Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

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Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby geowarrior » Mon Apr 25, 2016 1:51 pm

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/211092/smoke-glacken-euthanized-at-age-22

Very sorry to hear this. I loved Smoke Glacken and his offspring.

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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby Shergar » Mon Apr 25, 2016 7:11 pm

A sad day as I really liked that old boy. I guess you could call him a real blue collar sire. He probably wasn't going to give you a classic horse, but his progeny went out and ran hard and often, picking up a lot of checks for their owners.

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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby Cree » Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:33 am

How sad, I was a huge fan of Smoke Glacken, he sired some tough, fast horses. Some of my favourites were Carthage, Delaunay, and On Fire Baby.

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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby geowarrior » Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:10 pm

Cree wrote:How sad, I was a huge fan of Smoke Glacken, he sired some tough, fast horses. Some of my favourites were Carthage, Delaunay, and On Fire Baby.


Loved all of those, and don't forget Read The Footnotes and Pink Viper.

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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby Mahubah » Fri May 06, 2016 8:41 am

http://www.americanclassicpedigrees.com/smoke-glacken.html

Question: Does anyone know the significance of his name, if any? Glacken is a surname found in the United States, so I'm wondering if he was named after a member of that family whose nickname was "Smoke." Just speculation on my part.
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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby Sylvie Hebert » Mon May 08, 2017 5:06 pm

[quote="Shergar"]A sad day as I really liked that old boy. I guess you could call him a real blue collar sire. He probably wasn't going to give you a classic horse, but his progeny went out and ran hard and often, picking up a lot of checks for their owners.

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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby rudydee » Fri May 12, 2017 5:54 pm

Mahubah-

I bred a mare to Smoke Glacken years ago. So I read and researched everything Smoke Glacken.
As I recall, Smoke Glacken was a real person. He was a boiler/furnace repair man or maker of boilers/furnaces.
Sorry I could not be more helpful.

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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby perryT200 » Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:34 pm

just talked about this tonight. My associates farrier owns this one. apparently if cracked a bone and he is thinking about using it as a stud.

http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Result ... y=T&rbt=TB

I don't know anything about SMOKE GLACKEN, this was just info if interested.

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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby Tappiano » Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:27 pm

That horse is a slow, low level claimer. Why would you want to breed to him? Are you looking to breed to race or breed to sell?

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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby perryT200 » Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:37 pm

Oh god no. That horse isn't mine, I don't want to breed him and the more I learn about horses the less i know.

I was just at my friends barn while they were shoeing some horses and the farrier said he had it. Saw the post the same night and put the information out there.

Farrier had some story about how it should have run better but it cracked some bone and they didn't realize it, yada yada.

I'm in the information business and just put out some info I had just heard. Please don't blame me if it is a bad horse, I'm not smart enough to know the difference.

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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby Jeff » Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:21 pm

R.I.P. Smoke Glacken

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Re: Smoke Glacken Euthanized at 22

Postby geowarrior » Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:03 pm

Funny how we are still remembering him three years on, while so many others are forgotten.