What the hell just happened?!
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What the hell just happened?!
The little Bird won?!!
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karenkarenn
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Yay for Birdstone!
I gotta say; what a plain looking animal; cheap purchase price, moderate record, not much female family...but you can't give all the credit to Calvin...I saw that horse start his move way early. Really full of energy.
Where did this performance come from???
I gotta say; what a plain looking animal; cheap purchase price, moderate record, not much female family...but you can't give all the credit to Calvin...I saw that horse start his move way early. Really full of energy.
Where did this performance come from???
All shouting does is make you lose your voice.
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Let's review the facts:
1) a gelding sells for $9500 as a yearling.
2) this gelding goes on to win the Canadian Sovereign Award for 2yos.
3) he sells for $400,000 to owners who send him to Dick Mandella
4) Mandella can't get him to run, so they shuffle him off to NM.
5) The NM trainer has a record of one win in 32 starts. Gelding runs fourth in the sunland Park Derby
6) Someone gets the nutty idea to enter the Kentucky Derby, and everybody tells them they don't belong
7) Calvin Borel is free, so he takes the mount. The heavens open up and create an incredible inside bias for Bo-Rail.
Gelding wins the Derby, and trainer doesn't even crack a smile.
1) a gelding sells for $9500 as a yearling.
2) this gelding goes on to win the Canadian Sovereign Award for 2yos.
3) he sells for $400,000 to owners who send him to Dick Mandella
4) Mandella can't get him to run, so they shuffle him off to NM.
5) The NM trainer has a record of one win in 32 starts. Gelding runs fourth in the sunland Park Derby
6) Someone gets the nutty idea to enter the Kentucky Derby, and everybody tells them they don't belong
7) Calvin Borel is free, so he takes the mount. The heavens open up and create an incredible inside bias for Bo-Rail.
Gelding wins the Derby, and trainer doesn't even crack a smile.
"When I am on my deathbed, I imagine I will say, 'Thank God I did that'" - Arthur Hancock, on buying back Gato del Sol from Europe after Exceller was killed in a slaughterhouse in Sweden.
OMG! The New Mexico horse won it????
One word. Four letters. WOOT!
I was floored.
I was even more floored when I realized we know one of the owners, Dr. Blach of Buena Suerte Equine in Roswell, NM. Buena Suerte stands Bay Head King (who we've bred mares to) and So Long Birdie (Birdstone's half-brother). We just called to congratulate him, but got his voice mail. Probably because he was being interviewed on national TV at the time. LOL
Yes, Mine the Bird was totally overlooked, even by me. But even though he was racing here in the hinterlands, he was he 2YO Canadian Champion.
And I've been saying Birdstone was a far better horse than his race record indicated and that he's going to be a great sire. Maybe people won't laugh quite so loud at me now. They'll just chuckle quietly.
What a day.
Laurie
One word. Four letters. WOOT!
I was floored.
I was even more floored when I realized we know one of the owners, Dr. Blach of Buena Suerte Equine in Roswell, NM. Buena Suerte stands Bay Head King (who we've bred mares to) and So Long Birdie (Birdstone's half-brother). We just called to congratulate him, but got his voice mail. Probably because he was being interviewed on national TV at the time. LOL
Yes, Mine the Bird was totally overlooked, even by me. But even though he was racing here in the hinterlands, he was he 2YO Canadian Champion.
And I've been saying Birdstone was a far better horse than his race record indicated and that he's going to be a great sire. Maybe people won't laugh quite so loud at me now. They'll just chuckle quietly.
What a day.
Laurie
So many pedigrees...so little time. (C)
ZiaLand wrote:OMG! The New Mexico horse won it????
One word. Four letters. WOOT!
I was floored.
I was even more floored when I realized we know one of the owners, Dr. Blach of Buena Suerte Equine in Roswell, NM. Buena Suerte stands Bay Head King (who we've bred mares to) and So Long Birdie (Birdstone's half-brother). We just called to congratulate him, but got his voice mail. Probably because he was being interviewed on national TV at the time. LOL
Yes, Mine the Bird was totally overlooked, even by me. But even though he was racing here in the hinterlands, he was he 2YO Canadian Champion.
And I've been saying Birdstone was a far better horse than his race record indicated and that he's going to be a great sire. Maybe people won't laugh quite so loud at me now. They'll just chuckle quietly.
What a day.
Laurie
So you know the owner and don't have a piece of $103 to win? SHAME!!
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"When I am on my deathbed, I imagine I will say, 'Thank God I did that'" - Arthur Hancock, on buying back Gato del Sol from Europe after Exceller was killed in a slaughterhouse in Sweden.
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