Doing a marvelous impression of great-grandpa, No Nukes!! Specifically his last-to-first win of the 82’ Meadowlands Pace (but Tricky Styx won by a MUCH much larger margin…with a lot of gas still left in the tank). Chef’s kiss 🎉
Magnifique winner Magnifique course, Depuis OZO, 1963, J'ai connu des Champions, Quelques Cracks, Une de Mai, BELLINO 2, ROQUEPINE, IDÉAL DU GAZEAU, J' AIME LES COURSES US.
Another one of Kelvin Harrison’s horses, winning the $2 million Woodrow Wilson pace for two year olds at the Meadowlands racetrack. I could watch this 50 times and I still can’t believe he got up. Not only did he have to win that photo, but we had to survive an inquiry that night. Check this race out, he left hard and he had enough gas in the tank in the late stretch and somehow, and I still don’t know how, he did get up and win the race. I was leaning so far watching this race I almost fell over. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qm3FFAhflLg.htmlsi=MWNHEqRZndIIZZxw
Here is a great cool by Roger Houston, direct flight winning the adios for trainer Kelvin Harrison with John Campbell in the bike. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pTl5RDspI9A.htmlsi=dlEhFTokqgE-FZat
As a horse person this has got to the the most absurd and wasteful horse sport I’ve possibly ever seen. And trust me I don’t like any of the sports, but this one is just ridiculous. This is another level of stupid.
Having been interested in the sport since the 1970's the greatest finish in my opinion was by Lord Module in the Allan Matson Free For All 1981 at Addington, he showed unbelievable speed in the closing stages finishing like a tornado after being last at the top of the straight. He rolled a grand circuit standard field, including Gammalite and many other top notch horses. Can be viewed on youtube. Lord Module was one of the most brilliant pacers but also incredibly temperamental, risky proposition to bet on. A complete enigma.
@@midnightrambler6018 that's exaggeration, he won a heat and was placed in heats during interdominion series at Harold Park in 1980 but failed in the final after going for an extended gallop at the start. Which was bound to happen. Cec Devine would have probably held his breath whenever Lord Module started from a standing start.
The greatest race finish was Rev Your Engine coming from last to go head to head with race leader Angels Shadow in the 1986 Gold Cup and Saucer at the Charlottetown Driving Park in Charlottetown P.E.I. Canada. The race was contested on an extremely sloppy track as rain fell through the whole evening and both horses battled back and forth right to the finish line They were two very strong contenders and were both champions that night.
nice win, but the best finish ever, no. Hell A7863 won parked out the whole mile for a new lifetime mark and do not consider that the best finish ever and he was my horse.
Tricky Styx isn't even in the database of all horses. I've seen races at Orangeville raceway where horses make up almost one hundred lengths after a break to win races. I've seen it numerous times with William "Budd" Fritz. He brings out a maiden very well bred and runs it against glue factory horses and the horse breaks in his/her maiden then comes back on to make up about 90 lengths and win by about 10 lengths.
We had a horse a few years ago (early 80s) in Summerside Prince Edward Island that was sitting 5th at the 7/8 pole, driver took her 4 wide halfway up the home stretch and touched her once, he said her butt literally dropped 6 inches digging in, she won by half a length. He told us after that it was the fastest he'd ever came home, lol. We thought he was trying to make us feel better about the win but he left the tack room three times after the race to go out and pet that little black mare of ours. Dad always trained our horses to finish strong and she was quick on her feet.
I think you’re pretty much right on this. Best Finnish ever? Yeah I guess if I had $1000 on him and $500 on the exact day and a $100 trifecta I would say that.
a true harness racing fan understands why this video has (currently) 165 dislikes and only 271 likes. The title is ridiculous as the poster never saw a harness race before? SMH.
not even remarkable. anyone who thinks this is a great finish NEVER saw IDEAL DU GAZEAU do this same thing with regularity. year after year. against the greatest trotters on the planet. denmark, sweden, france, new york, the meadowlands. wherever the very best trotters congregated.. he smushed 'em. won the roosevelt international 4 times, sick one year, otherwise it would have been FIVE. sit on the outside the entire mile, 1 1/4 miles, 1 1/2 miles, made no difference.. grind you into a steaming hot pile of corned beef hash. and make you like it. with a barely competent driver, who was always a half hour late coming out under other horses, yet never got taken down . IDEAL DU GAZEAU. see for yourself. watch him right here on youtube
I've seen that at the B tracks like Orangeville where William "Bud" Fritz spotted the field at a guess about 110 lengths. It was a 2 year old maiden colt running against 3 year old pigs in Orangeville after a break at the start. He won by 24 lengths after spotting the field about 85 lengths.
