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![]() Filthy damn unraced-maiden races. The absolute sewer portion of the sport.
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![]() Manning pulled one of these a few years ago. Not 30-1, but I remember something like this....Maybe it was the same year Gil had trainers sawing horses legs off.
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That was that Grand horse that won the Pennsylvania Derby and was sold to Godolphin. These guys won with TWO firsters and another claimer putover. |
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![]() Grande Hombre....won his debut at GP by 4 lengths, at 14/1 odds for Manning--in very fast time....just about everything behind him came back to win their next start.
For a trivia, name the 4th place finisher in that MSW race? Hint: he reeled off 5 straight wins, including the Dwyer and Jim Dandy after that maiden loss |
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![]() Strong Hope.
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![]() Joe What?
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![]() correct on Strong Hope.
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Man, one of my favorite scores of all time was an unraced filly out of Nashua that went off at around 20-1 in the 3rd race at Hialeah back in about 1979. Maidens, and a short race. Something else I liked about her besides the Nashua-filly connection. It might have been the jockey. In those days, if a jockey by the name of Wayne Crews was on a horse in a short race, the horse ALWAYS deserved a 2nd and 3rd look. Crews came up on the quarter horse tracks and with little notice was the best "gate jockey" in South Florida in those days. A perfect storm of wagering in those spring days of south Florida.....pre wagering technology. Anyhow, I had some nice dog track trifecta $$ from the night before, and ended up with a wild $200 on the nose bet on the Nashua filly. She won of course. Otherwise I wouldn't remember this story 28 years later! I went and bought a good bottle of liquor with my proceeds, and spent the next three days with the prettiest girl I knew in Fort Lauderdale at the time. She was a solid favorite. We ordered in quite a bit that weekend. |