Easy Goer Was Better than Sunday Silence

[westcoastinvader]

Originally Posted by letswastemoney

Great horses handle sloppy tracks. They do not need to carry their preferred track condition with them.

Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer 3 times fair and square. Easy Goer cannot say the same.

Wow, I'm even happier I bought that Preakness Sunday Silence-Easy Goer finish line photo with autographs by Pat Valenzuela and Pat Day this week.

Stuff like this might drive the price up!

......not selling though.

It has a spot reserved on my wall above the Zenyatta 2009 Breeders Cup finish line photo autographed by Mike Smith. And below the Genuine Risk Kentucky Derby finish line photo autographed by Jacinto Vasquez.

And "back and to the left" of my "Kentucky Tavern 1986 Derby Winner 'Ferdinand' mirror."


I bet on Easy Goer in The Derby and The Preakness. But I pulled like heck for Sunday Silence and bet a little on him at Belmont as he went for The Triple Crown.

I may not have won any of my wagers, but in the spirit of Lou Gehrig I feel like a winner.

In my case, just for paying attention at the time, and making a point to be there.

[Indian Charlie]

Easy Goer wins the Preakness if he doesn't try to rip SS's snout off during their stretch battle.

That series very easily should have been 2-2.

[westcoastinvader]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Easy Goer wins the Preakness if he doesn't try to rip SS's snout off during their stretch battle.

That series very easily should have been 2-2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tw09xHXUhI


It took more time than I expected, and the video was not ideal, but in the final strides, you are right!

Thanks, I had never noticed before.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by westcoastinvader

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tw09xHXUhI


It took more time than I expected, and the video was not ideal, but in the final strides, you are right!

Thanks, I had never noticed before.

I saw a blown up photo of this a long time ago, and it was much more telling than in this video.

[johnny pinwheel]

this is hilarious. now beating horses head to head somehow does not count. easy goer is better/faster than sunday silence even though he could not beat him on the track. i still remember the races, the preakness was the best. sunday silence was all guts and easy goer was used to jogging home. when they line the horse up against 5 scrubs and of course he can win by 20 lenghths. it reminds me of the horse that many on here claim to be so great. she wins by daylight against scrubs but against equals its a whole new ball game. thats how it goes in sports, if the competition is inferior it makes you look better than you really are. if you can't beat the best 3 out of 4 times, you probably are not better......wow.....logic. excuses do not count and winning against "set up" fields is no equalizer. why don't we replay the races and bet on them? i'll give you easy goer everytime.......lol

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Easy Goer wins the Preakness if he doesn't try to rip SS's snout off during their stretch battle.

That series very easily should have been 2-2.

There's a lot of what-ifs in that Preakness.

What if Sunday Silence wasn't shut off by Easy Goer at the 3/8s pole when making an advance on Houston?

What if Pat Day didn't make that early run that had him on the lead before the 1/4 pole?

[Slewbopper]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Easy Goer wins the Preakness if he doesn't try to rip SS's snout off during their stretch battle.

That series very easily should have been 2-2.

Yeah ....almost looked like "The Savage" part two.

[Slewbopper]

Originally Posted by westcoastinvader

And "back and to the left" of my "Kentucky Tavern 1986 Derby Winner 'Ferdinand' mirror."
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Wow!!! I have an '84 version of Kentucky Tavern with Swale. A friend who owned a liquor store back then gave it to me. Kind of chintzy bar wall type stuff, but I love it.

[westcoastinvader]

Originally Posted by Slewbopper

Wow!!! I have an '84 version of Kentucky Tavern with Swale. A friend who owned a liquor store back then gave it to me. Kind of chintzy bar wall type stuff, but I love it.

Chinty or not, I love bar wall stuff. Ferdinand's Kentucky Tavern Mirror is hung in the same grouping as the Kentucky Tavern Mirrors of Unbridled and Winning Colors.


All are to the left of Jean Cruguet autographed Belmont finish line photo with him aboard Seattle Slew. Slew's Preakness winner's circle photo is there, too. As is an obscure shot from the infield of Slew winning the Kentucky Derby with The Twin Spires in the background.

And to the right of the Slew photographs is a collage of real $2 tickets on Seattle Slew to win each race of his Triple Crown.




Changing paces, I was living in South Carolina when Woody Stephens with his South Carolina connections was dealing publicly with the passing of Swale.

[GenuineRisk]

I googled to see if I could find any photos showing Easy Goer's alleged attempted bite (no luck, though some article mentioned it) but I also found this neat article from 1989 on the naming of Sunday Silence:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/sp...in-a-name.html

The ending made me laugh.