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12-19-2007, 06:57 AM
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Widely acknowledged at Calumet as the best horse they ever bred.. including Citation. Set a 9f FL Derby stakes (and track) record that stood for 40+ years.. Split 4 decisions with Bold Ruler and would have gone off favored in the famed '57 Derby but scratched with a hoof bruise Friday. Developed the wobbles at 4 and had to be put down. One of the greatest tragedies in racing history. 
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12-19-2007, 03:23 PM
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Curlin and Hard Spun finish 1,2 in the 2007 BC Classic, demonstrating how competing in all three Triple Crown races ruins a horse for the rest of the year...see avatar photo from REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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12-21-2007, 09:07 AM
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12-21-2007, 09:34 AM
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AP Indy is the one that seems obvious from the last 20 years or so.
How about Silverbulletday? I think she was faster than that crop of colts in the spring of 1999, and she dominated the Oaks in a faster 9f than the boys ran the next day.
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12-21-2007, 08:11 PM
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12-22-2007, 07:30 AM
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Hoist the Flag, of course - beat the same horses who were winning other preps, by daylight and with glee. And with him out, Good Behaving, who beat the same horses in the Wood and Gotham. But Good Behaving wasn't Derby nominated and no supplements in those days.
Buckpasser out with quarter cracks; Derby went to Kauai King??? who couldn't finish in the same furlong with the champion. The Derby scenario would have been hard on Dr. Fager, like the famous Woodward where he was run into the ground by a rabbit. The Good Doctor wasn't a natural 10f horse; he won at the distance on his class. One who ran in the Derby and should have won was Blue Larkspur. The track came up muddy but BL's trainer had gone to the hospital with appendicitis and nobody in the stable felt they had the authority to get him shod with mudcaulks. Slipped and slided to fourth.
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12-22-2007, 07:34 AM
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