Dayjur took a jump over a non-existent obstacle that took away his impetus just when he had the race won. Such a shame. A sad outcome for Willie Carson and trainer Major Dick Hern to have victory snatched away like that.
Mr. Nickerson was a horse from Parx (then Philadelphia Park) who was quite prolific and profitable. His trainer, Mark J. Reid, was one of the best in the nation at the time.
Retired jockey Craig Perret (born February 2, 1951) last April was voted to be inducted to The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Perret, 68, was North America's leading apprentice jockey by earnings in 1967 (prior to the Eclipse Awards) and won the 1990 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and in 1998 he received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. A native of New Orleans, Perret won 4,415 races in a career that spanned from 1967 to 2005. He won the Belmont Stakes in 1987 with Bet Twice, denying Alysheba the Triple Crown. Three years later, Perret won the Kentucky Derby with Unbridled. He won four Breeders' Cup races, including two editions of the Sprint (G1), as well as two runnings of both the Travers Stakes (G1) and Queen's Plate, among others. In 1994, Craig Perret was inducted into the Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame and in 2006 into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place at 10:30 a.m., next August 2 at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion. The event is open to the public and free to attend. Legendary racecaller Tom Durkin will serve as master of ceremonies. Congratulations Mister Perret! Best Regards from Venezuela.
Sure won every turf race last year except for the sprint, I should've had the last 2 but I was reaching for a long shot by then. I liked the O'Brien horse in the F &M turf, and the other Appleby in the Turf Classic. My pick Master Piece still hasn't won a race..
Suffice to say Oz cannot even win their own most famous race. Bob Gardiner is from Oz so knows nothing about top class races. Yes Oz has won half a dozen races in Europe but that is nothing when compared to UK`s record at the Breeders Cup. B.Gardiner, Bob Gardiner and B.Gardiner2000 is the same fake from Oz. His rudeness to women on youtube is breathtaking but that should not surprise anyone as he is from the world`s misogyny capital !
That's why she's in the H.O.F. and Dancing Spree doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. Both BC Sprint races she was amazing busting out of the gate. Nonetheless, she got beat here, a rare loss for her. In saying that though I did cash a nice ticket on the winner!
It was the track, back then they just got rid of their poly track and they decided that they were not going to moist the track. So that whole week the track was hard and dry. Very bad mistake with many sad loses. I'm happy they now made laws for moisturizing tracks in the US
What an absolute dick Goldberg is. Dayjur had the measure of his filly before jumping the shadow and relinquishing the lead. Best horse in the race was 2nd, no doubt about that.
Laughable that some idiot thinks Black Caviar would have beaten Dayjur. I have never seen a faster English sprinter. He was unlucky in this on his debut experience on "dog track". Black Caviar struggled to win on turf in the UK where she met better quality horses. Frankel could have won the mile & beaten her the same day!
Ïf the race had been twenty minutes earlier, or a half-hour later, that shadow wouldn't have been there. It was a one-in-a-million chance. It was a gift. Like looking down on the ground and finding a lotto ticket. But she (Safely Kept) earned it" Craig Perret, Safely Kept's jockey
I also don't recall Dayjur having to have the starting post next to him vacant because a naughty horse was drawn next to him & his record had to be protected ;-)
track record first up after 8 months off. Judging her on her Asoct run is tantamount to judging Frankel on his run in the SJP where things really didn't go his way. It's idiocy Owl. The quality of the opposition she beat in Australian sprinting is significantly better than the B grade European opposition. Star Witness, Ortensia, Soul and others point pretty clearly at this. Well, clear if you have a clue what you're looking at.
on the other hand WAS spelled after Futurity in March, so was a significantly fresher conveyance by the time he ran in the King Stand. Her Ascot run was a tourist stop, not serious racing. To judge her on that performance is ridiculous... as opposed to a race like the 2011 Newmarket, carrying 58Kg's & breaking a track record.. eased up the last 50m. Or the 2012 Lightning where she ran a 9.98 furlong to equal a 25 year old track record.. or the 2013 version where she broke that same track...
7F form, & if she wasn't injured, you could easily (but incorrectly) conclude it was a stamina issue. Remember she had been up for practically 12 months before she went to Ascot. Her first run that preparation was October 2011. Horses are not machines.. some travel better than others. Had she been spelled after the Lightning in February & then gone to Ascot no doubt you'd have seen a different horse. But you never know how well they have really done until you get them under race pace. Choisir...
bgardiner2000 safely kept my favorite of all time won future at Vegas and the track perfect rodr her out he won it dayjur shadow jump and petter got the money
She'll be judged by British race fans who wouldn't know any better Owl on her run in England. That's the harsh reality. People without the wherewithall to look beyond her Ascot run, or who choose to ignore some pretty obivous form markers point at it & exclaim that it supports their otherwise lame arguments. I'm sure though, that you're not one of these. No doubt, the track conditions & the nature of the course itself were probably tougher than she had come across before. & had she not any ...
I remember Choisir winning both Gr1's at Ascot that week and the travelling didn't take it out on him. Yes Black Caviar maybe fragile and maybe we didn't see her at her best at Ascot but she'll be forever judged on that performance here in England and thats the harsh reality. Shes clearly top class but I think I've seen better and thats just my personal opinion...
'' Ascot straight nearly killed her '' Was just layman's terms. I'd say her stamina was stretched at Ascot, And possibly the toughest track shes race on. I don't really buy in to the travelling theory, Yes some horses don't travel but she had more than enough time to climatise and get used to her new surroundings in England aswell as having the full week of prep whilst Ascot was on going...
run a sub-10s furlong the way she could. Dayjur would be a 1 horse race.. I'm pretty certain. Of course, this is speculative. But if you draw a form line through the best sprinters year in year out in Europe, & the degree by which the ANZ sprinters are better than they are, it stands to reason that a bench-mark European sprinter like Dayjur would be the best of a just above average year in ANZ... a bit like our middle distance horses when comparing them to the Europeans.
Hay List is more highley rated than any of the myriad of Australian sprinters who went to England and won Royal Ascot sprinters. He's rated more highly than Miss Andretti, Takeover Target, Starspangledbanner, Choisir & Scenic Blast. Dayjur's distance was obviously 5F... on even terms I think he'd have been too fast for Hay List. Over 6F the difference would have been diminished, but I would still give it to Dayjur on most occasions. Black Caviar though... as fast as he was he'd never have...
An idiot looking at her royal Ascot performance, claiming that was anywhere near the best she goes would conclude that. I can just imagine our SurpremeOwl joining in the chorus of indignation at the claims made of BC's injuries immediately after the race. Now that the injuries have been confirmed "the Ascot straight nearly killed her." And you're calling me deluded? Perhaps you need a lesson in form reading. Let me know if I can contribute in any way.
Are you deluded? Hay list would have beaten any sprinter to come out of Europe in the past 20 years? Hes just a punchbag for Black Caviar. Dayjur would have beaten him over 5 or 6 furlongs Im pretty certain...
Streets ahead? Unlikely, I'd love to have seen the two meet over 5 furlongs. Lets not forget the Ascot straight nearly killed her when she came over to Europe - I personally don't think she was all that. A good horse but nothing more...
'' I dont think the other horse (Dayjur) was going to go by '' What fucking race was this clown watching? Dayjur had the race won, He was going away from the filly and put in an Istabraq leap. How unlucky was Dayjur there, Sickening. The best sprinter I've ever seen from Europe
The american trainers, werent very sportsmanlike . Remember leroy jolley crowing over manilla, and saying dancing brave never beat anything of merit previously......
@@kRomani-gh4ws What about woody Stevens ordering ,Pat Day on forty niner to carry Winning Colors way out into the middle of the track, do everything bhe could to prevent her from winning the Preakness, just because he didn't believe a filly should run against the boys, She was never the same after that, ran one more good race( Breeders Cup distaff.)
So let me ask you some basic questions & see if you can answer them. Which horse had a better record? Which horse had a greater distance range? Which horse ran consistently faster times (not a great measure I know)? Which horse raced against the better opposition? These should be easy enough answers... but for someone who "is sure Mandurah is a wonderful horse," I'm not holding my breath.
do with anything? So what? What has any sprinter from the US done anywhere else in the world in recent history? I'll answer that for you muppet... not a lot. The Breeders Cup sprint would be an easy target for Australian sprinters if a) the timing of the BC series wasn't at odds with the Melb spring carnival & b) it wasn't run on dirt; which is rubbish for horses. You are unable to address anything I ask you so you resort to half-assed personal slights. It's a defense mechanism.
