Ive watched horse racing since 1988, and to this day, its the best horse race Ive ever seen. Both Sunday Silence and Easy Goer were Hall of Fame horses, and man, did they live up to the hype in this race. P.S. I was 13 years old when this race happened and I had a monstrous four bucks to win on Sunday Silence. God im good, and thanks dad for betting for me. I miss you.
Wish Dave Johnson and Charlsie Canty were still calling the races. NBC has run it into the ditch with controversial political statements and celebrity interviews nobody gives a damn about.
It was good but I thought Trevor Denman's call was better, for one because he called SS the winner at the finish line instead of pretending it wasn't obvious who won like Johnson did. ua-cam.com/video/VJjJphmr10s/v-deo.html
Sorry for my poor English When I know Sunday Silence ,he is already dead.But now I can see him as a racing horse so fast so strong😭 Thanx USA🇺🇸！ By one of Japanese horse racing fan
What a race between two greats. "In a duel for the ages, two greats joined battle, they bounded cheek by jowl to the wire. While picking up another cross on his reins, jockey Pat Day appeared to grab too much right line canting Easy Goer's head to the right, & in the end perhaps costing him the race by the flare of a nostril."-Bill Nack. "The two greats even changed leads in unison. They ran side by side, head to head, so close together they were brushing again & again, with Easy Goer also brushing the rail, & dangerously close to it. A jewel of a duel by a snout."-SI
My Grandfather loved going out to bet the Ponies at Churchill Downs. He passed in the early hours on a Sunday Jan. 29, 1989. At our Derby Party everyone just knew Sunday Silence was gonna be the horse to beat. That will always be one of my favorite Derby horses of all time.
"Easy Goer met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME. Easy Goer and SS were inches apart but miles ahead of their contemporaries. In the absence of either, each probably would have been a dominant Triple Crown winner with only history as a benchmark. Instead, each proved each others greatness."
+Travis West Cut and paste yourself and use "west" much in many different youtube accounts and usernames?..lol......Let's see, you are "Travis West", "way2goutwest", "Sross west", "Westboundkennels" and "westbound" all wrapped in one!! Any more "west" accounts and usernames that you use and cut and paste yourself? lol
+Travis West Lol. You responded to me. You call a person who sees you cut and paste the same comments with your numerous "west" username accounts a stalker? Perhaps you are a stalker, as well as a person who also cuts and pastes the same comments with your many "west" username accounts. What is a person who does this called? Why are you now deleting your comments?
Travis West Means as much or as little as all the scoreboards always reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; and an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed s.s; like heart-filled drug-free wheat separating from heart-less drugged chaff, the heart-filled drug-free cream rose to the top. Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant and corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant s.s. got exposed badly and romped when he was forced to run drug-less with no-drugs at all. The great drug-free Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer showed the world how to obliterate the drug-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a champion is running and winning drug-less without any performance enhancing drugs; and during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York didn't allow the magic man corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian of s.s. Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally doping/juicing an endless amount of horses] to perform his magic and juice the drug-reliant and magic man corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant s.s. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [and the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-dependent horses like s.s.; and these horses, like s.s. and many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-less with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-less races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-less no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play and complete fairness for all. The drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the better horse than the drug-reliant and corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant s.s. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant s.s., s.s. needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him and still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f and 12f drug-free with much less time and rest between races and running many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures and performance ratings; while the drug-reliant s.s. only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs and much more time and rest between races and running far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to s.s. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to tell Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form how he illegally gave numerous horses (including Clenbuterol to SS) illegal drugs. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED illegally breaking the laws in enhancing his horses performances. In DRF articles in recent years & in the last few years of his life, SSilence's vet Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing bronchodilator clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's 15 years before it was approved by the FDA on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. SS's vet Alex Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it to Sunday Silence, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) and Sublimaze. The drugs Etorphine and Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria and well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of controlled drugs, such as the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol, powerful steroids, loop diuretics, extremely powerful painkillers & very strong amphetamines, etc. Alex Harthill & raceday performance enhancing drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in North American racing. Harthill was at the vanguard of giving drugs to horses that were used to vastly enhance their performances, & they were remarkably effective turning good horses into great horses, bad horses into good horses, slower horses into faster horses, horses with no business winning doing so, & causing horses to run far over their heads. Harthill was a vet who had stolen a 30 length lead in the race to discover drugs that would significantly move up racehorses, & Harthill had no hesitancy in using whatever was available. Harthill was a magic man vet practicing the dark arts of racehorse manipulation. Harthill was arrested many times (Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, NY,etc) for tampering, bribery & doping horses with drugs. The drugs were & are so potent that their use or nonuse dramatically alters horse's performances (including SS). Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history." Besides Harthill admitting it to the DRF, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities.
I am so sick of these debates and people putting Sunday down or saying he only beat Easy Goer because of jockey errors (REALLY?), he beat Easy Goer 3 out of 4 times, on different tracks, through different styles. He proved who was better in the only way that matters - on the damn track! Sunday Silence was the better horse, a superior sire and a horse this country should have valued while they had him.
@@victoranthony9037 you can count to 4. Listen to ignore the fact that the horse the jockey were users and the vet was banned or convicted in several states says it all.
True he won when it counted. But there is no discounting the campaign Easy Goer put up that year. SS had to have breaks between his races and Easy Goer ran from start to finish and won a string of races that will never be equalled again. Any modern TB today, would fold under that kind of campaign. It's just a shame we never got to see them compete against each other at 4. And quit trying to compare stud records. SS got to breed up until he died in 2002. Easy Goer had only 4 crops as he died in 1994. You can't compare those stud records since SS was around a lot longer.
"Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE. Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when narrowly edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran of DRF, LA Times & Newsday.
"Dr. Thomas Swerczek, the veterinary pathologist who conducted Easy Goer's necropsy, determined the horse died of an anaphylactic reaction to an allergen, AND the veterinarians were CONVINCED the cancer did NOT kill Easy Goer & would NOT have been fatal for a LONG TIME. They also said fatal allergic reactions are more common than most professionals realize." ss died at the young age of 16 of heart failure, infectious disease & the chronic foot disease laminitis. Native Dancer (EG's great grandfather; cancer is heredity as well) died of cancerous tumors at the young age of 17. Secretariat died of laminitis. Bold Ruler died of cancer. Dr Fager died of a colon obstruction at the young age of 12. Seabiscuit died of a heart attack at the young age of 14. Buckpasser (EG's grandfather) died at the young age of 15 of a ruptured aorta, & many others. Hall of Fame Champion Ruffian died at age 3, Hall of Fame Champion Go For Wand died at age 3; Hall of Fame Champion Dark Mirage died at age 4; Hall of Fame Champion Equipoise died at age 10; Hall of Fame Champion Phar Lap died at ONLY age 6 of multiple organ failure; Hall of Fame Champion Sysonby died at ONLY age 4 with multiple organ failures; Hall of Fame Champion Billy Kelly died at only age 10 of heart disease & multiple organ failures; Hall of Fame Champion Pan Zareta died at ONLY age 8 of pneumonia & multiple organ failures; Champion Lost in the Fog died at ONLY age 4 of inoperable cancer all over his body with "multiple organ failures"; Champion Dubai Millennium died at ONLY age 5 with multiple organ failures of his whole body system; Champion Landaluce died at ONLY age 2 of "multiple organ failures"; Champion Sardula died at ONLY age 3 of multiple organ failures; Champion Arrogate died at ONLY age 7 with multiple neurological organ failures; Champion Summer Bird died at ONLY age 7 of colic & multiple organ failures. Hall of Fame Champion Gamely died at age 11; ditto top horses Swale (age 3), Hoist the Flag, Code of Honor, Scat Daddy, Pioneerofthenile, Laoban, Left Bank, Peteski, Midnight Bourbon, Medina Spirit, Strolling Along, Exbourne, Barbaro, Prairie Bayou, Pine Island, Eight Belles, George Washington, Union City, On the Line, Mr Nickerson, Mr Brooks, Pensive & an endless amount of others. The FACTS are that the drug-reliant & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence was extremely unsound, infirm, had breathing problems & had numerous deformities, & that was why he needed all of his illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) illegally administered to him by the illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill (who admitted to illegally administering many illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). Plus ss died of both the unsound, infirm foot disease & heart failure, both of which prove all the aforementioned & also were the results of the proven drug use during his racing career. Even ss' offspring needed the same ped bronchodilator drugs, etc, & were dq'd because of it. And ss's mother Wishing Well & female family, & ss's sire Halo & Halo's descendants were noted for being extremely unsound, infirm, bleeders, breathing problems, numerous deformities, etc, & needing drugs. Halo's offspring & descendants SS, Sunny's Halo, Devil's Bag, Glorious Song, St Ballado, Jolie's Halo, Lively One, Present Value, Southern Halo, etc, were noted for being extremely unsound, infirm, bleeders, breathing problems, numerous deformities, etc, & needing drugs. 2nd of all, The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the vast majority of his races in the ONLY state in the entire country at the time which banned ALL drugs (as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Harthill as well), so EG was FORCED to run completely DRUG-Free ; & the owners were Jockey Club Chairmen & the staunchest opponents of any & all drugs so they also never ran him with any drugs at all when they ran outside the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs. During that era, the DRF listed all of these drug-use (ss was listed that he was given Lasix, Banamine, Bute, etc; while EG was listed as NOT given any, NONE at all) & non-drug-use FACTS for all races outside the only state in the entire USA at the time which banned all drugs. 3rd of all, The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer did NOT die at all because of cancer nor multiple organ failure nor because of a heart attack nor soundness problems; the autopsy showed that EG died of an allergic reaction to an AIRBORNE ALLERGEN (NOT any drugs at all), which actually PROVES he not only was NOT on any drugs at all, he also was NOT given any drugs at all during his race career. Cancer did not kill EG & would not have been fatal. Plus, Cancer is NOT caused by drug-use, cancer is caused by tobacco use (obviously not in horses), smoking (ditto), excessive alcohol drinking (ditto), bad diet, being overweight (some stallions are overweight), lack of exercise (stallions still get exercise), a number of different infections & viruses (not relating to drugs at all), sexually transmitted diseases (not drugs at all), bacterial (not drugs at all), parasites (not drugs at all), radiation (not relating to drugs at all), inherited genetically (DNA/hereditary/family history of it - not relating to drugs at all), environmental/air pollution/pollutants (not relating to drugs at all), asbestos (not drugs at all) in stables/buildings, too much exposure to direct sunlight/ultraviolet light (not drugs at all) etc. "Horses are exposed to many of the same things as humans so they develop cancer for many of the same reasons. Environmental toxins, second-hand cigarette smoke, radiation, UV rays, pollutants, viral infections, std's, bacterias, parasites, bad diet/food, lack of exercise, being overweight, digestion, all can cause cancer in horses - NONE of which are at all related to any drugs." Plus, cancer did not cause EG's death anyways, an allergic reaction to an airborne allergen caused EG's death. So much for all of that.
The Great Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer! His offspring still conquering today! Easy Goer is one of the best racehorses America ever produced. Easy Goer ran as fast & as fluid as any thoroughbred who ever ran, & he still stands strong in thoroughbred history. Easy Goer combined blistering speed over sprint & mile distances with thoroughly brilliant stamina at classic distances, & he will always be mentioned in the same breath with the greatest of all time. Even with dying very premature, Easy Goer is in the bloodlines of a numerous amount of G1 winners in the USA & Europe. Easy Goer's daughter My Flag won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, G1 Coaching Club American Oaks, G1 Ashland, G1 Gazelle, G1 Bonnie Miss, etc Easy Goer's grandson Corinthian won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, G1 Met Mile, G1 Gulfstream Park Handicap, etc. Easy Goer's granddaughter Storm Flag Flying won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, G1 Personal Ensign, G1 Frizette, G1 Matron, G1 Shuvee, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Bulletin won the G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, etc. Easy Goer's grandson London Bridge won the G1 Breeders' Cup Marathon, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Araafa won the Group 1 St. James's Palace Stakes, G1 Irish 2,000 Guineas, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Astronomer Royal won the Group 1 French 2,000 Guineas, etc. Easy Goer's son Will's Way won the Grade 1 Whitney Handicap, G1 Travers Stakes, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Lion Tamer won the G1 Cigar Mile, etc. Easy Goer's granddaughter Magical Fantasy won the G1 Yellow Ribbon, G1 Gamely, G1 Ramona {Mabee}, G1 Del Mar Oaks, G1 Santa Barbara, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Audible won the G1 Florida Derby, G1 Holy Bull, etc. Easy Goer's granddaughter Funny Moon won the G1 Coaching Club American Oaks, G1 Shuvee, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Monba won the G1 Blue Grass, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Dynamic One won the G1 Suburban, etc. Easy Goer's daughter Furlough won the G1 Ballerina, G1 Distaff, G1 Honorable Miss, etc. Easy Goer's son Composer won the G1 Jim Dandy, etc. Easy Goer's daughter Relaxing Rhythm won the G1 Molly Pitcher, etc. Easy Goer's granddaughter Tiz Miz Sue won the G1 Ogden Phipps, etc. And many more.
I know this is a year old but Pat Day won the Preakness five times and had nine triple crown wins. At the time of this race Bailey hadn’t won any, not even sure if he had ridden in one.
@@randallmartin2508 Pat Day was aboard him when he set a record at Belmont park. Easy Goer and Sunday Silence were just two very evenly matched horses up to 1 1/4 and due to styles Sunday Silence had the advantage especially on tracks with sharper turns . Day criticized himself for this ride I believe but he knew the horse well and doubt another rider would have rode him any better.
This is definitely one of the great races. The way the two of them came down the straight neck and neck the whole way, first one in front then the other was just awesome. Both great horses, no doubt of that.
Pat did all he could. SS and Valenzuela were just a nose better. Day gets a lot of guff for decisions, but, he gave his all here. The greatest race I ever saw.
140 or 150 years and you don't get a better race than this. Two tremendous champion. They were both truly outstanding greats. Possibly, and perhaps probably, both would have been Triple Crown champions if they didn't face the other, or were born in different years. Joe Hirsch, 'A classic classic! Everyone in the record crowd at Pimlico - and millions of others who watched on television - will remember the 1989 Preakness and its remarkable stretch duel as long as they live. Sunday Silence and Easy Goer were generosity personified as they battled. No quality of the Thoroughbred is more admired by racing men than courage, and these two outstanding horses gave everything they had in the Preakness. There was a winner, but there was no loser.' "In a duel for the ages, two greats joined battle, they bounded cheek by jowl to the wire. While picking up another cross on his reins, jockey Pat Day appeared to grab too much right line canting Easy Goer's head to the right, and in the end perhaps costing him the race by the flare of a nostril."-Bill Nack. "The two greats even changed leads in unison at the top of the stretch. They ran side by side, head to head, so close together they were brushing again & again, with Easy Goer also brushing the rail and dangerously close to it. A jewel of a duel by a snout."-Sports Illustrated
Easy Goer was so astoundingly Highly Regarded that if these 2 Horses faced eachother again for the 4th time the Public more than likely would have made Easy Goer the favorite again...And the "Nose" loss in the Classic at "1-2" Odds would have probably guaranteed it....Would Easy Goer have Won?...Obviously we will never know...But i feel if your life was on the line even many Sunday Silence fans would have picked Easy Goer..
I was at Santa Anita for the Belmont and got 2to1 on EG while SS was bet down to 3 to 5. It was like stealing. SS wasn't a mile and a half horse and it showed in the stretch.
Funny how the" astoundingly Highly Regarded" Easy Goer could manage only one victory when up against the inferior Sunday Silence.The odds do not decide the outcomes if they did we wouldnt be having this conversation.
The True Drug Hall of Fame Champion Easy Sloer will always be the True Drug Hall of Fame Champion and True Drug Eclipse Award Champion Easy Sloer, and the most coveted honor and prize by far is being inducted in the Hall of Fake.He was my favorite horse ever and I love him so much.
Even fellow Colleagues of Pat Day call him out on National TV...Richard Migliore: "Pay day made aggressive move with Easy Goer and he remembered he was Pat Day and folded Horse up again"...That says it all about Pat Day...1989 Classic was a debacle ride also as Pat Day rode Easy Goer like Patience on a Monument
@@perryberman2824 YES HE DID ABSOLUTELY CORRECT BUT HE HAD NO CONTROL OF NO CRED CHARLIE WHO WAS USING THE POLLUTED CONVICTED BANNED CRIMINAL VET ALEX HARTHILL. FUNNY HOW THAT IS CONVENIENTLY LEFT OUT.
Both greats, but In my opinion Easy Goer was a better horse than SS, and had a superior body of work and career than SS. But of course, once again, better in any way is still totally subjective. Lil better, better, much the best, etc are all totally subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder. It certainly is NOT the end of any story, enough said etc. Just as the head to head scoreboards are NOT enough said or end of story for Citation (lost 4 of 5 to Noor), Kelso (lost 3 of 4 to Beau Purple), Dr Fager (lost 2 of 4 to Damascus), Forego (lost 2 of 3 to Big Spruce and Wajima), John Henry, Pleasant Colony, Sir Barton, Skip Away and many many more. Lucky, lil better, now much better lol lmao, better, versatility, states etc. Yeah, the Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer must have got as 'lucky' as so many other immortal legendary Hall of Famers and champions did, such as the 'lucky' Citation (won only 1 of 5 vs Noor), Kelso (won only 1 of 4 vs Beau Purple), Dr Fager (won only 2 of 4 vs Damascus), Forego (won only 1 of 3 vs both Big Spruce and Wajima), John Henry (won zero of 4 vs Cabrini Green, won zero of 3 vs Darby Creek Road, won only 1 of 3 vs both Mehmet and Interco), Skip Away (won only 2 of 6 vs Formal Gold), Pleasant Colony (won only 1 of 4 vs Akureyri), Triple Crown champ Sir Barton (won only 4 of 12 vs Billy Kelly), and so many many more etc etc. All you can do is laugh your 'ass' off. You cant have an on topic discussion. All you can also do is state numerous false statements and denigrate EG while trying to prop up ss - then delete your numerous comments like a troll. The truth must be that you think that EVERY and ALL horses who were behind on the head to head (series) scoreboard is 'better' than the horses they were ahead of! Lets hear it. I am still waiting. Citation, Kelso, Forego, John Henry, Sir Barton, etc etc etc etc. The truth actually is this: Better in any way is totally subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder. That also goes for the person who said, 'Easy Goer was a better horse. Valenzuela/McCarron were better than Pat Day. And Charlie Whittingham was better than McGaughey.' Better in any way is totally subjective - and this is the truth. That is like stating the 'lucky' and great Forego couldnt win much outside of NY. Easy Goer actually did, while Forego actually did NOT. Thats also like saying that SS was a good one but he just couldnt win much at his home track (losing record) at Hollywood in California - or in drug and medication free NY. A good one? Easy Goer was More like a great one - as SS also was. Every horse who is inducted in the Hall of Fame is a great horse. The ultimate honor for greats is to be inducted in the Hall of Fame - and both Easy Goer and SS are. Easy Goer DID WIN outside of New York. Thats like saying that SS was a good one but he just couldnt win (or win much) at his home track of Hollywood in his home state of California - or in drug and medication free NY. Even though SS had a losing record at his home track of Hollywood Park in California - he still was able to win there even though he had that losing record. Ditto Easy Goer outside of NY. Easy Goer DID WIN outside of NY, and in the process ran a record seven furlongs in Florida in the Swale. He did lose by inches and a rapidly diminishing neck outside of NY - but he only ran a few times outside of NY and FL. Hall of Fame champion and Eclipse Award champion Easy Goer won over FOUR different tracks. SS won over SIX different tracks. He gets credit for that yes. SS had a losing record at his home track at Hollywood Park - losing three races there. Easy Goer was mainly run in NY and Florida in the majority of his races - seventeen of his twenty races. The historic NY races carried and still carry a lot of weight. Hall of Fame champion and Eclipse Award champion Easy Goer was similar in this regard to other Hall of Fame champions like Forego, Kelso, Arts and Letters, Tom Fool, Sword Dancer, etc. Just the same as big races in CA - those races carried a lot of weight for champions like Ack Ack, Native Diver, Noor, Ferdinand, Kotashaan, Zenyatta, Beholder etc. EG won over all major track sizes, SS did not. SS had a losing record over 9f or larger tracks. SS also had a losing record at his home track at Hollywood in California. EG won Grade 1 races 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f. SS won Grade 1 races only at 9f to 10f. Better horse, better this, better that, Better overall? Better in any way is subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder. Many many greats were behind or tied on the head to head (series) scoreboard, including Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Skip Away, Dr Fager, Damascus, Arts and Letters, Swaps, Nashua, Round Table, Ancient Title, John Henry, Unbridled, Silverbulletday, Serenas Song, Pleasant Colony, Sir Barton, Ferdinand, Native Diver, and many many others. Were the horses who were ahead (or tied) on the head to head scoreboards better or a lil better than these? Were these enough said, or end of the story for them also? Better is subjective, and there are numerous factors. And even after those factors are factored in, who was better is totally subjective. Noor beat immortal Citation 4 out of 5 races. Beau Purple beat immortal Kelso 3 out of 4. Big Spruce beat immortal Forego 2 out of 3. Interco and Mehmet beat lengendary champ John Henry 2 out of 3. Cabrini Green beat John Henry 4 of 4. Darby Creek Road beat legendary John Henry 3 of 3. HOF (Hall of Fame) champ Damascus beat HOF champ Dr Fager 2 out of 4. Cutlass Reality beat HOY Ferdinand 3 times. Billy Kelly beat Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 8 of 12. Formal Gold beat HOF HOY champ Skip Away 4 out of 6. HOF champ Majestic Prince beat HOF HOY champ Arts and Letters 2 out of 3. Pretense beat HOF champ Native Diver 5 times. Clem beat HOF HOY champ Round Table 3 times. Summer Squall beat Champion Unbridled 4 out of 6. Heritageofgold beat HOF champ Silverbulletday 3 out of 3 times. Jewel Princess beat HOF champion Serenas Song in 3 of 3 races. Crystal Water beat HOF champ Ancient Title 4 times. Akureyri beat Champ Pleasant Colony 3 out of 4. And what? Who is better? That is totally subjective. There are numerous factors, including but not limited to : superior career, superior and better body of work, GI wins, Graded Stakes wins, wins against older horses and open company, running times, avg running times at various distances and at all distances, head to heads, records set, still standing records, weights carried and weights conceded, stakes wins and stakes wins vs. open company/older horses, varying distances won at during career, superior campaign or campaigns, durability, constitution, superiority and dominance, injuries, rider errors, training and trainer errors, win/loss %s, trips, amount of races run, post positions, campaign and career earnings with and without bonuses, races with drugs and medications allowed/used, races with no drugs and medications allowed/used, etc etc and many many more. But even after those factors are factored in, who was better is still totally subjective. Easy Goer and SS were both greats. Easy Goer won 12 total stakes, 9 Grade 1 wins at distances of 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f, and 12f showing versatility on all tracks and many distances. SS won 7 total stakes, 6 Grade 1 wins but only at distances from 9f to 10f. Both versatile indeed, but that is a big difference in versatility. Easy Goer also defeated older horses Six times at ages three and four while conceding a good amount of weight in quite a few of them. SS defeated older horses only two times at ages three and four. Many other factors would favor Easy Goer over SS as well, including a) amount of career races able to run - 20 to 14 ; b) amount of total career wins - 14 to 9 ; c) running times at all distances ; d) average running times at all distances ; e) career earnings without bonuses - about $ 4.8 million to about $ 3. 8 million ; f) career winning percentage - 70% to 64% ; g) Grade 1 wins - 9 to 6 ; h) total stakes wins - 12 to 7 ; i) wins vs older horses/open/unrestricted at ages three and four - 6 to 2 ; j) Grade 1 stakes wins at various distances - EG at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f, SS at only 9f to 10f ; and other factors that would favor Easy Goer would be varying distances won at, records set, near records set, still standing records, running times, avg running times at all distances, campaigns, durability, constitution, dominance and superiority in races - average win margin and average loss margin, weights carried, weight concessions, etc. They were both greats no doubt, but IMO other than SSs slim edge in their head to head races, Easy Goer was better than SS in most - if not all - these other factors and categories. Both greats, but In my opinion Easy Goer was a better horse than SS, and had a superior body of work and career than SS. But of course, once again, better in any way is still totally subjective.
Stating the truth is simply stating the truth and facts. Copying and pasting others comments about the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Sunday Silence is the GREATEST FORM of Flattery. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, when you imitate what others say, it’s the biggest compliment to those people you are imitating and copying and pasting
Secretariat 's Belmont and this Preakness with Sunday Silence and Easy Goer....the 2 greatest horse races I've ever seen. An interesting dichotomy considering Secretariat won by 31 lengths and Sunday Silence wins by a nose.
Alex Harthill told all how & why the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence beat the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the slimmest of margins in a few races. Harthill said, "You can only REVERE the horses (Easy Goer, etc) whom my horses (Sunday Silence, etc) defeated even more, to do all they (Easy Goer, etc) were asked to do, just to fall a slight bit short (Easy Goer, etc) of horses (Sunday Silence, etc) who had been given performance-enhancing drugs (Sunday Silence, etc) by myself." The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer cremated the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. "Kentucky Derby Doctor Alex Harthill Reveals Disgraceful Past: Harthill Reflects on Unlawful Life's Work. Harthill Discloses He Administered Forbidden Performance-Enhancing Drugs To Many American Classic Winners In The Kentucky Derby, Preakness And Breeders' Cup Classic." How about the Belmont Stakes & the enormous amount of the other major G1 stakes races in New York? How about when the Breeders Cup took place in NY? Harthill was barred in NY. NY also was the only state in the entire country during that era which banned all drugs. NY also had the most advanced out-of-competition, training & raceday testing, & tested for an enormous amount of drugs. DRF 2001 Jay Hovdey: "Alex Harthill was BOLD ENOUGH to tell me (Jay Hovdey/DRF) how he illegally gave numerous horses illegal drugs, INCLUDING Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine TO SUNDAY SILENCE. Harthill ADMITTED to illegally breaking the laws in ENHANCING his horses PERFORMANCES. Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing Bronchodilator drug Clenbuterol REGULARLY in the 1980's on his horses, 15 years before it was approved by the FDA, INCLUDING USING IT ON SUNDAY SILENCE. Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing drug Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it TO SUNDAY SILENCE, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. Some of Harthill's other drugs that HE ADMINISTERED TO SUNDAY SILENCE were Etorphine & Sublimaze. The drugs Harthill administered were being used to improve a horse's performance, & they were REMARKABLY EFFECTIVE. Harthill was the vet that manipulated horse races & he Publicly Acknowledged Doing So many times. Harthill said, 'I (Harthill) was used for horses (Sunday Silence, etc) pointing for, & running in, MAJOR RACES who NEEDED DRUGS & had INFIRMITIES. I earned the reputation I had. I am very proud of the horses (Sunday Silence, etc) I helped WITH DRUGS IN THEIR CAREERS. Drugs always go through changing stages of being detected on drug tests. What I focused on was what drugs enhanced performance, together with what drugs could conceal illegal drugs, along with what drugs didn't show up on drug tests. For these reasons, I gave my horses (Sunday Silence, etc) a considerable advantage. Trainers would say, Don't get me caught, but keep me worried. Even though a horse is 5 or 7 times larger than humans, the amount of dope needed to have an effect is so small. An amount on the tip of a match would be enough to flick up a horse's nose to get a spectacular result. By the time they got my horses to the starting gate they’d be leaping out of their skin. I administered illegal drugs throughout my career that INCREASED the performances of racehorses IN CLASSIC RACES, & almost all of the time I did so, my horses won. You can only revere the horses (Easy Goer, etc) whom my horses (Sunday Silence, etc) defeated even more, to do all they (Easy Goer, etc) were asked to do, just to fall a slight bit short (Easy Goer, etc) of horses (Sunday Silence, etc) who had been given performance-enhancing drugs (Sunday Silence, etc) by myself. By doing so, I acknowledge that I effectively stole a large amount of money in my career, & cheated many other horses, trainers, owners & riders I competed against. Nonetheless, I consider my extensive doping as a mark of pride.' "
There's no question that Sunday Silence & Easy Goer were both tremendously gifted thoroughbreds, and they both brought out the best in one another. Because Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer 3 of the 4 times they faced each other I think many racing historians remember him as having been the better horse. But I would submit if Easy Goer had overcame this 6 inch loss in the Preakness it would've been the other way around. You would've had Sunday Silence with a Kentucky Derby & BC Classic win and Easy Goer with a Preakness & Belmont Stakes win head to head. But then beyond that it wasn't even close. The only other real major wins of Sunday Silence's career beyond his head to head meetings with Easy Goer were the G1 Santa Anita Derby & G2 Super Derby. What Easy Goer accomplished away from his head to head meetings with Sunday Silence has never before or since been accomplished by another horse, winning the G1 Travers Stakes, G1 Whitney Handicap, G1 Woodward Stakes, & G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup in the same he season he faced the Triple Crown grind. It's only because of the 6 inches that separated them in this race that Sunday Silence is remembered as being the better horse by those who do remember him that way, IMO.
Can't change history right GB. EG went on a fall run like no other I agree with you but in the end SS did beat him in 3 of 4 and won the two marquee races KD and BCC. So EG has his place in history clearly confirmed but SS also does in a higher spot. Albeit not by much.
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer inducted into the Hall of Fame & Won Eclipse Awards Championships - been there done that. However, the ONLY way to do so with integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all, is to do so completely drug-free as the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion & Eclipse Award Champion Easy Goer did. The drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss. Case closed. Means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1 - case closed? No; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1 - case closed? No; ditto all the rest - Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Drug-Free Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like heart-filled drug-free wheat separating from heart-less drugged chaff, the heart-filled drug-free cream rose to the top. Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant & criminal juicer doper vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss got exposed badly & romped when he was forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. The great drug-free Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer showed the world how to obliterate the drug-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a true champion is running & winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned & didn't allow the criminal juicer doper veterinarian of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally doping/juicing an endless amount of horses] to perform his magic & juice the drug-reliant & criminal juicer doper vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-reliant horses like ss; & these horses, like ss & many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free races could/can be called championship races. Only Drug-free races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. Drug-free races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to tell Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form how he illegally gave numerous horses (including Clenbuterol to SS) illegal drugs. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED illegally breaking the laws in enhancing his horses performances. In DRF articles in recent years & in the last few years of his life, SSilence's vet Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing bronchodilator clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's 15 years before it was approved by the FDA on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. SS's vet Alex Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it to Sunday Silence, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses like ss who made inexplicably significant improvements with major enhancements in performance. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses like ss who made inexplicably significant improvements with major enhancements in performance." Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & Sublimaze. The drugs Etorphine & Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria & well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of controlled drugs, such as the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol, powerful steroids, loop diuretics, extremely powerful painkillers & very strong amphetamines, etc. Alex Harthill & raceday performance enhancing drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in North American racing. Harthill was at the vanguard of giving drugs to horses that were used to vastly enhance their performances, & they were remarkably effective turning good horses into great horses, bad horses into good horses, slower horses into faster horses, horses with no business winning doing so, & causing horses to run far over their heads. Harthill was a vet who had stolen a 30 length lead in the race to discover drugs that would significantly move up racehorses, & Harthill had no hesitancy in using whatever was available. Harthill was a magic man vet practicing the dark arts of racehorse manipulation. Harthill was arrested many times (Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, NY,etc) for tampering, bribery & doping horses with drugs. The drugs were & are so potent that their use or nonuse dramatically alters horse's performances (including SS). Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history." Besides Harthill admitting it to the DRF, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. Case closed.
Both great horses, and a thrilling fantastic race from both horses. Always liked Easy Goer, was his smooth and easy power, and stamina. If race was 1.5 miles like the Belmont, Easy Goer wins it quite easy. I'm a Seattle Slew and Easy Goer fan, and admired Secretariat.
Easy Goer was the Equivalent of Tom Brady and the 2007 and 2011 Patriots, as well as the equivalent of Mickey Mantle and the 1960 New York Yankees. Both were all-time greats, but Easy Goer was superior, better and faster than Sunday Silence, though Easy Goer had an inferior overly tentative, timid, hesitant trainer and an inferior overly timid, hesitant, tentative rider. Tom Brady was superior and better than Eli Manning, yet Brady lost a few very close Super Bowl's to Eli Manning. The 1960 NY Yankees were superior and better than the 1960 Pirates, yet they lost the World Series in 7 games. Others note that many greats were behind (or tied) on the head-to-head scoreboards like Kelso (Beau Purple was 3-1 over Kelso), Citation (Noor was 4-1 over Cy), Pleasant Colony (Akureyri was 3-1 over PC), Shuvee (Gallant Bloom was 4-1 over Shuvee), Dr. Fager (2-2 with Damascus), Skip Away (Formal Gold was 4-2 over SA), Unbridled (Summer Squall was 4-2 over U), and John Henry, Forego, Sir Barton and many others. It doesn't mean that SS, Noor, Beau Purple, etc., or the Pirates, Eli Manning and his teams, were all undeserved and unworthy, they all were worthy. Despite losing the the 1960 World Series, the Yankees scored 55 runs, the most runs scored by any one team in World Series history, and scored more than twice as many runs as the Pirates, who scored 27. The Yankees had all time greats Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Bobby Richardson, Elston Howard, Bobby Shantz, etc. The World Series MVP was Bobby Richardson of the Yankees, the only time in history that the award has been given to a member of the losing team. Richardson had 11 hits in the series in 30 total at-bats, good for a .367 batting average; he hit 2 doubles, 2 triples and a home run and led all players with 12 RBI. In 25 at-bats for the Yankees, Mickey Mantle hit .400 with 3 home runs and 11 RBI. Both his batting average and home run total were better than eventual MVP Bobby Richardson. The Yanks manager Casey Stengel pitched starting ace Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford only twice in Games 3 and 6, instead of Games 1, 4 and 7. This was the primary factor that led to Stengel being fired. The 1960 World Series was one of the best performances in Whitey Ford's storied World Series career; he was the best pitcher to take the mound from either team. Whitey Ford won both of his starts in the 1960 World Series to finish with a 2-0 record. In these 2 starts, Ford allowed no runs while compiling a 0.00 ERA in 18.0 innings pitched; Ford threw back-to-back complete game shutouts in the World Series. The Yankees outscored the Pirates 55-27 in this Series, out-hit them 91-60, out-batted them .338 to .256, hit 10 home runs to Pittsburgh's 4, got 2 complete-game shutouts from Whitey Ford-but lost. The Yankees outscored, out-hit, out-pitched and outplayed the Pirates, but lost the 7 game series.
Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela did outride Pat ron franklin esque Day, aka Pat start stop start stop start Day. So did McCarron for that matter. So did Pincay, Cordero, Stevens, Bailey etc. However, it was Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela who actually was the one "trying to screw Pat ron franklin-esque Day the whole way around" by floating him very wide [8 or 9 wide] towards the barns on the back-side, and by trapping him and knocking him in very tight to the rail afterwards on the turn [so bad that Houston had to check] and thru the stretch. The video of the entire backstretch run into the turn is here on UA-cam, on the 1989 Belmont stakes - Easy Goer: Full ABC Broadcast. At the 11 minute mark of this 89 Belmont video, you can watch the entire back-side head on footage of the Preakness. It doesn't show Pat ron franklin-esque Day shutting off or cutting off Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela. Valenzuela preposterously tried to turn it around on Day. Interesting also to note that Silence's owner Arthur Hancock assumed, like most others, that Pat Day did. However, on the 'Arthur Hancock on Sunday Silence' video uploaded here on youtube by Blood-Horse, Hancock even admits he didn't by saying at the 8:50 point of the video, "Easy Goer swept past Sunday Silence, and it looked to me like he might have shut him off. Silence dropped back a length or two, and I said to my wife that Easy Goer just shut us off. That's what I thought looking through my binoculars. But he didn't, he did not, he was far enough out there." Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela was quoted in the Blood-Horse magazine saying, "I COULD HAVE gone with Easy Goer and sat IN BETWEEN him and Houston. There was room," Valenzuela said OF THE MOMENT AT THE FAR TURN when Easy Goer FLEW BY HIM. "BUT Easy Goer moved up on the outside of me EXTREMELY QUICK and GOT THE ADVANTAGE over us. I didn't think Easy Goer was going to make that big of a move that soon." Valenzuela's credibility, however, is severely lacking. Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela doesn't just lose an immense amount of credibility because he was and is a chronic life-long cocaine addict. He loses just as much -- if not more -- of an immense amount of credibility due to many other reasons, including numerous bizarre and erratic statements that came out of his mouth, and his devious gamesmanship and race-riding shenanigans etc. Valenzuela, however, could ride with the best of them, and who knows what his career would have been had he not lost the majority of it to an endless amount of cocaine suspensions and being banned. McGaughey and Day were both pitiful. McGaughey was and is the most conservative trainer of all-time who rarely trained his horses for speed, no matter how much big-time brilliant speed the horse possessed. Pat ron franklin esque Day was the most tentative, passive, conservative, start-stop rider of all-time. Many of Pat Ron Franklin esque Day's rides on Easy Goer, Forty Niner, Seeking the Gold, Sky Classic, Turkoman, Heavenly Prize, Rampage, Timber Country, Menifee, Surfside, Java Gold, etc were Ron Franklin - esque! Pat ron franklin esque Day rode Easy Goer -- and many other horses -- like a teenager at the wheels of a Ferrari. Pat ron franklin esque Day never came to terms with the immense power and big-time speed at his disposal and how and when to use it. Go yield idle go, go yield idle go, inside, outside, back inside, back outside. Yes, better is definitely subjective. Having acknowledged that: Take nothing away from sunday Silence as he was a great horse, but Easy Goer was a superior, greater, better, stronger and faster horse IMO; Pat Valenzuela and Chris McCarron were better jockeys than Pat Day, a.k.a Pat ron franklin-esque Day; and he master trainer Charlie the Bald Eagle Whittingham was a better trainer than the most conservative anti-speed trainer Claude Shug McGaughey. Where was Woody Stephens, Allen Jerkens, Cordero, Bailey, Pincay, Stevens, Romero, Santos? Easy Goer wins the Preakness and Classic had any of these been his trainer and jockey IMO.
Who was better? Superior? Better horse? Better, like beauty is subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder. There are so many factors, including but not limited to - superior career, superior body of work, wins vs open/older horses, head to head, times, avg times at all distances, records set, records still standing, weights carried & conceded, dominance/superiority, GI wins, GI wins and stakes wins vs open/older, campaigns, varied distances won at, jockey errors, injuries, trainer, training and trainer errors, post positions, win %, etc etc are just some of the many factors. And even after these many factors listed above are factored in, who is 'better' is Still subjective. Examples of this would be: A) Noor beat Citation in 4 of 5 races. B) Beau Purple beat Kelso in 3 of 4 races. C)Big Spruce & Wajima beat Forego in 2 of 3 races. D) Damascus beat Dr. Fager in 2 of 4 races. E) Interco & Mehmet beat John Henry in 2 of 3 races. Darby Creek Road beat John Henry 3 times in 3 races. Cabrini Green beat John Henry 4 times in 4 races. F) Cutlass Reality beat Ferdinand in 3 races. G) Billy Kelly beat Triple Crown winner Sir Barton in 8 of 12 races. H) Formal Gold beat Skip Away in 4 of 6 races. I) Star of Cozzene beat Kotashaan in 3 of 4 races. J) Pretense beat Native Diver 5 times. K) Akureyri beat Pleasant Colony in 3 of 4 races. There are numerous factors and even after numerous factors are factored in, who was better is totally subjective.
@@sigscorpion9275 Showed and posted above for you a million times you sick psycho troll Travis West, aka sigsc, aka a million other yt accounts with different names.
@@sigscorpion9275 i had two articles listed regarding Harthill and SS and Harthill's reputation as a the king of drug vets. But both apparently got removed.
The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence was supposed to be unbeatable..NOT.. He goes off the favorite in a 1988 Maiden race on the bigger Hollywood track…Runs second to the maiden claimer Caro Lover. 2. That’s OK he’ll make it up in a 1988 Allowance Race on the bigger Hollywood track..NOT.. He goes off the favorite & again finishes second, this time to the maiden claimer Sprinter Houston.. That’s OK he’ll make it up in the 1989 Drug-Free Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes on the bigger track..NOT.. He goes off the favorite & loses again to the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer while getting crushed by Easy Goer, & barely beating the maiden claimer Le Voyageur. All because sunday silence was forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state in the entire country during that era which banned all drugs, & also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well (not to mention another of his 5 losses on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f) ..That’s OK he’ll make it up in the GRADE 2 Swaps Stakes on the bigger Hollywood track...NOT...He goes off the favorite & loses again to Prized. Easy Goer destroyed sunday silence by 8 widening lengths & demolished Prized by 25 lengths when both SS & Prized were forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the entire country during that era which banned all drugs..That’s OK he’ll make it up in the Hollywood Gold Cup on the bigger Hollywood track...NOT...He goes off the favorite & loses again to Criminal Type only carrying 5 pounds more (Easy Goer carried 14 pounds & 7 pounds more)...Sorry..................NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.
Shug McGaughey said: "Easy Goer was a Better Horse than Sunday Silence. Pat Day got Easy Goer beat. Day waited when he didn't need to wait. We had ss beat & then Day let ss back in the races. Pat Day & I agree that he made riding mistakes. Easy Goer was the better horse than sunday silence. Easy Goer was by far the best horse I ever trained, Easy Goer was the most talented horse I've ever had. Easy Goer's action was so athletic, so natural, so fluid; he glided over the track; he ran blazingly fast & did it so easily. Easy Goer captured the public; he was a brilliantly fast horse, exciting to watch, & he had a great following. I had always dreamed of having a horse like Easy Goer. Easy Goer is by far the best that I've ever had. What Easy Goer did in all races, you just don't see that anymore. Easy Goer wanted to do a lot, all the time. My job - I had a Porsche in Easy Goer - was to not drive it 200 miles an hour every day. My job was just to keep him level, & keep him reserved. He wanted to go. I was very young, very inexperienced & made many mistakes." Woody Stephens, Allen Jerkens & Charlie Whittingham were better trainers than shug.
Yes, apparently that was not a priority. The points are: Shug also NEVER ever mentioned at all of running in a way that " expended less energy, and minimized the risk of injury." To the contrary, no matter how vague, Shug actually DID state: "Day did not crucify him, and brought me back something." As far as the "Crucifying" him, it did not mean to "NEVER" use the whip. I never said that it may have meant to NEVER use it. However, it could possibly mean (meant) to use the whip only when absolutely needed, or in danger of losing a race. We don't know. It is vague. That is why I recently asked the then assistant trainer & exercise rider of Easy Goer, what Shug meant (and how did Day do this) by : "Helping him with his soundness issues, and not crucifying him in his races." The answer was, "quiet hands and finesse."
The only race that ss ran drug-free without any drugs was when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly banned ss's illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill as well. SS's veterinarian Alex Harthill fully voluntarily admitted that he administered illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; however Harthill could not do so when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs and without his illegal criminal vet in the only state in the entire country during that era which banned all drugs - and as importantly also banned the illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well.
AFFIRMED and ALYDAR on the never ending turns at Belmont they went at it long before the others did in a much smaller racetrack. But if you didn't ACTUALLY experience the A/A BELMONT then I can understand choosing the one you experienced not a video.
59:44 "Easy Goer made a big move & ran by me so quick." 1:00:20 "Easy Goer had more horse left. Easy Goer brushed the rail when Sunday Silence came in on him. Easy Goer had me by a neck." 53:10 "Valenzuela crowded me & just layed on me. He interfered with me banging & pushing me on top of the fence really tight." 51:24 "Easy Goer was in awful tight." 12:32 "Northern Wolf bore in causing a chain reaction that affected Easy Goer the worst of all." 12:56 "The following morning, stewards handed Northern Wolf's rider JoJo Ladner a suspension for allowing his horse to lug in cutting off & wiping out Easy Goer." 48:32 "Easy Goer was in tight quarters. Easy Goer was trying to savage this horse, trying to bite sunday silence." Pat Patsy Daisy Day (aka Pat Ron Franklin Esque Day, Pat Wait All Day, Pat Start Stop Start Stop Start Day, Pat a Day late, Pat Delay Day, Pat so passive & patient he could watch a faucet drip for days Day) said, "I was on the far better horse in Easy Goer, but we lost a few photos to Sunday Silence by the slimmest of margins absolutely due to rider errors on my part. I had FAR MORE HORSE than I knew what to do with. It was totally my fault. Absolute rider errors. Easy Goer was, by far, the best horse I ever rode. I was on the far better horse in Easy Goer. I'll go to my grave believing that. Easy Goer was a better horse than sunday silence. Confusing start stop start stop riding got him beat, I got him beat. Easy Goer should have never got beat. ABSOLUTELY RIDER ERROR. There is NO DOUBT it was ABSOLUTELY RIDER ERROR. Without a doubt, Easy Goer was the best horse I ever rode. I got Easy Goer beat. Valenzuela looked over & seen Big Red & he decided that he wanted my part of the racetrack & started to carry me to the outside 12 wide. It angered me that P Val would be doing something like that in this race. Just ride your race, you don't have to play cutesy with me. Easy Goer Zinged him up the backside. I got in front of sunday silence easily & then eased up on Easy Goer. Start stop start stop riding got him beat, I got Easy Goer beat. P Val bumped me several times & pushed me right down on top of the fence. He banged me down on the fence so much that Houston had to check off my heels. Bumped me, pushed me & banged me right on top of the fence. He was banging & bumping on me & I turned Easy Goer's head out & his body stayed straight. When I pulled the trigger, he EXPLODED." Gary Stevens: "A GREAT GREAT HORSE EASY GOER." Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela himself said, "Easy Goer was a Super Horse. In order for ss to even be close to Easy Goer, I had to do any & everything possible. I had to purposely & deviously force EG out as wide as can be down the backstretch & at every other point I could in races; & I had to purposely & deviously bang & push EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail." Down the backstretch, Valenzuela purposely & deviously forced EG out 7 or 8 wide. Then, around the far turn through the entire home stretch, Valenzuela purposely & deviously bumped, banged & pushed EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail. Clearly, Valenzuela was the one trying to screw EG the whole way around & he actually did do it. Pat Patsy Daisy Day got so many superior horses beat - Easy Goer, Sky Classic, Forty Niner, Turkoman, Java Gold, Rampage, Seeking the Gold, Menifee, Heavenly Prize, Surfside, Timber Country, Paradise Creek and many others - by inferior horses Sunday Silence, Fraise, Dear Doctor, Skywalker, Creme Fraiche, One Dreamer, Cash Run, Larry the Legend, Tikkanen, Marvelous Crown, etc. Day's go-stop-go riding of Easy Goer was very poor & he lost valuable lengths in the Preakness, Whitney, Woodward & Classic. Riding like Day did is a great way to waste a horse's energy. Amazing that the great EG was able to overcome that & win anyway in the 89' Whitney & Woodward conceding weight to older G1 winners, & even losing by the slimmest of margins vs a great SS. A jockey is supposed to be aware of what's going on around them before making their moves. As usual, Pat Day did his absolute best to lose. Day's rides in the 1989 Whitney, Woodward, Preakness & Classic were downright terrible & as bad as can be. Day's riding was atrocious - start stop start stop start, start check in major traffic start, inside outside way outside as wide as can be, back inside back outside back way outside as wide as can be, back in as tight as can be on the dead rail, turn his head in turn his head out, pull the trigger then fold up & put out the fire of a splendid Hall of Fame Champion in full flame, etc. A lemming could have rode better than Day. Many of Pat Ron Franklin esque Day's rides on Easy Goer, Forty Niner, Seeking the Gold, Sky Classic, Turkoman, Heavenly Prize, Rampage, Timber Country, Menifee, Surfside, Java Gold, etc were Ron Franklin - esque! "Easy Goer endured many frustratingly tentative rides by rider Pat Day -- which was his Achilles heel. Pat Day played a bigger part in beating Easy Goer than Sunday Silence did. He over thought the mount instead of letting Easy Goer run his race. Easy Goer could run forever & run it as fast as any horse who ever lived! Day rode the horse incredibly inconsistent & immensely tentative. Poor Easy Goer never knew when Day was serious about when to run or not. A lemming could have ridden Easy Goer better. Pat ron franklin esque Day was riding a Ferrari in Easy Goer. But, Day rode Easy Goer - & many other horses - like a teenager at the wheels of a Ferrari. Day never came to terms with the immense power & big-time speed at his disposal & how & when to use it. Go yield idle go, go yield idle go, go wait go wait go wait, fold up move, fold up move fold up, inside, outside, back inside, back Cordero, Pincay, McCarron, Bailey, Stevens, etc. were better riders & a better fit for EG than Pat Day. Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela & McCarron were better riders than Day. Woody Stephens, Allen Jerkens & Charlie Whittingham were better trainers than Shug.
Remember where I was watching this one in '89...upper deck woodbine, 30 of us per tv, as noisy and loud as you can get, knowing you'd already spent a couple hundred on the afternoon's now finished Woodbine t-bred action...but it didnt matter. ---crazy yelling..too close to call.... And I remember the all time tv shot. The slo motion stretch shot with Easy Goer saying 'if I could get off this rail, i'd kick your ass' An absolute classic. Solid chance Day would've come down for the far turn squeeze...had call upstairs been made.
This is NOT physics. It is not how fast you are going, it is how you are going fast. It is not how slow you are going, it how you are going slow. There is no doubt that when Easy Goer was cruising home much faster in many of races, there was far less stress on him physically, then there was when he was running slower in a nose to nose stretch battle in the Preakness.However, I am willing to let this argument go so it doesn't end up in an endless argument about physics and science, which this is not what this is about. The conclusion is: a) In my opinion, I think there is a possible parallel, Even if you don't see any parallel between Shug stating, "I want a typical Day ride. I don't want to get to the bottom of him, I don't want an empty tank, don't bottom him out,etc", and Shug stating, "Day Helped Him(with soundness issues) in his races by not crucifying him, and always bringing me back horse." b)Supposedly, you already agreed that this apparently was an important reason why Shug used/kept Day on EG, even if it wasn't the only reason. So we agree. c)Both of us really don't know the exact specifics on what Shug meant, on the ways "Day rode him that Helped him(with soundness ailments) in his races by not crucifying him, and always bringing back horse." I asked Shug's ex wife Mary Jane, what this meant, and all she really said was, "quiet hands and finesse." So basically the answer I got is: "Quiet hands and finesse riding by Day helped him(with his soundness issues) in his races by not crucifying him, and always brought back horse." That may not answer it really either. Pat Day was known for being a patient rider with gentle hands, and for not using a horse more than he had to.
It was nose to nose, neither horse was run to the ground, and both horses had troubled trips. Do troubled trips for either or both horses automatically cost them a certain amount of lengths in both winning and losing? We don't know, not necessarily, maybe. Does getting steadied or checked automatically mean that it cost horses a certain amount of lengths in both winning and losing? We don't know. Both horses had troubled trips in the Derby. In the Derby, Easy Goer got pinballed sideways, checked and totally cut off in a melee caused by Northern Wolf. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. According to your logic, Easy Goer losing valuable ground and checking hard cost him, and if this didn't happen Easy Goer would have won. The stewards may have thought so as well, as they suspended Northern Wolf's jockey Jo Jo Ladner after the race. Easy Goer also had his path taken away from him in the stretch by Dansel while having to change course and weave outside and back towards the inside. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. According to your logic, if this didn't happen Easy Goer would have won as he lost valuable ground. SS weaved back and forth in the stretch. Did it cost him? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. In the Preakness both horses had troubled trips again. Easy Goer hopped at the start and broke in the air. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win in a race that came down to inches? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. According to your logic, if this didn't happen Easy Goer would have won as he lost valuable ground. SS was bumped in the early part of the race that came down to inches. Did it cost him? We don't know, maybe. Down the back-side, Valenzuela and Sunday Silence forced and herded Easy Goer and Day out very wide to the middle of the track, which then perhaps forced Easy Goer and Day to make a big, early sprinting move to the lead to avoid being very wide. Did both cost him a few lengths and the win in a race that came down to inches? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. According to your logic, if this didn't happen Easy Goer would have won as he lost valuable ground. SS then had to steady. Did it cost him a few lengths? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. Then Valenzuela pinned Easy Goer in extremely tight on the rail while they were brushing. Did being pinned and trapped and in very tight on the rail, and being brushed cost him? We don't know, maybe. Did the brushing help or hurt both or either horses? We don't know, maybe, maybe not. Day turned Easy Goer's head when he had the lead late in the stretch. Did it cost him? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. In the Classic at the start, Easy Goer lost valuable ground as the rider grabbed him and was content to sit and wait. According to your logic, if this didn't happen Easy Goer would have won as he lost valuable ground.
Easy Goer had a troubled trip? He hopped coming out of the gate but he was sitting 5th around the first turn and he actually forced Valenuela to pull Sunday Silence up at the top of the back stretch.
No he didn't. Two videos here on youtube prove that he didn't. Go to the 11 minute mark of the video on here titled '1989 Belmont Stakes: Full ABC Broadcast,' where they show the full head-on video of the entire backstretch run of the Preakness. Valenzuela on SS took EG out 9 or 10 wide down the backstretch, then EG made a giant early move to the lead and passed Valenzuela and SS totally legally without cutting them off at all. Then on the far turn through the entire stretch, Valenzuela was pushing and banging him in as tight as can be on the dead rail. Check out the 11 minute mark of the aforementioned video. Even the owner of SS Arthur Hancock, said in the video on here titled 'Arthur Hancock on Sunday Silence,' at the 9 minute mark that 'Easy Goer swept past SS and I thought he had shut us off but EG DIDN'T, EG was FAR ENOUGH OUT THERE.' Also, Easy Goer didn't "just" leap in the air at the start, Easy Goer was taken out 9 or 10 wide down the backstretch purposely by Valenzuela, then made a huge, early move down the backstretch to the lead, then was pulled up by Day to stay near Houston on the far turn, then got pushed and banged in very tight on the dead rail on the far turn and through the entire stretch by Valenzuela, EG still held the lead in deep stretch when Day yanked his head out to the right to run sideways with his body being forced to stay straight being in very tight on the rail with head turned sideways.
@@benjudah610 I looked at the video you suggested. Looks like Day started to come over and Houston started to drift outside a bit and Pat V anticipated being pinched back and pulled up a little to prepare for it. I agree he wasn't pinched by Day enough to pull up like he did. But again it looks like Pat V thought Day was moving inside and Houston was moving a bit outside and he was being a bit cautious. As far as Day being forced 9 wide by Pat V, SS was 8 wide at that point so as they were making the turn it was pretty much race on. The way SS came back after Pat V pulled up a bit was very impressive. A great race between 2 great horses.
It indeed was a great race between two great Hall of Fame champions. Easy Goer was also immensely impressive considering all he went through the entire race and the Valenzuela shenanigans trying to get EG and Day beat at all cost - with Valenzuela purposely taking Easy Goer and Day out to the parking lot down the entire backstretch, then Valenzuela purposely banging and pushing him in as tight as can be on the dead rail from the far turn through the entire homestretch. In the video titled 'Arthur Hancock on Sunday Silence,' even the owner of SS admits that 'Easy Goer did NOT shut us off, Easy Goer was far enough out there.' And both videos prove that it was Valenzuela trying to "screw" Easy Goer and P Day. Not to mention the immense amount of riding errors Day made, including his start stop start stop start riding and yanking EG's head out to the right to run sideways with his body being forced to stay straight being in very tight on the rail with head turned sideways.
@@benjudah610 Of course he was trying to do whatever he could do to beat Day. This is called tactical race riding. Day has done more than his fair share of the same himself. Any jock who doesn't do what he/she can to win the race,.... shouldn't be out there at all. It's all about getting to the wire first! You have to want it more than the other guy. P Val loved to win, and did much of the time.
The 3-1 score means as much or as little as all the "sports" scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. The essays, history and facts won't change that it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss- the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like wheat separating from chaff, the cream rose to the top. Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant & illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss got exposed badly & romped when he was forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. The Litmus Test of a Champion is running & winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned & didn't allow the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses] to drug the drug-reliant & illegal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-reliant horses like ss; & these horses, like ss & many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to tell me (Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form) how he illegally gave numerous horses, including Clenbuterol to Sunday Silence, illegal drugs. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally breaking the laws in enhancing his horses performances. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's, 15 years before it was approved by the FDA, on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it to Sunday Silence, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine and amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine and noradrenaline, and thus significantly enhancing performance. Clenbuterol also thins blood and widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, and thus significantly increases energy, and thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs that he administered were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) and Sublimaze. The drugs Etorphine and Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria and well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs. The US Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing and using unusual quantities of these and other drugs, such as the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol, powerful steroids, loop diuretics, extremely powerful painkillers, and very strong amphetamines, etc. Alex Harthill and drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in North American racing. Harthill was at the vanguard of giving drugs to horses that were used to vastly enhance their performances, and they were remarkably effective turning good horses into great horses, bad horses into good horses, slower horses into faster horses, horses with no business winning doing so, and causing horses to run far over their heads. Harthill was a vet who had stolen a 30 length lead in the race to discover drugs that would significantly move up racehorses, and Harthill had no hesitancy in using whatever was available. Harthill was a magic man vet practicing the dark arts of racehorse manipulation. Harthill was arrested many times (Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, NY,etc) for tampering, bribery and doping horses with drugs. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history." Besides Harthill admitting it to the DRF, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. History and facts. Case closed.
Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela himself said, "Easy Goer was a Super Horse. In order for ss to even be close to Easy Goer, I had to do any & everything possible. I had to purposely & deviously force EG out as wide as can be down the backstretch & at every other point I could in races; & I had to purposely & deviously bang & push EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail. Arazi was the best horse I ever rode, Arazi was a better horse than sunday silence." Down the backstretch, Valenzuela purposely & deviously forced EG out 7 or 8 wide. Then, around the far turn through the entire home stretch, Valenzuela purposely & deviously bumped, banged & pushed EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail. Clearly, Valenzuela was the one trying to screw EG the whole way around & he actually did do it.
As usual, jockey Pat Day doing his absolute best to Lose! Day's rides in the 1989 Preakness, Whitney, Woodward and Classic were abominable and as horrendous as can be! Day's riding was atrocious - start stop start stop start, start check in major traffic start, inside outside way outside as wide as can be, back inside back outside back way outside as wide as can be, back in as tight as can be on the dead rail, turn his head in turn his head out, pull the trigger then fold up and put out the fire of a splendid Hall of Fame Champion in full flame, etc. A lemming could have rode better than Day.
Ben many trainers and even jockeys took Patsy to task. Never saw anything like this before. I guess the outrage was too much to not say a word. Add to this the confession of the convicted Vet HARTHILL shows you how great Easy GOER truly was not only numerous scorching times from 6 1/2, 7f to 1 1/2. how about as a three year old ran the fastest mile by a three year old and even more than a second faster than FLIGHTLINE A FOUR YEAR OLD!! Don't forget S.S. needed every drop of illegal performance enhancement drugs by HARTHILL. That's how great Easy Goer was. Truth
@@sigscorpion9275 It is posted above. Stating the truth is stating the truth, the true facts, plain and simple, and nothing at all whatever you are writing everywhere
Better in any way is totally subjective. Both greats, but In my opinion Easy Goer was a better horse than SS, and had a superior body of work and career than SS. But of course, once again, better in any way is still totally subjective.Better, stronger, etc etc are subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder. Better horse, better this, better that, stronger, Better overall? Better in any way is subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder. Many many greats were behind or tied on the head to head (series) scoreboard, including Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Skip Away, Dr Fager, Damascus, Arts and Letters, Swaps, Nashua, Round Table, Ancient Title, John Henry, Unbridled, Silverbulletday, Serenas Song, Pleasant Colony, Sir Barton, Ferdinand, Native Diver, and many many others. Were the horses who were ahead (or tied) on the head to head scoreboards better or a lil better than these? Were these enough said, or end of the story for them also? Better is subjective, and there are numerous factors. And even after those factors are factored in, who was better is totally subjective. Noor beat immortal Citation 4 out of 5 races. Beau Purple beat immortal Kelso 3 out of 4. Big Spruce beat immortal Forego 2 out of 3. Interco and Mehmet beat lengendary champ John Henry 2 out of 3. Cabrini Green beat John Henry 4 of 4. Darby Creek Road beat legendary John Henry 3 of 3. HOF (Hall of Fame) champ Damascus beat HOF champ Dr Fager 2 out of 4. Cutlass Reality beat HOY Ferdinand 3 times. Billy Kelly beat Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 8 of 12. Formal Gold beat HOF HOY champ Skip Away 4 out of 6. HOF champ Majestic Prince beat HOF HOY champ Arts and Letters 2 out of 3. Pretense beat HOF champ Native Diver 5 times. Clem beat HOF HOY champ Round Table 3 times. Summer Squall beat Champion Unbridled 4 out of 6. Heritageofgold beat HOF champ Silverbulletday 3 out of 3 times. Jewel Princess beat HOF champion Serenas Song in 3 of 3 races. Crystal Water beat HOF champ Ancient Title 4 times. Akureyri beat Champ Pleasant Colony 3 out of 4. And what? Who is better? That is totally subjective. There are numerous factors, including but not limited to : superior career, superior and better body of work, GI wins, Graded Stakes wins, wins against older horses and open company, running times, avg running times at various distances and at all distances, head to heads, records set, still standing records, weights carried and weights conceded, stakes wins and stakes wins vs. open company/older horses, varying distances won at during career, superior campaign or campaigns, durability, constitution, superiority and dominance, injuries, rider errors, training and trainer errors, win/loss %s, trips, amount of races run, post positions, campaign and career earnings with and without bonuses, races with drugs and medications allowed/used, races with no drugs and medications allowed/used, etc etc and many many more. But even after those factors are factored in, who was better is still totally subjective. Easy Goer and SS were both greats. Easy Goer won 12 total stakes, 9 Grade 1 wins at distances of 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f, and 12f showing versatility on all tracks and many distances. SS won 7 total stakes, 6 Grade 1 wins but only at distances from 9f to 10f. Both versatile indeed, but that is a big difference in versatility. Easy Goer also defeated older horses Six times at ages three and four while conceding a good amount of weight in quite a few of them. SS defeated older horses only two times at ages three and four. Many other factors would favor Easy Goer over SS as well, including a) amount of career races able to run - 20 to 14 ; b) amount of total career wins - 14 to 9 ; c) running times at all distances ; d) average running times at all distances ; e) career earnings without bonuses - about $ 4.8 million to about $ 3. 8 million ; f) career winning percentage - 70% to 64% ; g) Grade 1 wins - 9 to 6 ; h) total stakes wins - 12 to 7 ; i) wins vs older horses/open/unrestricted at ages three and four - 6 to 2 ; j) Grade 1 stakes wins at various distances - EG at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f, SS at only 9f to 10f ; and other factors that would favor Easy Goer would be varying distances won at, records set, near records set, still standing records, running times, avg running times at all distances, amount of races with no drugs and medications, campaigns, durability, constitution, dominance and superiority in races - average win margin and average loss margin, weights carried, weight concessions, etc. They were both greats no doubt, but IMO other than SSs slim edge in their head to head races, Easy Goer was better than SS in most - if not all - these other factors and categories. Both greats, but In my opinion Easy Goer was a better horse than SS, and had a superior body of work and career than SS. But of course, once again, better in any way is still totally subjective.
@@sigscorpion9275 Showed and posted above for you a million times you sick psycho troll Travis West, aka sigsc, aka a million other yt accounts with different names!
There is not one excuse being made at all. Many many greats were behind or tied on the "not enough said" head to head scoreboard - Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Skip Away, Dr. Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua, Round Table, Ancient Title, John Henry, Sir Barton among many others were behind or tied in the "not enough said" head to head scoreboards. No excuses. Easy Goer was much more flashy & dominant, while SS was more workmanlike. According to the final score logic as the ONLY factor, ALL of the horses listed above who were ahead on the head to head, HAD and HAVE to be considered better (or a lil better) horses than the horses they were ahead of. Do you? Of course you would not state that PRECISELY because there are so many many other factors (or stats as you say) involved. You can NOT stick only to final scores as the ONLY factor as you do, but you are entitled to state who you think was better or a lil better. You or I can state whoever we like was better or a lil better, but that is totally subjective. Great horses Know how to win on Different tracks, versatility, speed, tactical etc? Of course Easy Goer had big time speed and was tactical. Easy Goer won by huge margins under hand rides in most races. Huge speed, much faster top speed, and great acceleration. Easy Goer won wire to wire with big time speed numerous times. And when he did he ran one of the fastest Champagne Stakes at 8f, one of the fastest Suburban Handicaps at 10f, and the Wood Memorial at 9f and Jockey Club Gold Cup at 12f. Easy Goer won stalking the leader numerous times with big time speed and tactical speed. And when he did he ran the fastest mile of all time by any 3 year old, a still standing track record, and 1/5 off Dr Fager's world record. He also ran the second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time behind only Secretariat. He also ran some of the fastest Travers Stakes at 10f and Whitney Handicap's at 9f with big time speed and tactical speed. He also ran 1/5 of a second off the 6.5f track record sprinting, the fastest 7f of the year in Florida sprinting as well. Versatility, big time speed, big time tactical speed, etc. He did it every and all ways. Remember also, Easy Goer also won on all the major track sizes - 1 mile, 9 furlong, and 12 furlong tracks. SS did not - he only won on 1 mile tracks and 9 furlong tracks, and he had a losing record on 9 furlong or larger tracks. EG won 12 total stakes, 9 Grade 1s at distances from 7f to 12f (7f,8f,9f,10f,12f) - Versatility at all distances on all tracks and track sizes. While SS won 7 total stakes, 6 Grade 1s but only from distances of 9f to 10f. That's a major difference in versatility at many distances. Now who was greater or more versatile etc etc? Easy Goer also beat older horses 6 times at ages 3 and 4 while conceding significant weight in most, while SS beat older horses only 2 times at ages 3 and 4. Now who was greater or more versatile etc etc? And many more factors would favor Easy Goer over SS, including amount of races run, amount of races won, running times, avg running times, earnings without bonuses, won lost percentage, records set, still standing records, campaigns, durability, constitution, superiority and dominance in races, weights carried and conceded, etc. You see the obvious and major points. You see the obvious and major points. Who was better though? Better, like beauty is subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder. There are numerous factors, including but not limited to : superior career, superior & better body of work, GI wins, Graded Stakes wins, wins against older horses & open company, running times, avg running times at various distances and at all distances, head to heads, records set, still standing records, weights carried & weights conceded, stakes wins & stakes wins vs. open company/older horses, varying distances won at during career, superior campaign or campaigns, durability, constitution, superiority & dominance, injuries, rider errors, training and trainer errors, win/loss %'s, trips, amount of races run, post positions, campaign & career earnings with & without bonuses, races with drugs & medications allowed/used, races with no drugs & medications allowed/used, etc etc and many many more. They were both great horses. Other than SS's slight edge in head to head races, IMO Easy Goer was better than SS in most - if not all - these other factors & categories. But even after all of these numerous factors are factored in, who was better is still subjective. They were both greats, but IMO Easy Goer was a better horse, had a superior body of work, and had a superior career than SS even though SS held the slight edge in head to head races by the nose of his Preakness win. There is a lot more that can be said other than head to heads with other examples being: 1) Noor beat HOF champ Citation in 4 of 5 races head to head. 2) Beau Purple beat HOF champ Kelso in 3 of 4 races head to head. 3) Big Spruce & Wajima beat HOF champ Forego in 2 of 3 races head to head. 4) Damascus beat Dr Fager in 2 of 4 races head to head. Swaps and Nashua were 1 to 1 head to head. 5) Mehmet & Interco beat John Henry in 2 of 3 races. 6) Darby Creek Road also beat HOF champ John Henry in 3 of 3 races. 7) Cabrini Green also beat John Henry in 4 of 4 races. 8) Cutlass Reality beat HOY Ferdinand in 3 races. 9) Billy Kelly beat Triple Crown champ Sir Barton in 8 of 12 races. 10) Formal Gold beat HOF champ Skip Away in 4 of 6 races. 11) Star of Cozzene beat HOY Kotashaan in 3 of 4 races. 12) Pretense beat HOF champ Native Diver 5 times. 13) Summer Squall beat champion Unbridled in 4 of 6 races head to head. 14) Heritageofgold beat HOF champ Silverbulletday in 3 of 3 races. 15) Clem beat HOF champion Round Table 3 times. 16) Crystal Water beat HOF champion Ancient Title 4 times. 17) Akureyri beat champion Pleasant Colony in 3 of 4 races, etc etc. The point is who was better in any way is subjective, and it is certainly NOT "enough said."
+Travis West They are FACTS. You are very uneducated and you dont know any racing history. What part of this dont you understand? Many many greats were behind or tied on the head to head scoreboard - Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Skip Away, Dr. Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua, Round Table, Ancient Title, John Henry, Sir Barton among many others were behind or tied in the "not enough said" head to head scoreboards. There is a lot more that can be said other than head to heads with other examples being: 1) Noor beat HOF champ Citation in 4 of 5 races head to head. 2) Beau Purple beat HOF champ Kelso in 3 of 4 races head to head. 3) Big Spruce & Wajima beat HOF champ Forego in 2 of 3 races head to head. 4) Damascus beat Dr Fager in 2 of 4 races head to head. Swaps and Nashua were 1 to 1 head to head. 5) Mehmet & Interco beat John Henry in 2 of 3 races. 6) Darby Creek Road also beat HOF champ John Henry in 3 of 3 races. 7) Cabrini Green also beat John Henry in 4 of 4 races. 8) Cutlass Reality beat HOY Ferdinand in 3 races. 9) Billy Kelly beat Triple Crown champ Sir Barton in 8 of 12 races. 10) Formal Gold beat HOF champ Skip Away in 4 of 6 races. 11) Star of Cozzene beat HOY Kotashaan in 3 of 4 races. 12) Pretense beat HOF champ Native Diver 5 times. 13) Summer Squall beat champion Unbridled in 4 of 6 races head to head. 14) Heritageofgold beat HOF champ Silverbulletday in 3 of 3 races. 15) Clem beat HOF champion Round Table 3 times. 16) Crystal Water beat HOF champion Ancient Title 4 times. 17) Akureyri beat champion Pleasant Colony in 3 of 4 races, etc etc. The point is who was better in any way is subjective, and it is certainly NOT "enough said."
"Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies & debates about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran.
The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Wajima 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; & an endless amount of others. It was all done ILLEGALLY by ss - the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like wheat separating from chaff, the cream rose to the top. Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant & illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss got exposed badly & romped when he was forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. The Litmus Test of a Champion is running & winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses]. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-reliant horses like ss; & these horses, like ss & many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, etc) to ss. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was just better than the drug-dependent & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence. Harthill confessed to DRF's Hovdey of illegally giving illegal ped drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state (NY) in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal vet Harthill as well. The criminal vet of ss, Alex Harthill, confessed in 2001 to DRF's Jay Hovdey, to illegally administering illegal ped drugs to sunday silence (plus many other horses), including the significantly powerful potent performance enhancing drug Clenbuterol (an extraordinary drug with 2 completely different effects that dramatically & greatly enhance performance & significantly enhance speed, stamina, endurance, lung capacity & energy levels; it greatly aids breathing by significantly expanding the air passages in the lungs letting air flow much more freely, & it causes rapid fat burning significantly decreasing fat; it also has a similar effect on the body as Epinephrine & Amphetamines by increasing the production of Epinephrine & Noradrenaline, & thus significantly enhancing performance: it also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, & thus significantly increases energy, & thus significantly enhances performance), Sublimaze (A Potent Narcotic So powerful that it makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), Etorphine (An Opiate 80,000 Times More Powerful than Morphine - So powerful that it also makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), & Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin Bute, & provides significantly more potent pain relief than aspirin Bute & is far superior for relief of pain than aspirin Bute). Besides Harthill admitting it, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. Harthill only admitted to administering the illegal ped drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine & Banamine to Sunday Silence, & not Lasix (which was legal in every state in the US except NY back then anyways; but ss was listed as being administered Lasix in the DRF in all races outside drug-free NY); & it should also be noted Lasix is a potent diuretic & the main drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs; plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs, & the study of 23k races showed Lasix gives a significant 6 length performance enhancement. Case closed.
"Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran of DRF, LA Times & Newsday.
Nonsense, it was nose to nose, neither horse was run to the ground, and both horses had troubled trips. Do troubled trips for either or both horses automatically cost them a certain amount of lengths in both winning and losing? We don't know, not necessarily, maybe. Does getting steadied or checked automatically mean that it cost horses a certain amount of lengths in both winning and losing? We don't know. Both horses had troubled trips in the Derby. In the Derby, Easy Goer got pinballed sideways, checked and totally cut off in a melee caused by Northern Wolf. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. The stewards may have thought so, as they suspended Northern Wolf's jockey Jo Jo Ladner after the race. Easy Goer also had his path taken away from him in the stretch by Dansel while having to change course and weave outside and back towards the inside. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. SS weaved back and forth in the stretch. Did it cost him? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. In the Preakness both horses had troubled trips again. Easy Goer hopped at the start and broke in the air. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win in a race that came down to inches? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know? SS was bumped in the early part of the race that came down to inches. Did it cost him? We don't know, maybe. Down the back-side, Valenzuela and Sunday Silence forced and herded Easy Goer and Day out very wide to the middle of the track, which then perhaps forced Easy Goer and Day to make a big, early sprinting move to the lead to avoid being very wide. Did both cost him a few lengths and the win in a race that came down to inches? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. SS then had to steady. Did it cost him a few lengths? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. Then Valenzuela pinned Easy Goer in extremely tight on the rail while they were brushing. Did being pinned and trapped and in very tight on the rail, and being brushed cost him? We don't know, maybe. Did the brushing help or hurt both or either horses? We don't know, maybe, maybe not. Day turned Easy Goer's head when he had the lead late in the stretch. Did it cost him? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know.
+Travis West Nonsense. Neither horse was "run into the ground." More nonsense. Easy Goer and Sunday Silence each had the lead back and forth at numerous times throughout the race - and throughout the entire stretch. They each had the lead back and forth throughout the stretch and it was head to head and nose to nose. Neither horse was run into the ground. Spew nonsense and keep deleting your comments.
+Travis West I know the head - to - head records. As Delmarclub points out - a myriad of great horses were behind other horses when opposing them in direct competition. Better? Better is nonobjective and intuitive. They were both great Hall of Fame champions - separated by inches. Easy Goer did have a superior career resum'e, and accomplished and achieved more in his career.
+Travis West You are asking a question like you are a pre schooler. As if the ONE Bloodhorse list is authoritative, true and correct? Not at all. The ONE B.h. list is subjective, intuitive and non objective, as are all lists. Lists of greats? Charlie Justice, in an also flawed but objective stat analyses, ranked Easy Goer the number two greatest three year old of all time - and way ahead of SS - and behind only secretariat in his mathematical, statistical list (based on numerous factors). And Ahead of Buckpasser, Slew, Affirmed, Bid, Sunday, Damascus, Citation, etc. If the daily racing form, timeform, racing post, sports illustrated, associated press, thoroughbred times, etc etc also made lists, I am sure they would rank horses differently (many of them). Who was greater (or better) is very debatable and subjective. Since this one B.h. list also ranked Buckpasser narrowly ahead of Damascus, ranked Bid narrowly ahead of Affirmed, ranked Slew narrowly ahead of Affirmed, ranked Swaps narrowly ahead of Nashua, ranked SS narrowly ahead of EG, ranked Man O War ahead of Secretariat, ranked War Admiral ahead of Seabiscuit, ranked Majestic Prince ahead of Arts and Letters, ranked Round Table narrowly ahead of Bold Ruler, etc, this makes it true, correct and authoritative? Not at all. They are all very debatable, subjective, and intuitive. I respect the flawed, subjective B.H rankings, but it is still flawed, subjective and debatable. Their ranking Buckpasser narrowly ahead of Damascus, ranking Dr Fager ahead of Damascus, ranking Spectacular Bid narrowly ahead of Affirmed, ranking Sunday Silence narrowly ahead of Easy Goer, ranking Seattle Slew narrowly ahead of Affirmed, ranking Swaps narrowly ahead of Nashua, ranking Man O War ahead of Secretariat, ranking Citation far ahead of Noor, ranking War Admiral ahead of Seabiscuit, ranking Majestic Prince far ahead of Arts and Letters, ranking Native Dancer narrowly ahead of Tom Fool, ranking Cigar far ahead of Skip Away, ranking Alysheba but not ranking Bet Twice, ranking Round Table far ahead of Sword Dancer, ranking Round Table narrowly ahead of Bold Ruler, etc, are all very debatable & subjective. If the daily racing form, timeform, racing post, sports illustrated, associated press, thoroughbred times, etc etc also made lists ranking the top 100 horses, I am sure they would rank many horses differently. As an aside, I believe that both sports Illustrated & the associated press actually did rank a top 10 (only top 10 though), and horses ranked 4 through 10 were totally different from the B.H. Who was greater (or better) and where horses should be ranked is very debatable and subjective.
The 3-1 score means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. The essays, history and facts won't change that it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss- the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like wheat separating from chaff, the cream rose to the top. Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant & illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss got exposed badly & romped when he was forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. The Litmus Test of a Champion is running & winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned & didn't allow the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses] to drug the drug-reliant & illegal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-reliant horses like ss; & these horses, like ss & many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to tell me (Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form) how he illegally gave numerous horses, including Clenbuterol to Sunday Silence, illegal drugs. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally breaking the laws in enhancing his horses performances. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's, 15 years before it was approved by the FDA, on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it to Sunday Silence, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine and amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine and noradrenaline, and thus significantly enhancing performance. Clenbuterol also thins blood and widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, and thus significantly increases energy, and thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs that he administered were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) and Sublimaze. The drugs Etorphine and Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria and well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs. The US Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing and using unusual quantities of these and other drugs, such as the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol, powerful steroids, loop diuretics, extremely powerful painkillers, and very strong amphetamines, etc. Alex Harthill and drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in North American racing. Harthill was at the vanguard of giving drugs to horses that were used to vastly enhance their performances, and they were remarkably effective turning good horses into great horses, bad horses into good horses, slower horses into faster horses, horses with no business winning doing so, and causing horses to run far over their heads. Harthill was a vet who had stolen a 30 length lead in the race to discover drugs that would significantly move up racehorses, and Harthill had no hesitancy in using whatever was available. Harthill was a magic man vet practicing the dark arts of racehorse manipulation. Harthill was arrested many times (Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, NY,etc) for tampering, bribery and doping horses with drugs. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history." Besides Harthill admitting it to the DRF, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. History and facts. Case closed.
There's a reason why they called him the "Vet for a horse in need". He knew how to get around all the tests and rules and people went to him like moths to a flame. That was no secret.
I don't get the need to put down either horse in this race. This race is one of the great stretch drives of all time! Two hall of fame champion horses slugging it out there length of the stretch. Dave Johnson gives a great call, as does Trevor Denman on track. Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer 3 of 4, but that doesn't diminish how great Easy Goer was. Both were great thoroughbreds! A thrill to watch, even 26 years later.
Anyone who has watched the 1989 Belmont Stakes as Both Horses were Racing for the 3rd time in 5 Weeks and at 12 Furlongs witnessed exactly why Many "Still" feel Easy Goer was the Better Horse...This race was an absolute Destruction as Easy Goer just Mopped the floor with his Rival while also running the 2nd fastest Belmont only behind the Great Secretariat....Race was over early as they rounded the far turn...This Brilliant performance along with many many other Brilliant performances is why Easy Goer was the better horse between the 2...Couple of Bad rides by Pat Day cost Easy Goer the Legacy he deserved...
The drug free Easy Goer was far superior to the drug dependent and cheater doper vet Alex Harthill dependent Sunday silence. The drug dependent and cheater doper vet Alex Harthill dependent Sunday silence needed race day performance enhancing drugs and the cheater doper vet Alex Harthill to administer clenbuterol and numerous other drugs to beat drug free Easy Goer very narrowly by the narrowest of margins in a few races. In the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all race day performance enhancing drugs and banned the cheater doper vet Alex Harthill, Easy Goer romped and was in front before they even ran 1 1\4m. Easy Goer won Grade 1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f and 12f without any race day performance enhancing drugs and with much less rest and time between races. Easy Goer ran all distances in faster times, as well as far superior speed figures at all distances. The drug dependent and cheater doper vet Alex Harthill dependent Sunday silence won G1's only at 9f to 10f with much more rest and time between races, and needed race day performance enhancing drugs and the cheater doper vet Alex Harthill. Drug Free Easy Goer destroys him in all races at all distances when all race day performance enhancing drugs are banned and the cheater doper vet Alex Harthill also banned.
What you say about easy goer is true talent and speed he puts Sunday silence away. He weaknesses was his hart the five biggest races of his career he won one of them in his home state. He traveled he lost two breeder cups and the derby and Preakness. When Sunday silence
joe chrow Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant and corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant s.s. got exposed badly and romped when he was forced to run drug-less with no-drugs at all. The great Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer showed the world how to obliterate the drug-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a champion, and the litmus test of the heart of a champion, is running and winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; and during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York also banned the magic man corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian of s.s. Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally doping/juicing an endless amount of horses] and not allowing him to perform his magic and juice the drug-reliant and magic man corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant s.s. During that era, it was a humongous, gigantic credit to NY [and the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-dependent horses like s.s.; and these drug-reliant horses, like s.s. and many others, got exposed badly and crushed when they were forced to run drug-less with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-less races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-less no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play and complete fairness for all. The great drug-free Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer won and ran as great having to travel outside of drug-free NY when he romped in the Swale Stakes and in the process ran the fastest 7f of the year in the state which was outside drug-free NY having to travel. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed s.s; like heart-filled drug-free wheat separating from heart-less drugged chaff, the heart-filled drug-free cream rose to the top. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant s.s., s.s. needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him and still only beat him by the slimmest of margins with drug-free EG running as great outside drug-free NY in the process. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f and 12f drug-free with much less time and rest between races and running many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures and performance ratings; while the drug-reliant s.s. only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs and much more time and rest between races and running far less races. So much for heart. And, s.s.'s vet Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to s.s. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to tell Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form how he illegally gave numerous horses (including Clenbuterol to SS) illegal drugs. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED illegally breaking the laws in enhancing his horses performances. In DRF articles in recent years & in the last few years of his life, SSilence's vet Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing bronchodilator clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's 15 years before it was approved by the FDA on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. SS's vet Alex Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it to Sunday Silence, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) and Sublimaze. The drugs Etorphine and Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria and well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of controlled drugs, such as the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol, powerful steroids, loop diuretics, extremely powerful painkillers & very strong amphetamines, etc. Alex Harthill & raceday performance enhancing drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in North American racing. Harthill was at the vanguard of giving drugs to horses that were used to vastly enhance their performances, & they were remarkably effective turning good horses into great horses, bad horses into good horses, slower horses into faster horses, horses with no business winning doing so, & causing horses to run far over their heads. Harthill was a vet who had stolen a 30 length lead in the race to discover drugs that would significantly move up racehorses, & Harthill had no hesitancy in using whatever was available. Harthill was a magic man vet practicing the dark arts of racehorse manipulation. Harthill was arrested many times (Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, NY,etc) for tampering, bribery & doping horses with drugs. The drugs were & are so potent that their use or nonuse dramatically alters horse's performances (including SS). Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history." Besides Harthill admitting it to the DRF, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities.
cominatcha, Why is your only goal & aim to comment with an endless barrage of trolling comments, THEN Delete & Erase ALL of them, then more endless barrages of comments, then delete & erase all of them, & to continue to do this endless cycle day after day after day? Why not just comment all that you want to & leave all of your endless comments on all of the videos, & not erase & delete all of them?
"Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS, NOTABLY THE PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUG FUROSEMIDE, in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when narrowly edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS, NOTABLY THE PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUG FUROSEMIDE, in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when narrowly edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." LA Times December 1989. Furosemide/Lasix is a potent performance enhancing drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs, plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs & many studies show Furosemide/Lasix gives a significant 6 to 9 length performance enhancement. Sunday Silence's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill also ADMITTED to giving sunday silence the immensely effective performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Etorphine & Sublimaze in the 1989 Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders Cup Classic; Sunday Silence benefited immeasurably by all of their incredibly effective performance enhancing effects. Case closed & shut.
Still one of the most exciting live moments of my life, Sunday digging deep, Easy Goer coming powerfully at him with each stride. Was a big Sunday Silence fan, heart was beating faster than in any other race.
Premature move by Pat Day..PInned down on rail ENTIRE stretch..Loses by the luck of the bob..Easy Goer was the obvious better horse in this race..Broke slow on the most speed/pace favoring track in the Classic and closed to miss by a desperate neck...Easy Goer ran the better races in both of these races and was the better horse..No excuses for bad trips/biased speed surface/jockey errors etc in the 1 1/2 Belmont...That performance showcased just how much better 1 horse was/could be over the other..That was the true talent between both horses
joe chrow Pat Day himself said in an interview that Easy Goer emptied out and had nothing left he gave all he had coming down the stretch and that Easy Goer had nothing left..his legs were gone. it was a fair race coming around the last turn. A great horse with great tactical speed will win 3 out of 4 times over a power house of a horse in Easy Goer
joe chrow Easy Goer's blazing front-running speed and brilliant tactical speed was perfectly fine in numerous races going to the lead from the start, and staying up very close to the leaders throughout - Champagne, Suburban, Wood Memorial, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Gotham, Belmont, Preakness, Travers, Whitney, 6.5f near record, mile record, near records in many races, etc. If he was emptied out and gave all he had and had nothing left, then Sunday Silence also was emptied out, gave all he had, and had nothing left. What Pat ron franklin esque Day - aka Pat start stop start stop Day - said means something? Day also said, "It was a terrible ride and totally my fault. I HAD MORE HORSE THAN I KNEW WHAT TO DO WITH. It was absolutely rider error. I got him beat. I got hammered pretty good, and I'm the first to say that it wasn't unwarranted. P Val also carried me out extremely wide to the parking lot down the backstretch; then he kept pushing and banging me and trapped me in extremely tight on the dead rail from the far turn thru the entire stretch. Then EG was running sideways with the lead deep in the homestretch with his head and part of his body turned while having his momentum/stride and rhythm disrupted badly. In the Test of the Champion drug-free medication-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed him; like wheat separating from chaff, the cream rose to the top. I've always believed and I'll continue to believe that Easy Goer was a better horse than Sunday Silence. I've said it before and I'll always say it, I think Easy Goer was better than Sunday Silence, despite his slight 3-1 edge in the head to head races. I'll go to my grave believing that. We lost two photos to him and the one in the Preakness absolutely was due to rider error on my part, and my ride wasn't the best in the Classic. I was on the better horse." McGaughey also said, "Pat Day and I agree that he made riding mistakes in the Preakness. We had Sunday Silence beat and Day let him back in the race. In the other races, there were circumstances that contributed to what happened. In the Preakness, Day got to the lead then he remembered he was Pat Day. And when he FOLDED up on the turn, he allowed SS back in the race. He got the lead, and then he gave it back. He basically did the same thing in the Classic. In the Classic, when Day grabbed him after the start, maybe the horse didn't understand what he was doing. Then Day was content to sit and wait behind Sunday Silence, as DAY HAD DONE BEFORE, and the other horse got away from us, and we just missed and fell just a stride or so short. In my heart, I think Easy Goer is the better horse than Sunday Silence." Better or best is definitely subjective, but having acknowledged that; take nothing away from Sunday Silence as he was a great horse, but Easy Goer was a superior, greater, better, stronger and faster horse; Pat Valenzuela and Chris McCarron were better jockeys than Pat ron franklin-esque Day; and the master trainer Charlie the Bald Eagle Whittingham was a better trainer than Claude Shug McGaughey. Easy Goer's jockey and trainer, Pat ron franklin esque Day and the most conservative anti-speed McGaughey, were both pitiful. McGaughey was and is the most conservative trainer of all-time who rarely trained his horses for speed, no matter how much big-time brilliant speed a horse like Easy Goer possessed. Pat ron franklin esque Day was the most tentative, passive, conservative, start-stop, wait go wait go wait, yield idle go yield go yield idle, fold up move fold up move fold up rider of all-time. Many of Pat Ron Franklin esque Day's rides on Easy Goer, Forty Niner, Seeking the Gold, Sky Classic, Turkoman, Heavenly Prize, Rampage, Timber Country, Menifee, Surfside, Java Gold, etc were Ron Franklin - esque! Pat ron franklin esque Day, aka Pat start stop start stop Day, aka Pat wait go wait go wait go wait Day, aka Pat yield idle go yield idle go yield idle wait Day, aka Pat fold up move fold up move fold up Day, was pitiful. Pat ron franklin esque Day (aka Pat start stop start stop Day, aka Pat wait go wait go wait go wait Day, aka Pat yield idle go yield idle go yield idle wait Day, aka Pat fold up move fold up move fold up Day) was riding a Ferrari in Easy Goer. But, Pat ron franklin esque Day rode Easy Goer -- and many other horses -- like a teenager at the wheels of a Ferrari. Pat ron franklin esque Day never came to terms with the immense power and big-time speed at his disposal and how and when to use it. Go yield idle go, go yield idle go, go wait go wait go wait, fold up move, fold up move fold up, inside, outside, back inside, back outside. SS had to steady in the Preakness, but that he was not "cut off" or "shut off." I'll provide two videos for you to watch right here on youtube for proof of this. The first one is the 1989 Belmont Stakes - Easy Goer: Full ABC Broadcast video. Go to the 11 minute point of the video to watch the full head-on video of the backside run of the Preakness. It actually was Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela who actually was the one "trying to screw Pat ron franklin-esque Day the whole way around" by floating him very wide [8 or 9 wide] towards the barns on the back-side, and by trapping him and knocking him in very tight to the rail afterwards on the turn [so bad that Houston had to check] and thru the stretch. The full backside video doesn't show Pat ron franklin-esque Day shutting off or cutting off Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela. Valenzuela preposterously tried to turn it around on Day. The other video is the "Arthur Hancock on Sunday Silence" video uploaded by Blood-Horse. Interesting also to note that Silence's owner Arthur Hancock assumed, like most others, that Pat Day did. However, on the 'Arthur Hancock on Sunday Silence' video uploaded here on youtube by Blood-Horse, Hancock even admits he didn't by saying at the 8:50 point of the video, "Easy Goer swept past Sunday Silence, and it looked to me like he might have shut him off. Silence dropped back a length or two, and I said to my wife that Easy Goer just shut us off. That's what I thought looking through my binoculars. But he DIDN'T, he did NOT, he was far enough out there."
Joe chrow I'm tired of all the excuses that people bring up for the fact that Easy Goer lost. Pat Day moved prematurely: Pat Day waited too long; Pat Day should have gone to the lead. Jeez. Sunday Silence just had his number in the Derby and the Preakness. Great races, as well as the Breeders Cup, and the better horse won. Period.
joe chrow Travis West etc etc etc etc - No excuses. Who's better in any way is totally subjective. There are an endless amount of all time greats who were behind or tied in head to head records, including Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr. Fager, Damascus, Shuvee, John Henry, Pleasant Colony, Serena's Song, Silverbulletday, Swaps, Nashua, Sir Barton, Skip Away and many others. There was the Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes (the classic distance for the whole world) where Easy Goer destroyed him in the only state in the entire country during that era that banned all drugs. Balanced against that are two wins by SS against Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins, and a total of 3 wins which SS won by a combined margin of less than two and three-quarter lengths. So SS held the slight 3-1 edge against EG with 3 wins coming in very close wins and a loss in which he was destroyed. Easy Goer also ran the record mile one full second faster than Secretariat's record. Easy Goer also ran a better, faster Ragozin speed figure than Secretariat did in their respective Belmont Stakes. Easy Goer also ran some of the greatest, fastest all timer performances at every distance he ran - 6.5F, 7F, 8F, 9F, 10F, 12F. Easy Goer generally ran faster times than Sunday Silence at all distances. Easy Goer more often ran faster times than Sunday Silence at all distances, including many outstanding, perennial all timer performances at every distance - 6.5F, 7F, 8F, 9F, 10F, 12F. Sunday Silence lost 36% of his races, mostly to lesser horses including Houston, Prized, Criminal Type, and Cro Lover. Neither the Easy Goer/SS example or the other ones I cite show that any of these horses was "better" (which is totally subjective anyways) or was able to consistently get the better of the other. All these examples show is the records of two horses in a VERY MINUSCULE number of races. A few races certainly would NOT be even close to a large enough sample size if you were trying to establish consistency on a statistical basis; nor is it even close to a large enough sample size to show who was "better" (which is totally subjective anyways). SS held the slight 3 to 1 edge over EG in the races they both ran in. Those are facts, but who's "better overall", "better in general," or "better" in any way are all totally subjective. "Better" is totally subjective and numerous greats were behind or tied in head to head records vs other horses, including Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua, John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many others. Citation got beat 4 out of 5 by Noor; Kelso got beat 3 out of 4 by Beau Purple; Forego got beat 2 out of 3 by Big Spruce; Shuvee got beat 4 out of 5 by Gallant Bloom; Dr Fager got beat 2 out of 4 by Damascus; Pleasant Colony got beat 3 out of 4 by Akureyri; Triple Crown winner Sir Barton got beat 8 out of 12 by Billy Kelly; John Henry got beat 4 out of 4 by Cabrini Green; John Henry got beat 3 out of 3 by Darby Creek Road; Skip Away got beat 4 out of 6 by Formal Gold; & there are an endless amount of other similar examples. Easy Goer also ran many more races in a shorter time period with much less time between races, and at more varying distances; & he ran mostly in the only state in the entire country at the time that banned all drugs. SS ran significantly less races with much more time between races, at less varying distances, & all but 1 of his races were run in states that allowed drugs. Sunday Silence's record (Lost 4 of 6 races; Losing record on his home track losing 3 races) on bigger tracks with a circumference of 1 1/8m or larger was very similar to Easy Goer's record on smaller mile circumferenced tracks. However, size of tracks, size of turns, straightaway/turn speed & acceleration, region, rider/rider tactics, trainer/training, drugs/medications not being allowed, etc etc, are just a few of the numerous variables, and cannot be simplified when there are many more factors and variables. It is much more complicated than that given the myriad of variables that determine the outcome of races. Failing to factor the numerous other variables in can lead to the wrong conclusions about why horses win or lose races. It makes no sense to look at cause and effect simplistically because other variables may have determined the outcome. Just because the Earth looks flat based on the way we actually see it, does not mean that it is flat. There are numerous factors, including but not limited to : superior career, superior & better body of work, GI wins, Graded Stakes wins, wins against older horses & open company, running times, avg running times at various distances & at all distances, head to heads, records set, still standing records, weights carried & weights conceded, stakes wins & stakes wins vs. open company/older horses, varying distances won at during career, superior campaign or campaigns, durability, constitution, superiority & dominance, injuries, jockeys, riding & rider errors, trainers, training and trainer errors, win/loss %'s, trips, amount of races run, track sizes, track circumferences, post positions, campaign & career earnings with & without bonuses, races with drugs & medications allowed/used, races with no drugs & medications allowed/used, etc etc & many many more. They were both great horses, but who's better is still totally subjective even after factoring in the endless amount of other factors. Easy Goer & SS were both greats. Easy Goer won 12 total stakes, 9 Grade 1 wins at distances of 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f, and 12f showing versatility on all tracks & many distances. SS won 7 total stakes, 6 Grade 1 wins but only at distances from 9f to 10f. Both versatile indeed, but that is a big difference in versatility. Easy Goer also defeated older horses Six times at ages three and four while conceding a good amount of weight in quite a few of them. SS defeated older horses only two times at ages three and four. Many other factors would favor Easy Goer over SS as well, including a) amount of career races able to run - 20 to 14 ; b) amount of total career wins - 14 to 9 ; c) running times at all distances ; d) average running times at all distances ; e) career earnings without bonuses - about $ 4.8 million to about $ 3.8 million ; f) career winning percentage - 70% to 64% ; g) Grade 1 wins - 9 to 6 ; h) total stakes wins - 12 to 7 ; i) wins vs older horses/open/unrestricted at ages three & four - 6 to 2 ; j) Grade 1 stakes wins at various distances - EG at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f; SS at only 9f to 10f ; k) Easy Goer never was defeated by more than 2 & a half lengths in any race in a much longer career, SS never was defeated by more than 8 lengths in any race in a much shorter career; & other factors that would favor Easy Goer would be varying distances won at, records set, near records set, still standing records, running times, avg running times at all distances, campaigns, durability, constitution, dominance & superiority in races - average win margin and average loss margin, weights carried, weight concessions, etc. Other than SS's slight edge in head to head races, IMO Easy Goer was better than SS in most - if not all - these other factors & categories. But even after all of these numerous factors are factored in, who was better is still subjective. They were both greats, but IMO Easy Goer was a better horse, had a superior body of work, and had a superior career than SS even though SS held the slight edge in head to head races by the nose of his Preakness win. There is a lot more other than head to heads.
Easy Goer was a GREAT talent with good tactical speed..Pat Day decided to change the way he runs and always take him back in the pack..Pat Day breaks next to LAST in this race..jogs along..than decides to rush easy goer up to the leaders on the backstretch..than finally makes his move with easy goer and takes the lead..uses him up and doesnt even TRY to make sunday silence go WIDE in the stretch and gets easy goer PINNED down on the rail where no horse wants to be..This is a prime example of pat day being clueless on easy goer..he was too spoiled on easy goers back and treated him like a Ferarri and used no tactics..still hard to forgive pat day for this ride and a few others..he cost easy goer his true legacy...ATROCIOUS ride
Easy Goer's jockey and trainer, Pat ron franklin esque Day (Pat start stop start stop start Day) and the most conservative anti-speed McGaughey, were both pitiful. McGaughey was and is the most conservative trainer of all-time who rarely trained his horses for speed, no matter how much big-time brilliant speed a horse like Easy Goer possessed. Pat ron franklin esque Day was the most tentative, passive, conservative, start-stop rider of all-time. Many of Pat Ron Franklin esque Day's rides on Easy Goer, Forty Niner, Seeking the Gold, Sky Classic, Turkoman, Heavenly Prize, Rampage, Timber Country, Menifee, Surfside, Java Gold, etc were Ron Franklin - esque! Actually, Pat ron franklin esque Day (Pat start stop start stop Day) was riding a Ferrari in Easy Goer. But, Pat ron franklin esque Day rode Easy Goer -- and many other horses -- like a teenager at the wheels of a Ferrari. Pat ron franklin esque Day never came to terms with the immense power and big-time speed at his disposal and how and when to use it. Go yield idle go, go yield idle go, inside, outside, back inside, back outside. Better or superior is definitely subjective. Having acknowledged that: Take nothing away from Sunday Silence as he was a great horse, but Easy Goer was a superior, greater, better, stronger and faster horse; Pat Valenzuela and Chris McCarron were better jockeys than Pat Day, a.k.a Pat ron franklin-esque Day; and the master trainer Charlie the Bald Eagle Whittingham was a better trainer than Claude Shug McGaughey.
agreed..Easy Goer had NUMEROUS races where pat day would break back in the pack..rush up..fall back again..make another move and fall back off pace and finally make his last move and win..he was just so talented he could afford to do that..i ALWAYS felt that Easy Goer was the perfect horse..he could stay close to the leaders and EXPLODE when called upon..i felt that Easy Goer could have also WIRED fields if connections chose that tactic..but for some odd reason pat day decided to keep Easy Goer much much too far off the pace. (seems every race i see pat day in he is at the back of the pack his entire career( claimers/Allowance/Stakes horses)..Preakness disgusted me the most..all over the place..i just could not BELIEVE pat day allowed easy goer to get PINNED on the rail like that where no horse wants to be and waited FOREVER for sunday silence to come after him in the stretch before he got into easy goer..the CLASSIC i was most disappointed in..Gulfstream has always been one of the harder tracks to close into unless you are going against inferior competition as he did in the swale..yet pat day waited too late to get easy goer rolling..he was close up and decided to lag again and finally decided to make his move and lost by a head..i am still confused to why he waited so long..Easy Goer had a ton of horse he could have moved earlier and went right on by in stretch..Easy Goer was much better than Sunday Silence in my opinion..i was shocked sunday silence was favored over easy goer in the belmont..1st time of easy goers career he wasnt the favorite in a race..i KNEW the 1 1/2 distance would cancel out any racing tactic bufoonery pat day would use and easy goer would win on pure talent..seemed to me in MOST races i watched easy goer run he would be making 1 to 2 moves before they even got to the halfmile mark and would make his final move in the stretch as every other horse in these races would run along pace themself waiting to make their 1 move..Easy Goer was so talented he could afford jockey rides like that..Easy Goer is still the most pure talented horse i have ever seen..many GREAT horses you can tell are great on the track..but Easy Goers EFFORTLESS talent would just JUMP out at you watching him run..i dont think i have EVER seen a horse make so many moves during a race let alone a grade 1 race than Easy Goer..my final take is that i truly believe that Easy Goer was so talented that he spoiled pat day..and pat day had ZERO respect for Sunday Silence..and it cost him
Pat Day and the Connections Cost Easy Goer Horse of The Year in 1989....Easy Goer raced very Sluggish off grueling campaign along with a very TIMID ride by pat day in The Classic...Easy Goer was the Heavy "1-2" favorite in the race and those Kind of Odds say that the Public not only feels 1 Horse is better but "Superior" to the other...Too bad...Easy Goer had a WORLD of talent
No...EASY GOER was trained from the start at WIDE TURNED Belmont park and never fully handled the sharp two turns of churchill, gulfstream etc. That was his only, albeit small, FLAW that cost him from ever winning a grade 1 outside of NY.
What fighters both horses were. Pat Day: 'Absolutely rider error. I take full blame. I was on the better horse.' It takes a man to be humble enough to admit that. I'll give that to Pat Day. Day also said : "I'd be concerned after pulling the trigger and exploding and committing to go on, and then letting him down and confusing him, start stop start stop."
Watch the Breeders Cup Classic. Easy Goer was drifting in on his left lead while Pat continued pounding him right-handed. Watch when he finally taps him on the left in mid-stretch. Focus on his eyes. It's like the Ritalin just kicked in. With Baffert and Smith Easy Goer wins all these races. TACTICAL SPEED. Two words who's meaning Shug could never grasp. To this day I've never seen a horse continually waltz out of the gate and then blitz down the backstretch only to stop and chill like the race is over before being asked to kick in again when you're either boxed in down at the rail or galloping on your left lead. Easy Goer was an insanely fast horse with plenty of gas. Get him out of the gate and in stalking position and he never loses. Greatest racehorse of my lifetime. I was born in 1974.
@@normanphilp1760 if you just want to pretend or shutdown and eliminate the truth go right ahead. On the track you had old Charlie need a banned and convicted vet to win who admitted dosing S.S. End of that. Breeding you are joking not even close. The list of Grade 1 winners landslide and Breeders champions is Easy GOER More champions also in even less years than S.S Too bad. It was Clean vs dirty. A convicted and banned Vet who admitted he juiced him. A juiced jockey and the Enabler Charlie. What a bunch. Even the country didn't want him.
The drug free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the far superior horse on and off the track. The drug dependent and cheater drugger veterinarian Alex Harthill dependent Sunday silence needed all of his performance enhancing drugs and cheater drugger veterinarian alex harthill.
The Drug-free Eclipse Award Champion & Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer will always be the Drug-Free Eclipse Award Champion and Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion, and the most coveted honor and prize, by far, is being inducted in the Hall of Fame, and Easy Goer did it drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence needed and was given performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to barely beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. When ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs (and without ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill) in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well - ss was Crushed by the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer. And as importantly ss's veterinarian Alex Harthill fully voluntarily admitted that he gave illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; but Harthill could NOT do so in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs - and as importantly banned the illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Triple Crown winner Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Triple Crown winner Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Forego 1; Wajima 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Hall of Famer Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Eclipse Award Champion Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Eclipse Award Champion Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion Kotashaan 1; and an endless amount of others. The Classic Distance for the whole world is 12f, but Easy Goer won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less time and rest between races and ran many more career races; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f with much more time and rest between races and ran far less career races. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's body of work & career accomplishments are far superior to ss's as well. The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned the illegal criminal veterinarian of sunday silence Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses]. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-dependent horses like ss; and these horses, like ss, and many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drug drug-free races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug drug-free races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. And, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs and banned Alex Harthill as well. New York by far ran/runs the most Prestigious, Championship G1 races in the USA with by far the highest purse money in the country; NY was/is by far the best racing circuit in the USA; champions are crowned and championships are won on the Championship Tracks in New York - they are by far the fairest tracks in the USA in New York, with Belmont Park being by far the fairest of them all, because they are all larger tracks with large, sweeping turns where horses run as fast around the bigger turns as they do on straightaways - (although I will note all these larger tracks in and out of NY with circumferences larger than a mile - Saratoga, Arlington, Hollywood, Hialeah, Aqueduct, Laurel, Woodbine, Atlantic City, Keeneland, Ellis, Colonial, Kentucky Downs, and the new Gulfstream); NY was and still is the Center of Racing in the USA; and most importantly, there are over 200 horses in the Hall of Fame and no matter where they were/are/will be based, 99% of them ran/run/will run in NY for the reasons listed above!!
Easy Goer took the lead early and those were some fast fractions...Pinned down on the rail for the entire stretch to only lose by a "nose" at the wire...Easy Goer was the better horse and ran the better race in a nose lost in my opinion...Sunday Silence had such a HUGE advantage having Easy Goer on the rail for the entire stretch and still could not get by him until he won the flip of the coin at the wire
By a nose or by a mile a win is a win. They all look the same in the win and loss column. Thats 3 wins to 1.There is no column for the "but he only lost by a nose" excuse.
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the far superior horse on the track and at stud over the drug-reliant & criminal cheater doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence (needed all of his illegal performance enhancing drugs [Clenbuterol,etc] administered to him by his criminal cheater doper vet Alex Harthill). The drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 1 1/8m, 1 1/4m & 1 1/2m drug-free with much less rest & time between races running faster times at all distances, & ran far superior speed/performance figures & ratings drug-free. While the drug-reliant & criminal cheater doper vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss only won G1's at 9f to 10f with much more rest & time between races & needing all of his illegal performance enhancing drugs [Clenbuterol, etc] administered to him by his criminal cheater doper vet Alex Harthill. Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; the list is endless - they all look the same in the win and loss column.
Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; the list is endless - they all look the same in the win and loss column.
Pat Ron Franklin Esque Day (aka Pat Wait All Day, Pat Start Stop Start Stop Start Day, Pat a Day late, Pat Delay Day, Pat so passive & patient he could watch a faucet drip for days Day) himself said, "I was on the far superior, far better horse in Easy Goer, but we lost a few photos to him by the slimmest of margins totally due to rider errors on my part. I had FAR MORE HORSE than I knew what to do with. It was totally my fault." Shug McGaughey said, "Easy Goer was a Better Horse than Sunday Silence. Pat Day got Easy Goer beat. Day waited when he didn't need to wait. We had ss beat & then Day let ss back in the races. Pat Day & I agree that he made riding mistakes. Easy Goer was the better horse than sunday silence. Easy Goer was by far the best horse I ever trained, Easy Goer was the most talented horse I've ever had. Easy Goer's action was so athletic, so natural, so fluid; he glided over the track; he ran blazingly fast & did it so easily. Easy Goer captured the public; he was a brilliantly fast horse, exciting to watch, & he had a great following. I had always dreamed of having a horse like Easy Goer. Easy Goer is by far the best that I've ever had. What Easy Goer did in all races, you just don't see that anymore. Easy Goer wanted to do a lot, all the time. My job - I had a Porsche in Easy Goer - was to not drive it 200 miles an hour every day. My job was just to keep him level, & keep him reserved. He wanted to go. I was very young, very inexperienced & made many mistakes." Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela himself said, "Easy Goer was a Super Horse. In order for ss to even be close to Easy Goer, I had to do any & everything possible. I had to purposely & deviously force EG out as wide as can be down the backstretch & at every other point I could in races; & I had to purposely & deviously bang & push EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail. Arazi was the best horse I ever rode. Arazi could do more & was even a much better horse than sunday silence." Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela. "Bless his heart ss was so exhausted ss was practically dead, almost literally dead, without all of his illegal performance enhancing drugs & without his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill." Charlie Whittingham himself said, "I am very angered that there is only 1 state in the whole country which bans all performance enhancing drugs, which bans all drugs, & also bans the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill (Harthill admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs [Clenbuterol, Subliamze, Etorphine, etc] to the drug-reliant sunday silence) despite his criminal record (Harthill was arrested numerous times in many states [Kentucky, NY, Illinois, Ohio, Louisiana, etc] for illegally drugging numerous horses). I think ss maybe can be as good as EG, & maybe can be as Great as Easy Goer, but ONLY IF EVERYTHING goes ss's way." Case closed.
Ive watched horse racing since 1988, and to this day, its the best horse race Ive ever seen. Both Sunday Silence and Easy Goer were Hall of Fame horses, and man, did they live up to the hype in this race.
P.S. I was 13 years old when this race happened and I had a monstrous four bucks to win on Sunday Silence. God im good, and thanks dad for betting for me. I miss you.
98 Preakness right there as well for excitement on ABC coverage it's sensational
@@arthurfonzarelli9828 you mean the 98 Belmont? When victory Gallup beat real quiet by a nose?
Wish Dave Johnson and Charlsie Canty were still calling the races. NBC has run it into the ditch with controversial political statements and celebrity interviews nobody gives a damn about.
One of the greatest calls in the history of racing.
It was good but I thought Trevor Denman's call was better, for one because he called SS the winner at the finish line instead of pretending it wasn't obvious who won like Johnson did. ua-cam.com/video/VJjJphmr10s/v-deo.html
23 and 2…..it’s fast but not that fast…..greatest calls…haha…learn racing before commenting.
I come back every once in a while just to see this spectacular race, great run from two legendary colts
Roberts,whenerer you helwve the time call me,your father gone for his doctor appointment.10:20 AM
@@joycesimms6516 ?????????????
@@joycesimms6516 go watch ABC coverage of 1998 Belmont with real quiet it's the best imo
@@crazymonkey0518 somebody tell Joyce the message will not get there.
Indeed. Such a great race, with two great horses, neither of which we're likely to see the likes of again any time soon.
Sorry for my poor English
When I know Sunday Silence ,he is already dead.But now I can see him as a racing horse so fast so strong😭
Thanx USA🇺🇸！
By one of Japanese horse racing fan
One of the best races I've ever seen. And two of my favourite thoroughbreds of all time... WOW, can't believe its been 25yrs already???
What a race between two greats. "In a duel for the ages, two greats joined battle, they bounded cheek by jowl to the wire. While picking up another cross on his reins, jockey Pat Day appeared to grab too much right line canting Easy Goer's head to the right, & in the end perhaps costing him the race by the flare of a nostril."-Bill Nack. "The two greats even changed leads in unison. They ran side by side, head to head, so close together they were brushing again & again, with Easy Goer also brushing the rail, & dangerously close to it. A jewel of a duel by a snout."-SI
Certainly one of the greatest battles there has ever been. On any track anywhere!
The blow for blow, counterblow exchanges between them were amazing.
Sunday silence 1989 horse of the year
CLEAN VS DIRTY PROVEN
@@makingthecoin3647 Show this 2002 DRF Jay Hovdey Alex Harthill article
@@sigscorpion9275 It is "shown" and "posted" above and on all of the videos.
@@makingthecoin3647 Saying that a horse is doping on drugs is the GREATEST FORM of Flattery. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,
@@sigscorpion9275 You don't make sense at all. Stating the true facts is stating the truth
My Grandfather loved going out to bet the Ponies at Churchill Downs. He passed in the early hours on a Sunday Jan. 29, 1989. At our Derby Party everyone just knew Sunday Silence was gonna be the horse to beat. That will always be one of my favorite Derby horses of all time.
Stating the truth is stating the truth, period. The true facts, plain and simple.
"Easy Goer met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME. Easy Goer and SS were inches apart but miles ahead of their contemporaries. In the absence of either, each probably would have been a dominant Triple Crown winner with only history as a benchmark. Instead, each proved each others greatness."
+Travis West Cut and paste yourself and use "west" much in many different youtube accounts and usernames?..lol......Let's see, you are "Travis West", "way2goutwest", "Sross west", "Westboundkennels" and "westbound" all wrapped in one!! Any more "west" accounts and usernames that you use and cut and paste yourself? lol
+Travis West Lol. You responded to me. You call a person who sees you cut and paste the same comments with your numerous "west" username accounts a stalker? Perhaps you are a stalker, as well as a person who also cuts and pastes the same comments with your many "west" username accounts. What is a person who does this called? Why are you now deleting your comments?
AMEN...
Travis West Means as much or as little as all the scoreboards always reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; and an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed s.s; like heart-filled drug-free wheat separating from heart-less drugged chaff, the heart-filled drug-free cream rose to the top. Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant and corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant s.s. got exposed badly and romped when he was forced to run drug-less with no-drugs at all. The great drug-free Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer showed the world how to obliterate the drug-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a champion is running and winning drug-less without any performance enhancing drugs; and during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York didn't allow the magic man corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian of s.s. Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally doping/juicing an endless amount of horses] to perform his magic and juice the drug-reliant and magic man corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant s.s. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [and the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-dependent horses like s.s.; and these horses, like s.s. and many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-less with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-less races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-less no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play and complete fairness for all. The drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the better horse than the drug-reliant and corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant s.s. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant s.s., s.s. needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him and still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f and 12f drug-free with much less time and rest between races and running many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures and performance ratings; while the drug-reliant s.s. only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs and much more time and rest between races and running far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to s.s. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to tell Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form how he illegally gave numerous horses (including Clenbuterol to SS) illegal drugs. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED illegally breaking the laws in enhancing his horses performances. In DRF articles in recent years & in the last few years of his life, SSilence's vet Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing bronchodilator clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's 15 years before it was approved by the FDA on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. SS's vet Alex Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it to Sunday Silence, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) and Sublimaze. The drugs Etorphine and Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria and well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of controlled drugs, such as the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol, powerful steroids, loop diuretics, extremely powerful painkillers & very strong amphetamines, etc. Alex Harthill & raceday performance enhancing drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in North American racing. Harthill was at the vanguard of giving drugs to horses that were used to vastly enhance their performances, & they were remarkably effective turning good horses into great horses, bad horses into good horses, slower horses into faster horses, horses with no business winning doing so, & causing horses to run far over their heads. Harthill was a vet who had stolen a 30 length lead in the race to discover drugs that would significantly move up racehorses, & Harthill had no hesitancy in using whatever was available. Harthill was a magic man vet practicing the dark arts of racehorse manipulation. Harthill was arrested many times (Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, NY,etc) for tampering, bribery & doping horses with drugs. The drugs were & are so potent that their use or nonuse dramatically alters horse's performances (including SS). Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history." Besides Harthill admitting it to the DRF, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities.
Easy Goes will always be remembered for losing 3 out of 4 to Sunday Silence, who was the better horse in terms of head to head and progeny
Saying the truth is saying the truth, plain and simple, the true facts, period.
I am so sick of these debates and people putting Sunday down or saying he only beat Easy Goer because of jockey errors (REALLY?), he beat Easy Goer 3 out of 4 times, on different tracks, through different styles. He proved who was better in the only way that matters - on the damn track! Sunday Silence was the better horse, a superior sire and a horse this country should have valued while they had him.
Jaja is true ..they only have excuses . 3 of 4 period.
It's ridiculous... Sunday Silence beat him 3 of 4... excuses mean 0
All involved in this massively deady gambling "game" are cruel, brutal, vicious and evil.
@@victoranthony9037 you can count to 4. Listen to ignore the fact that the horse the jockey were users and the vet was banned or convicted in several states says it all.
True he won when it counted. But there is no discounting the campaign Easy Goer put up that year. SS had to have breaks between his races and Easy Goer ran from start to finish and won a string of races that will never be equalled again. Any modern TB today, would fold under that kind of campaign. It's just a shame we never got to see them compete against each other at 4. And quit trying to compare stud records. SS got to breed up until he died in 2002. Easy Goer had only 4 crops as he died in 1994. You can't compare those stud records since SS was around a lot longer.
As usual Sunday silence beating easy Gore yet again
Those black-eyed Susan sure did look good on Sunday silence
SUNDAY SILENCE PROBABLY SMOKED THE BLACKEYED SUSAN'S
@@makingthecoin3647 Show this 2002 DRF Jay Hovdey Alex Harthill article
@@sigscorpion9275 It is posted and shown above and on all of the videos just for you a thousand times.
@@traviswest949 YOU KNOW WHATS POSTED ABOVE ? AND ON ALL RECOND BOOKS?? SUNDAY SILENCE BEATING EASY GOER 🤣🤣🤣
@@traviswest949 SHUG SAID THIS WAS A GREAT HORSE RACE.....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Great Sunday Silence! His offspring still conquering today!
Easy goer, one of my favourites, right next to NORTHERN DANCER.
Fantastic race by Sunday Silence. He had to pull up at the top of the back stretch and then went 3 wide to run down Easy Goer.
He had more heart than Easy Goer.
"Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE. Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when narrowly edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran of DRF, LA Times & Newsday.
"Dr. Thomas Swerczek, the veterinary pathologist who conducted Easy Goer's necropsy, determined the horse died of an anaphylactic reaction to an allergen, AND the veterinarians were CONVINCED the cancer did NOT kill Easy Goer & would NOT have been fatal for a LONG TIME. They also said fatal allergic reactions are more common than most professionals realize." ss died at the young age of 16 of heart failure, infectious disease & the chronic foot disease laminitis. Native Dancer (EG's great grandfather; cancer is heredity as well) died of cancerous tumors at the young age of 17. Secretariat died of laminitis. Bold Ruler died of cancer. Dr Fager died of a colon obstruction at the young age of 12. Seabiscuit died of a heart attack at the young age of 14. Buckpasser (EG's grandfather) died at the young age of 15 of a ruptured aorta, & many others. Hall of Fame Champion Ruffian died at age 3, Hall of Fame Champion Go For Wand died at age 3; Hall of Fame Champion Dark Mirage died at age 4; Hall of Fame Champion Equipoise died at age 10; Hall of Fame Champion Phar Lap died at ONLY age 6 of multiple organ failure; Hall of Fame Champion Sysonby died at ONLY age 4 with multiple organ failures; Hall of Fame Champion Billy Kelly died at only age 10 of heart disease & multiple organ failures; Hall of Fame Champion Pan Zareta died at ONLY age 8 of pneumonia & multiple organ failures; Champion Lost in the Fog died at ONLY age 4 of inoperable cancer all over his body with "multiple organ failures"; Champion Dubai Millennium died at ONLY age 5 with multiple organ failures of his whole body system; Champion Landaluce died at ONLY age 2 of "multiple organ failures"; Champion Sardula died at ONLY age 3 of multiple organ failures; Champion Arrogate died at ONLY age 7 with multiple neurological organ failures; Champion Summer Bird died at ONLY age 7 of colic & multiple organ failures. Hall of Fame Champion Gamely died at age 11; ditto top horses Swale (age 3), Hoist the Flag, Code of Honor, Scat Daddy, Pioneerofthenile, Laoban, Left Bank, Peteski, Midnight Bourbon, Medina Spirit, Strolling Along, Exbourne, Barbaro, Prairie Bayou, Pine Island, Eight Belles, George Washington, Union City, On the Line, Mr Nickerson, Mr Brooks, Pensive & an endless amount of others.
The FACTS are that the drug-reliant & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence was extremely unsound, infirm, had breathing problems & had numerous deformities, & that was why he needed all of his illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) illegally administered to him by the illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill (who admitted to illegally administering many illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). Plus ss died of both the unsound, infirm foot disease & heart failure, both of which prove all the aforementioned & also were the results of the proven drug use during his racing career. Even ss' offspring needed the same ped bronchodilator drugs, etc, & were dq'd because of it. And ss's mother Wishing Well & female family, & ss's sire Halo & Halo's descendants were noted for being extremely unsound, infirm, bleeders, breathing problems, numerous deformities, etc, & needing drugs. Halo's offspring & descendants SS, Sunny's Halo, Devil's Bag, Glorious Song, St Ballado, Jolie's Halo, Lively One, Present Value, Southern Halo, etc, were noted for being extremely unsound, infirm, bleeders, breathing problems, numerous deformities, etc, & needing drugs. 2nd of all, The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the vast majority of his races in the ONLY state in the entire country at the time which banned ALL drugs (as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Harthill as well), so EG was FORCED to run completely DRUG-Free ; & the owners were Jockey Club Chairmen & the staunchest opponents of any & all drugs so they also never ran him with any drugs at all when they ran outside the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs. During that era, the DRF listed all of these drug-use (ss was listed that he was given Lasix, Banamine, Bute, etc; while EG was listed as NOT given any, NONE at all) & non-drug-use FACTS for all races outside the only state in the entire USA at the time which banned all drugs. 3rd of all, The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer did NOT die at all because of cancer nor multiple organ failure nor because of a heart attack nor soundness problems; the autopsy showed that EG died of an allergic reaction to an AIRBORNE ALLERGEN (NOT any drugs at all), which actually PROVES he not only was NOT on any drugs at all, he also was NOT given any drugs at all during his race career. Cancer did not kill EG & would not have been fatal. Plus, Cancer is NOT caused by drug-use, cancer is caused by tobacco use (obviously not in horses), smoking (ditto), excessive alcohol drinking (ditto), bad diet, being overweight (some stallions are overweight), lack of exercise (stallions still get exercise), a number of different infections & viruses (not relating to drugs at all), sexually transmitted diseases (not drugs at all), bacterial (not drugs at all), parasites (not drugs at all), radiation (not relating to drugs at all), inherited genetically (DNA/hereditary/family history of it - not relating to drugs at all), environmental/air pollution/pollutants (not relating to drugs at all), asbestos (not drugs at all) in stables/buildings, too much exposure to direct sunlight/ultraviolet light (not drugs at all) etc. "Horses are exposed to many of the same things as humans so they develop cancer for many of the same reasons. Environmental toxins, second-hand cigarette smoke, radiation, UV rays, pollutants, viral infections, std's, bacterias, parasites, bad diet/food, lack of exercise, being overweight, digestion, all can cause cancer in horses - NONE of which are at all related to any drugs." Plus, cancer did not cause EG's death anyways, an allergic reaction to an airborne allergen caused EG's death. So much for all of that.
The Great Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer! His offspring still conquering today! Easy Goer is one of the best racehorses America ever produced. Easy Goer ran as fast & as fluid as any thoroughbred who ever ran, & he still stands strong in thoroughbred history. Easy Goer combined blistering speed over sprint & mile distances with thoroughly brilliant stamina at classic distances, & he will always be mentioned in the same breath with the greatest of all time. Even with dying very premature, Easy Goer is in the bloodlines of a numerous amount of G1 winners in the USA & Europe. Easy Goer's daughter My Flag won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, G1 Coaching Club American Oaks, G1 Ashland, G1 Gazelle, G1 Bonnie Miss, etc Easy Goer's grandson Corinthian won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, G1 Met Mile, G1 Gulfstream Park Handicap, etc. Easy Goer's granddaughter Storm Flag Flying won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, G1 Personal Ensign, G1 Frizette, G1 Matron, G1 Shuvee, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Bulletin won the G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, etc. Easy Goer's grandson London Bridge won the G1 Breeders' Cup Marathon, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Araafa won the Group 1 St. James's Palace Stakes, G1 Irish 2,000 Guineas, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Astronomer Royal won the Group 1 French 2,000 Guineas, etc. Easy Goer's son Will's Way won the Grade 1 Whitney Handicap, G1 Travers Stakes, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Lion Tamer won the G1 Cigar Mile, etc. Easy Goer's granddaughter Magical Fantasy won the G1 Yellow Ribbon, G1 Gamely, G1 Ramona {Mabee}, G1 Del Mar Oaks, G1 Santa Barbara, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Audible won the G1 Florida Derby, G1 Holy Bull, etc. Easy Goer's granddaughter Funny Moon won the G1 Coaching Club American Oaks, G1 Shuvee, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Monba won the G1 Blue Grass, etc. Easy Goer's grandson Dynamic One won the G1 Suburban, etc. Easy Goer's daughter Furlough won the G1 Ballerina, G1 Distaff, G1 Honorable Miss, etc. Easy Goer's son Composer won the G1 Jim Dandy, etc. Easy Goer's daughter Relaxing Rhythm won the G1 Molly Pitcher, etc. Easy Goer's granddaughter Tiz Miz Sue won the G1 Ogden Phipps, etc. And many more.
Too bad Pat Day was Easy goers jockey. With a top jock like Bailey or Stevens or Mccaron, he might have gone undefeated.
I know this is a year old but Pat Day won the Preakness five times and had nine triple crown wins. At the time of this race Bailey hadn’t won any, not even sure if he had ridden in one.
@@michaelpflug394 Pat Day had so many bad rides on Easy Goer. Just watch them, and he is the reason.
@@randallmartin2508 Pat Day was aboard him when he set a record at Belmont park. Easy Goer and Sunday Silence were just two very evenly matched horses up to 1 1/4 and due to styles Sunday Silence had the advantage especially on tracks with sharper turns . Day criticized himself for this ride I believe but he knew the horse well and doubt another rider would have rode him any better.
No matter how many times I watch it can't get over both them making blow by moves and other one in digging in and coming back. Race for the ages.
It happens every day. Just not in million dollar races.
@@perryberman2824 No, not really! Races rarely unfold like this one did.
I miss ABC’s telecast of the TC, that banjo brought back memories.
Jim McKay loved the sport and it showed in the way he set the stage for the race.
@@michaelpflug7305 he sure did I miss him
I agree, the NBC telecasts now are totalling annoying. The telecasts back then always had a great focus on the horses and the people around them.
This is definitely one of the great races. The way the two of them came down the straight neck and neck the whole way, first one in front then the other was just awesome. Both great horses, no doubt of that.
1989 Belmont was like a man running against boys
In retrospect, it appears EG was mishandled. With all of his talent, he should have won more often.
@@4orrcountry Then blame Shug. He decides who rides.
@@4orrcountry quite correct.
All involved and cruel and evil
And the 89 BC CLASSIC was a GREAT race horse vs an overhyped talented, but not great race horse...
Pat did all he could. SS and Valenzuela were just a nose better. Day gets a lot of guff for decisions, but, he gave his all here. The greatest race I ever saw.
140 or 150 years and you don't get a better race than this. Two tremendous champion. They were both truly outstanding greats. Possibly, and perhaps probably, both would have been Triple Crown champions if they didn't face the other, or were born in different years. Joe Hirsch, 'A classic classic! Everyone in the record crowd at Pimlico - and millions of others who watched on television - will remember the 1989 Preakness and its remarkable stretch duel as long as they live. Sunday Silence and Easy Goer were generosity personified as they battled. No quality of the Thoroughbred is more admired by racing men than courage, and these two outstanding horses gave everything they had in the Preakness. There was a winner, but there was no loser.' "In a duel for the ages, two greats joined battle, they bounded cheek by jowl to the wire. While picking up another cross on his reins, jockey Pat Day appeared to grab too much right line canting Easy Goer's head to the right, and in the end perhaps costing him the race by the flare of a nostril."-Bill Nack. "The two greats even changed leads in unison at the top of the stretch. They ran side by side, head to head, so close together they were brushing again & again, with Easy Goer also brushing the rail and dangerously close to it. A jewel of a duel by a snout."-Sports Illustrated
Jim McKay coming home to Baltimore to Pimilco and the Preakness. It doesn't get better than that.
Easy Goer was so astoundingly Highly Regarded that if these 2 Horses faced eachother again for the 4th time the Public more than likely would have made Easy Goer the favorite again...And the "Nose" loss in the Classic at "1-2" Odds would have probably guaranteed it....Would Easy Goer have Won?...Obviously we will never know...But i feel if your life was on the line even many Sunday Silence fans would have picked Easy Goer..
I was at Santa Anita for the Belmont and got 2to1 on EG while SS was bet down to 3 to 5. It was like stealing. SS wasn't a mile and a half horse and it showed in the stretch.
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@@perryberman2824 correct! It also showed on paper. Sunday was good at only a couple distances.
Funny how the" astoundingly Highly Regarded" Easy Goer could manage only one victory when up against the inferior Sunday Silence.The odds do not decide the outcomes if they did we wouldnt be having this conversation.
@@jock4hire Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer at the classic distance of 11/4 two out of two. And beat him under a hand ride In the breeders cup classic.
44:44 A really game performance ~Charlsie Cantey on Sunday Silence~
One of the greatest calls ever!
51:36 Probably best for everybody its just the way it was..said Shug☹☹☹
Might be the greatest race I have ever seen
@Larry Cotugno that's the best horse race that most have seen!
The True Drug Hall of Fame Champion Easy Sloer will always be the True Drug Hall of Fame Champion and True Drug Eclipse Award Champion Easy Sloer, and the most coveted honor and prize by far is being inducted in the Hall of Fake.He was my favorite horse ever and I love him so much.
Pat V won that race from the start! Out finished Pat Day. Not easy to do. Sunday Silence; The greatest Sire in Japan history.
I miss Jim McKay
45:09 "Pat tried to screw me around the whole way, but couldn't do it".
He really did.
Pat D was a dirty rider for sure, He knew Sunday Silence would be tough to beat.
And that Sunday Silence was the better horse
@@3outof4SSwinsHe was that day, but not three weeks later.
@@floridapmi The 3 to 1 final score says Sunday Silence is the better horse of the two.
two great horses that we never forget it
Even fellow Colleagues of Pat Day call him out on National TV...Richard Migliore: "Pay day made aggressive move with Easy Goer and he remembered he was Pat Day and folded Horse up again"...That says it all about Pat Day...1989 Classic was a debacle ride also as Pat Day rode Easy Goer like Patience on a Monument
Shug had every opportunity to replace him but didn't. It's his fault.
Joe you are so right. What a TRIFECTA the malaise of Shug, Patsy and HARTHILL(admitted juicer approved and worked a ton for Good ole No Cred Charlie).
@@makingthecoin3647 Show this 2002 DRF Jay Hovdey Alex Harthill article
Show this 2002 DRF Jay Hovdey Alex Harthill article
@@perryberman2824 YES HE DID ABSOLUTELY CORRECT BUT HE HAD NO CONTROL OF NO CRED CHARLIE WHO WAS USING THE POLLUTED CONVICTED BANNED CRIMINAL VET ALEX HARTHILL. FUNNY HOW THAT IS CONVENIENTLY LEFT OUT.
Both greats, but In my opinion Easy Goer was a better
horse than SS, and had a superior body of work and career than SS. But
of course, once again, better in any way is still totally subjective.
Lil better, better, much the best, etc are all totally subjective and
true in the eyes of the beholder. It certainly is NOT the end of any
story, enough said etc. Just as the head to head scoreboards are NOT
enough said or end of story for Citation (lost 4 of 5 to Noor), Kelso
(lost 3 of 4 to Beau Purple), Dr Fager (lost 2 of 4 to Damascus), Forego
(lost 2 of 3 to Big Spruce and Wajima), John Henry, Pleasant Colony,
Sir Barton, Skip Away and many many more. Lucky, lil better, now much
better lol lmao, better, versatility, states
etc. Yeah, the Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer must have got as 'lucky'
as so many other immortal legendary Hall of Famers and champions did,
such as the 'lucky' Citation (won only 1 of 5 vs Noor), Kelso (won only 1
of 4 vs Beau Purple), Dr Fager (won only 2 of 4 vs Damascus), Forego
(won only 1 of 3 vs both Big Spruce and Wajima), John Henry (won zero of
4 vs Cabrini Green, won zero of 3 vs Darby Creek Road, won only 1 of 3
vs both Mehmet and Interco), Skip Away (won only 2 of 6 vs Formal Gold),
Pleasant Colony (won only 1 of 4 vs Akureyri), Triple Crown champ Sir
Barton (won only 4 of 12 vs Billy Kelly), and so many many more etc etc.
All you can do is laugh your 'ass' off. You cant have an on topic
discussion. All you can also do is state numerous false statements and
denigrate EG while trying to prop up ss - then delete your numerous comments like a troll. The truth must be that you
think that EVERY and ALL horses who were
behind on the head to head (series) scoreboard is 'better' than the
horses they were ahead of! Lets hear it. I am still waiting. Citation,
Kelso, Forego, John Henry, Sir Barton, etc etc etc etc. The truth
actually is this: Better in any way is totally subjective and true in
the eyes of the beholder. That also goes for the person who said, 'Easy
Goer was a better horse. Valenzuela/McCarron were better than Pat Day.
And Charlie Whittingham was better than McGaughey.' Better in any way is
totally subjective - and this is the truth. That is like stating the
'lucky' and great Forego couldnt win much outside of NY.
Easy Goer actually did, while Forego actually did NOT. Thats also like
saying that SS was a good one but he just couldnt win much at his home
track (losing record) at Hollywood in California - or in drug and
medication free NY. A good one? Easy Goer was More like a great one
- as SS also was. Every horse who is inducted in the Hall of Fame is a
great horse. The ultimate honor for greats is to be inducted in the Hall
of Fame - and both Easy Goer and SS are. Easy Goer DID WIN outside of
New York. Thats like saying that SS was a good one but he just couldnt
win (or win much) at his home track of Hollywood in his home state of
California - or in drug and medication free NY. Even though SS
had a losing record at his home track of Hollywood Park in California -
he still was able to win there even though he had that losing record.
Ditto Easy Goer outside of NY. Easy Goer DID WIN outside of NY, and in
the process ran a record seven furlongs in Florida in the Swale. He did
lose by inches and a rapidly diminishing neck outside of NY - but he only ran a few times outside of NY and FL. Hall of Fame champion and Eclipse Award champion
Easy Goer won over FOUR different tracks. SS won over SIX different
tracks. He gets credit for that yes. SS had a losing record at his home
track at Hollywood Park - losing three races there. Easy Goer was
mainly run in NY and Florida in the majority of his races - seventeen
of his twenty races. The historic NY races carried and still carry a lot
of weight. Hall of Fame champion and Eclipse Award champion Easy Goer
was similar in this regard to other Hall of Fame champions like Forego,
Kelso, Arts and Letters, Tom Fool, Sword Dancer, etc. Just the same as
big races in CA - those races carried a lot of weight for champions like
Ack Ack, Native Diver, Noor, Ferdinand, Kotashaan, Zenyatta, Beholder
etc. EG won over all major track
sizes, SS did not. SS had a losing record over 9f or larger tracks. SS
also had a losing record at his home track at Hollywood in California.
EG won Grade 1 races 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f. SS won Grade 1 races only
at 9f to 10f. Better horse, better this, better that, Better overall?
Better in any way is subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder.
Many many greats were behind or tied on the head to head (series)
scoreboard, including Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Skip Away, Dr
Fager, Damascus, Arts and Letters, Swaps, Nashua, Round Table, Ancient
Title, John Henry, Unbridled, Silverbulletday, Serenas Song,
Pleasant Colony, Sir Barton, Ferdinand, Native Diver, and many many
others. Were the horses who were ahead (or tied) on the head to head
scoreboards better or a lil better than these? Were these enough said,
or end of the story for them also? Better is subjective, and there are
numerous factors. And even after those factors are factored in, who was
better is totally subjective. Noor beat immortal Citation 4 out of 5
races. Beau Purple beat immortal Kelso 3 out of 4. Big Spruce beat
immortal Forego 2 out of 3. Interco and Mehmet beat lengendary champ
John Henry 2 out of 3. Cabrini Green beat John Henry 4 of 4. Darby Creek
Road beat legendary John Henry 3 of 3. HOF (Hall of Fame) champ
Damascus beat HOF champ Dr Fager 2 out of 4. Cutlass Reality beat HOY
Ferdinand 3 times. Billy Kelly beat Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 8 of
12. Formal Gold beat HOF HOY champ Skip Away 4 out of 6. HOF champ
Majestic Prince beat HOF HOY champ Arts and Letters 2 out of 3. Pretense
beat HOF champ Native Diver 5 times. Clem beat HOF HOY champ Round
Table 3 times. Summer Squall beat Champion Unbridled 4 out of 6.
Heritageofgold beat HOF champ Silverbulletday 3 out of 3 times. Jewel
Princess beat HOF champion Serenas Song in 3 of 3 races. Crystal Water
beat HOF champ Ancient Title 4 times. Akureyri beat Champ Pleasant
Colony 3 out of 4. And what? Who is better? That is totally subjective.
There are numerous factors, including but not limited to : superior
career, superior and better body of work, GI wins, Graded Stakes
wins, wins against older horses and open company, running times, avg
running times at various distances and at all distances, head to heads,
records set, still standing records, weights carried and weights
conceded, stakes wins and stakes wins vs. open company/older
horses, varying distances won at during career, superior campaign or
campaigns, durability, constitution, superiority and dominance,
injuries, rider errors, training and trainer errors, win/loss %s, trips,
amount of races run, post positions, campaign and career earnings with
and without bonuses, races with drugs and medications allowed/used,
races with no drugs and medications allowed/used, etc etc and many
many more. But even after those factors are factored in, who was better
is still totally subjective.
Easy Goer and SS were both greats. Easy Goer won 12 total stakes, 9
Grade 1 wins at distances of 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f, and 12f showing
versatility on all tracks and many distances. SS won 7 total stakes, 6
Grade 1 wins but only at distances from 9f to
10f. Both versatile indeed, but that is a big difference in versatility.
Easy Goer also defeated older horses Six times at ages three and four
while conceding a good amount of weight in quite a few of them. SS
defeated older horses only two times at ages three and four. Many other
factors would favor Easy Goer over SS as well, including a) amount of
career races able to run - 20 to 14 ; b) amount of total career wins -
14 to 9 ; c) running times at all distances ; d) average running times
at all distances ; e) career earnings without bonuses - about $ 4.8
million to about $ 3. 8 million ; f) career winning percentage - 70% to
64% ; g) Grade 1 wins - 9 to 6 ; h) total stakes wins - 12 to 7 ; i)
wins vs older horses/open/unrestricted at ages three and four - 6 to 2 ;
j) Grade 1 stakes wins at various distances - EG at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and
12f, SS at only 9f to 10f ; and other factors that would favor Easy
Goer would be varying distances won at, records set, near records set,
still standing records, running times, avg running times at all
distances, campaigns, durability, constitution, dominance and
superiority in races - average win margin and average loss margin,
weights carried, weight concessions, etc. They were both greats no
doubt, but IMO other than SSs slim edge in their head to head races,
Easy Goer was better than SS in most - if not all - these other factors
and categories. Both greats, but In my opinion Easy Goer was a better
horse than SS, and had a superior body of work and career than SS. But
of course, once again, better in any way is still totally subjective.
Stating the truth is simply stating the truth and facts. Copying and pasting others comments about the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Sunday Silence is the GREATEST FORM of Flattery. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, when you imitate what others say, it’s the biggest compliment to those people you are imitating and copying and pasting
Pat Day should have never put himself and the horse on the rail like that.
56:45 Arthur Hancock said "Easy Goer is a GREAT HORSE", meanwhile at 57:05 Hancock said, "Sunday Silence is only a GOOD horse."
Secretariat 's Belmont and this Preakness with Sunday Silence and Easy Goer....the 2 greatest horse races I've ever seen. An interesting dichotomy considering Secretariat won by 31 lengths and Sunday Silence wins by a nose.
I would agree and then add Rich Strike's incredible run at the 2022 Kentucky Derby.
Alex Harthill told all how & why the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence beat the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the slimmest of margins in a few races. Harthill said, "You can only REVERE the horses (Easy Goer, etc) whom my horses (Sunday Silence, etc) defeated even more, to do all they (Easy Goer, etc) were asked to do, just to fall a slight bit short (Easy Goer, etc) of horses (Sunday Silence, etc) who had been given performance-enhancing drugs (Sunday Silence, etc) by myself." The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer cremated the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. "Kentucky Derby Doctor Alex Harthill Reveals Disgraceful Past: Harthill Reflects on Unlawful Life's Work. Harthill Discloses He Administered Forbidden Performance-Enhancing Drugs To Many American Classic Winners In The Kentucky Derby, Preakness And Breeders' Cup Classic." How about the Belmont Stakes & the enormous amount of the other major G1 stakes races in New York? How about when the Breeders Cup took place in NY? Harthill was barred in NY. NY also was the only state in the entire country during that era which banned all drugs. NY also had the most advanced out-of-competition, training & raceday testing, & tested for an enormous amount of drugs. DRF 2001 Jay Hovdey: "Alex Harthill was BOLD ENOUGH to tell me (Jay Hovdey/DRF) how he illegally gave numerous horses illegal drugs, INCLUDING Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine TO SUNDAY SILENCE. Harthill ADMITTED to illegally breaking the laws in ENHANCING his horses PERFORMANCES. Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing Bronchodilator drug Clenbuterol REGULARLY in the 1980's on his horses, 15 years before it was approved by the FDA, INCLUDING USING IT ON SUNDAY SILENCE. Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing drug Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it TO SUNDAY SILENCE, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. Some of Harthill's other drugs that HE ADMINISTERED TO SUNDAY SILENCE were Etorphine & Sublimaze. The drugs Harthill administered were being used to improve a horse's performance, & they were REMARKABLY EFFECTIVE. Harthill was the vet that manipulated horse races & he Publicly Acknowledged Doing So many times. Harthill said, 'I (Harthill) was used for horses (Sunday Silence, etc) pointing for, & running in, MAJOR RACES who NEEDED DRUGS & had INFIRMITIES. I earned the reputation I had. I am very proud of the horses (Sunday Silence, etc) I helped WITH DRUGS IN THEIR CAREERS. Drugs always go through changing stages of being detected on drug tests. What I focused on was what drugs enhanced performance, together with what drugs could conceal illegal drugs, along with what drugs didn't show up on drug tests. For these reasons, I gave my horses (Sunday Silence, etc) a considerable advantage. Trainers would say, Don't get me caught, but keep me worried. Even though a horse is 5 or 7 times larger than humans, the amount of dope needed to have an effect is so small. An amount on the tip of a match would be enough to flick up a horse's nose to get a spectacular result. By the time they got my horses to the starting gate they’d be leaping out of their skin. I administered illegal drugs throughout my career that INCREASED the performances of racehorses IN CLASSIC RACES, & almost all of the time I did so, my horses won. You can only revere the horses (Easy Goer, etc) whom my horses (Sunday Silence, etc) defeated even more, to do all they (Easy Goer, etc) were asked to do, just to fall a slight bit short (Easy Goer, etc) of horses (Sunday Silence, etc) who had been given performance-enhancing drugs (Sunday Silence, etc) by myself. By doing so, I acknowledge that I effectively stole a large amount of money in my career, & cheated many other horses, trainers, owners & riders I competed against. Nonetheless, I consider my extensive doping as a mark of pride.' "
Greatest race I have ever seen
Watching Pat Valenzuela work on Sunday after Easy came back on him in the stretch is a thing of beauty.
There's no question that Sunday Silence & Easy Goer were both tremendously gifted thoroughbreds, and they both brought out the best in one another. Because Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer 3 of the 4 times they faced each other I think many racing historians remember him as having been the better horse. But I would submit if Easy Goer had overcame this 6 inch loss in the Preakness it would've been the other way around. You would've had Sunday Silence with a Kentucky Derby & BC Classic win and Easy Goer with a Preakness & Belmont Stakes win head to head. But then beyond that it wasn't even close. The only other real major wins of Sunday Silence's career beyond his head to head meetings with Easy Goer were the G1 Santa Anita Derby & G2 Super Derby. What Easy Goer accomplished away from his head to head meetings with Sunday Silence has never before or since been accomplished by another horse, winning the G1 Travers Stakes, G1 Whitney Handicap, G1 Woodward Stakes, & G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup in the same he season he faced the Triple Crown grind. It's only because of the 6 inches that separated them in this race that Sunday Silence is remembered as being the better horse by those who do remember him that way, IMO.
Can't change history right GB. EG went on a fall run like no other I agree with you but in the end SS did beat him in 3 of 4 and won the two marquee races KD and BCC. So EG has his place in history clearly confirmed but SS also does in a higher spot. Albeit not by much.
Coulda shoulda woulda. And if Sunday Silence could've gone 11/2 miles he would be a triple crown winner.
@@perryberman2824 maybe, maybe not. We'll never know for sure.
Sunday Silence should have been DQ'd in the Kentucky Derby for interfering with Northern Wolf
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer inducted into the Hall of Fame & Won Eclipse Awards Championships - been there done that. However, the ONLY way to do so with integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all, is to do so completely drug-free as the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion & Eclipse Award Champion Easy Goer did. The drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss. Case closed. Means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1 - case closed? No; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1 - case closed? No; ditto all the rest - Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Drug-Free Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like heart-filled drug-free wheat separating from heart-less drugged chaff, the heart-filled drug-free cream rose to the top. Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant & criminal juicer doper vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss got exposed badly & romped when he was forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. The great drug-free Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer showed the world how to obliterate the drug-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a true champion is running & winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned & didn't allow the criminal juicer doper veterinarian of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally doping/juicing an endless amount of horses] to perform his magic & juice the drug-reliant & criminal juicer doper vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-reliant horses like ss; & these horses, like ss & many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free races could/can be called championship races. Only Drug-free races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. Drug-free races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to tell Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form how he illegally gave numerous horses (including Clenbuterol to SS) illegal drugs. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED illegally breaking the laws in enhancing his horses performances. In DRF articles in recent years & in the last few years of his life, SSilence's vet Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing bronchodilator clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's 15 years before it was approved by the FDA on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. SS's vet Alex Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it to Sunday Silence, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses like ss who made inexplicably significant improvements with major enhancements in performance. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses like ss who made inexplicably significant improvements with major enhancements in performance."
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & Sublimaze. The drugs Etorphine & Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria & well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of controlled drugs, such as the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol, powerful steroids, loop diuretics, extremely powerful painkillers & very strong amphetamines, etc. Alex Harthill & raceday performance enhancing drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in North American racing. Harthill was at the vanguard of giving drugs to horses that were used to vastly enhance their performances, & they were remarkably effective turning good horses into great horses, bad horses into good horses, slower horses into faster horses, horses with no business winning doing so, & causing horses to run far over their heads. Harthill was a vet who had stolen a 30 length lead in the race to discover drugs that would significantly move up racehorses, & Harthill had no hesitancy in using whatever was available. Harthill was a magic man vet practicing the dark arts of racehorse manipulation. Harthill was arrested many times (Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, NY,etc) for tampering, bribery & doping horses with drugs. The drugs were & are so potent that their use or nonuse dramatically alters horse's performances (including SS). Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history." Besides Harthill admitting it to the DRF, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. Case closed.
Both great horses, and a thrilling fantastic race from both horses.
Always liked Easy Goer, was his smooth and easy power, and stamina.
If race was 1.5 miles like the Belmont, Easy Goer wins it quite easy.
I'm a Seattle Slew and Easy Goer fan, and admired Secretariat.
Easy Goer was the Equivalent of Tom Brady and the 2007 and 2011 Patriots, as well as the equivalent of Mickey Mantle and the 1960 New York Yankees. Both were all-time greats, but Easy Goer was superior, better and faster than Sunday Silence, though Easy Goer had an inferior overly tentative, timid, hesitant trainer and an inferior overly timid, hesitant, tentative rider. Tom Brady was superior and better than Eli Manning, yet Brady lost a few very close Super Bowl's to Eli Manning. The 1960 NY Yankees were superior and better than the 1960 Pirates, yet they lost the World Series in 7 games. Others note that many greats were behind (or tied) on the head-to-head scoreboards like Kelso (Beau Purple was 3-1 over Kelso), Citation (Noor was 4-1 over Cy), Pleasant Colony (Akureyri was 3-1 over PC), Shuvee (Gallant Bloom was 4-1 over Shuvee), Dr. Fager (2-2 with Damascus), Skip Away (Formal Gold was 4-2 over SA), Unbridled (Summer Squall was 4-2 over U), and John Henry, Forego, Sir Barton and many others. It doesn't mean that SS, Noor, Beau Purple, etc., or the Pirates, Eli Manning and his teams, were all undeserved and unworthy, they all were worthy. Despite losing the the 1960 World Series, the Yankees scored 55 runs, the most runs scored by any one team in World Series history, and scored more than twice as many runs as the Pirates, who scored 27. The Yankees had all time greats Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Bobby Richardson, Elston Howard, Bobby Shantz, etc. The World Series MVP was Bobby Richardson of the Yankees, the only time in history that the award has been given to a member of the losing team. Richardson had 11 hits in the series in 30 total at-bats, good for a .367 batting average; he hit 2 doubles, 2 triples and a home run and led all players with 12 RBI. In 25 at-bats for the Yankees, Mickey Mantle hit .400 with 3 home runs and 11 RBI. Both his batting average and home run total were better than eventual MVP Bobby Richardson. The Yanks manager Casey Stengel pitched starting ace Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford only twice in Games 3 and 6, instead of Games 1, 4 and 7. This was the primary factor that led to Stengel being fired. The 1960 World Series was one of the best performances in Whitey Ford's storied World Series career; he was the best pitcher to take the mound from either team. Whitey Ford won both of his starts in the 1960 World Series to finish with a 2-0 record. In these 2 starts, Ford allowed no runs while compiling a 0.00 ERA in 18.0 innings pitched; Ford threw back-to-back complete game shutouts in the World Series. The Yankees outscored the Pirates 55-27 in this Series, out-hit them 91-60, out-batted them .338 to .256, hit 10 home runs to Pittsburgh's 4, got 2 complete-game shutouts from Whitey Ford-but lost. The Yankees outscored, out-hit, out-pitched and outplayed the Pirates, but lost the 7 game series.
Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela did outride Pat ron
franklin esque Day, aka Pat start stop start stop start Day. So did
McCarron for that matter. So did Pincay, Cordero, Stevens, Bailey etc.
However, it was Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela who
actually was the one "trying to screw Pat ron franklin-esque Day the
whole way around" by floating him very wide [8 or 9 wide] towards the
barns on the back-side, and by trapping him and knocking him in very
tight to the rail afterwards on the turn [so bad that Houston had to
check] and thru the stretch. The video of the entire backstretch run
into the turn is here on UA-cam, on the 1989 Belmont stakes - Easy
Goer: Full ABC Broadcast. At the 11 minute mark of this 89 Belmont
video, you can watch the entire back-side head on footage of the
Preakness. It doesn't show Pat ron franklin-esque Day shutting off or
cutting off Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela. Valenzuela
preposterously tried to turn it around on Day. Interesting also to note
that Silence's owner Arthur Hancock assumed, like most others, that Pat
Day did. However, on the 'Arthur Hancock on Sunday Silence' video
uploaded here on youtube by Blood-Horse, Hancock even admits he didn't
by saying at the 8:50 point of the video, "Easy Goer swept past Sunday Silence, and it looked to me like he might have shut him off. Silence dropped back a length or
two, and I said to my wife that Easy Goer just shut us off. That's what
I thought looking through my binoculars. But he didn't, he did not, he
was far enough out there." Pat suspended over 20 times for coke
Valenzuela was quoted in the Blood-Horse magazine saying, "I COULD HAVE
gone with Easy Goer and sat IN BETWEEN him and Houston. There was room,"
Valenzuela said OF THE MOMENT AT THE FAR TURN when Easy Goer FLEW BY
HIM. "BUT Easy Goer moved up on the outside of me EXTREMELY QUICK and
GOT THE ADVANTAGE over us. I didn't think Easy Goer was going to make
that big of a move that soon."
Valenzuela's credibility, however, is severely lacking. Pat suspended
over 20 times for coke Valenzuela doesn't just lose an immense amount of
credibility because he was and is a chronic life-long cocaine addict.
He loses just as much -- if not more -- of an immense amount of
credibility due to many other reasons, including numerous bizarre and
erratic statements that came out of his mouth, and his devious
gamesmanship and race-riding shenanigans etc. Valenzuela, however,
could ride with the best of them, and who knows what his career would
have been had he not lost the majority of it to an endless amount of
cocaine suspensions and being banned.
McGaughey and Day were both pitiful. McGaughey was and is the most
conservative trainer of all-time who rarely trained his horses for
speed, no matter how much big-time brilliant speed the horse possessed.
Pat ron franklin esque Day was the most tentative, passive,
conservative, start-stop rider of all-time. Many of Pat Ron Franklin
esque Day's rides on Easy Goer, Forty Niner, Seeking the Gold, Sky
Classic, Turkoman, Heavenly Prize, Rampage, Timber Country, Menifee,
Surfside, Java Gold, etc were Ron Franklin - esque! Pat ron franklin
esque Day rode Easy Goer -- and many other horses -- like a teenager at
the wheels of a Ferrari. Pat ron franklin esque Day never came to
terms with the immense power and big-time speed at his disposal and how
and when to use it. Go yield idle go, go yield idle go, inside,
outside, back inside, back outside. Yes, better is definitely
subjective. Having acknowledged that: Take nothing away from sunday
Silence as he was a great horse, but Easy Goer was a superior, greater,
better, stronger and faster horse IMO; Pat Valenzuela and Chris McCarron
were better jockeys than Pat Day, a.k.a Pat ron franklin-esque Day; and
he master trainer Charlie the Bald Eagle Whittingham was a better
trainer than the most conservative anti-speed trainer Claude Shug
McGaughey. Where was Woody Stephens, Allen Jerkens, Cordero, Bailey,
Pincay, Stevens, Romero, Santos? Easy Goer wins the Preakness and
Classic had any of these been his trainer and jockey IMO.
Anyone reading this now knows what OCD looks like in print.
Travis west
@@4orrcountry ha hahahaha! So that's what it looks like!!
All involved are evil, cruel, brutal and vicious.
@@traviswest9388 Show this 2002 DRF Jay Hovdey Alex Harthill article
Pat vs. Pat. First time I heard PVal say, "Pat tried to screw me the whole way around and he couldn't do it." 😂
It was exciting even listening to it on the radio while on the Jersey Turnpike.
Stating truth is stating truth, the true facts, plain and simple.
Who was better? Superior? Better horse? Better, like beauty is subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder. There are so many factors, including but not limited to - superior career, superior body of work, wins vs open/older horses, head to head, times, avg times at all distances, records set, records still standing, weights carried & conceded, dominance/superiority, GI wins, GI wins and stakes wins vs open/older, campaigns, varied distances won at, jockey errors, injuries, trainer, training and trainer errors, post positions, win %, etc etc are just some of the many factors. And even after these many factors listed above are factored in, who is 'better' is Still subjective. Examples of this would be: A) Noor beat Citation in 4 of 5 races. B) Beau Purple beat Kelso in 3 of 4 races. C)Big Spruce & Wajima beat Forego in 2 of 3 races. D) Damascus beat Dr. Fager in 2 of 4 races. E) Interco & Mehmet beat John Henry in 2 of 3 races. Darby Creek Road beat John Henry 3 times in 3 races. Cabrini Green beat John Henry 4 times in 4 races. F) Cutlass Reality beat Ferdinand in 3 races. G) Billy Kelly beat Triple Crown winner Sir Barton in 8 of 12 races. H) Formal Gold beat Skip Away in 4 of 6 races. I) Star of Cozzene beat Kotashaan in 3 of 4 races. J) Pretense beat Native Diver 5 times. K) Akureyri beat Pleasant Colony in 3 of 4 races. There are numerous factors and even after numerous factors are factored in, who was better is totally subjective.
Show this 2002 DRF Jay Hovdey Alex Harthill article
@@sigscorpion9275 Showed and posted above for you a million times you sick psycho troll Travis West, aka sigsc, aka a million other yt accounts with different names.
@@sigscorpion9275 i had two articles listed regarding Harthill and SS and Harthill's reputation as a the king of drug vets. But both apparently got removed.
ABC Sports had May covered with the Kentucky Derby, Indy 500 Pole Day, Preakness Stakes, Indy 500
The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence was supposed to be unbeatable..NOT.. He goes off the favorite in a 1988 Maiden race on the bigger Hollywood track…Runs second to the maiden claimer Caro Lover. 2. That’s OK he’ll make it up in a 1988 Allowance Race on the bigger Hollywood track..NOT.. He goes off the favorite & again finishes second, this time to the maiden claimer Sprinter Houston.. That’s OK he’ll make it up in the 1989 Drug-Free Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes on the bigger track..NOT.. He goes off the favorite & loses again to the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer while getting crushed by Easy Goer, & barely beating the maiden claimer Le Voyageur. All because sunday silence was forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state in the entire country during that era which banned all drugs, & also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well (not to mention another of his 5 losses on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f) ..That’s OK he’ll make it up in the GRADE 2 Swaps Stakes on the bigger Hollywood track...NOT...He goes off the favorite & loses again to Prized. Easy Goer destroyed sunday silence by 8 widening lengths & demolished Prized by 25 lengths when both SS & Prized were forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the entire country during that era which banned all drugs..That’s OK he’ll make it up in the Hollywood Gold Cup on the bigger Hollywood track...NOT...He goes off the favorite & loses again to Criminal Type only carrying 5 pounds more (Easy Goer carried 14 pounds & 7 pounds more)...Sorry..................NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.
Shug McGaughey said: "Easy Goer was a Better Horse than Sunday Silence. Pat Day got Easy Goer beat. Day waited when he didn't need to wait. We had ss beat & then Day let ss back in the races. Pat Day & I agree that he made riding mistakes. Easy Goer was the better horse than sunday silence. Easy Goer was by far the best horse I ever trained, Easy Goer was the most talented horse I've ever had. Easy Goer's action was so athletic, so natural, so fluid; he glided over the track; he ran blazingly fast & did it so easily. Easy Goer captured the public; he was a brilliantly fast horse, exciting to watch, & he had a great following. I had always dreamed of having a horse like Easy Goer. Easy Goer is by far the best that I've ever had. What Easy Goer did in all races, you just don't see that anymore. Easy Goer wanted to do a lot, all the time. My job - I had a Porsche in Easy Goer - was to not drive it 200 miles an hour every day. My job was just to keep him level, & keep him reserved. He wanted to go. I was very young, very inexperienced & made many mistakes." Woody Stephens, Allen Jerkens & Charlie Whittingham were better trainers than shug.
Yes, apparently that was not a priority. The points are: Shug also NEVER ever mentioned at all of running in a way that " expended less energy, and minimized the risk of injury." To the contrary, no matter how vague, Shug actually DID state: "Day did not crucify him, and brought me back something." As far as the "Crucifying" him, it did not mean to "NEVER" use the whip. I never said that it may have meant to NEVER use it. However, it could possibly mean (meant) to use the whip only when absolutely needed, or in danger of losing a race. We don't know. It is vague. That is why I recently asked the then assistant trainer & exercise rider of Easy Goer, what Shug meant (and how did Day do this) by : "Helping him with his soundness issues, and not crucifying him in his races." The answer was, "quiet hands and finesse."
The only race that ss ran drug-free without any drugs was when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly banned ss's illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill as well. SS's veterinarian Alex Harthill fully voluntarily admitted that he administered illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; however Harthill could not do so when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs and without his illegal criminal vet in the only state in the entire country during that era which banned all drugs - and as importantly also banned the illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well.
Stating truth is only stating truth, the true facts, plain and simple!
This rates number one in my book for a stretch dual.. the second best was the Affirmed Alydar Belmont..
I agree...it just doesn't get any better than that.
AFFIRMED and ALYDAR on the never ending turns at Belmont they went at it long before the others did in a much smaller racetrack. But if you didn't ACTUALLY experience the A/A BELMONT then I can understand choosing the one you experienced not a video.
59:44 "Easy Goer made a big move & ran by me so quick." 1:00:20 "Easy Goer had more horse left. Easy Goer brushed the rail when Sunday Silence came in on him. Easy Goer had me by a neck." 53:10 "Valenzuela crowded me & just layed on me. He interfered with me banging & pushing me on top of the fence really tight." 51:24 "Easy Goer was in awful tight." 12:32 "Northern Wolf bore in causing a chain reaction that affected Easy Goer the worst of all." 12:56 "The following morning, stewards handed Northern Wolf's rider JoJo Ladner a suspension for allowing his horse to lug in cutting off & wiping out Easy Goer." 48:32 "Easy Goer was in tight quarters. Easy Goer was trying to savage this horse, trying to bite sunday silence." Pat Patsy Daisy Day (aka Pat Ron Franklin Esque Day, Pat Wait All Day, Pat Start Stop Start Stop Start Day, Pat a Day late, Pat Delay Day, Pat so passive & patient he could watch a faucet drip for days Day) said, "I was on the far better horse in Easy Goer, but we lost a few photos to Sunday Silence by the slimmest of margins absolutely due to rider errors on my part. I had FAR MORE HORSE than I knew what to do with. It was totally my fault. Absolute rider errors. Easy Goer was, by far, the best horse I ever rode. I was on the far better horse in Easy Goer. I'll go to my grave believing that. Easy Goer was a better horse than sunday silence. Confusing start stop start stop riding got him beat, I got him beat. Easy Goer should have never got beat. ABSOLUTELY RIDER ERROR. There is NO DOUBT it was ABSOLUTELY RIDER ERROR. Without a doubt, Easy Goer was the best horse I ever rode. I got Easy Goer beat. Valenzuela looked over & seen Big Red & he decided that he wanted my part of the racetrack & started to carry me to the outside 12 wide. It angered me that P Val would be doing something like that in this race. Just ride your race, you don't have to play cutesy with me. Easy Goer Zinged him up the backside. I got in front of sunday silence easily & then eased up on Easy Goer. Start stop start stop riding got him beat, I got Easy Goer beat. P Val bumped me several times & pushed me right down on top of the fence. He banged me down on the fence so much that Houston had to check off my heels. Bumped me, pushed me & banged me right on top of the fence. He was banging & bumping on me & I turned Easy Goer's head out & his body stayed straight. When I pulled the trigger, he EXPLODED." Gary Stevens: "A GREAT GREAT HORSE EASY GOER." Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela himself said, "Easy Goer was a Super Horse. In order for ss to even be close to Easy Goer, I had to do any & everything possible. I had to purposely & deviously force EG out as wide as can be down the backstretch & at every other point I could in races; & I had to purposely & deviously bang & push EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail." Down the backstretch, Valenzuela purposely & deviously forced EG out 7 or 8 wide. Then, around the far turn through the entire home stretch, Valenzuela purposely & deviously bumped, banged & pushed EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail. Clearly, Valenzuela was the one trying to screw EG the whole way around & he actually did do it.
Pat Patsy Daisy Day got so many superior horses beat - Easy Goer, Sky Classic, Forty Niner, Turkoman, Java Gold, Rampage, Seeking the Gold, Menifee, Heavenly Prize, Surfside, Timber Country, Paradise Creek and many others - by inferior horses Sunday Silence, Fraise, Dear Doctor, Skywalker, Creme Fraiche, One Dreamer, Cash Run, Larry the Legend, Tikkanen, Marvelous Crown, etc. Day's go-stop-go riding of Easy Goer was very poor & he lost valuable lengths in the Preakness, Whitney, Woodward & Classic. Riding like Day did is a great way to waste a horse's energy. Amazing that the great EG was able to overcome that & win anyway in the 89' Whitney & Woodward conceding weight to older G1 winners, & even losing by the slimmest of margins vs a great SS. A jockey is supposed to be aware of what's going on around them before making their moves. As usual, Pat Day did his absolute best to lose. Day's rides in the 1989 Whitney, Woodward, Preakness & Classic were downright terrible & as bad as can be. Day's riding was atrocious - start stop start stop start, start check in major traffic start, inside outside way outside as wide as can be, back inside back outside back way outside as wide as can be, back in as tight as can be on the dead rail, turn his head in turn his head out, pull the trigger then fold up & put out the fire of a splendid Hall of Fame Champion in full flame, etc. A lemming could have rode better than Day. Many of Pat Ron Franklin esque Day's rides on Easy Goer, Forty Niner, Seeking the Gold, Sky Classic, Turkoman, Heavenly Prize, Rampage, Timber Country, Menifee, Surfside, Java Gold, etc were Ron Franklin - esque! "Easy Goer endured many frustratingly tentative rides by rider Pat Day -- which was his Achilles heel. Pat Day played a bigger part in beating Easy Goer than Sunday Silence did. He over thought the mount instead of letting Easy Goer run his race. Easy Goer could run forever & run it as fast as any horse who ever lived! Day rode the horse incredibly inconsistent & immensely tentative. Poor Easy Goer never knew when Day was serious about when to run or not. A lemming could have ridden Easy Goer better. Pat ron franklin esque Day was riding a Ferrari in Easy Goer. But, Day rode Easy Goer - & many other horses - like a teenager at the wheels of a Ferrari. Day never came to terms with the immense power & big-time speed at his disposal & how & when to use it. Go yield idle go, go yield idle go, go wait go wait go wait, fold up move, fold up move fold up, inside, outside, back inside, back Cordero, Pincay, McCarron, Bailey, Stevens, etc. were better riders & a better fit for EG than Pat Day. Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela & McCarron were better riders than Day. Woody Stephens, Allen Jerkens & Charlie Whittingham were better trainers than Shug.
Remember where I was watching this one in '89...upper deck woodbine, 30 of us per tv, as noisy and loud as you can get, knowing you'd already spent a couple hundred on the afternoon's now finished Woodbine t-bred action...but it didnt matter.
---crazy yelling..too close to call....
And I remember the all time tv shot. The slo motion stretch shot with Easy Goer saying 'if I could get off this rail, i'd kick your ass'
An absolute classic. Solid chance Day would've come down for the far turn squeeze...had call upstairs been made.
This is NOT physics. It is not how fast you are going, it is how you are going fast. It is not how slow you are going, it how you are going slow. There is no doubt that when Easy Goer was cruising home much faster in many of races, there was far less stress on him physically, then there was when he was running slower in a nose to nose stretch battle in the Preakness.However, I am willing to let this argument go so it doesn't end up in an endless argument about physics and science, which this is not what this is about. The conclusion is: a) In my opinion, I think there is a possible parallel, Even if you don't see any parallel between Shug stating, "I want a typical Day ride. I don't want to get to the bottom of him, I don't want an empty tank, don't bottom him out,etc", and Shug stating, "Day Helped Him(with soundness issues) in his races by not crucifying him, and always bringing me back horse." b)Supposedly, you already agreed that this apparently was an important reason why Shug used/kept Day on EG, even if it wasn't the only reason. So we agree. c)Both of us really don't know the exact specifics on what Shug meant, on the ways "Day rode him that Helped him(with soundness ailments) in his races by not crucifying him, and always bringing back horse." I asked Shug's ex wife Mary Jane, what this meant, and all she really said was, "quiet hands and finesse." So basically the answer I got is: "Quiet hands and finesse riding by Day helped him(with his soundness issues) in his races by not crucifying him, and always brought back horse." That may not answer it really either. Pat Day was known for being a patient rider with gentle hands, and for not using a horse more than he had to.
It was nose to nose, neither horse was run to the ground, and
both horses had troubled trips. Do troubled trips for either or both
horses automatically cost them a certain amount of lengths in both
winning and losing? We don't know, not necessarily, maybe. Does getting
steadied or checked automatically mean that it cost horses a certain
amount of lengths in both winning and losing? We don't know. Both horses
had troubled trips in the Derby. In the Derby, Easy Goer got pinballed
sideways, checked and totally cut off in a melee caused by Northern
Wolf. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win? Not necessarily, maybe,
we don't know. According to your logic, Easy Goer losing valuable ground and checking hard cost him, and if this didn't happen Easy Goer would have won. The
stewards may have thought so as well, as they suspended Northern Wolf's
jockey Jo Jo Ladner after the race. Easy Goer also had his path taken
away from him in the stretch by Dansel while having to change course and
weave outside and back towards the inside. Did it cost him a few
lengths and the win? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. According to
your logic, if this didn't happen Easy Goer would have won as he lost
valuable ground. SS weaved back and forth in the stretch. Did it cost
him? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know.
In the Preakness both horses had troubled trips again. Easy Goer hopped at the start and broke in the air. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win in a race that came down to inches? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. According to
your logic, if this didn't happen Easy Goer would have won as he lost
valuable ground. SS was bumped in the early part of the race that came
down to inches. Did it cost him? We don't know, maybe. Down the
back-side, Valenzuela and Sunday Silence forced and herded Easy Goer and
Day out very wide to the middle of the track, which then perhaps forced
Easy Goer and Day to make a big, early sprinting move to the lead to
avoid being very wide. Did both cost him a few lengths and the win in a
race that came down to inches? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know.
According to your logic, if this didn't happen Easy Goer would have won
as he lost valuable ground. SS then had to steady. Did it cost him a few
lengths? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. Then
Valenzuela pinned Easy Goer in extremely tight on the rail while they
were brushing. Did being pinned and trapped and in very tight on the
rail, and being brushed cost him? We don't know, maybe. Did the brushing
help or hurt both or either horses? We don't know, maybe, maybe not.
Day turned Easy Goer's head when he had the lead late in the stretch.
Did it cost him? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. In the Classic
at the start, Easy Goer lost valuable ground as the rider grabbed him
and was content to sit and wait. According to your logic, if this didn't
happen Easy Goer would have won as he lost valuable ground.
Easy Goer had a troubled trip? He hopped coming out of the gate but he was sitting 5th around the first turn and he actually forced Valenuela to pull Sunday Silence up at the top of the back stretch.
No he didn't. Two videos here on youtube prove that he didn't. Go to the 11 minute mark of the video on here titled '1989 Belmont Stakes: Full ABC Broadcast,' where they show the full head-on video of the entire backstretch run of the Preakness. Valenzuela on SS took EG out 9 or 10 wide down the backstretch, then EG made a giant early move to the lead and passed Valenzuela and SS totally legally without cutting them off at all. Then on the far turn through the entire stretch, Valenzuela was pushing and banging him in as tight as can be on the dead rail. Check out the 11 minute mark of the aforementioned video. Even the owner of SS Arthur Hancock, said in the video on here titled 'Arthur Hancock on Sunday Silence,' at the 9 minute mark that 'Easy Goer swept past SS and I thought he had shut us off but EG DIDN'T, EG was FAR ENOUGH OUT THERE.' Also, Easy Goer didn't "just" leap in the air at the start, Easy Goer was taken out 9 or 10 wide down the backstretch purposely by Valenzuela, then made a huge, early move down the backstretch to the lead, then was pulled up by Day to stay near Houston on the far turn, then got pushed and banged in very tight on the dead rail on the far turn and through the entire stretch by Valenzuela, EG still held the lead in deep stretch when Day yanked his head out to the right to run sideways with his body being forced to stay straight being in very tight on the rail with head turned sideways.
@@benjudah610 I looked at the video you suggested. Looks like Day started to come over and Houston started to drift outside a bit and Pat V anticipated being pinched back and pulled up a little to prepare for it. I agree he wasn't pinched by Day enough to pull up like he did. But again it looks like Pat V thought Day was moving inside and Houston was moving a bit outside and he was being a bit cautious. As far as Day being forced 9 wide by Pat V, SS was 8 wide at that point so as they were making the turn it was pretty much race on. The way SS came back after Pat V pulled up a bit was very impressive. A great race between 2 great horses.
It indeed was a great race between two great Hall of Fame champions. Easy Goer was also immensely impressive considering all he went through the entire race and the Valenzuela shenanigans trying to get EG and Day beat at all cost - with Valenzuela purposely taking Easy Goer and Day out to the parking lot down the entire backstretch, then Valenzuela purposely banging and pushing him in as tight as can be on the dead rail from the far turn through the entire homestretch. In the video titled 'Arthur Hancock on Sunday Silence,' even the owner of SS admits that 'Easy Goer did NOT shut us off, Easy Goer was far enough out there.' And both videos prove that it was Valenzuela trying to "screw" Easy Goer and P Day. Not to mention the immense amount of riding errors Day made, including his start stop start stop start riding and yanking EG's head out to the right to run sideways with his body being forced to stay straight being in very tight on the rail with head turned sideways.
@@benjudah610 Of course he was trying to do whatever he could do to beat Day. This is called tactical race riding. Day has done more than his fair share of the same himself.
Any jock who doesn't do what he/she can to win the race,.... shouldn't be out there at all. It's all about getting to the wire first!
You have to want it more than the other guy. P Val loved to win, and did much of the time.
It's a shame people can't see the greatness in each one
They just happened to be by far the best of an otherwise so so 3 year old crop that year.
Oh not true at all!! I sure can and did at the time! Most anyone you speak with will tell you that both these horse warriors were great!!
Because it was Clean horse vs a dirty horse
@@makingthecoin3647 Show this 2002 DRF Jay Hovdey Alex Harthill article
@@sigscorpion9275 It most definitely is
The only thing better than this race would have been a match race between these two!
dan kinsler this race was pretty much a match race
The 3-1 score means as much or as little as all the "sports" scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. The essays, history and facts won't change that it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss- the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like wheat separating from chaff, the cream rose to the top. Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant & illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss got exposed badly & romped when he was forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. The Litmus Test of a Champion is running & winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned & didn't allow the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses] to drug the drug-reliant & illegal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-reliant horses like ss; & these horses, like ss & many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to tell me (Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form) how he illegally gave numerous horses, including Clenbuterol to Sunday Silence, illegal drugs. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally breaking the laws in enhancing his horses performances. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's, 15 years before it was approved by the FDA, on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it to Sunday Silence, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine and amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine and noradrenaline, and thus significantly enhancing performance. Clenbuterol also thins blood and widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, and thus significantly increases energy, and thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs that he administered were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) and Sublimaze. The drugs Etorphine and Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria and well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs. The US Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing and using unusual quantities of these and other drugs, such as the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol, powerful steroids, loop diuretics, extremely powerful painkillers, and very strong amphetamines, etc. Alex Harthill and drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in North American racing. Harthill was at the vanguard of giving drugs to horses that were used to vastly enhance their performances, and they were remarkably effective turning good horses into great horses, bad horses into good horses, slower horses into faster horses, horses with no business winning doing so, and causing horses to run far over their heads. Harthill was a vet who had stolen a 30 length lead in the race to discover drugs that would significantly move up racehorses, and Harthill had no hesitancy in using whatever was available. Harthill was a magic man vet practicing the dark arts of racehorse manipulation. Harthill was arrested many times (Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, NY,etc) for tampering, bribery and doping horses with drugs. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history." Besides Harthill admitting it to the DRF, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. History and facts. Case closed.
I think somebody needs to put the pacifier back in your mouth you're a crying little baby. Still crying 34 years later
Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela himself said, "Easy Goer was a Super Horse. In order for ss to even be close to Easy Goer, I had to do any & everything possible. I had to purposely & deviously force EG out as wide as can be down the backstretch & at every other point I could in races; & I had to purposely & deviously bang & push EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail. Arazi was the best horse I ever rode, Arazi was a better horse than sunday silence." Down the backstretch, Valenzuela purposely & deviously forced EG out 7 or 8 wide. Then, around the far turn through the entire home stretch, Valenzuela purposely & deviously bumped, banged & pushed EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail. Clearly, Valenzuela was the one trying to screw EG the whole way around & he actually did do it.
5:58 I think they did have Champagne and Caviar😏
As usual, jockey Pat Day doing his absolute best to Lose! Day's rides in the 1989 Preakness, Whitney, Woodward and Classic were abominable and as horrendous as can be! Day's riding was atrocious - start stop start stop start, start check in major traffic start, inside outside way outside as wide as can be, back inside back outside back way outside as wide as can be, back in as tight as can be on the dead rail, turn his head in turn his head out, pull the trigger then fold up and put out the fire of a splendid Hall of Fame Champion in full flame, etc. A lemming could have rode better than Day.
Ben many trainers and even jockeys took Patsy to task. Never saw anything like this before. I guess the outrage was too much to not say a word. Add to this the confession of the convicted Vet HARTHILL shows you how great Easy GOER truly was not only numerous scorching times from 6 1/2, 7f to 1 1/2. how about as a three year old ran the fastest mile by a three year old and even more than a second faster than FLIGHTLINE A FOUR YEAR OLD!! Don't forget S.S. needed every drop of illegal performance enhancement drugs by HARTHILL. That's how great Easy Goer was. Truth
@@makingthecoin3647 Saying that a horse is doping on drugs is the GREATEST FORM of Flattery. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,
@@sigscorpion9275 It is posted above. Stating the truth is stating the truth, the true facts, plain and simple, and nothing at all whatever you are writing everywhere
Better in any way is totally subjective. Both greats, but In my opinion Easy Goer was a better horse than SS, and had a superior body of work and career than SS. But
of course, once again, better in any way is still totally subjective.Better, stronger, etc etc are subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder. Better horse, better this, better that, stronger, Better overall? Better in any way is subjective and true in the eyes of the beholder. Many many greats were behind or tied on the head to head (series)
scoreboard, including Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Skip Away, Dr
Fager, Damascus, Arts and Letters, Swaps, Nashua, Round Table, Ancient
Title, John Henry, Unbridled, Silverbulletday, Serenas Song,
Pleasant Colony, Sir Barton, Ferdinand, Native Diver, and many many
others. Were the horses who were ahead (or tied) on the head to head
scoreboards better or a lil better than these? Were these enough said,
or end of the story for them also? Better is subjective, and there are
numerous factors. And even after those factors are factored in, who was
better is totally subjective. Noor beat immortal Citation 4 out of 5
races. Beau Purple beat immortal Kelso 3 out of 4. Big Spruce beat
immortal Forego 2 out of 3. Interco and Mehmet beat lengendary champ
John Henry 2 out of 3. Cabrini Green beat John Henry 4 of 4. Darby Creek
Road beat legendary John Henry 3 of 3. HOF (Hall of Fame) champ
Damascus beat HOF champ Dr Fager 2 out of 4. Cutlass Reality beat HOY
Ferdinand 3 times. Billy Kelly beat Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 8 of
12. Formal Gold beat HOF HOY champ Skip Away 4 out of 6. HOF champ
Majestic Prince beat HOF HOY champ Arts and Letters 2 out of 3. Pretense
beat HOF champ Native Diver 5 times. Clem beat HOF HOY champ Round
Table 3 times. Summer Squall beat Champion Unbridled 4 out of 6.
Heritageofgold beat HOF champ Silverbulletday 3 out of 3 times. Jewel
Princess beat HOF champion Serenas Song in 3 of 3 races. Crystal Water
beat HOF champ Ancient Title 4 times. Akureyri beat Champ Pleasant
Colony 3 out of 4. And what? Who is better? That is totally subjective.
There are numerous factors, including but not limited to : superior
career, superior and better body of work, GI wins, Graded Stakes
wins, wins against older horses and open company, running times, avg
running times at various distances and at all distances, head to heads,
records set, still standing records, weights carried and weights
conceded, stakes wins and stakes wins vs. open company/older
horses, varying distances won at during career, superior campaign or
campaigns, durability, constitution, superiority and dominance,
injuries, rider errors, training and trainer errors, win/loss %s, trips,
amount of races run, post positions, campaign and career earnings with
and without bonuses, races with drugs and medications allowed/used,
races with no drugs and medications allowed/used, etc etc and many
many more. But even after those factors are factored in, who was better
is still totally subjective.
Easy Goer and SS were both greats. Easy Goer won 12 total stakes, 9
Grade 1 wins at distances of 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f, and 12f showing
versatility on all tracks and many distances. SS won 7 total stakes, 6
Grade 1 wins but only at distances from 9f to
10f. Both versatile indeed, but that is a big difference in versatility.
Easy Goer also defeated older horses Six times at ages three and four
while conceding a good amount of weight in quite a few of them. SS
defeated older horses only two times at ages three and four. Many other
factors would favor Easy Goer over SS as well, including a) amount of
career races able to run - 20 to 14 ; b) amount of total career wins -
14 to 9 ; c) running times at all distances ; d) average running times
at all distances ; e) career earnings without bonuses - about $ 4.8
million to about $ 3. 8 million ; f) career winning percentage - 70% to
64% ; g) Grade 1 wins - 9 to 6 ; h) total stakes wins - 12 to 7 ; i)
wins vs older horses/open/unrestricted at ages three and four - 6 to 2 ;
j) Grade 1 stakes wins at various distances - EG at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and
12f, SS at only 9f to 10f ; and other factors that would favor Easy
Goer would be varying distances won at, records set, near records set,
still standing records, running times, avg running times at all
distances, amount of races with no drugs and medications, campaigns,
durability, constitution, dominance and superiority in races - average
win margin and average loss margin, weights carried, weight concessions,
etc. They were both greats no doubt, but IMO other than SSs slim edge in their head to head races, Easy Goer was better than SS in most - if not all - these other factors
and categories. Both greats, but In my opinion Easy Goer was a better
horse than SS, and had a superior body of work and career than SS. But
of course, once again, better in any way is still totally subjective.
Further OCD here - did these two leave the same group therapy session in tandem? Smh...
Travis West
@@traviswest9388 Show this 2002 DRF Jay Hovdey Alex Harthill article
@@sigscorpion9275 Showed and posted above for you a million times you sick psycho troll Travis West, aka sigsc, aka a million other yt accounts with different names!
@@traviswest9388 Saying that a horse is doping on drugs is the GREATEST FORM of Flattery. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,
There is not one excuse being made at all. Many many greats were behind or tied on the "not enough said" head to head scoreboard - Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Skip Away, Dr. Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua, Round Table, Ancient Title, John Henry, Sir Barton among many others were behind or tied in the "not enough said" head to head scoreboards. No excuses. Easy Goer was much more flashy & dominant, while SS was more workmanlike. According to the final score logic as the ONLY factor, ALL of the horses listed above who were ahead on the head to head, HAD and HAVE to be considered better (or a lil better) horses than the horses they were ahead of. Do you? Of course you would not state that PRECISELY because there are so many many other factors (or stats as you say) involved. You can NOT stick only to final scores as the ONLY factor as you do, but you are entitled to state who you think was better or a lil better. You or I can state whoever we like was better or a lil better, but that is totally subjective. Great horses Know how to win on Different tracks, versatility, speed, tactical etc? Of course Easy Goer had big time speed and was tactical. Easy Goer won
by huge margins under hand rides in most races. Huge speed, much faster
top speed, and great acceleration. Easy Goer won wire to wire with big
time speed numerous times. And when he did he ran one of the fastest
Champagne Stakes at 8f, one of the fastest Suburban Handicaps at 10f,
and the Wood Memorial at 9f and Jockey Club Gold Cup at 12f. Easy Goer
won stalking the leader numerous times with big time speed and tactical
speed. And when he did he ran the fastest mile of all time by any 3 year
old, a still standing track record, and 1/5 off Dr Fager's world
record. He also ran the second fastest Belmont Stakes of
all time behind only Secretariat. He also ran some of the fastest
Travers Stakes at 10f and Whitney Handicap's at 9f with big time speed
and tactical speed. He also ran 1/5 of a second off the 6.5f track
record sprinting, the fastest 7f of the year in Florida sprinting as
well. Versatility, big time speed, big time tactical speed, etc. He did
it every and all ways. Remember also, Easy Goer also won on all the
major track sizes - 1 mile, 9 furlong, and 12 furlong tracks. SS did not - he
only won on 1 mile tracks and 9 furlong tracks, and he had a losing
record on 9 furlong or larger tracks. EG won 12 total stakes, 9 Grade 1s
at distances from 7f to 12f (7f,8f,9f,10f,12f) - Versatility at all
distances on all tracks and track sizes. While SS won 7 total stakes, 6
Grade 1s but only from distances of 9f to 10f. That's a major difference
in versatility at many distances. Now who was greater or more versatile
etc etc? Easy Goer also beat older horses 6 times at ages 3 and 4 while
conceding significant weight in most, while SS beat older horses only 2
times at ages 3 and 4. Now who was greater or more versatile etc etc? And many
more factors would favor Easy Goer over SS, including amount of races
run, amount of races won, running times, avg running times, earnings
without bonuses, won lost percentage, records set, still standing
records, campaigns, durability, constitution, superiority and dominance
in races, weights carried and conceded, etc. You see the obvious and
major points. You see the obvious and major points.
Who was better though? Better, like beauty is subjective
and true in the eyes of the beholder. There are numerous factors,
including but not limited to : superior career, superior & better
body of work, GI wins, Graded Stakes wins, wins against older horses
& open company, running times, avg running times at various
distances and at all distances, head to heads, records set, still
standing records, weights carried & weights conceded, stakes wins
& stakes wins vs. open company/older horses, varying distances won
at during career, superior campaign or campaigns, durability,
constitution, superiority & dominance, injuries, rider errors,
training and trainer errors, win/loss %'s, trips, amount of races run,
post positions, campaign & career earnings with & without
bonuses, races with drugs & medications allowed/used, races with no
drugs & medications allowed/used, etc etc and many many more. They
were both great horses. Other than SS's slight edge in head to head
races, IMO Easy Goer was better than SS in most - if not all - these
other factors & categories. But even after all of these numerous
factors are factored in, who was better is still subjective.
They were both greats, but IMO Easy Goer was a better horse, had a
superior body of work, and had a superior career than SS even though SS
held the slight edge in head to head races by the nose of his Preakness
win. There is a lot more that can be said other than head to heads with
other examples being: 1) Noor beat HOF champ Citation in 4 of 5 races
head to head. 2) Beau Purple beat HOF champ Kelso in 3 of 4 races head
to head. 3) Big Spruce & Wajima beat HOF champ Forego in 2 of 3
races head to head. 4) Damascus beat Dr Fager in 2 of 4 races head to
head. Swaps and Nashua were 1 to 1 head to head. 5) Mehmet & Interco
beat John Henry in 2 of 3 races. 6) Darby Creek Road also beat HOF
champ John Henry in 3 of 3 races. 7) Cabrini Green also beat John Henry
in 4 of 4 races. 8) Cutlass Reality beat HOY Ferdinand in 3 races. 9)
Billy Kelly beat Triple Crown champ Sir Barton in 8 of 12 races. 10)
Formal Gold beat HOF champ Skip Away in 4 of 6 races. 11) Star of
Cozzene beat HOY Kotashaan in 3 of 4 races. 12) Pretense beat HOF champ
Native Diver 5 times. 13) Summer Squall beat champion Unbridled in 4 of 6
races head to head. 14) Heritageofgold beat HOF champ Silverbulletday
in 3 of 3 races. 15) Clem beat HOF champion Round Table 3 times. 16)
Crystal Water beat HOF champion Ancient Title 4 times. 17) Akureyri beat
champion Pleasant Colony in 3 of 4 races, etc etc. The point is who was
better in any way is subjective, and it is certainly NOT "enough
said."
+DELMARCLUB1 You make great points.
+Travis West More false bs. They are FACTS that you cant answer
+Travis West They are FACTS. You are very uneducated and you dont know any racing history. What part of this dont you understand? Many many greats were behind or tied on the head to head scoreboard - Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Skip Away, Dr. Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua, Round Table, Ancient Title, John Henry, Sir Barton among many others
were behind or tied in the "not enough said" head to head scoreboards.
There is a lot more that can be said other than head to heads with
other examples being: 1) Noor beat HOF champ Citation in 4 of 5 races
head to head. 2) Beau Purple beat HOF champ Kelso in 3 of 4 races head
to head. 3) Big Spruce & Wajima beat HOF champ Forego in 2 of 3
races head to head. 4) Damascus beat Dr Fager in 2 of 4 races head to
head. Swaps and Nashua were 1 to 1 head to head. 5) Mehmet & Interco
beat John Henry in 2 of 3 races. 6) Darby Creek Road also beat HOF
champ John Henry in 3 of 3 races. 7) Cabrini Green also beat John Henry
in 4 of 4 races. 8) Cutlass Reality beat HOY Ferdinand in 3 races. 9)
Billy Kelly beat Triple Crown champ Sir Barton in 8 of 12 races. 10)
Formal Gold beat HOF champ Skip Away in 4 of 6 races. 11) Star of
Cozzene beat HOY Kotashaan in 3 of 4 races. 12) Pretense beat HOF champ Native Diver 5 times. 13) Summer Squall beat champion Unbridled in 4 of 6 races head to head. 14) Heritageofgold beat HOF champ Silverbulletday in 3 of 3 races. 15) Clem beat HOF champion Round Table 3 times. 16) Crystal Water beat HOF champion Ancient Title 4 times. 17) Akureyri beat champion Pleasant Colony in 3 of 4 races, etc etc. The point is who was better in any way is subjective, and it is certainly NOT "enough
said."
DELMARCLUB1
They are great, pertinent points, and facts.
+Travis West How could you not know these basic head to head final score scoreboards? Pretty basic racing history. Racing history facts 101
A great and excellent race
"Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies & debates about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran.
The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Wajima 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; & an endless amount of others. It was all done ILLEGALLY by ss - the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like wheat separating from chaff, the cream rose to the top. Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant & illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss got exposed badly & romped when he was forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. The Litmus Test of a Champion is running & winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses]. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-reliant horses like ss; & these horses, like ss & many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races.
And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, etc) to ss. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was just better than the drug-dependent & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence. Harthill confessed to DRF's Hovdey of illegally giving illegal ped drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state (NY) in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal vet Harthill as well. The criminal vet of ss, Alex Harthill, confessed in 2001 to DRF's Jay Hovdey, to illegally administering illegal ped drugs to sunday silence (plus many other horses), including the significantly powerful potent performance enhancing drug Clenbuterol (an extraordinary drug with 2 completely different effects that dramatically & greatly enhance performance & significantly enhance speed, stamina, endurance, lung capacity & energy levels; it greatly aids breathing by significantly expanding the air passages in the lungs letting air flow much more freely, & it causes rapid fat burning significantly decreasing fat; it also has a similar effect on the body as Epinephrine & Amphetamines by increasing the production of Epinephrine & Noradrenaline, & thus significantly enhancing performance: it also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, & thus significantly increases energy, & thus significantly enhances performance), Sublimaze (A Potent Narcotic So powerful that it makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), Etorphine (An Opiate 80,000 Times More Powerful than Morphine - So powerful that it also makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), & Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin Bute, & provides significantly more potent pain relief than aspirin Bute & is far superior for relief of pain than aspirin Bute). Besides Harthill admitting it, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. Harthill only admitted to administering the illegal ped drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine & Banamine to Sunday Silence, & not Lasix (which was legal in every state in the US except NY back then anyways; but ss was listed as being administered Lasix in the DRF in all races outside drug-free NY); & it should also be noted Lasix is a potent diuretic & the main drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs; plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs, & the study of 23k races showed Lasix gives a significant 6 length performance enhancement. Case closed.
"Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran of DRF, LA Times & Newsday.
Nonsense, it was nose to nose, neither horse was run to the ground, and both horses had troubled trips. Do troubled trips for either or both horses automatically cost them a certain amount of lengths in both winning and losing? We don't know, not necessarily, maybe. Does getting steadied or checked automatically mean that it cost horses a certain amount of lengths in both winning and losing? We don't know. Both horses had troubled trips in the Derby. In the Derby, Easy Goer got pinballed sideways, checked and totally cut off in a melee caused by Northern Wolf. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. The stewards may have thought so, as they suspended Northern Wolf's jockey Jo Jo Ladner after the race. Easy Goer also had his path taken away from him in the stretch by Dansel while having to change course and weave outside and back towards the inside. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. SS weaved back and forth in the stretch. Did it cost him? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. In the Preakness both horses had troubled trips again. Easy Goer hopped at the start and broke in the air. Did it cost him a few lengths and the win in a race that came down to inches? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know? SS was bumped in the early part of the race that came down to inches. Did it cost him? We don't know, maybe. Down the back-side, Valenzuela and Sunday Silence forced and herded Easy Goer and Day out very wide to the middle of the track, which then perhaps forced Easy Goer and Day to make a big, early sprinting move to the lead to avoid being very wide. Did both cost him a few lengths and the win in a race that came down to inches? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. SS then had to steady. Did it cost him a few lengths? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know. Then Valenzuela pinned Easy Goer in extremely tight on the rail while they were brushing. Did being pinned and trapped and in very tight on the rail, and being brushed cost him? We don't know, maybe. Did the brushing help or hurt both or either horses? We don't know, maybe, maybe not. Day turned Easy Goer's head when he had the lead late in the stretch. Did it cost him? Not necessarily, maybe, we don't know.
+Travis West Nonsense. Neither horse was "run into the ground." More nonsense. Easy Goer and Sunday Silence each had the lead back and forth at numerous times throughout the race - and throughout the entire stretch. They each had the lead back and forth throughout the stretch and it was head to head and nose to nose. Neither horse was run into the ground. Spew nonsense and keep deleting your comments.
+Travis West Why do you act like an immature pre schooler, spew nonsense, and delete your comments?
+Travis West I know the head - to - head records. As Delmarclub points out - a myriad of great horses were behind other horses when opposing them in direct competition. Better? Better is nonobjective and intuitive. They were both great Hall of Fame champions - separated by inches. Easy Goer did have a superior career resum'e, and accomplished and achieved more in his career.
+Travis West You are asking a question like you are a pre schooler. As if the ONE Bloodhorse list is authoritative, true and correct? Not at
all. The ONE B.h. list is subjective, intuitive and non objective, as
are all lists. Lists of greats? Charlie Justice, in an also flawed but objective stat analyses, ranked Easy Goer the number two greatest three year old of all time - and way ahead of SS - and behind only secretariat in his mathematical, statistical list (based on numerous factors). And Ahead of Buckpasser, Slew, Affirmed, Bid, Sunday, Damascus, Citation, etc. If the daily racing form, timeform, racing post, sports illustrated, associated press, thoroughbred times, etc etc also made lists, I am sure they would rank horses differently (many of them). Who was greater (or better) is very debatable and subjective. Since this one B.h. list also ranked Buckpasser narrowly ahead of Damascus, ranked Bid narrowly ahead of Affirmed, ranked Slew narrowly ahead of Affirmed, ranked Swaps narrowly ahead of Nashua, ranked SS narrowly ahead of EG, ranked Man O War ahead of Secretariat, ranked War Admiral ahead of Seabiscuit, ranked Majestic Prince ahead of Arts and Letters, ranked Round Table narrowly ahead of Bold Ruler, etc, this makes it true, correct and authoritative? Not at all. They are all very debatable, subjective, and intuitive. I respect the flawed, subjective B.H rankings, but it is still flawed, subjective and
debatable. Their ranking Buckpasser narrowly ahead of Damascus, ranking Dr Fager ahead of Damascus, ranking Spectacular Bid narrowly ahead of Affirmed, ranking Sunday Silence narrowly ahead of Easy Goer, ranking Seattle Slew narrowly ahead of Affirmed, ranking Swaps narrowly ahead of Nashua, ranking Man O War ahead of Secretariat, ranking Citation far ahead of Noor, ranking War Admiral ahead of Seabiscuit, ranking Majestic Prince far ahead of Arts and Letters, ranking Native Dancer narrowly ahead of Tom Fool, ranking Cigar far ahead of Skip Away,
ranking Alysheba but not ranking Bet Twice, ranking Round Table far
ahead of Sword Dancer, ranking Round Table narrowly ahead of Bold Ruler,
etc, are all very debatable & subjective. If the daily racing
form, timeform, racing post, sports illustrated, associated press,
thoroughbred times, etc etc also made lists ranking the top 100 horses,
I am sure they would rank many horses differently. As an aside, I
believe that both sports Illustrated & the associated press actually
did rank a top 10 (only top 10 though), and horses ranked 4 through
10 were totally different from the B.H. Who was greater (or better)
and where horses should be ranked is very debatable and subjective.
+Travis West Where did I say that you immature pre schooler?
The 3-1 score means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. The essays, history and facts won't change that it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss- the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like wheat separating from chaff, the cream rose to the top. Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant & illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss got exposed badly & romped when he was forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. The Litmus Test of a Champion is running & winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned & didn't allow the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses] to drug the drug-reliant & illegal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-reliant horses like ss; & these horses, like ss & many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to tell me (Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form) how he illegally gave numerous horses, including Clenbuterol to Sunday Silence, illegal drugs. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally breaking the laws in enhancing his horses performances. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's, 15 years before it was approved by the FDA, on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it to Sunday Silence, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine and amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine and noradrenaline, and thus significantly enhancing performance. Clenbuterol also thins blood and widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, and thus significantly increases energy, and thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs that he administered were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) and Sublimaze. The drugs Etorphine and Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria and well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs. The US Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing and using unusual quantities of these and other drugs, such as the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol, powerful steroids, loop diuretics, extremely powerful painkillers, and very strong amphetamines, etc. Alex Harthill and drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in North American racing. Harthill was at the vanguard of giving drugs to horses that were used to vastly enhance their performances, and they were remarkably effective turning good horses into great horses, bad horses into good horses, slower horses into faster horses, horses with no business winning doing so, and causing horses to run far over their heads. Harthill was a vet who had stolen a 30 length lead in the race to discover drugs that would significantly move up racehorses, and Harthill had no hesitancy in using whatever was available. Harthill was a magic man vet practicing the dark arts of racehorse manipulation. Harthill was arrested many times (Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, NY,etc) for tampering, bribery and doping horses with drugs. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history." Besides Harthill admitting it to the DRF, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. History and facts. Case closed.
There's a reason why they called him the "Vet for a horse in need". He knew how to get around all the tests and rules and people went to him like moths to a flame. That was no secret.
Great race!
I don't get the need to put down either horse in this race. This race is one of the great stretch drives of all time! Two hall of fame champion horses slugging it out there length of the stretch. Dave Johnson gives a great call, as does Trevor Denman on track. Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer 3 of 4, but that doesn't diminish how great Easy Goer was. Both were great thoroughbreds! A thrill to watch, even 26 years later.
Anyone who has watched the 1989 Belmont Stakes as Both Horses were Racing for the 3rd time in 5 Weeks and at 12 Furlongs witnessed exactly why Many "Still" feel Easy Goer was the Better Horse...This race was an absolute Destruction as Easy Goer just Mopped the floor with his Rival while also running the 2nd fastest Belmont only behind the Great Secretariat....Race was over early as they rounded the far turn...This Brilliant performance along with many many other Brilliant performances is why Easy Goer was the better horse between the 2...Couple of Bad rides by Pat Day cost Easy Goer the Legacy he deserved...
The drug free Easy Goer was far superior to the drug dependent and cheater doper vet Alex Harthill dependent Sunday silence. The drug dependent and cheater doper vet Alex Harthill dependent Sunday silence needed race day performance enhancing drugs and the cheater doper vet Alex Harthill to administer clenbuterol and numerous other drugs to beat drug free Easy Goer very narrowly by the narrowest of margins in a few races. In the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all race day performance enhancing drugs and banned the cheater doper vet Alex Harthill, Easy Goer romped and was in front before they even ran 1 1\4m. Easy Goer won Grade 1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f and 12f without any race day performance enhancing drugs and with much less rest and time between races. Easy Goer ran all distances in faster times, as well as far superior speed figures at all distances. The drug dependent and cheater doper vet Alex Harthill dependent Sunday silence won G1's only at 9f to 10f with much more rest and time between races, and needed race day performance enhancing drugs and the cheater doper vet Alex Harthill. Drug Free Easy Goer destroys him in all races at all distances when all race day performance enhancing drugs are banned and the cheater doper vet Alex Harthill also banned.
What you say about easy goer is true talent and speed he puts Sunday silence away. He weaknesses was his hart the five biggest races of his career he won one of them in his home state. He traveled he lost two breeder cups and the derby and Preakness. When Sunday silence
joe chrow Easy Goer ran drug-free in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, which banned all performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant and corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant s.s. got exposed badly and romped when he was forced to run drug-less with no-drugs at all. The great Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer showed the world how to obliterate the drug-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a champion, and the litmus test of the heart of a champion, is running and winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; and during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York also banned the magic man corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian of s.s. Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally doping/juicing an endless amount of horses] and not allowing him to perform his magic and juice the drug-reliant and magic man corrupt crooked criminal crook juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant s.s. During that era, it was a humongous, gigantic credit to NY [and the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-dependent horses like s.s.; and these drug-reliant horses, like s.s. and many others, got exposed badly and crushed when they were forced to run drug-less with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-less races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-less no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play and complete fairness for all. The great drug-free Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer won and ran as great having to travel outside of drug-free NY when he romped in the Swale Stakes and in the process ran the fastest 7f of the year in the state which was outside drug-free NY having to travel. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed s.s; like heart-filled drug-free wheat separating from heart-less drugged chaff, the heart-filled drug-free cream rose to the top. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant s.s., s.s. needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him and still only beat him by the slimmest of margins with drug-free EG running as great outside drug-free NY in the process. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f and 12f drug-free with much less time and rest between races and running many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures and performance ratings; while the drug-reliant s.s. only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs and much more time and rest between races and running far less races. So much for heart. And, s.s.'s vet Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to s.s. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to tell Jay Hovdey of the Daily Racing Form how he illegally gave numerous horses (including Clenbuterol to SS) illegal drugs. Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex Harthill ADMITTED illegally breaking the laws in enhancing his horses performances. In DRF articles in recent years & in the last few years of his life, SSilence's vet Alex Harthill ADMITTED to illegally using the immensely effective performance enhancing bronchodilator clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's 15 years before it was approved by the FDA on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. SS's vet Alex Harthill introduced the incredibly effective performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol in the 1980's & illegally administered it to Sunday Silence, who benefited immeasurably by its immensely effective performance enhancing effects. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) and Sublimaze. The drugs Etorphine and Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria and well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of controlled drugs, such as the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator Clenbuterol, powerful steroids, loop diuretics, extremely powerful painkillers & very strong amphetamines, etc. Alex Harthill & raceday performance enhancing drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in North American racing. Harthill was at the vanguard of giving drugs to horses that were used to vastly enhance their performances, & they were remarkably effective turning good horses into great horses, bad horses into good horses, slower horses into faster horses, horses with no business winning doing so, & causing horses to run far over their heads. Harthill was a vet who had stolen a 30 length lead in the race to discover drugs that would significantly move up racehorses, & Harthill had no hesitancy in using whatever was available. Harthill was a magic man vet practicing the dark arts of racehorse manipulation. Harthill was arrested many times (Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, NY,etc) for tampering, bribery & doping horses with drugs. The drugs were & are so potent that their use or nonuse dramatically alters horse's performances (including SS). Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history." Besides Harthill admitting it to the DRF, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities.
@@traviswest9388 Why don't you crawl under a friggin rock you troll?
You are all friggin cruel and evil.
cominatcha, Why is your only goal & aim to comment with an endless barrage of trolling comments, THEN Delete & Erase ALL of them, then more endless barrages of comments, then delete & erase all of them, & to continue to do this endless cycle day after day after day? Why not just comment all that you want to & leave all of your endless comments on all of the videos, & not erase & delete all of them?
"Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS, NOTABLY THE PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUG FUROSEMIDE, in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when narrowly edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS, NOTABLY THE PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUG FUROSEMIDE, in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when narrowly edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." LA Times December 1989. Furosemide/Lasix is a potent performance enhancing drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs, plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs & many studies show Furosemide/Lasix gives a significant 6 to 9 length performance enhancement. Sunday Silence's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill also ADMITTED to giving sunday silence the immensely effective performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Etorphine & Sublimaze in the 1989 Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders Cup Classic; Sunday Silence benefited immeasurably by all of their incredibly effective performance enhancing effects. Case closed & shut.
Still one of the most exciting live moments of my life, Sunday digging deep, Easy Goer coming powerfully at him with each stride. Was a big Sunday Silence fan, heart was beating faster than in any other race.
I'm a fan of both. They both made me money at a good price.
@@perryberman2824 it must have been a ton $$$ for you to bring it up a few decades later. Congratulations.
@@makingthecoin3647 It was for the 80s and l don't gamble anymore.
Premature move by Pat Day..PInned down on rail ENTIRE stretch..Loses by the luck of the bob..Easy Goer was the obvious better horse in this race..Broke slow on the most speed/pace favoring track in the Classic and closed to miss by a desperate neck...Easy Goer ran the better races in both of these races and was the better horse..No excuses for bad trips/biased speed surface/jockey errors etc in the 1 1/2 Belmont...That performance showcased just how much better 1 horse was/could be over the other..That was the true talent between both horses
joe chrow Pat Day himself said in an interview that Easy Goer emptied out and had nothing left he gave all he had coming down the stretch and that Easy Goer had nothing left..his legs were gone. it was a fair race coming around the last turn. A great horse with great tactical speed will win 3 out of 4 times over a power house of a horse in Easy Goer
joe chrow Easy Goer's blazing front-running speed and brilliant tactical speed was perfectly fine in numerous races going to the lead from the start, and staying up very close to the leaders throughout - Champagne, Suburban, Wood Memorial, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Gotham, Belmont, Preakness, Travers, Whitney, 6.5f near record, mile record, near records in many races, etc. If he was emptied out and gave all he had and had nothing left, then Sunday Silence also was emptied out, gave all he had, and had nothing left. What Pat ron franklin esque Day - aka Pat start stop start stop Day - said means something? Day also said, "It was a terrible ride and totally my fault. I HAD MORE HORSE THAN I KNEW WHAT TO DO WITH. It was absolutely rider error. I got him beat. I got hammered pretty good, and I'm the first to say that it wasn't unwarranted. P Val also carried me out extremely wide to the parking lot down the backstretch; then he kept pushing and banging me and trapped me in extremely tight on the dead rail from the far turn thru the entire stretch. Then EG was running sideways with the lead deep in the homestretch with his head and part of his body turned while having his momentum/stride and rhythm disrupted badly. In the Test of the Champion drug-free medication-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed him; like wheat separating from chaff, the cream rose to the top. I've always believed and I'll continue to believe that Easy Goer was a better horse than Sunday Silence. I've said it before and I'll always say it, I think Easy Goer was better than Sunday Silence, despite his slight 3-1 edge in the head to head races. I'll go to my grave believing that. We lost two photos to him and the one in the Preakness absolutely was due to rider error on my part, and my ride wasn't the best in the Classic. I was on the better horse."
McGaughey also said, "Pat Day and I agree that he made riding mistakes in the Preakness. We had Sunday Silence beat and Day let him back in the race. In the other races, there were circumstances that contributed to what happened. In the Preakness, Day got to the lead then he remembered he was Pat Day. And when he FOLDED up on the turn, he allowed SS back in the race. He got the lead, and then he gave it back. He basically did the same thing in the Classic. In the Classic, when Day grabbed him after the start, maybe the horse didn't understand what he was doing. Then Day was content to sit and wait behind Sunday Silence, as DAY HAD DONE BEFORE, and the other horse got away from us, and we just missed and fell just a stride or so short. In my heart, I think Easy Goer is the better horse than Sunday Silence."
Better or best is definitely subjective, but having acknowledged that; take nothing away from Sunday Silence as he was a great horse, but Easy Goer was a superior, greater, better, stronger and faster horse; Pat Valenzuela and Chris McCarron were better jockeys than Pat ron franklin-esque Day; and the master trainer Charlie the Bald Eagle Whittingham was a better trainer than Claude Shug McGaughey. Easy Goer's jockey and trainer, Pat ron franklin esque Day and the most conservative anti-speed McGaughey, were both pitiful. McGaughey was and is the most conservative trainer of all-time who rarely trained his horses for speed, no matter how much big-time brilliant speed a horse like Easy Goer possessed. Pat ron franklin esque Day was the most tentative, passive, conservative, start-stop, wait go wait go wait, yield idle go yield go yield idle, fold up move fold up move fold up rider of all-time. Many of Pat Ron Franklin esque Day's rides on Easy Goer, Forty Niner, Seeking the Gold, Sky Classic, Turkoman, Heavenly Prize, Rampage, Timber Country, Menifee, Surfside, Java Gold, etc were Ron Franklin - esque! Pat ron franklin esque Day, aka Pat start stop start stop Day, aka Pat wait go wait go wait go wait Day, aka Pat yield idle go yield idle go yield idle wait Day, aka Pat fold up move fold up move fold up Day, was pitiful. Pat ron franklin esque Day (aka Pat start stop start stop Day, aka Pat wait go wait go wait go wait Day, aka Pat yield idle go yield idle go yield idle wait Day, aka Pat fold up move fold up move fold up Day) was riding a Ferrari in Easy Goer. But, Pat ron franklin esque Day rode Easy Goer -- and many other horses -- like a teenager at the wheels of a Ferrari. Pat ron franklin esque Day never came to terms with the immense power and big-time speed at his disposal and how and when to use it. Go yield idle go, go yield idle go, go wait go wait go wait, fold up move, fold up move fold up, inside, outside, back inside, back outside.
SS had to steady in the Preakness, but that he was not "cut off" or "shut off." I'll provide two videos for you to watch right here on youtube for proof of this. The first one is the 1989 Belmont Stakes - Easy Goer: Full ABC Broadcast video. Go to the 11 minute point of the video to watch the full head-on video of the backside run of the Preakness. It actually was Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela who actually was the one "trying to screw Pat ron franklin-esque Day the whole way around" by floating him very wide [8 or 9 wide] towards the barns on the back-side, and by trapping him and knocking him in very tight to the rail afterwards on the turn [so bad that Houston had to check] and thru the stretch. The full backside video doesn't show Pat ron franklin-esque Day shutting off or cutting off Pat suspended over 20 times for coke Valenzuela. Valenzuela preposterously tried to turn it around on Day. The other video is the "Arthur Hancock on Sunday Silence" video uploaded by Blood-Horse. Interesting also to note that Silence's owner Arthur Hancock assumed, like most others, that Pat Day did. However, on the 'Arthur Hancock on Sunday Silence' video uploaded here on youtube by Blood-Horse, Hancock even admits he didn't by saying at the 8:50 point of the video, "Easy Goer swept past Sunday Silence, and it looked to me like he might have shut him off. Silence dropped back a length or two, and I said to my wife that Easy Goer just shut us off. That's what I thought looking through my binoculars. But he DIDN'T, he did NOT, he was far enough out there."
Joe chrow I'm tired of all the excuses that people bring up for the fact that Easy Goer lost. Pat Day moved prematurely: Pat Day waited too long; Pat Day should have gone to the lead. Jeez. Sunday Silence just had his number in the Derby and the Preakness. Great races, as well as the Breeders Cup, and the better horse won. Period.
joe chrow Travis West etc etc etc etc - No excuses. Who's better in any way is totally subjective. There are an endless amount of all time greats who were behind or tied in head to head records, including Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr. Fager, Damascus, Shuvee, John Henry, Pleasant Colony, Serena's Song, Silverbulletday, Swaps, Nashua, Sir Barton, Skip Away and many others. There was the Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes (the classic distance for the whole world) where Easy Goer destroyed him in the only state in the entire country during that era that banned all drugs. Balanced against that are two wins by SS against Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins, and a total of 3 wins which SS won by a combined margin of less than two and three-quarter lengths. So SS held the slight 3-1 edge against EG with 3 wins coming in very close wins and a loss in which he was destroyed. Easy Goer also ran the record mile one full second faster than Secretariat's record. Easy Goer also ran a better, faster Ragozin speed figure than Secretariat did in their respective Belmont Stakes. Easy Goer also ran some of the greatest, fastest all timer performances at every distance he ran - 6.5F, 7F, 8F, 9F, 10F, 12F. Easy Goer generally ran faster times than Sunday Silence at all distances. Easy Goer more often ran faster times than Sunday Silence at all distances, including many outstanding, perennial all timer performances at every distance - 6.5F, 7F, 8F, 9F, 10F, 12F. Sunday Silence lost 36% of his races, mostly to lesser horses including Houston, Prized, Criminal Type, and Cro Lover. Neither the Easy Goer/SS example or the other ones I cite show that any of these horses was "better" (which is totally subjective anyways) or was able to consistently get the better of the other. All these examples show is the records of two horses in a VERY MINUSCULE number of races. A few races certainly would NOT be even close to a large enough sample size if you were trying to establish consistency on a statistical basis; nor is it even close to a large enough sample size to show who was "better" (which is totally subjective anyways). SS held the slight 3 to 1 edge over EG in the races they both ran in. Those are facts, but who's "better overall", "better in general," or "better" in any way are all totally subjective. "Better" is totally subjective and numerous greats were behind or tied in head to head records vs other horses, including Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua, John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many others. Citation got beat 4 out of 5 by Noor; Kelso got beat 3 out of 4 by Beau Purple; Forego got beat 2 out of 3 by Big Spruce; Shuvee got beat 4 out of 5 by Gallant Bloom; Dr Fager got beat 2 out of 4 by Damascus; Pleasant Colony got beat 3 out of 4 by Akureyri; Triple Crown winner Sir Barton got beat 8 out of 12 by Billy Kelly; John Henry got beat 4 out of 4 by Cabrini Green; John Henry got beat 3 out of 3 by Darby Creek Road; Skip Away got beat 4 out of 6 by Formal Gold; & there are an endless amount of other similar examples.
Easy Goer also ran many more races in a shorter time period with much less time between races, and at more varying distances; & he ran mostly in the only state in the entire country at the time that banned all drugs. SS ran significantly less races with much more time between races, at less varying distances, & all but 1 of his races were run in states that allowed drugs. Sunday Silence's record (Lost 4 of 6 races; Losing record on his home track losing 3 races) on bigger tracks with a circumference of 1 1/8m or larger was very similar to Easy Goer's record on smaller mile circumferenced tracks. However, size of tracks, size of turns, straightaway/turn speed & acceleration, region, rider/rider tactics, trainer/training, drugs/medications not being allowed, etc etc, are just a few of the numerous variables, and cannot be simplified when there are many more factors and variables. It is much more complicated than that given the myriad of variables that determine the outcome of races. Failing to factor the numerous other variables in can lead to the wrong conclusions about why horses win or lose races. It makes no sense to look at cause and effect simplistically because other variables may have determined the outcome. Just because the Earth looks flat based on the way we actually see it, does not mean that it is flat. There are numerous factors, including but not limited to : superior career, superior & better body of work, GI wins, Graded Stakes wins, wins against older horses & open company, running times, avg running times at various distances & at all distances, head to heads, records set, still standing records, weights carried & weights conceded, stakes wins & stakes wins vs. open company/older horses, varying distances won at during career, superior campaign or campaigns, durability, constitution, superiority & dominance, injuries, jockeys, riding & rider errors, trainers, training and trainer errors, win/loss %'s, trips, amount of races run, track sizes, track circumferences, post positions, campaign & career earnings with & without bonuses, races with drugs & medications allowed/used, races with no drugs & medications allowed/used, etc etc & many many more.
They were both great horses, but who's better is still totally subjective even after factoring in the endless amount of other factors. Easy Goer & SS were both greats. Easy Goer won 12 total stakes, 9 Grade 1 wins at distances of 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f, and 12f showing versatility on all tracks & many distances. SS won 7 total stakes, 6 Grade 1 wins but only at distances from 9f to 10f. Both versatile indeed, but that is a big difference in versatility. Easy Goer also defeated older horses Six times at ages three and four while conceding a good amount of weight in quite a few of them. SS defeated older horses only two times at ages three and four. Many other factors would favor Easy Goer over SS as well, including a) amount of career races able to run - 20 to 14 ; b) amount of total career wins - 14 to 9 ; c) running times at all distances ; d) average running times at all distances ; e) career earnings without bonuses - about $ 4.8 million to about $ 3.8 million ; f) career winning percentage - 70% to 64% ; g) Grade 1 wins - 9 to 6 ; h) total stakes wins - 12 to 7 ; i) wins vs older horses/open/unrestricted at ages three & four - 6 to 2 ; j) Grade 1 stakes wins at various distances - EG at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f; SS at only 9f to 10f ; k) Easy Goer never was defeated by more than 2 & a half lengths in any race in a much longer career, SS never was defeated by more than 8 lengths in any race in a much shorter career; & other factors that would favor Easy Goer would be varying distances won at, records set, near records set, still standing records, running times, avg running times at all distances, campaigns, durability, constitution, dominance & superiority in races - average win margin and average loss margin, weights carried, weight concessions, etc. Other than SS's slight edge in head to head races, IMO Easy Goer was better than SS in most - if not all - these other factors & categories. But even after all of these numerous factors are factored in, who was better is still subjective. They were both greats, but IMO Easy Goer was a better horse, had a superior body of work, and had a superior career than SS even though SS held the slight edge in head to head races by the nose of his Preakness win. There is a lot more other than head to heads.
@@patronfranklinesqueday9283 Show this 2002 DRF Jay Hovdey Alex Harthill article
Easy Goer was a GREAT talent with good tactical speed..Pat Day decided to change the way he runs and always take him back in the pack..Pat Day breaks next to LAST in this race..jogs along..than decides to rush easy goer up to the leaders on the backstretch..than finally makes his move with easy goer and takes the lead..uses him up and doesnt even TRY to make sunday silence go WIDE in the stretch and gets easy goer PINNED down on the rail where no horse wants to be..This is a prime example of pat day being clueless on easy goer..he was too spoiled on easy goers back and treated him like a Ferarri and used no tactics..still hard to forgive pat day for this ride and a few others..he cost easy goer his true legacy...ATROCIOUS ride
Easy Goer's jockey and trainer, Pat ron franklin esque Day (Pat start stop start
stop start Day) and the most conservative anti-speed McGaughey, were both pitiful. McGaughey was and is the most conservative trainer of all-time who rarely trained his horses for speed, no matter how much big-time brilliant speed a horse like Easy Goer possessed. Pat ron franklin esque Day was the most tentative, passive, conservative, start-stop rider of all-time. Many of Pat Ron Franklin esque Day's rides on Easy Goer, Forty Niner, Seeking the Gold, Sky Classic, Turkoman, Heavenly Prize, Rampage, Timber Country, Menifee, Surfside, Java Gold, etc were Ron Franklin - esque! Actually, Pat ron franklin esque Day (Pat start stop start stop Day) was riding a Ferrari in Easy Goer. But, Pat ron franklin esque Day rode Easy Goer -- and many other horses -- like a teenager at the wheels of a Ferrari. Pat ron franklin esque Day never came to terms with the immense power and big-time speed at his disposal and how and when to use it. Go yield idle go, go yield idle go, inside, outside, back inside, back outside. Better or superior is definitely subjective. Having acknowledged that: Take nothing away from Sunday Silence as he was a great horse, but Easy Goer was a superior, greater, better, stronger and faster horse; Pat Valenzuela and Chris McCarron were better jockeys than Pat Day, a.k.a Pat ron franklin-esque Day; and the master trainer Charlie the Bald Eagle Whittingham was a better trainer than Claude Shug McGaughey.
agreed..Easy Goer had NUMEROUS races where pat day would break back in the pack..rush up..fall back again..make another move and fall back off pace and finally make his last move and win..he was just so talented he could afford to do that..i ALWAYS felt that Easy Goer was the perfect horse..he could stay close to the leaders and EXPLODE when called upon..i felt that Easy Goer could have also WIRED fields if connections chose that tactic..but for some odd reason pat day decided to keep Easy Goer much much too far off the pace. (seems every race i see pat day in he is at the back of the pack his entire career( claimers/Allowance/Stakes horses)..Preakness disgusted me the most..all over the place..i just could not BELIEVE pat day allowed easy goer to get PINNED on the rail like that where no horse wants to be and waited FOREVER for sunday silence to come after him in the stretch before he got into easy goer..the CLASSIC i was most disappointed in..Gulfstream has always been one of the harder tracks to close into unless you are going against inferior competition as he did in the swale..yet pat day waited too late to get easy goer rolling..he was close up and decided to lag again and finally decided to make his move and lost by a head..i am still confused to why he waited so long..Easy Goer had a ton of horse he could have moved earlier and went right on by in stretch..Easy Goer was much better than Sunday Silence in my opinion..i was shocked sunday silence was favored over easy goer in the belmont..1st time of easy goers career he wasnt the favorite in a race..i KNEW the 1 1/2 distance would cancel out any racing tactic bufoonery pat day would use and easy goer would win on pure talent..seemed to me in MOST races i watched easy goer run he would be making 1 to 2 moves before they even got to the halfmile mark and would make his final move in the stretch as every other horse in these races would run along pace themself waiting to make their 1 move..Easy Goer was so talented he could afford jockey rides like that..Easy Goer is still the most pure talented horse i have ever seen..many GREAT horses you can tell are great on the track..but Easy Goers EFFORTLESS talent would just JUMP out at you watching him run..i dont think i have EVER seen a horse make so many moves during a race let alone a grade 1 race than Easy Goer..my final take is that i truly believe that Easy Goer was so talented that he spoiled pat day..and pat day had ZERO respect for Sunday Silence..and it cost him
Pat Day and the Connections Cost Easy Goer Horse of The Year in 1989....Easy Goer raced very Sluggish off grueling campaign along with a very TIMID ride by pat day in The Classic...Easy Goer was the Heavy "1-2" favorite in the race and those Kind of Odds say that the Public not only feels 1 Horse is better but "Superior" to the other...Too bad...Easy Goer had a WORLD of talent
That's why they run the race. When l see 1to2 l look for another horse.
No...EASY GOER was trained from the start at WIDE TURNED Belmont park and never fully handled the sharp two turns of churchill, gulfstream etc. That was his only, albeit small, FLAW that cost him from ever winning a grade 1 outside of NY.
44:23 SHUG GOING DOWN TO CHECK ON HIS SECOND PLACE HORSE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
P Val...Pat Venzuela was a hell of a jockey. Wow!!!
What fighters both horses were. Pat Day: 'Absolutely rider error. I take full blame. I was on the better horse.' It takes a man to be humble enough to admit that. I'll give that to Pat Day. Day also said : "I'd be concerned after pulling the trigger and exploding and committing to go on, and then letting him down and confusing him, start stop start stop."
Ever see a jockey on a great horse NOT blame themselves? That means nothing.
so post it... i cant find it
@@sigscorpion9275 it most certainly is above and on all of the videos
Watch the Breeders Cup Classic. Easy Goer was drifting in on his left lead while Pat continued pounding him right-handed.
Watch when he finally taps him on the left in mid-stretch. Focus on his eyes. It's like the Ritalin just kicked in.
With Baffert and Smith Easy Goer wins all these races. TACTICAL SPEED. Two words who's meaning Shug could never grasp.
To this day I've never seen a horse continually waltz out of the gate and then blitz down the backstretch only to stop and chill like the race is over
before being asked to kick in again when you're either boxed in down at the rail or galloping on your left lead.
Easy Goer was an insanely fast horse with plenty of gas. Get him out of the gate and in stalking position and he never loses.
Greatest racehorse of my lifetime. I was born in 1974.
Best looking racehorse Ive ever seen in my life, and I was born in 1975.
Bravo you said it all. As good as there ever was. Total disgust with Pat Day and Shugs malaise. This horse was greatness and Clean to boot.
Sunday Silence was the superior horse on the track and at stud.
@@normanphilp1760 if you just want to pretend or shutdown and eliminate the truth go right ahead. On the track you had old Charlie need a banned and convicted vet to win who admitted dosing S.S. End of that. Breeding you are joking not even close. The list of Grade 1 winners landslide and Breeders champions is Easy GOER More champions also in even less years than S.S Too bad. It was Clean vs dirty. A convicted and banned Vet who admitted he juiced him. A juiced jockey and the Enabler Charlie. What a bunch. Even the country didn't want him.
The drug free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the far superior horse on and off the track. The drug dependent and cheater drugger veterinarian Alex Harthill dependent Sunday silence needed all of his performance enhancing drugs and cheater drugger veterinarian alex harthill.
The Drug-free Eclipse Award Champion & Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer will always be the Drug-Free Eclipse Award Champion and Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion, and the most coveted honor and prize, by far, is being inducted in the Hall of Fame, and Easy Goer did it drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence needed and was given performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to barely beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. When ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs (and without ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill) in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well - ss was Crushed by the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer. And as importantly ss's veterinarian Alex Harthill fully voluntarily admitted that he gave illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; but Harthill could NOT do so in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs - and as importantly banned the illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Triple Crown winner Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Triple Crown winner Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Forego 1; Wajima 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Hall of Famer Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Eclipse Award Champion Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Eclipse Award Champion Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion Kotashaan 1; and an endless amount of others. The Classic Distance for the whole world is 12f, but Easy Goer won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less time and rest between races and ran many more career races; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f with much more time and rest between races and ran far less career races. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's body of work & career accomplishments are far superior to ss's as well.
The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned the illegal criminal veterinarian of sunday silence Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses]. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-dependent horses like ss; and these horses, like ss, and many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drug drug-free races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug drug-free races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. And, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs and banned Alex Harthill as well. New York by far ran/runs the most Prestigious, Championship G1 races in the USA with by far the highest purse money in the country; NY was/is by far the best racing circuit in the USA; champions are crowned and championships are won on the Championship Tracks in New York - they are by far the fairest tracks in the USA in New York, with Belmont Park being by far the fairest of them all, because they are all larger tracks with large, sweeping turns where horses run as fast around the bigger turns as they do on straightaways - (although I will note all these larger tracks in and out of NY with circumferences larger than a mile - Saratoga, Arlington, Hollywood, Hialeah, Aqueduct, Laurel, Woodbine, Atlantic City, Keeneland, Ellis, Colonial, Kentucky Downs, and the new Gulfstream); NY was and still is the Center of Racing in the USA; and most importantly, there are over 200 horses in the Hall of Fame and no matter where they were/are/will be based, 99% of them ran/run/will run in NY for the reasons listed above!!
Those are some fantastic late 80’s fashions
53:40 shortly before that...🤣🤣🤣🤣 MAKING STUFF UP...HUH PAT
Easy Goer took the lead early and those were some fast fractions...Pinned down on the rail for the entire stretch to only lose by a "nose" at the wire...Easy Goer was the better horse and ran the better race in a nose lost in my opinion...Sunday Silence had such a HUGE advantage having Easy Goer on the rail for the entire stretch and still could not get by him until he won the flip of the coin at the wire
By a nose or by a mile a win is a win. They all look the same in the win and loss column. Thats 3 wins to 1.There is no column for the "but he only lost by a nose" excuse.
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the far superior horse on the track and at stud over the drug-reliant & criminal cheater doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence (needed all of his illegal performance enhancing drugs [Clenbuterol,etc] administered to him by his criminal cheater doper vet Alex Harthill). The drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 1 1/8m, 1 1/4m & 1 1/2m drug-free with much less rest & time between races running faster times at all distances, & ran far superior speed/performance figures & ratings drug-free. While the drug-reliant & criminal cheater doper vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss only won G1's at 9f to 10f with much more rest & time between races & needing all of his illegal performance enhancing drugs [Clenbuterol, etc] administered to him by his criminal cheater doper vet Alex Harthill. Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; the list is endless - they all look the same in the win and loss column.
Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; the list is endless - they all look the same in the win and loss column.
@@traviswest9388 Show this 2002 DRF Jay Hovdey Alex Harthill article
@@sigscorpion9275 It already most definitely is above
Pat Ron Franklin Esque Day (aka Pat Wait All Day, Pat Start Stop Start Stop Start Day, Pat a Day late, Pat Delay Day, Pat so passive & patient he could watch a faucet drip for days Day) himself said, "I was on the far superior, far better horse in Easy Goer, but we lost a few photos to him by the slimmest of margins totally due to rider errors on my part. I had FAR MORE HORSE than I knew what to do with. It was totally my fault." Shug McGaughey said, "Easy Goer was a Better Horse than Sunday Silence. Pat Day got Easy Goer beat. Day waited when he didn't need to wait. We had ss beat & then Day let ss back in the races. Pat Day & I agree that he made riding mistakes. Easy Goer was the better horse than sunday silence. Easy Goer was by far the best horse I ever trained, Easy Goer was the most talented horse I've ever had. Easy Goer's action was so athletic, so natural, so fluid; he glided over the track; he ran blazingly fast & did it so easily. Easy Goer captured the public; he was a brilliantly fast horse, exciting to watch, & he had a great following. I had always dreamed of having a horse like Easy Goer. Easy Goer is by far the best that I've ever had. What Easy Goer did in all races, you just don't see that anymore. Easy Goer wanted to do a lot, all the time. My job - I had a Porsche in Easy Goer - was to not drive it 200 miles an hour every day. My job was just to keep him level, & keep him reserved. He wanted to go. I was very young, very inexperienced & made many mistakes." Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela himself said, "Easy Goer was a Super Horse. In order for ss to even be close to Easy Goer, I had to do any & everything possible. I had to purposely & deviously force EG out as wide as can be down the backstretch & at every other point I could in races; & I had to purposely & deviously bang & push EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail. Arazi was the best horse I ever rode. Arazi could do more & was even a much better horse than sunday silence." Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela. "Bless his heart ss was so exhausted ss was practically dead, almost literally dead, without all of his illegal performance enhancing drugs & without his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill." Charlie Whittingham himself said, "I am very angered that there is only 1 state in the whole country which bans all performance enhancing drugs, which bans all drugs, & also bans the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill (Harthill admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs [Clenbuterol, Subliamze, Etorphine, etc] to the drug-reliant sunday silence) despite his criminal record (Harthill was arrested numerous times in many states [Kentucky, NY, Illinois, Ohio, Louisiana, etc] for illegally drugging numerous horses). I think ss maybe can be as good as EG, & maybe can be as Great as Easy Goer, but ONLY IF EVERYTHING goes ss's way." Case closed.