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1/4 Pole
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Post subject: The Undefeated COLIN's 1908 Belmont Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:21 am |
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Owner James Keene was the same Keene that built a racetrack on his farm and called it Keeneland. FAIR PLAY, who brawled COLIN a few times was the sire of MAN O'WAR. I knew some old fart railrats when I was young who saw COLIN race and they agreed that he was the best ever. http://www.colinsghost.org/2008/06/coli ... -1908.html
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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bigbird914
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Post subject: Re: The Undefeated COLIN's 1908 Belmont Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:42 am |
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Damn nag, broke down after a workout, A WORKOUT!!!! What a Pansy. Couldn't even handle the "rigors" of a morning jog. Yeah, they sure were more sturdy back then too Larry.
_________________ Four things you can't recover: The stone..... after the throw, The word...... after it's said, The occasion..... after it's missed, The time..... after it's gone.
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1/4 Pole
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Post subject: Re: The Undefeated COLIN's 1908 Belmont Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:51 am |
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That 10-furlong work tab was faster than any Kentucky Derby ever run.
I can't remember the last time I saw or ever saw a horse work that far while being timed.
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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buzz
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Post subject: Re: The Undefeated COLIN's 1908 Belmont Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:48 pm |
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Joined: Tue May 19, 2009 1:20 pm Posts: 173
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1/4 Pole wrote: That 10-furlong work tab was faster than any Kentucky Derby ever run.
I can't remember the last time I saw or ever saw a horse work that far while being timed. Me neither, yet amazingly enough, in today's Brooklyn, Delosvientos, had a 10F work. I think it was in 2:12. very odd.
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1/4 Pole
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Post subject: Re: The Undefeated COLIN's 1908 Belmont Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:30 pm |
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The 1941 Triple Crown winner WHIRLAWAY got second in the Derby Trial just a few days before the big race.
On the morning of the Derby (in which he set a record that lasted three deacdes) WHIRLAWAY smoked a 48 flat work tab so that trainer Ben Jones could figure out if he was tired and worn out from the Derby Trial.
Like Ed Arcaro said, "That horse hated people and kicked and bit the people that brought him food and water. But he slept with a cat with one ear, a chicken, and a goat. One time Ben Jones went to his stall and he was flat resting out with the chicken sound asleep on his withers."
No more loony great horses are around.
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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