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Harness Racing / Re: Balmoral
« Last post by Janny on Today at 11:39:19 AM »
Arsonnopolous
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Harness Racing / Re: Jailbird Jog is going to win a shitload of money
« Last post by Mazola on Today at 11:38:44 AM »
My trotter that I purchased out of the classified adds in NZ in 1978 was a 2yo Colt by Great Evander who was the top NZ stallion for years. He was a pacer who won as a 2yo, went to stud and left 90 percent trotters. I noticed all the top Great Evander's has the stallion Light Brigade in the mother's pedigree.  Petite Evander raced here and did great as well as 2 or 3 countries in Europe.

Light Brigade was one of the foundation trotting sires in New Zealand harness racing. He was imported from the United States and became enormously influential in the 1940s–1960s, especially through his daughters and grand-progeny. His bloodlines appear repeatedly in many of the great New Zealand trotters.

Light Brigade was a son of the famous American sire Volomite, and he helped inject more speed into New Zealand trotting bloodlines at a time when stamina and toughness were highly valued. His influence became especially important through broodmare lines rather than just direct sons.

My horse was inbred as his mother's Father was by Junior Royal by Fallacy by Light Brigade (Junior Royal was a pacer who was famous for dead heating with Cardigan Bay, the first millionaire standardbred. And his Mother's mother was also by Fallacy making half brother and half sister mating (Yikes)

I knew a well known trainer over there who also believed if you put a pacing bred stallion to a trotting mare, you would get more stamina and bred quite a few.

Anyway, My horse won 24 races there and was NZ trotter of the year two years in a row and he won most every feature they have over there and in one race he won over 2600 meters (1 mile 5/8) breaking the trotter's time by 4 full seconds and going faster than any pacer had gone. I believe he is the only trotter there to ever go faster than any pacer ever.

He was nothing to look at, was battle scarred from getting caught in fences before i got him and has 3 suspect legs including missing over a year with a broken splint bone (removed). I would have loved to have kept him a stud but he was not sound and the vet said just geld him which we did.

Funny story, when he came out to the farm to geld him, he gave him the anesthetic and he stood there and would not go down, He gave him a bit more, and nothing, then more and he finally went down. Before he could finish the horse woke up.

The vet said, This fucker must have a set of lungs and a heart in him, I have never had to give a horse that much ever and then for him to wake up.  He broke stride a lot and it took 10 starts for him to win a race He had a hitch in behind and would sometimes trot rough. When he went the world record he threw a hind shoe and was trotting rough coming around the home turn

Here is a race from 42 years ago, I am getting old, just turned 65 now but what a first horse to own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC7G9Y8g92w&t=201s


We took care of that guy, he was skin and bone when he came from the North Island to the South, he had hooves that had not been trimmed in months and had curbed hocks, bone splints (bone splints were famous form the Stallion Fallacy and he had that double strain which was the incest part.  I know when i got him he would be a project but we fixed him up and he did not race until a late 5yo but boy was it worth the wait.

He only got his maiden win in his 1st ever behind the gate in start 10. The secretary said he would not make the field and I said, we he just beat FFA pacers over a mile and a half from behind the gate in a workout. I said call up your friend at my home track and he will verify it. He got his start and won

Bottom line is I am a proponent of mixed gait breeding. Look at Googoo Gaagaa and his son Captain Corey

Great first horse experience! My first horse fell in his first start. No injuries though ngc3
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Harness Racing / Re: Beau's Sophomore Campaign
« Last post by Brown jug on Today at 11:37:02 AM »
not moores first rodeo
they will play it smart
if he starts in 3 legs of the oss gold and the final and wins them all that is about $350k cdn and they are glorified qualifiers with no shipping
and then he has the na cup in mid june at mohawk
after that likely the  meadowlands pace and breeders crown for sure and hopefully the lbj
beyond that there is the adios,cane.messenger, will see how many of those they enter
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Harness Racing / Re: Jailbird Jog is going to win a shitload of money
« Last post by Brown jug on Today at 11:30:50 AM »
she is a very very nice horse with lots of speed
one thing for sure, that $150 k is in the bank
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It was like 10 years ago i hope he’s still alive

Ridge Warren

I remember when they had a smoke out before IL banded smoking indoors

Ron marsh still smoked inside though and nobody said a word to him
between BoomBoom and his coke and your other hero RJ and his oxygen you've got some idols. Dregs of the Dregs.
The Sputnik trucking guy who leased some property there is crying and claiming he lost millions already. I swear these commie bastards are 10x worse than any Mexican or Guatemalan from the backside.
The place was falling apart.
Don't care uf it was set intentionally or if rats chewed thru Langley's still plugged in prostate massager, it's gone and not coming back ever.
Decatur is a pipedream that no one will visit.
Tinley Park was a,good spot but the guy who lost the primary for governor had shady pals and a dumbfuck partner in Tim Carey.
Drive down to Hoosier or wait for Springfield.
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Thoroughbred Racing / mondayaction
« Last post by talkstohisself on Today at 11:19:22 AM »
JT/ Bello lets go to the thumb(FL) were they give you the finger .. Have to spend my Preakness winnings! Had to work all day Sunday could not lose any $$
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Harness Racing / Re: Nick Surick
« Last post by Pacer 2 on Today at 10:37:35 AM »
If it’s common knowledge throw the beards name out there.

     tmbz1 tmbz1      They're just making up shit. I'm hearing he's not returning to racing.
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Harness Racing / Re: Noble not taking over Northfield as I thought
« Last post by Bitter Truth on Today at 10:16:30 AM »
For whatever reason, he's often not even there. Can't win if you're not there.
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Harness Racing / Re: Beau's Sophomore Campaign
« Last post by AgentQ on Today at 09:53:05 AM »
He will go undefeated racing against that pile of shit up there. And I suspect because he's had the easiest schedule since Beach, he might well be able to ship south a couple of times and be great on those days as well. It's not like yesteryear when every race would be contested and long travel was part of the deal.
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Harness Racing / Re: Jailbird Jog is going to win a shitload of money
« Last post by AgentQ on Today at 09:49:51 AM »
Just hold your beer! This is AMAC who has destroyed so many good horses. The man cannot drive cannot train but can burn millions of dollars. The clown show continues. Nice horse - just a matter of time before horse becomes Buggy material.

While he can be insufferable at times, lets be fair and give him some credit. Going forward, he would be wise to get Scotty or one of the top guys to do the driving.
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