1990 Pimlico Special - Criminal Type : ABC Broadcast
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- Criminal Type scored a far-reaching victory in the Pimlico Special Saturday. The 5-year-old son of Alydar ran the fastest 1 3/16 miles in Pimlico history, sent his trainer, Wayne Lukas, over the $100-million mark in career purses and exposed a story about how fine the line is between being a hero and a heel as a jockey's agent.
Under Jose Santos, who was riding him for the first time, Criminal Type shadowed Ruhlmann all the way around, edged past him with about 50 yards left and won by a neck in the first $1-million race ever run in Maryland. Ruhlmann, the second betting choice at 2-1, finished 1 1/4 lengths ahead of De Roche, a 34-1 shot who finished 1 1/2 lengths in front of Mi Selecto.
Opening Verse, made the 3-2 favorite by a crowd of 15,850 on a cool, overcast day, flattened out in the stretch and wound up fifth, beaten by about 3 1/4 lengths. Wind Splitter finished sixth, and after him in the 10-horse field came Silver Survivor, Gorgeous, With Approval and Music Merci.
Criminal Type's time was 1:53, breaking by a fifth of a second the record that Blushing John set in winning the Special last year. The Special is the same distance as the Preakness, which will be run here next Saturday, and the fastest Preakness times have been Secretariat's unofficial 1:53 2/5 clocking in 1973 and Tank's Prospect's matching time in 1985.
Criminal Type was the fourth betting choice and paid $17.40, $6.80 and $5.20. Ruhlmann paid $4.80 and $4.60, and De Roche's show price was $10.20. A $2 exacta on the first two finishers was worth $74.80 and a $3 triple on the first three horses paid $1,965.60.
Lukas, who moved from the quarter-horse business to thoroughbreds in 1978, passed Charlie Whittingham in 1988 to become No. 1 on the career purse list. Lukas needed about $300,000 to hit the $100-million mark Saturday, and Criminal Type's victory was worth $600,000. The Lukas organization has led the country in purses for seven consecutive years, setting the one-year record in 1988 with $17.8 million.
After the Special, Lukas explained how Santos, one of his regular jockeys, wound up on Criminal Type.
When Lukas spoke with Angel Cordero's agent, Drew Mollica, about riding the horse Saturday, Mollica said that his jockey had a conflict in New York. Lukas then called another agent, Frank Sanabria, and signed Santos.
An hour later, Mollica called Lukas and said he had been looking at the wrong date, that Cordero would be available on Criminal Type.
"I've already given the call to Santos," Lukas told Mollica. "If you can get him and his agent to back off, you can have the mount."
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Jim was a Treasure.
Amazing & Extraordinary.
Thanks for the post, what an excellent field. I like the video's that have the pre-race coverags features as well. They dont produce them the way they used to.
Criminal Type was a great horse for a short period of time! HOY...
Blushing John, same racing silks you would see on Cigar
I was in the enclosed grandstand that day with such high hopes for the future of racing in MD. It was a short-time bubble, and then.... poof.... Funny to hear McKay say "Edgar Prado, a fine local jockey"!!!!
Lots of great jockeys were part of the MD jockey colony. Prado, Chris McCarron, Kent Desormeaux, too many to mention.
This was the race in which Criminal Type became a Horse of the Year candidate. Lukas knew Criminal Type had to be asked for more early speed to stay within range of Ruhlmann early and then grind him down late. The same tactics would be employed against Housebuster in the Met Mile.
What happened to this race I think it down to grade 3 ? Racing is nothing like before
No good older horses! They all retire!
They ruined it for us fans forcing everything on Preakness weekend. We ALWAYS went to this race when it was separated. In my day it was a week before. Things were still nice and calm then. I do not want to fight the Preakness build-up, though.
It's all about drug them, get them on the track before they expire, and then breed them. Almost no top colts stick around till four.
It seems like that was even a complaint one heard in 1990. But in retrospect and comparison to the present, a gr1 field of older horses like this 1990’Pimlico Special looks like a clash of hardened a track proven veterans of a thousand battles. Criminal Trpe and Ruhlmann, meeting for the 4th of their 5 clashes this year. Both were 5 year olds. Opening Verse, who by this time had proven himself a Euro group turf contender and an American gr 1 dirt horse at the age of 4, would have his greatest moment on the track the following year when he won the Breeders Cup Mile(turf). Mi Selecto was inconsistent but won some big races. De Roche was unbelievably consistent but never got gr.1 glory that he was so often so close to. Music Merci was revitalize his career as a sprinter and competed in the 93 BC Sprint. Silver Survivor would be an institution of Mid-Atlantic racing.
And this is in a year in which all time greats Sunday Silence and Easy Goer were brought back to race at 4. In fact, Criminal Type would return 16 days late in the Met Mile and defeat not just Easy Goer but a great 2nd Hall of Famer, Housebuster, and then 4 weeks after that outduel Sunday Silence in an epic edition of the Hollywood Gold Cup, which in 1990 was a grade 1 worth $1million. As of 2024, it is now a grade 2 worth one-fifth that amount.
@@jordanmiller3550 so true. Today horse racing is getting boring and no one race behind their 3 year old season.