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What’s really amazing is Calidoscopio is ten years old. That’s really old for a Thoroughbred to still be racing. I’m assuming he’s a gelding.
Thanks for posting. That is simply amazing.
Great finish.
Another incredible closer was Silky Sullivan.
From Wikipedia:
There were other great closers—Whirlaway, Stymie, Needles, Gallant Man, Carry Back, Forego, John Henry and Zenyatta—but none could hang so far back, let the field get so far ahead, and still win. Called the “California Comet” and often ridden by the Hall of Fame jockey Willie Shoemaker, Silky once allowed the field to get 41 lengths in front of him and still won by three lengths. To accomplish this, he ran the last quarter in 22 seconds. His trainer, West Coast veteran Reggie Cornell, said “I’ve never seen a horse in my >life, or heard of one either, go faster.”
TurboHorse!
When I clicked on the video arrow, the screen went blank/light blue. What happened? Why can’t I watch the race?
My 8 year old gelding runs like that, he hates the mud in his face so will fall back and then go to the outside, he’s never been that far behind! That was awesome, nice horse!
You’re thinking “Brooklyn huh”? “Stunning upset huh”? But then you see the race and understand that NOBODY would or could hold it back to that extent and THEN charge.
I wonder what his speed was. To catch an entire field, from 30 lengths back, in just a third of the track, when the field is racing their best... remarkable. AND the horse is an old man.
For those having video problems, I think it’s the file or the page. Mine was very laggy, even after restarting the laptop, closing all other windows, and running it in Firefox.
“Amazing” is a good word for this.
Thanks for posting.
[snip] The Argentina-bred bay horse is the first 10-year-old in history to win a graded stakes race on dirt. [/snip]
http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/9354076/deep-closing-calidoscopio-captures-brooklyn
Sloppy track — his faddah was a mudder, his mudder was a mudder.
What a race!
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