Videos tagged with "wire"

1995 Blue Grass Stakes [12:23]
While the power horses of East and West stalked and chased, and while a medical miracle named Randy Romero hunched down in the saddle, a 30-1 long shot named Wild Syn led every step of the way today to win the Blue Grass Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths over Suave Prospect. And, while doing so, he royally scrambled the traffic on the road to the Kentucky Derby. No horse in the race was given less chance to win, yet no horse in the race ever got in front of him. He simply set a tantalizing pace that no jockey challenged, and at the end of a mile and one-eighth he still had the lead over some of the ranking candidates for the Derby: Suave Prospect, who held off the late run by Tejano Run by the length of his head, and then Thunder Gulch two lengths farther back. No match race developed between Thunder Gulch and Suave Prospect, as expected. No winning drive to the wire in the homestretch by Tejano Run, as expected. No clarifying of the Derby picture, as expected. And with the Canadian champion Talkin Man blitzing the field in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct in New York -- three weeks after he won the Gotham -- the Derby sweepstakes underwent a mighty one-day shakeout. Instead, at the picturesque Keeneland track in the heart of the horse country, it was all Wild Syn. He was running in only his second stakes race, guided by a jockey who retired last year after a career filled with injuries and at least three comebacks and saddled by a 26-year-old trainer, Thomas Arnemann. Not only that ...

**Triple Dead Heat** - 1990 Arlington Park Allowance Race [00:39]
The horses hit the wire together...

Stourbridge Lion - 2013 Fair Grounds Maiden Race - Fourth Place Finish [01:29]
Stourbridge Lion crosses the wire in fourth...

The Thinker - 2013 Aqueduct Allowance Race - Sixth Place Finish [02:05]
The Thinker crosses the wire in sixth place..

Joyful Victory - 2013 Houston Ladies Classic - First Place Finish [03:54]
Fox Hill Farm's Joyful Victory takes them gate to wire in the Houston Ladies Classic..