2000 Champagne Stakes Grade I [01:45]
much talent, and the way he is coming along, this is an unbelievable horse," he said. "I think if he would have been in the clear, he would have won by six." The Champagne was AP Valentine's third start and his first appearance in stakes company. Third in his first career start at Saratoga Race Course on September 4, he won a Belmont maiden-special-weight race on September 23 before his Champagne start. Out of the Alydar mare Twenty Eight Carat, AP Valentine was bred in Kentucky by the ...
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Thomas Got Even - 2009 Belmont Maiden Race [04:04]
Thomas Got Even, the son of Stephen Got Even out of Tomisue's Pleasure by Seeking The Gold easily breaks his maiden at first asking.. ... belmont park horse racing tom durkin thomas got even nick zito jose lezcano
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2000 Dwyer Stakes [02:25]
were fortunate enough to get the outside post and he broke so well. He went slow the first quarter, then extremely fast the second quarter, and I think that's where he won the race. I wanted Richie to stay off the fence because it was a little dead." "Commendable came to me on the outside, but we pushed it out a notch," Migliore said. "More Than Ready came up inside of us and my horse just took off." "Obviously the winner came over on More Than Ready, but he didn't make contact and he was ...
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1994 Wood Memorial Grade I [02:35]
answered with a big move of his own, pulling away in the stretch at the quarter pole and holding off Go for Gin under strong urging from Stevens. "Jerry came up and wanted to turn it into a quarter-mile sprint," said Stevens. "When I called, Irgun responded. I hit this colt three times -- he had never been hit before -- and he still had a little something left." At the finish of the mile and an eighth race, Irgun was clearly the best, covering the course that had started the day listed ...
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1999 Remsen Stakes [02:24]
the first time in seven and a half weeks and closed a remarkably successful year. He won three of five starts with a major score in the Champagne Stakes and a close second in the Belmont Futurity. He ran the mile and an eighth yesterday under Jean-Luc Samyn in 1:50 3/5, paid $4.10 for a $2 bet to win and earned $120000 of the $200000 purse. He raced at the back of the pack for most of the route, then circled six wide into the stretch and caught Un Fino Vino by a head in the final stride, ...
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