Posted on 06/09/2021 6:49:31 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Heck, I didn’t even know which one came in second.
I fully admit I don’t know much about racing and only a little about riding (enough that I could saddle a horse and ride it from point A to point B if I was called on to do it) but I do find horses interesting.
Never been to a horse race, but want to go and stand down near the track when they go by...:)
The movie was a charade. They portrayed The Meadow as somehow 'broke' the very year after Riva had won 2yo champion, and even wiki still repeats this bs.
The Meadow was extended into young bloodstock but not 'broke', given RR was already worth, well, he syndicated for $5M and Big Red only went for $6M, after '73, but Bull had already let it be known Claiborne was buying RR in the real-time chronology when Disney alleged The Meadows were 'broke'.
The movie also would have been better served to portray the adulterous affair between Miss Penny and Lucien Laurin. LOL at Malkovich climbing on top of Diane Lane.
I loved the negative review that revealed Disney's 'interference' to force the "Oh Happy Day" horse bath scene to Disney-fy the horseshit, Iger -- not a bad guy -- loved it so much he insisted that it become the movie's theme.
I didn’t mean I thought the movie was good history. Just pretty good for the subject matter of racing. We don’t get many at all, ever, even when racing was hugely popular (Ilove old movies too).
Just the fact they left Riva out of it tells you how wrong it would be!
But it was pretty good fun. Except that ridiculous hippie crap.
Nice. What a great memory to have.
Secretariat at Belmont and USA hockey v Russia at Lake Placid. Sports doesn’t get any better than that.
Poor Sham was also in that race running at a world record pace until he broke a bone trying to keep up.
The original Blue Boy is on display up at the Huntington, in San Marino next to Pasadena. Dunno about Man O’ War.
Sham did not injure himself in the Belmont. At least, he did not have any discernible problem and kept training. In the summer he was found to have a cannon fracture and retired.
I’ll defer to you on that, I was working off of always dubious wikipedia. But it did reference a piece you will probably enjoy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180617222643/http://www.firstandmonday.com/a-crying-sham/
I did an art school project last summer Ole Miss for elective on Tom Gainesborough versus Sir Josh Reynolds
Tough call
One a better painter
The other more successful and prolific
Living across the Potomac from DC meant that every year I and my fellow elementary school savages would get carted over to the National Art Gallery to be subjected to great art. I was immune their blandishments. I mean I do like Vermeer and Escher and a few other artists but I'm mostly a philistine.
I like traditional reproductive art as opposed to modern abstract art....I end with Impressionism...pretty much but not completely
I also enjoy illustrators like Russell and Remington or TH Benton
Some modern I do like......
Picasso
Matisse
Villon
Mondrian
Bonnard
Kandinsky...excellent
Native American southwest works
RC Gorman
Terpning
Frank Howell
Then there is Vermeer...prolly my favorite
I used to publish art....
That horse is a GOAT.
that list has a lot of my favorites on it.
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