Evening Attire

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by Buffymommy

As I read the article I actually had tears in my eyes...

GO EA!!!!

Maybe he felt like the horse racing community needed another hero and he was telling us "HERE I AM!"

Come on now Buffy. He is old and still very competitive. I like the horse and I wish him nothing but the best in the future.....but tears in your eyes? A hero for the horse racing community? I think that might be a bit over the top. He is old but is still physically able to compete, and still seems to enjoy racing. That makes it a cool story, but it would take a bit more than that to bring tears to my eyes.....like a swift kick to the groin.

[horseofcourse]

Incredible looking at his past performances. The one that caught my eye was the 2002 Excelsior. He rocketed to the lead and led by 5 at the 2nd call. Of 63 career races....he never did it before and never did it after. Makes me wonder what was going on that day?? Especially coming in off 3 straight wins from mid pack. I'd love to hear the story behind that one as right after that he was back of the pack every single race.

Incredibly nice horse and quite the 9 year old season racing 12 times and never finishing worse than 4th in any race. The 9 month break sure served him well this year. He deserves any attention he gets.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Come on now Buffy. He is old and still very competitive. I like the horse and I wish him nothing but the best in the future.....but tears in your eyes? A hero for the horse racing community? I think that might be a bit over the top. He is old but is still physically able to compete, and still seems to enjoy racing. That makes it a cool story, but it would take a bit more than that to bring tears to my eyes.....like a swift kick to the groin.

I take it you don't get out much. Hell, that is a tearjerker and a half compared to most of the $h!t women cry about.

[Buffymommy]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Come on now Buffy. He is old and still very competitive. I like the horse and I wish him nothing but the best in the future.....but tears in your eyes? A hero for the horse racing community? I think that might be a bit over the top. He is old but is still physically able to compete, and still seems to enjoy racing. That makes it a cool story, but it would take a bit more than that to bring tears to my eyes.....like a swift kick to the groin.

As someone who thought she was going to lose her horse for the past month, it made me feel good to see this horse do well. Call me a sentimental female, I don't care. I can give ya that kick in the groin if ya want...

And what I meant by a hero was that he(EA) wanted the world to take notice of him. A horse who in this sport is still competing at his age and being competitive at that.

[SentToStud]

I say give credit where due.

If it weren't for Barcola's generosity (not to mention his cyber-trashing of my otherwise winning, Barcola-singled p-4 ticket), none of this would be happening.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by Buffymommy

I can give ya that kick in the groin if ya want....

lol...Fair enough.
As someone that hangs a Sunday Silence ornament on the Christmas tree each year, perhaps I have little room to criticize other peoples' sentimentality regarding horses.

[Buffymommy]

Originally Posted by miraja2

lol...Fair enough.
As someone that hangs a Sunday Silence ornament on the Christmas tree each year, perhaps I have little room to criticize other peoples' sentimentality regarding horses.

Watch out. I have very strong legs!

I hang Secretariat on my tree.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by miraja2

lol...Fair enough.
As someone that hangs a Sunday Silence ornament on the Christmas tree each year, perhaps I have little room to criticize other peoples' sentimentality regarding horses.

See items 3-9:

http://www.breyerhorses.com/products...breed&start=21

[my miss storm cat]

Nice piece on the old guy.....

http://www.drf.com/news/article/91613.html

Good luck!

[Holland Hacker]

Noticed he was nominated to to Laurel Sprint Festival this weekend.

[Norfolk]

We will enter him in the Stymie on March 1 if NYRA is open