has waited ...
Tags: horse, racing, pimlico, preakness, stakes, silver, charm, free, house, captain, bodgit, touch, gold, gary, stevens, kent, desormeaux, bob, baffert, dave, johnson, jim, mckay, al, michaels, alex, solis, robert, beverly, lewis, photo, finish, great, race, e

Are you ready for the return of The Great Race Place? [03:11]
Opening Day is right around the corner. Watch all of our horseman talk about The Great Race Place and what it means to be part of Opening Day.
Tags: Santa Anita Park, horse racing, race track, horse, The Great Race Place, handicapping, Arcadia, racing, Joe Talamo, Bob Baffert, Ron mcanally, Ted West Jr., Mel Stute, Gary Stute, James Cassidy, Richard Mandella, Chantal Sutherland, Ray Bell, Gary Stevens