A question on Easy Goer...

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I was on the third floor at Belmont for that Belmont Stakes. Those were very exciting times.

I can still remember Affirmed's win in the Jim Dandy. I was sitting around the sixteenth pole, and Sensitive Prince ( who may not have seemed like a killer then but I would venture a guess would be drooled over on internet boards should his likeness show up now ) had a FIVE length lead at the eighth pole, and Affirmed ran him down in what was his first start after the Belmont.

And, frankly, the recovery Alydar made in the subsequent Travers, regardless of what camp you are in as to whether or not he could run down Affirmed if they were eye to eye, was spectacular. Not quite as spectacular, as the decisive move Alydar made at the top of the stretch on the way to his seven length destruction of the Whitney field ( of which JO Tobin was a member ).

Man, THOSE were good racehorses.

You realize of course that as much as I live and have always loved this game, that mother****ers like you who got to see and UNDERSTAND and APPRECIATE Seattle Slew, Spectacular Bid, and Affirmed-Alydar make me extremely jealous.
I mean, I remember sitting alone in my grandparent's living room and watching Slew win the Belmont( I decided at age 8 that I liked the name Run Dusty Run and was rooting for him), but I coulkdn't appreciate it.
Of course it could be worse, instead of having seen the horses we mentioned on this thread in the 80's and 90's, I could be worshipping at the altar of Discreet cat and Bernadini rather than Holy Bull and Alysheba and Skip Away and EG-SS. And I suppose you are jealous of those who got to see the stars of the 60's and early 70's.