Biomechanics and Buckpasser--spin off

[vineyridge]

He was another horse with an amazing stretch run. I saw him in one of his greatest races in NYC where he flattened and increased his stride length enormously. (I think it was the Suburban where he made up a huge amount of distance to and past Two Rings in a very short space. But might have been the Metropolitan. I'm too lazy right now to google it).

Any ideas on what his finishing stride length might have been. Gotta say that he flattened out and seemed to reduce his height by a good foot.

[Joltman]

could it have been the JC Gold cup?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUhp7BjoKGQ&NR=1

2 miles in those days...

jm

[vineyridge]

Back on the dirt, Buckpasser gave away twenty-two pounds to the Widener Handicap winner, Ring Twice, in the Suburban Handicap. The lightly weighted Ring Twice had a two length advantage just eighty yards from the wire, and in a dramatic end to his most spectacular stretch drive, Buckpasser leapt past Ring Twice to win by a half-length.

http://www.spiletta.com/UTHOF/buckpasser.html

Another story describing Buckpasser's way of going