1989 Breeders' Cup Classic - Sunday Silence + Pre & Post Race
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2012
- Sunday Silence grittily held off a desperate late charge by Easy Goer to win the $3 million Breeders' Cup Classic by a neck today at Gulfstream Park.
The tight finish of this fourth meeting between the decade's greatest racing rivals brought a crowd of more than 50,000 to a roar and settled the sport's major titles. Sunday Silence, who had beaten Easy Goer in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness before Easy Goer trounced him in the Belmont Stakes, is assured of being voted thoroughbred racing's Horse of the Year.
Emotions ran high long after the official sign was posted. For Sunday Silence's backers and handlers, this was a long-awaited day of vindication. After the Belmont, their colt had been widely dismissed as only second-best despite holding a 2-1 edge in the rivalry.
For Easy Goer's many fans, who made him the 1-2 betting favorite today, the result was flabbergasting. They found some excuses for him, but were devastated to see their colt emerge from this season as merely the second-best 3-year-old instead of being acclaimed as the champion of the decade.
It was small consolation for Easy Goer's connections, the Ogden Phipps family and the trainer Shug McGaughey, that they won two of the six earlier Cup races today, with Rhythm in the Juvenile and Dancing Spree in the Sprint.
Sunday Silence, a 3-year-old son of Halo and the Understanding mare Wishing Well, paid $6 for $2 to win as the second choice in the Classic betting and ran the mile and a quarter in 2:00 1/5 under Chris McCarron, who was riding him for the first time. Sunday Silence is owned by Arthur Hancock 3d, Ernest Gaillard and Charlie Whittingham, and trained by Whittingham.
''He's a great horse,'' Whittingham said, ''and he's far from done racing.''
Blushing John finished a length behind the top two in third, with Present Value 9 3/4 lengths back in fourth in a field of eight.
Sunday Silence earned $1.35 million in victory and has now banked $4.6 million, the third-highest total in racing history, while winning 8 of 12 career starts. Easy Goer also passed the $4 million threshold in defeat while losing for just the fifth time in 17 career starts. Neither colt has ever finished anywhere but first or second.
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The great Sunday Silence would go on to Japan and create a dynasty and become a living legend
+GameBred45 Northern Taste was an 11 time leading sire in Japan as well. Hindostan and Tesco Boy also were leading sires in Japan for many years. Northern Taste and ss certainly were the best sires Japan has ever had. I'd even say ss was one and northern taste was two, with hindostan and tesco boy behind the top two. Easy Goer died after only a few years at stud with very few foals, yet amazingly he has been influential in the USA and Europe with numerous G1 offspring and descendants.
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Steve Crist also said it fairly in one of his many assessments: "They were INCHES apart, but MILES ahead of their contemporaries. In the absence of either, each would have been a dominant Triple Crown champion with only history as a benchmark. Instead each proved each other's greatness." Fair assessment. One of his many assessments.
Both of these Hall of Fame greats had extraordinary bursts of acceleration, speed, tactical speed and power. Remarkable, just remarkable.
Two of the best horses and one of the best rivalries of all time. sure could do with these two today, they turned up and danced every dance !
Sunday Silence was always the better of the two. Results and big race victories are all that matter not speed figures..
Secretariat, Easy Goer, Forego, , Sunday Silence, Cigar, Spectacular Bid and Damascus all displayed brilliant acceleration; but they all possessed magnificent speed as well; all were very versatile. Easy Goer's brilliance, acceleration, speed, power and stamina was magnificent at all distances of ground that he ran; from six and a half furlongs to a mile and a half. And what he accomplished after the Triple Crown races was monumental. Both Easy Goer and Sunday Silence indeed were Triple Crown quality horses. Both were the real deal superstars.
"Many of Hall of Fame champ Easy Goer's monumental performances rank as some of the most impressive in the history(record mile in 1:32, second fastest Belmont ever run. Virtual, Bordering records in the 1m Champagne, 1 1/8 Whitney, 1 1/4 Travers, 1 1/4 Suburban, fastest 7f of the year in Florida, 6 1/2f at 2, 1m Gotham, 1 1/2 Belmont etc) of the sport in many of the most prominent, benchmark, esteemed, influential races. From a speed-performances standpoint, Easy Goer ran faster and better than Slew, Bid, and Affirmed did, at ages 2 and 3."
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"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." The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race (NOT even ONE) drug-free without any drugs. What a joke of a horse - never forget. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. What a joke of a horse - never forget. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f - ss LOST 4 races on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f. What a joke of a horse - never forget. Of course the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside his drug-free home state & away from his drug-free home track. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside drug-free NY, & won 6 races away from his drug-free home track, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in other races to drug-reliant horses like ss who had been given illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs. Make the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence run without all of his CUSHY COMFORT performance enhancing drugs, & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. SS LOST ALL races when forced to run drug-free without any drugs. Make the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence run without his CUSHY COMFORT banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. SS LOST ALL races when forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. Make sunday silence run on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f & off his CUSHY COMFORT one small sized 8f tracks, & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. ss LOST 4 RACES on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, & the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant Sunday Silence 0 wins drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer BEAT far far more horses than the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside drug-free NY, & won 6 races away from his drug-free home track, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in other races to drug-reliant horses like ss who had been given illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs. POOR sunday silence was a drug-reliant horse; POOR ss was a banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse; POOR ss needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him! POOR ss needed everything perfectly set up for him; POOR ss needed the perfect run & trip set up for him, POOR ss needed FIXED races set up for him. Of course the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer WON OUTSIDE drug-free NY (The only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill as well), & EG won 6 races away from his drug-free home track. ss won ZERO races (ss got cremated) when he was forced to run drug-free (The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free w/o any drugs) without all of his banned illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, Banamine, Furosemide, etc); ss LOST all races (ss got obliterated) when he was forced to run drug-free (Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free without any drugs) without all of his banned illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, Banamine, Furosemide, etc); ss also won ZERO races (ss got pulverized) when he was forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST ALL races (ss got smashed) when he was forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss also LOST 4 races on bigger tracks (Easy Goer won on all 3 sized tracks - 8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) with circumferences larger than 8f; ; ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f only with illegal performance enhancing drugs & only on small 8f sized tracks with much more time & rest between races & ran far less career races; the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free w/o any drugs on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f) on sloppy, wet, muddy, & fast tracks with much less time & rest between races & ran far more career races, & ran faster times at all distances & ran far superior speed figures & far superior performance ratings at all distances. Easy Goer won on muddy, wet & sloppy tracks & ran 7f in a blazing 1:22 in one of them, and 10f in 2:01 (25 lengths faster than ss ran 10f in mud) in the other on muddy, wet & sloppy tracks. POOR sunday silence was a drug-reliant horse; POOR ss was a banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse; POOR ss needed to bring his ped drugs & one sized small 8f track with him. POOR ss needed everything perfectly set up for him; POOR ss needed the perfect run & trip set up for him, POOR ss needed FIXED races set up for him. Case shut.
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Easy Goer, the club footed comet champion with club feet, troublesome ankles and a crooked left leg. Sunday, the cow hocked, gritty champion. Both top of the line, top notch greats. Easy Goer's prime & peak performances were up there with the finest of them, & could match the best of them.
"Hall of champ Easy Goer met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful frame and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and he is mentioned in the same breath with the greatest of all time." This, despite Pat Day's tentative start stop riding, which were a few of the many circumstances that I believe cost him by a nozzle and grave throat in two races vs. an also great S.S.
Pat Day did cost Easy Goer two races and he admits it. He's still one of the top five race riders ever.
This was by far the best battle of Champions since Damascus and Dr. Fager; Noor and Citation; Beau Purple and Kelso; Nashua and Swaps; Big Spruce and Forego; Bet Twice and Alysheba; Greinton and Precisionist; and Arts and Letters and Majestic Prince.
"Easy Goer was the closest thing to Secretariat and he justified all the adoration. He had the look of greatness and he ran to his looks. ' Who was better? That is intuitive and nonobjective. Though only a small sample, they were mere inches apart from an even, level two to two when opposing one another in direct competition. Easy Goer did achieve and accomplish more in his career resume'.
***** You may want to actually read the comment. Do you understand english? My comment said, " they were mere INCHES APART (the Preakness) from an even, level two to two when opposing one another in direct competition. Easy Goer did achieve and accomplish more in his career resume'."
Sunday Silence had dealt with many adversities early on, and when he tore that ligament in his leg, after the Belmont, he just couldn't come back the same. Easy Goer had a lot more starts and was a great champion also, but a Secretariat he wasn't. Theirs was a great rivalry, but Sunday beat Easy more times when they were tested.
I don't think Secretariat could beat Easy Goer at any distance.
Dumb comment. Irrelevant. About as dumb as "I don't think Zenyatta could beat American Pharoah". It makes no sense. A horse foaled in 1970 and one foaled 16 years later could never race each other. These fantasy scenarios and theories are impossible, but dream on if you must. Easy Goers Belmont time of 2:26 is the same as Point Given (2001), American Pharoah (2015) and Tabasco Cat (1995). The 2:24 by Secretariat in the Belmont will probably stand forever.
Actually, Easy Goer's 2:26 flat (2:26.01) is faster than AP Indy's 2:26.15, Point Given's 2:26 2/5 (2:26.56), Risen Star's 2:26 2/5, American Pharoah's 2:26 3/5 (2:26.65) and Tabasco Cat's 2:26 4/5 (2:26.80). Yes, Secr's 2:24 probably will stand forever. Easy Goer's mile record time of 1:32 2/5 still stands, just 1/5 off Dr Fager's world record mile.
Gulftream one of the hardest tracks for closers..Yet Pat Day lets Sunday Silence get the big first run in the stretch..Easy Goer is such a versatile horse..He can wire a field..He can stay very close..Pat Day with another bonehead ride..Keep Easy Goer close to the pace in this race and he would have went right on by easily..Pat Day thanks for costing this GREAT horse the legacy he deserved
Terrific Troll Bonehead ride?..lol only when Easy Goer is in a race against Sunday Silence right??
Terrific Troll Only when what? Not. The Los Angeles Times quotes, no less : "If the great and truly special Easy Goer were only an ordinary horse, or even just a very good one, he would have probably lost both the 1989 Whitney and Woodward (when SS didn't show up and was resting for half of the year). Plenty were also howling about Day's rides in both the Whitney and Woodward. Hopelessly trapped and boxed in almost the entire races, then had to check on the far turns of both races. Boxed in most of the way, and checked hard and stopped twice in the Woodward. Their was severe and justified criticism of Day's riding. Day stopped and started and stopped and started with many of his mounts. Easy Goer endured yet more frustratingly tentative rides by rider Pat Day -- which is 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 and run it fast! Day rode the horse incredibly inconsistent and 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." More quotes: 1) "Racetrackers mockingly referred to Day as Pat delay Day or Pat wait all Day. The way Day rode DROVE MANY a captain of industry, hardboot trainer and regular fan to the BRINK OF RAGE." 2) "Pat Day's typical day to day riding was exasperating and many still grind their teeth remembering his rides aboard Java Gold, Easy Goer, Seeking the Gold, Forty Niner, Turkoman, Sky Classic, Rampage, Heavenly Prize, Timber Country, Menifee and numerous others. 3) "No jockey in the country took more abuse than Day. Day rides slowly in a world where everybody, especially jockeys, is in a hurry. Day could outwait the Jewish Prophet Job." 4) "Day's tentativeness and patience as a reinsman was unnerving and exasperating for owners, trainers, fans, bettors etc." 5) "Pat Day said, "I was riding a horse for the master trainer Allen Jerkens, a trainer I rarely, if ever, got a mount for. After about 50 yards out of the gate, the horse came off the bridle. I ease him down to the fence, and we go a moderate half, just galloping. Turn for home, I picked him up, and I think, ‘I could win.’ But we get beat a half length or so. But I did my job, right? I could see Allen was agitated, kicking the dirt. I said, ‘Chief, he ran good. I got him to relax, slow down really good.’ “Slow down? Slow down?!” Jerkens was hot. “All horses got one weapon - their speed. Horses have been running away from their enemies for a million years, and I get a jockey named Pat Day who wants to change evolution!" 6) ”Because Day often arrived at the wire too late, he was given unflattering nicknames-Pat Wait All Day and Pat delay Day. Many critics described Day's riding as exasperating, and many still grind their teeth remembering many of his rides aboard different horses. Day's patience as a rider was at times demoralizing for owners, trainers, fans and bettors. As Pat Forde, a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, penned in 1995, “He is so patient he could watch a faucet drip for days.” Day's riding style, as Barry Irwin wrote in 2016, "drove many a captain of industry, hard-boot trainer and horseplayer to the brink of rage."
Easy Goer's blazing front-running speed and brilliant tactical speed were 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. 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 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.
@@patronfranklinesqueday9283 Pat days problem is he could never use the whip and if you watch where he puts his hands he puts a horse to sleep on those to acupuncture points I've never seen another Rider do that
You're right about that when horse comes out of the turn at Gulfstream they always beer to the outside nobody stays on the rail early stats away used to be especially on the turf course..... do you remember when Leroy Jolley had Gulfstream resurface the whole track so that he would run Honest Pleasure there?
Easy Goer and Forego baby!! Pat Wait All Day, what a rider-LOL!
No horse had a season like Easy Goer as a 3 Year old , had 4 + 120 beyers and won the Whitney, Travers, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Woodward, Wood Memorial , Belmont Stakes and Broke Secretariat's Mile record at Aqueduct in the same year, a bad ride or a couple denied him immortality
Accept EG lost the two most important races. The Derby and the Classic
No doubt; true.
True. But that was totally expected because he was ridden by Pat ron franklin esque Day. 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.
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Immortality indeed.
Pat Day Lollygagged Around The Track Thinking Easy Goer Cant Lose
Easy Goer won 8 big races drug free, without any raceday performance enhancing drugs in Thoroughbred Horse Racing in 1989 . In his Hall of Fame career Easy Goer won 12 total stakes, 9 Grade 1 wins at 7 furlongs, 1 mile, 9 furlongs, 10 furlongs and 12 furlongs drug free, without any raceday performance enhancing drugs
I’ve never understood why Pat Day rode these races the way he did? EG loved being set inside for 3/4 of the race, then flared out in the stretch. Pat made him work so hard! So disappointing. EG should have been a triple crown/BCC winner.
Totally agree if Easy Goer had a better jockey riding him it would've been a different story. He was the superior horse between the 2
He wasn't as good of a jockey as you certainly.
Easy Goer also. "Easy Goer was Adonis-like, the closest thing physically to Secretariat. He was plagued by terrible ankles his entire career, but was placed upon a throne at an early age and validated all the admiration and exaltation. Easy Goer had bad shins (needed pinfiring), puffy, problematic ankles, a clubfoot, and a turned-out left knee. Easy Goer was a glowing chestnut with a fluid stride that belied his short pasterns and less than perfect feet. Pasterns notwithstanding, he had the look of greatness, and he ran to his looks. Easy Goer tragically died very young, with only a few crops. There are many reasons to regret the early loss of Easy Goer, who combined blistering speed over a mile with thoroughly genuine stamina. Corinthian, Storm Flag Flying, My Flag, Will's Way, Lion Tamer, Mull of Kyntire, Astronomer Royal, Furlough, Relaxing Rhythm etc. Given Easy Goer’s own superb pedigree and the quality of mates he received during his few seasons at Claiborne, there is every reason to believe that he would have made an even more significant contribution had he lived longer."
Travis West
Earnings while racing with or without bonuses? Actually Easy Goer earned
just under $4.9 million on the track with no bonuses; while SS earned
just under $3.9 million on the track with no bonuses; but ss got a $1
million Chrysler bonus to put his earnings at about $4.9 million. Other
horses who earned these $1 million Chrysler or Visa bonuses include Bet
Twice (over Alysheba), Risen Star, Unbridled (lost 4 of 6 to Summer
Squall), Hansel, Pine Bluff, Sea Hero, Tabasco Cat, Thunder Gulch, etc.
Let it go
Sunday Silence's banned illegal criminal vet 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.' "
Northern Taste also was an 11 time leading sire in Japan as well.
Hindostan and Tesco Boy also were leading sires in Japan for many years.
Northern Taste and ss certainly were the best sires Japan has ever had.
I'd even say ss was one and northern taste was two in Japan, with
hindostan and tesco boy behind the top two. Easy Goer died after only a
few years at stud with very few foals, yet amazingly he has been
influential in the USA and Europe with numerous G1 offspring and
descendants. ss had major earnings in Japan where the purses are
significantly higher than the rest of the world. However, Average Earnings Index (AEI) is a statistic used to put the earnings of a sire's progeny into proper
perspective. SS's career AEI is 2.15. Easy Goer's career AEI is 2.50.
Some of the all time leading American sires by AEI rankings are: Bold
Ruler 7.73, Alydar 5.21, Nasrullah 5.16, Northern Dancer 5.14, Nijinsky
4.74, Danzig 4.53, Mr. Prospector 4.25, Seattle Slew 4.12, Buckpasser
3.94, Storm Cat 3.93, AP Indy 3.74.
The Breeders in the USA, Ireland, Great Britain, France and Australia were/are totally correct: Breeding experts Anne Peters and Avalyn Hunter: "Had Sunday Silence retired in the USA, it's certain he'd have TANKED and been exported in DISGRACE, but he found the perfect gene pool in the restricted, insular Japan. However, the NUMEROUS attempts that have been made to propagate his line/influence OUTSIDE the restricted, insular Japan have had zero success, leaving his worth outside the restricted, insular Japan Miniscule." The open, unrestricted England, Ireland, the USA, France and Australia are #1 through #5 (in any order) in the world always and forever, and changed international racing forever, because of the greatness of Man O' War, Native Dancer, Bold Ruler, Nearco, Phalaris, Ribot, Nasrullah, Northern Dancer, Mr. Prospector, Raise a Native, Bull Lea, Buckpasser, Tom Fool, Sadler's Wells, Danzig, Danehill, Galileo, Frankel, Nijinsky, Nureyev, Princequillo, Blushing Groom, Montjeu, Dubai Millenium, Dubawi, Lyphard, Hyperion, Sir Gallahad, AP Indy, Storm Cat, Seattle Slew and many others - all of whom are far superior to SS, DI, Northern Taste, King Kamehameha, Tesco Boy, Hindostan, etc. in Japan. The open, unrestricted England, Ireland, the USA, France and Australia are all far superior to the restricted, insular Japan. The Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer has changed international racing forever. The Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer is the definition of Greatness, the Epitome of Greatness. Uncommon & Unlimited level of excellence. So extraordinary were Easy Goer's monumental performances that they stand the test of time. Easy Goer rewrote the record books sealing his place in history & in the Hall of Fame. Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by any 3 yo in 1:32 2/5 just 1/5 off Dr Fagers world record, the 2nd Fastest Belmont Stakes of all time behind only Secretariat, he ran right on the 6 1/2 f track record as a 2yo, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, & ran among the Top 5 Fastest All Time Editions of the Champagne at mile, Gotham at a mile, Whitney at 9f, Travers at 10f, Suburban at 10f & Belmont Stakes at 12f. Easy Goer has numerous great descendants that carried on for him including: 1995 Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies champion My Flag, who also won the CCA Oaks, Ashland, Gazelle and Bonnie Miss; 2002 Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies champion Storm Flag Flying, who also won the Personal Ensign, Frizette, Shuvee and Matron; 2007 Breeders Cup Dirt Mile Champion Corinthian, who also won the Met Mile and Gulfstream Park Handicap; 2018 Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint Champion Bulletin; 1996 and 1997 Travers and Whitney Champion Will's Way; 2004 Cigar Mile Champion Lion Tamer; 2007 French 2000 Guineas Champion Astronomer Royal; 2006 Irish 2000 Guineas and St James's Palace Champion Araafa; 2013 Breeders Cup Marathon Champion London Bridge; 1999 Ballerina and Distaff Champion Furlough; Shuvee and Coaching Club American Oaks Champion Funny Moon; Molly Pitcher Champion Relaxing Rhythm; Jim Dandy winner Composer; Blue Grass Stakes winner Monba; Ogden Phipps Handicap Champion Tiz Miz Sue; Florida Derby and Holy Bull Stakes Champion Audible; Yellow Ribbon, Gamely, Del Mar Oaks Champion Magical Fantasy, and many others. Breeding expert Alan Porter: "All of Easy Goer's remarkable descendants are many of the numerous reasons to regret the early death of Easy Goer, who combined blistering speed over sprint to mile distances with thoroughly genuine, phenomenal stamina over classic distances. Only 8 when he died, Easy Goer left behind just 53 producing daughters but they have produced a phenomenal 23 stakes winners. Easy Goer would have made an even more phenomenal contribution as a sire had he lived longer."
EG is the one that TANKED, SS blood has and is still making a ...Deep Impact... ( Pun intended ) in the breedings of his offsprings
@@sigscorpion9275 Easy Goer's blood has and is still making a phenomenal impact in the open, unrestricted USA and Europe in the breedings of his offsprings, while ss's blood is the one that TANKED everywhere outside of the restricted, insular big fish in a very small pond Japan. Breeding expert Alan Porter: "All of Easy Goer's remarkable descendants are many of the numerous reasons to regret the early death of Easy Goer, who combined blistering speed over sprint to mile distances with thoroughly genuine, phenomenal stamina over classic distances. Only 8 when he died, Easy Goer left behind just a relatively few producing daughters but they have produced a phenomenal amount of top stakes winners and champions in the USA and Europe. Easy Goer would have made an even more phenomenal contribution had he lived longer." Breeding experts Anne Peters and Avalyn Hunter: "Had Sunday Silence retired in the USA, it's certain he'd have TANKED and been exported in DISGRACE, but he found the perfect gene pool in the restricted, insular big fish in a very small pond Japan. However, the NUMEROUS attempts that have been made to propagate ss's line/influence (blood, breedings, offsprings) OUTSIDE the restricted, insular big fish in a very small pond Japan have had no success, leaving his worth outside the restricted, insular big fish in a very small pond Japan as Zero."
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Pat wait all Day's take off full of run and momentum, then ease up, gear down, take a hold, no hand coaxing,no reins shaken, letting down, confusing start stop, commit then uncommit riding cost him dearly by a lip and despairing collar in two races.
PatWaitAllDay I loved Pat Day, but his rides in the Preakness and the Classic cost Easygoer horse of the year and his place in history as a top 5 horse of all time,any doubts who was better look at times and speed figs that EG has, SS was not even close to Goers numbers
Easy Goer couldn't run with Sunday Silence around the turns...simple as that...Belmont with the big sweeping turns was a different story
@@josephposillico2696 times dont mean a thing.
All involved are cruel, uncompassionate and evil
@@TheJustjim3333 NO, at the 3/4 Easy Goer was at Sunday Silence's neck. When Blushing John went, Sunday Silence went with him and Easy Goer waited. That was when the race was lost. Easy Goer either should have stayed 3 wide not giving an inch or parked his face on Sunday Silence's ass. There wasd no reason to let Sunday Silence scamper off in the straightway before the turn.
Jay Hovdey made a good point. "Without SS, Easy Goer would have had statues like some other top 5 all time horses. Easy Goer would have won the Whitney,Travers,Woodward,Jockey Club Gold Cup,Triple Crown winner,Breeders Cup Classic,Suburban,Champagne,etc many by large winning margins & extremely speedy clockings. Without EG, SS(would have won the TC & BC) did not have nearly the overall career and overall campaign. Both great." Inches apart but miles ahead of their peers
Easy Goer was a great also - Hall of Fame inductee, Eclipse Award Champion, 12 stakes wins, 9 Grade I wins, 6 wins over older horses at ages 3 and 4, won G1's at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f, and 12f!! SS 7 total stakes wins, 6 Grade I wins, 2 wins over older horses at ages 3 and 4, and won G1's only at 9f to 10f. Easy Goer is also in with some great great company of Many many great Hall of Famers, champions and award winners who also were behind or tied on the "not enough said" head to head scoreboard, including Citation, Kelso, Forego, Skip Away, Dr. Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua, Round Table, Ancient Title, John Henry, Arts and Letters, Native Diver, Unbridled, Sir Barton among many others who were behind or tied in the "not enough said" head to head scoreboards. Why do you keep deleting your comments?
Easy Goer Lost the Preakness by a Nose Because of Days Horrible Riding, and Easy Goer Lost the Classic by a Desperate Neck Because Of His 1 1/2mile Prep and Historic Campaign,along with Days Horrible Ride
Tactical speed can be an even more dangerous weapon than raw power. Bursts of acceleration at the right time can prove more decisive than grinding. I absolutely loved both horses but remember as a kid always rooting for Sunday Silence - the underdog.
Hall of Fame champ Easy Goer had a penchant for large winning margins and extremely speedy clockings(even in the context of how dull and slow or fast the surfaces were playing on all the days the races were run). This will lead those type of rankings and him always being mentioned the same reverential breath with the greatest horses of all time.
***** Pat Day's tentative, passive start stop riding were a few of the many circumstances that cost him a by a nozzle and grave neck in two races vs. SS. Penchant talk? As dmclub points out - Penchants? And what about penchants? Citation had a penchant for losing to Noor (four times out of five). Kelso had a penchant for losing to Beau Purple (three out of four). Forego had a penchant for losing to Big Spruce (two out of three). John Henry had a penchant for losing to Interco (two out of three), as well as many other horses head to head. Pleasant colony had a penchant for losing to Akureyri (three out of four). Skip Away had a penchant for losing to Formal Gold (four out of six). The list may be endless - Native Diver, Sir Barton, Dr Fager, Unbridled, Ancient Title and many more with these "penchants."
EASYGOER4LIFE you can said whatever you want ..explain ..calculate ..still 1 plus 1 is 2. And ss beat him 3 of 4 . Stop cryin . Already and man up . You all look like children and losera makin excuses .grow up a pair already .
anhell32 Calculate. No explanations. Easy Goer was in with some great company being behind (or tied) on the scoreboards vs other horses. Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Dr Fager, Native Diver, Ancient Title, and many more either behind or tied on the scoreboard vs other horses. 1)Noor beat Citation in 4 of 5 races head to head. 2)Beau Purple beat Kelso in 3 of 4 races head to head. 3)Big Spruce & Wajima beat Forego in 2 of 3 races head to head. 4)Damascus beat Dr Fager in 2 of 4 races. 5)Mehmet & Interco beat John Henry in 2 of 3 races. 6)Darby Creek Road beat HOF champ John Henry in 3 of 3 races. 7)Cabrini Green 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 Native Diver 5 times. 13)Akureyri beat Pleasant Colony in 3 of 4 races.
Too bad he could only do it 1 out 4 against monster SS
All involved are cruel and evil.
this is the only Breeders Cup Classic race where it was pretty much a Two horse race between the 2 greats Sunday Silence vs Easy Goer..both horses dominated the 89 season
THE TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER!! 1:50 "Easy Goer breezed home BY HIMSELF OVER sunday silence." 12:22 "sunday silence is NOT AS SPECTACULAR as Easy Goer." 9:47 "Easy Goer the BEST horse for A LONG TIME that has come around." 13:45 "sunday silence had the Advantage because of his outside post positions (in both the BC Classic & Preakness), while Easy Goer had the Disadvantage because of his inside post positions (in both the BC Classic & Preakness)." 30:38 "The Advantage of the outside post position for sunday silence was the difference." 10:14 "Easy Goer is Horse of the Decade." 10:28 "Easy Goer is on Another PLATEAU." 10:31 "Easy Goer is OUTSTANDING." 1:29 "Easy Goer is the CHAMPION." 1:53 "Easy Goer UNBEATABLE, IMPECCABLE." 9:41 "Easy Goer has run BRILLIANTLY." 6:09 "Easy Goer is MAGNIFICENT." 19:29 "Easy Goer put on even more muscle than sunday silence; sunday silence LESS so than Easy Goer. Easy Goer filled out TREMENDOUSLY & looks Tremendous." The difference was the fact that THE TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER ran drug-free without any drugs at all, while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence was given the powerful performance enhancing diuretic drug Furosemide/Lasix (a study of 23,000 races proved it gives a 6 TO 9 LENGTH performance enhancement, plus it reduces body weight by 16lbs to 25 pounds, & is the main drug which masks other drugs), plus the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug), Sublimaze (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute) & Etorphine (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute). ITS AN UNANIMOUS DECISION!!! THE TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER "THE OUTSTANDING, MAGNIFICENT, BRILLIANT HORSE of a Lifetime, Horse of the Decade, Impeccable, So Powerful, ran BRILLIANTLY, on Another PLATEAU, the BEST horse for A LONG TIME that has come around, breezed home by himself over ss." And the TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER was inducted in the Hall of Fame while doing it drug-free without any drugs in all of his races in his career; while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence did it with the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug), Sublimaze (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute) & Etorphine (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), plus the powerful performance enhancing diuretic drug Furosemide/Lasix (6 to 9 length performance enhancement), etc etc. Harthill admitted he gave the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine to sunday silence. Harthill was arrested, banned, suspended & fined numerous times in many states for giving many horses illegal performance enhancing drugs.
Better in any way is totally subjective. There was the Belmont Stakes where Easy Goer clobbered him. Balanced against that are two wins by Sunday Silence 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 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. Better in any way is totally subjective. 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. 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; Skip Away got beat 4 out of 6 by Formal Gold; & there are an endless amount of other similar examples.
From the recent book Ride 2 win by Gary West, and the DRF champions book: "At various points in races, Day would merely 'let' Easy Goer run, not asking him. With Easy Goer, a request to run was not needed; Day would sit motionless with no encouragement. The red rocket Easy Goer loved to run, and in an INSTANT, Easy Goer would take off with accelerated BURSTS that were visually STUNNING, reminiscent of moves of other legendary Hall of Fame champions. Easy Goer also would unleash SPECTACULAR moves around turns." Clearly, Easy Goer had instant acceleration at all points in races. Generally, Easy Goer was faster on straightaways and larger, bigger turns and larger, bigger tracks. SS was faster on sharper, smaller turns and sharper, smaller tracks. Though Easy Goer was also perfectly capable of unleashing spectacular moves on the sharper turns, as he did when he romped in the 1989 Swale Stakes at Gulfstream in Florida. Easy Goer was also perfectly capable of staying close to SS on any and every track/track size as he did in all 3 Triple Crown races. Easy Goer had numerous weapons in his arsenal with brilliant natural speed, superb tactical speed, sensational athleticism, great agility and he was very versatile; he could go to the lead dictating pace (44, 45 & 46 half's, 1:09, 1:10 6f, 1:32 - 1:34 miles, etc) & race running very fast fractions (Champagne, Suburban, etc); he could stalk, prompt and track up close to very fast pace's (Gotham, Belmont, Preakness, Travers, Cowdin, maiden, etc) dictating race & pace; and he had a devastating turn of foot with extraordinary, explosive, electrifying acceleration. A lot of it also had to do with riding styles/riding strategies and tactics, training/trainers etc. Easy Goer ran so many perennial all timer performances at every distance he ran, 6.5F, 7F, 8F, 9F, 10F, 12F. Easy Goer had that peerless all timer talent, ability, constitution, speed-stamina combo. There is no way to downplay Easy Goer's numerous all timer performances.
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 & medications. 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 & medications. Sunday Silence's record (Lost 4 of 6 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 that can be said other than head to heads.
Dude SS was 3-1 over EG. That's enough for me. In multiple heads to heads racing.
Dude, Noor was 4-1 over Citation. That's not enough for me. In multiple heads to heads racing. Beau Purple was 3-1 over Kelso. That's not enough for me. In multiple head to heads racing. Ditto Easy Goer and Sunday Silence. Akureyri was 3-1 over Pleasant Colony. That's not enough for me. In multiple heads to heads racing. Gallant Bloom was 4-1 over Shuvee. That's not enough for me. Cabrini Green was 4-0 over John Henry. That's not enough for me. Darby Creek Road was 3-0 over John Henry. That's not enough for me. Formal Gold was 4-2 over Skip Away. That's not enough for me. Summer Squall was 4-2 over Unbridled. That's not enough for me. And many more. The list is indeed endless. Who's better in any way is totally subjection and none are even close to being enough.
They were both GREAT CHAMPIONS individually in their own rights...ENOUGH SAID!!
I was happy as hell Sunday Silence won. For whatever reason,, the first horse to cross the finish line is the winner. I am not a horse "expert" but really who cares which one was supposedly better. It was along time ago, and reading some comments on here there are those that just need to let it go.
Bottom line is Pat Day never RESPECTED sunday silence or any other fields..if you watch a lot of easy goers old races in the grade 1s you will see pat day make 2 to 3 moves with easy goer..stopping and going..stopping again and moving easy goer again as rest of horses would just sit and pace themself and make 1 move..pat day knew easy goer was a monster so he refused to respect other horses in the fields so he never used tactics and brains..and it cost him a few HUGE races like this one..Sunday Silence was to be RESPECTED and pat day refused to
One of Crist's other assessments: "In Easy Goer's best race he walloped SS by 8 lengths. In 2 of his 3 very narrow losses, Easy Goer had legitimate valid reasons and excuses. Day's bad riding,etc. And in the other, he left no one, not one person thinking it could not have gone the other way." Both of these assessments are fair. When horses are inches apart, the jock's errors or lack their of , are always the difference as Haskin said.
If the NYRA allowed Lasix then, Easy Goer would be 0-4 lifetime vs. the Great One. He clearly bled in the Belmont and outgamed Easy Goer the other 3 close races. Pat Day has always taken heat for his riding style, but never his heart or will to win.
The Great One was Drug-less Easy Goer, who didn't need performance-enhancing drugs like Lasix to perform at his best. If all of the races were run without drugs, Easy Goer would be 4-0 vs. the drug-dependent Sunday Silence. If all of the races were run without drugs, the drug-dependent Sunday Silence would be 0-4 vs. the Great One Easy Goer, who did not need any performance-enhancing drugs.
Walloped at a mile and a half....a distance rarely raced so that really eliminates that remark. Classic distance is the measure so just accept facts.
The Classic Distance for the entire world is a mile and a half - Arc, English Derby/Oaks, Irish Derby/Oaks, King George, Grand Prix de Paris, Grand Prix de Saint Cloud, Coronation Cup, Yorkshire Oaks, Prix Vermeille, Hong Kong Vase, Japan Cup, Japanese Derby, BC Turf, Turf Classic, Sword Dancer, Dubai Sheema Classic, etc etc . The true measure, the litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs, without any drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, NY banned the illegal criminal vet 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 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 races were/are true championship races. Only no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drugs races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drugs 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, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs & banned Harthill as well. The only Hall of Fame inductions, Eclipse Awards, races, records & wins that count are those that were/are run drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs at all, without any drugs at all, & that is why the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's Hall of Fame induction, Eclipse Awards, races, records & wins count (& Not the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence), & the legal, moral, ethical score is Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, SS 0 drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER earned induction in the Hall of Fame & earned Eclipse Awards while doing it drug-free without any ped drugs, without any drugs, in all of his races in his career; while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence did it with the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug), Sublimaze (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute) & Etorphine (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), plus the powerful performance enhancing diuretic drug Furosemide/Lasix (a study of 23,000 races proved it gives a 6 TO 9 LENGTH performance enhancement, plus it reduces body weight by 16lbs to 25 pounds, & is the main drug which masks other drugs), etc etc. Harthill admitted he gave the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine to sunday silence. Harthill was arrested, banned, suspended & fined numerous times in many states for giving many horses illegal performance enhancing drugs.
EG dusted ss when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. EG only lost by the slimmest of margins in a few races to ss because ss needed & was given the ped drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine, plus Furosemide/Lasix (a study of 23k races showed it gives a 9 length performance enhancement), etc. Easy Goer won 14 races, 12 stakes races, 9 G1 races drug-free without any drugs on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) on fast, muddy & sloppy tracks at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f with much less time & rest between races & ran many more career races in faster times at all distances; while ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with ped drugs & only on small 8f sized tracks with much more time & rest between races & ran far less career races. Easy Goer was far better & far superior. Period. EG demolished ss when they were forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs. EG was the better horse plain & simple.
"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." The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race (NOT even ONE) drug-free without any drugs. What a joke of a horse - never forget. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. What a joke of a horse - never forget. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f - ss LOST 4 races on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f. What a joke of a horse - never forget. Of course the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside his drug-free home state & away from his drug-free home track. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside drug-free NY, & won 6 races away from his drug-free home track, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in other races to drug-reliant horses like ss who had been given illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs. Make the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence run without all of his CUSHY COMFORT performance enhancing drugs, & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. SS LOST ALL races when forced to run drug-free without any drugs. Make the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence run without his CUSHY COMFORT banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. SS LOST ALL races when forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. Make sunday silence run on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f & off his CUSHY COMFORT one small sized 8f tracks, & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. ss LOST 4 RACES on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, & the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant Sunday Silence 0 wins drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer BEAT far far more horses than the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside drug-free NY, & won 6 races away from his drug-free home track, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in other races to drug-reliant horses like ss who had been given illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs. POOR sunday silence was a drug-reliant horse; POOR ss was a banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse; POOR ss needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him! POOR ss needed everything perfectly set up for him; POOR ss needed the perfect run & trip set up for him, POOR ss needed FIXED races set up for him. Of course the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer WON OUTSIDE drug-free NY (The only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill as well), & EG won 6 races away from his drug-free home track. ss won ZERO races (ss got cremated) when he was forced to run drug-free (The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free w/o any drugs) without all of his banned illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, Banamine, Furosemide, etc); ss LOST all races (ss got obliterated) when he was forced to run drug-free (Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free without any drugs) without all of his banned illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, Banamine, Furosemide, etc); ss also won ZERO races (ss got pulverized) when he was forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST ALL races (ss got smashed) when he was forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss also LOST 4 races on bigger tracks (Easy Goer won on all 3 sized tracks - 8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) with circumferences larger than 8f; ; ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f only with illegal performance enhancing drugs & only on small 8f sized tracks with much more time & rest between races & ran far less career races; the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free w/o any drugs on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f) on sloppy, wet, muddy, & fast tracks with much less time & rest between races & ran far more career races, & ran faster times at all distances & ran far superior speed figures & far superior performance ratings at all distances. Easy Goer won on muddy, wet & sloppy tracks & ran 7f in a blazing 1:22 in one of them, and 10f in 2:01 (25 lengths faster than ss ran 10f in mud) in the other on muddy, wet & sloppy tracks. POOR sunday silence was a drug-reliant horse; POOR ss was a banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse; POOR ss needed to bring his ped drugs & one sized small 8f track with him. POOR ss needed everything perfectly set up for him; POOR ss needed the perfect run & trip set up for him, POOR ss needed FIXED races set up for him. Case closed.
Pat Day should have taken notes from Turcotte......let him run.
Versatility again? Easy Goer and SS were both versatile greats. Easy Goer won 12 total stakes, 9 Grade 1 wins at distances of 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f, and 12f showing
brilliant 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. Easy Goer also won over all the major track sizes, SS did not. SS had a losing record over 9f or larger tracks. SS also had a losing record at his larger 9f home track at Hollywood in California. Many many greats were behind or tied on the head to head scoreboard - 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. Easy Goer was much more
flashy & dominant, while SS was more workmanlike. Who was better
though? Better, like beauty is subjective and true in the eyes of the
beholder. 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. 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 ; k) Easy Goer never was defeated by more than 2 and 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, 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.
Back then gulfstream had an extremely short stretch and tight turns. At any other breeders cup track EG beats him by a length or more.
If he was better.... in the 4 chances he had to prove it, he FAILED 75% of the time. 🤣 Proof is in the pudding.
@@user-mc4ql8qx8j If Citation was better than Noor, in the 5 chances he had to prove it, he FAILED 80% of the time. Citation lost 4 of 5 races to Noor. Proof is in the pudding. NOT for Citation & Not for Easy Goer. If Kelso was better than Beau Purple, in the 4 chanced he had to prove it, he FAILED 75% of the time. Kelso lost 3 of 4 races to Beau Purple. Proof is in the pudding. NOT for Kelso & Not for Easy Goer. Citation lost 80% of the time when he faced Noor, Citation lost 4 of 5 races when he faced Noor. You're gonna have a hard time pleading your case to anyone with a brain that Citation was a better horse than Noor. NOT. Ditto Easy Goer. Kelso lost 75% of the time when he faced Beau Purple, Kelso lost 3 of 4 races to Beau Purple. You're going to have a hard time pleading your case to anyone with a brain that Kelso was a better horse than Beau Purple. NOT. Ditto Easy Goer. If Citation was so fast & so great, why didn't he get to the finish line first if 4 of the 5 times he faced Noor? If Kelso was so fast & so great, why didn't he get to the finish line first in 3 of the 4 times he faced Beau Purple? The better horse historically loses 3 out of 4 to the same competitor. Kelso lost 3 of 4 races to Beau Purple. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 5 to the same competitor. Citation lost 4 of 5 races to Noor. The better horse historically loses 3 out of 4 to the same competitor. Pleasant Colony lost 3 of 4 races to Akureyri. The better horse historically loses 2 out of 3 to the same competitor. Forego lost 2 of 3 races to both Big Spruce & Wajima. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 4 to the same competitor. John Henry lost 4 of 4 races to Cabrini Green. The better horse historically loses 3 out of 3 to the same competitor. John Henry lost 3 of 3 races to Darby Creek Road. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 5 to the same competitor. Shuvee lost 4 of 5 races to Gallant Bloom. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 6 to the same competitor. Skip Away lost 4 of 6 races to Formal Gold. The better horse historically loses 2 out of 4 to the same competitor. Dr Fager lost 2 of 4 races to Damascus by a combined 12 lengths. The better horse historically loses 8 out of 12 to the same competitor. Sir Barton lost 8 of 12 races to Billy Kelly. The list is endless. Nothing will change racing history that the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free without any drugs, while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence won 0 (ZERO) races drug-free without any drugs. Easy Goer was without a doubt the much better horse on the track when they had to run without all drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs, & also banned Sunday Silence's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. The TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER was inducted in the Hall of Fame while doing it drug-free without any drugs in all of his races in his career; while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence did it with the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug), Sublimaze (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute) & Etorphine (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), plus the powerful performance enhancing diuretic drug Furosemide/Lasix (scientifically proven to give a 9 length performance enhancement), etc etc. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill admitted he gave the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine to sunday silence to the DRF's Jay Hovdey in 2001 in 2001 DRF Hovdey article. Harthill was arrested, banned, suspended & fined numerous times in many states for giving many horses illegal performance enhancing drugs. The truth is eternal. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's brilliance is seen in his progeny...quit deluding yourself. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer demolished the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence when forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state during that era which banned all drugs, & also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence winning by the slimmest of margins being given the remarkably effective performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, Furosemide (scientifically proven to give a 9 length performance enhancement), etc, & only on smaller 8f sized tracks & only at 9f to 10f, but failing to do so drug-free without any drugs & on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f, & at distances of 7f - 12f don't cut it. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer beat the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence by a far far bigger margin than he beat all the other competition, all because ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 6 races away from his own backyard, won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free without any drugs with much less time & rest between races & ran many more career races, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in a few races because sunday silence was given all of his performance enhancing drugs. The end.
@@user-mc4ql8qx8j Sunday Silence's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill told all how & why ss beat EG 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." DRF 01 article: "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 & raceday testing, & tested for an enormous amount of drugs. 01 DRF: "Alex Harthill was BOLD ENOUGH to tell me 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 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. Clenbuterol is 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 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. Etorphine is an Opiate 80,000 Times More Powerful than Morphine. Sublimaze is a potent narcotic. 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. 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. The US DEA filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of these & other drugs. Alex Harthill & drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in 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 for tampering, bribery & doping horses with drugs. Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history. Harthill's innovation in this area got him arrested many times for illegally injecting horses with numerous drugs & for public bribery. Harthill bribed state officials to throw away positive drug tests from horses that he had treated, & lost his license in many states. Harthill was the vet that manipulated horse races & he Publicly Acknowledged Doing So many times. Harthill was the most important factor in countless outcomes of numerous races. Harthill made Bob Baffert, Rick Dutrow, etc., look like Altar Boys."
Harthill said, 'I was used for horses pointing for, & running in, MAJOR RACES who NEEDED DRUGS & had INFIRMITIES. I earned the reputation I had. I am very proud of the horses 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 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 whom my horses defeated even more, to do all they were asked to do, just to fall a slight bit short of horses who had been given performance-enhancing drugs 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.' " ss was also given Lasix & Lasix is a potent ped drug & the main drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs; plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs, & the study of 23k races shows it gives a significant 9 length performance enhancement.
Give Sunday his due. Beat him 3/4 times in different tracks. Easy Goer was great, but did his best work on N.Y. tracks. I wish they could have faced each other at Santa Anita.
Like Bill Nack and Edwin Pope's distinct quotes: "After a slightly slow start, Pat Day decided to do nothing and said he let EG settle 12 lengths back. Day cost Easy Goer a full head of steam on the backstretch. He put out the fire(just as he did in the Preakness, Day said he gave EG breathers on the far turns in both races) of a splendid champion colt in full flame. If Day & McCarron switched mounts,Easy Goer never gets beat an inch and desperate neck in 2 races."
Excuses are like a..holes, everyone has them and they all stink.
32:45 THEY ARE DISCUSSING WHO HORSE OF THE YEAR IS.....😏😏😏😏
@@sigscorpion9275 The only Hall of Fame inductions, Eclipse Awards, races, records & wins that count are those that were/are run drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs at all, without any drugs at all, & that is why the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's Hall of Fame induction, Eclipse Awards, races, records & wins count (& Not the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence), & the legal, moral, ethical score is Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, SS 0 drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, & the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant Sunday Silence 0 wins drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER earned induction in the Hall of Fame & earned Eclipse Awards while doing it drug-free without any ped drugs, without any drugs, in all of his races in his career; while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence did it with the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug), Sublimaze (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute) & Etorphine (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), plus the powerful performance enhancing diuretic drug Furosemide/Lasix (a study of 23,000 races proved it gives a 6 TO 9 LENGTH performance enhancement, plus it reduces body weight by 16lbs to 25 pounds, & is the main drug which masks other drugs), etc etc. Harthill admitted he gave the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine to sunday silence. Harthill was arrested, banned, suspended & fined numerous times in many states for giving many horses illegal performance enhancing drugs.
During that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs, & had the most advanced out-of-competition & raceday drug testing. Plus, as importantly, NY banned the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses; & Harthill admitted that he illegally gave illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to 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 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 races were/are true championship races. Only no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drugs races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drugs races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. EG dusted ss when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. EG only lost by the slimmest of margins in a few races to ss because ss needed & was given the ped drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine, plus Furosemide/Lasix (a study of 23,000 races showed it gives a 9 length performance enhancement), etc. Easy Goer won 14 races, 12 stakes races, 9 G1 races drug-free without any drugs on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) on fast, muddy & sloppy tracks at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f with much less time & rest between races & ran many more career races in faster times at all distances; while ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with ped drugs & only on small 8f sized tracks with much more time & rest between races & ran far less career races. Easy Goer was far better & far superior. Period. EG demolished ss when they were forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs. EG was the better horse plain & simple. It's the truth based on Harthill's voluntary admission to DRF Hovdey in 01, plus all of the 88-90 DRF's; 2012 NY Post article titled "The 11 horses who missed out on Triple Crown at Belmont" found on the web; DRF's Mike Watchmaker, Ed Fountaine & Paul Moran; Wikipedia articles with many reliable sources cited; 2 Claiborne books; NY Law; DRF, Bloodhorse & Thor. Record; & mounds more. Enough said.
"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." The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race (NOT even ONE) drug-free without any drugs. What a joke of a horse - never forget. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. What a joke of a horse - never forget. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f - ss LOST 4 races on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f. What a joke of a horse - never forget. Of course the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside his drug-free home state & away from his drug-free home track. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside drug-free NY, & won 6 races away from his drug-free home track, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in other races to drug-reliant horses like ss who had been given illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs. Make the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence run without all of his CUSHY COMFORT performance enhancing drugs, & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. SS LOST ALL races when forced to run drug-free without any drugs. Make the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence run without his CUSHY COMFORT banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. SS LOST ALL races when forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. Make sunday silence run on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f & off his CUSHY COMFORT one small sized 8f tracks, & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. ss LOST 4 RACES on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, & the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant Sunday Silence 0 wins drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer BEAT far far more horses than the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside drug-free NY, & won 6 races away from his drug-free home track, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in other races to drug-reliant horses like ss who had been given illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs. POOR sunday silence was a drug-reliant horse; POOR ss was a banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse; POOR ss needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him! POOR ss needed everything perfectly set up for him; POOR ss needed the perfect run & trip set up for him, POOR ss needed FIXED races set up for him. Of course the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer WON OUTSIDE drug-free NY (The only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill as well), & EG won 6 races away from his drug-free home track. ss won ZERO races (ss got cremated) when he was forced to run drug-free (The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free w/o any drugs) without all of his banned illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, Banamine, Furosemide, etc); ss LOST all races (ss got obliterated) when he was forced to run drug-free (Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free without any drugs) without all of his banned illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, Banamine, Furosemide, etc); ss also won ZERO races (ss got pulverized) when he was forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST ALL races (ss got smashed) when he was forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss also LOST 4 races on bigger tracks (Easy Goer won on all 3 sized tracks - 8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) with circumferences larger than 8f; ; ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f only with illegal performance enhancing drugs & only on small 8f sized tracks with much more time & rest between races & ran far less career races; the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free w/o any drugs on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f) on sloppy, wet, muddy, & fast tracks with much less time & rest between races & ran far more career races, & ran faster times at all distances & ran far superior speed figures & far superior performance ratings at all distances. Easy Goer won on muddy, wet & sloppy tracks & ran 7f in a blazing 1:22 in one of them, and 10f in 2:01 (25 lengths faster than ss ran 10f in mud) in the other on muddy, wet & sloppy tracks. POOR sunday silence was a drug-reliant horse; POOR ss was a banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse; POOR ss needed to bring his ped drugs & one sized small 8f track with him. POOR ss needed everything perfectly set up for him; POOR ss needed the perfect run & trip set up for him, POOR ss needed FIXED races set up for him. Case shut.
The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, & the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant Sunday Silence 0 wins drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0.
Pat Day said that Sunday silence was the better horse of the two and that's the reason Sunday silence beat easy goer three out of four races
I love it that YOU, TRAVIS WEST, have to look at your own face while you troll youtube video comments trolling & spewing your totally false nonsense.
Three out of four never forget
@@cominatcha6223 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??
Jockey Pat Brown held Easy Goer back for too long, and Goer was too
far back, to make up the gap. You could see right at the end Easy Goer
was gaining on them, and likely would have won if he wasn't held back.
Both were great horses, but I think Easy Goer takes this with a more
skilled Jockey. What a shame, because he had Easy power and grace.
Better in any way is totally subjective. 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 & medications. Balanced against that are two wins by Sunday Silence 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 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. Better in any way is totally subjective. 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; 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 & medications. 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 & medications. Sunday Silence's record (Lost 4 of 6 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 that can be said other than head to heads.
Easy Goer, the #2 best 3 year old of all time with Secretariat #1, based on best performances at all distances, in Charles Justice's Greatest Horse of All study & book. Ahead of Slew,Bid,Affirmed,and many many others. Pat Day's admitted mistake filled start & stop riding was one of the many factors that cost the #2 greatest by a nostril and very rapidly diminishing neck in two races.
Two of the most consistent, elite level horses, who brought their A-Game nearly every time. We simply do not get rivalries like this anymore. We will probably never will again.
My goodness what a GREAAAAAT call if that doesn't get the juices flowing wow.
Easy Goer's major ankle problems reaching a zenith, colic, and mile and a half "prep" dulling him when dropping back to ten furlongs were part of the circumstances in this great race between two great horses.
Finally somebody mentions he had ankle problems....makes you wonder how many times they've been tapped, Shug McGauhey's not above using drugs, And I believe he has been caught once this year already.....
Add a clubbed right forefoot too
@@montanawarren8462 SS's vet 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.' "
@@montanawarren8462 No. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran all of his races in his entire career drug-free without any drugs. Seth Hancock of Claiborne Farm said, "One of the many claims to fame for Easy Goer is, in an era of vast legal & illegal drug use, he ran his entire career drug-free in 20 starts for a total of well over 20 miles of racing." Claiborne Farm's Gus Koch said, "From the day he was born, Easy Goer had a clubfoot, a crooked turned-out left knee, bad grapefruit sized ankles & knees, but he made up for it all by his exceptional balance, action & stride, & never ran on any drugs." McGaughey stated, "Easy Goer had these issues, but he had such an outstanding way of going that he'd glide so smoothly. The issues didn't really bother him, he was so muscular, strong & competitive, he'd run through brick walls, & I never ran him on any medications. He never needed them."
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, NY 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 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 races were/are true championship races. Only no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drugs races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drugs races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all.
@@traviswest949 well if he had one leg shorter than the other he would have a clubfoot that would put the pressure on the other foot or ankle and diagonal Leon the opposite hind leg...BUT the word of mouth in those times were that Easy Goer was having his ankles tapped.... but you would have to be on the racetrack and them days to know that cuz they certainly weren't going to tell you.... and as many treatment centers as Shug McGauhey's been in do you really believe him?
The open, unrestricted England, Ireland, the USA, France and Australia are #1 through #5 (in any order) in the world always and forever, and changed international racing forever, because of the greatness of Man O' War, Native Dancer, Bold Ruler, Nearco, Phalaris, Ribot, Nasrullah, Northern Dancer, Mr. Prospector, Raise a Native, Bull Lea, Buckpasser, Tom Fool, Sadler's Wells, Danzig, Danehill, Galileo, Frankel, Nijinsky, Nureyev, Princequillo, Blushing Groom, Montjeu, Dubai Millenium, Dubawi, Lyphard, Hyperion, Sir Gallahad, AP Indy, Storm Cat, Seattle Slew and many others - all of whom are far superior to SS, DI, Northern Taste, King Kamehameha, Tesco Boy, Hindostan, etc. in Japan. Breeding expert Anne Peters: "Had Sunday Silence retired in the USA, it's almost certain he would have tanked commercially and been exported in disgrace, but he found his perfect gene pool in the restricted, insular Japan and thrived instead. However, the numerous attempts that have been made to propagate his line/influence outside Japan have had zero to little to below average success, leaving his worth outside Japan miniscule." The open, unrestricted England, Ireland, the USA, France and Australia are all far superior to the restricted, insular Japan. The Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer has changed international racing forever. The Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer is the definition of Greatness, the Epitome of Greatness. Uncommon & Unlimited level of excellence. So extraordinary were Easy Goer's monumental performances that they stand the test of time. Easy Goer rewrote the record books sealing his place in history & in the Hall of Fame. Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by any 3 yo in 1:32 2/5 just 1/5 off Dr Fagers world record, the 2nd Fastest Belmont Stakes of all time behind only Secretariat, he ran right on the 6 1/2 f track record as a 2yo, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, & ran among the Top 5 Fastest All Time Editions of the Champagne at mile, Gotham at a mile, Whitney at 9f, Travers at 10f, Suburban at 10f & Belmont Stakes at 12f. Easy Goer has numerous great descendants that carried on for him including: 1995 Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies champion My Flag, who also won the CCA Oaks, Ashland, Gazelle and Bonnie Miss; 2002 Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies champion Storm Flag Flying, who also won the Personal Ensign, Frizette, Shuvee and Matron; 2007 Breeders Cup Dirt Mile Champion Corinthian, who also won the Met Mile and Gulfstream Park Handicap; 2018 Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint Champion Bulletin; 1996 and 1997 Travers and Whitney Champion Will's Way; 2004 Cigar Mile Champion Lion Tamer; 2007 French 2000 Guineas Champion Astronomer Royal; 2006 Irish 2000 Guineas and St James's Palace Champion Araafa; 2013 Breeders Cup Marathon Champion London Bridge; 1999 Ballerina and Distaff Champion Furlough; Shuvee and Coaching Club American Oaks Champion Funny Moon; Molly Pitcher Champion Relaxing Rhythm; Jim Dandy winner Composer; Blue Grass Stakes winner Monba; Ogden Phipps Handicap Champion Tiz Miz Sue; Florida Derby and Holy Bull Stakes Champion Audible; Yellow Ribbon, Gamely, Del Mar Oaks Champion Magical Fantasy, and many others. Breeding expert Avalyn Hunter: "All of Easy Goer's remarkable descendants are many reasons to regret the early death of Easy Goer, who combined blistering speed over sprint to mile distances with thoroughly genuine, phenomenal stamina over classic distances. Only 8 when he died, Easy Goer left behind just 53 producing daughters but they have produced a phenomenal 23 stakes winners. There is every reason to believe that Easy Goer would have made an even more phenomenal contribution as a sire had he lived longer."
One great horse and one super horse in Easy Goer.
I suppose Easy Goer winning about 14 races without the use of the whip was all it took as well. I also suppose Easy Goer being 'ridden out' without the use of the whip in the last eighth of mile while widening by 8 lengths in the 1989 Belmont,
was "all it took." SS officially won DRIVING in this BC Classic -
officially by DRF (Racing Form). Driving in the DRF glossary definitions
means strong urging by the rider. The official margin was a neck in
this race. Clearly, it was a very rapidly diminishing neck, as Easy Goer
blew by at the wire. The official DRF chart notes SS won "driving"
(strong urging). McCarron was told not to hit the horse by his trainer
due to his disdain for being whipped (as well as weaving tendencies) -
though in some races like the Preakness, and in his losses in the
Belmont & Hollywood Gold Cup, SS handled being whipped ok. But what
did he do for it to be driving (strong urging)? He was repeatedly &
continuously asking him (driving - strong urging) to run by throwing
crosses (flicking & swooping with the reins, cross reining), and
poking him (as McCarron said in the Blood Horse Nov. 11, 1989 and LA
Times Nov. 5, 1989 articles) on his shoulder, and showing him the whip
with his left hand. McCarron stated the horse was running all out at his
top speed and doing the best he could, & he was also trying to keep
him straight - because he was lugging in as well. McCarron said, "He
was running FULL OUT for the last three sixteenths of a mile (which is
the entire home stretch at Gulfstream in those days). Easy Goer was really
flying the last eighth." Hence, as he said, the poking him on the left
shoulder, the showing him the whip on the left side, and the throwing
crosses, cross reining, and the flicking and swooping with the reins. As
an aside, in the 1989 Belmont, Day actually did whip EG a few times at
the top of the stretch, then hand rode him the entire last eighth of a
mile while widening to win by 8 lengths. The chart noted he won ridden
out in the Belmont. Ridden out (1989 Belmont) is much less vigorous
riding than the 'strong urging' of driving (1989 BCC).
SS beat him ..AGAIN. Accept it.
Easy Goer was always a better horse, even though who's better in any way is totally subjective.
Numerous greats were behind or tied on the head to head, including
Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua,
John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many
others; and who's better in any way is totally subjective period. There
was the Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes 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 Sunday Silence 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 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. Better in any way is
totally subjective. 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; 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 an
infinite amount more other than head to heads.
Easy Goer was always a better horse, even though who's better in any way is totally subjective.
Numerous greats were behind or tied on the head to head, including
Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua,
John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many
others; and who's better in any way is totally subjective period. There
was the Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes 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 Sunday Silence 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 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. Better in any way is
totally subjective. 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; 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 an
infinite amount more other than head to heads.
Pat Day should have gone with the momentum when Easy Goer floated up alongside Sunday Silence in the backstretch. Easy Goer has proven that stamina is his forte and this would have put Sunday Silence under pressure to keep up. Jocks should really make use of a horse’s stamina when it matters.
seemed like pat day tried to time this race to the wire...no idea why though because he had a world of talent underneath him...yes he certainly should have followed ss toward the lead but he just sat snug on easy goer when ss took off....stupid ride
Easy goer was so talented, he was able to overcome Pat day almost completely. If not for the matchups against Sunday silence, who was great In his own right, he's easily a triple crown winner. Silence as well. Both great. Day was easy goers handicap, so the sides were about even.
One of the best and exciting horse races I´ve ever seen in my life! I recorded it in a VHS tape a week later when it was aired in the TV Show "International Horse Racing" on "Televen" Channel 10 VHF. Host program Erick Pignoloni named 1989 Breeder´s Cup Classic "Race of the Year" Greetings from Venezuela.
"Silence was Golden" John Forsythe said it in Moment in the sun the 1989 Breeders cup film
He wasn't called Pat Wait All Day for nothing. Let me explain. Even when Pat Day would make a monster move on Easy Goer, he would then gear down,ease up,start stop, confusing, committ then uncomitt.
No doubt that an abundant amount of Pat Day ' s dreadful rides were Ron Franklin esque.
I remember this race so well. I am a Nebraska football fan, but I left watching them play and switched channels for this race. I'll never regret it.
Sunday Silence has changed international racing forever .. Japan is now #1 in the world because of his greatness... His son Deep Impact has carried on for him
His blood still goes on
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@@sigscorpion9275 The only Hall of Fame inductions, Eclipse Awards, races, records & wins that count are those that were/are run drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs at all, without any drugs at all, & that is why the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's Hall of Fame induction, Eclipse Awards, races, records & wins count (& Not the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence), & the legal, moral, ethical score is Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, SS 0 drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, & the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant Sunday Silence 0 wins drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER earned induction in the Hall of Fame & earned Eclipse Awards while doing it drug-free without any ped drugs, without any drugs, in all of his races in his career; while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence did it with the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug), Sublimaze (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute) & Etorphine (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), plus the powerful performance enhancing diuretic drug Furosemide/Lasix (a study of 23,000 races proved it gives a 6 TO 9 LENGTH performance enhancement, plus it reduces body weight by 16lbs to 25 pounds, & is the main drug which masks other drugs), etc etc. Harthill admitted he gave the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine to sunday silence. Harthill was arrested, banned, suspended & fined numerous times in many states for giving many horses illegal performance enhancing drugs.
During that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs, & had the most advanced out-of-competition & raceday drug testing. Plus, as importantly, NY banned the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses; & Harthill admitted that he illegally gave illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to 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 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 races were/are true championship races. Only no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drugs races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drugs races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. EG dusted ss when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. EG only lost by the slimmest of margins in a few races to ss because ss needed & was given the ped drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine, plus Furosemide/Lasix (a study of 23,000 races showed it gives a 9 length performance enhancement), etc. Easy Goer won 14 races, 12 stakes races, 9 G1 races drug-free without any drugs on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) on fast, muddy & sloppy tracks at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f with much less time & rest between races & ran many more career races in faster times at all distances; while ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with ped drugs & only on small 8f sized tracks with much more time & rest between races & ran far less career races. Easy Goer was far better & far superior. Period. EG demolished ss when they were forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs. EG was the better horse plain & simple. It's the truth based on Harthill's voluntary admission to DRF Hovdey in 01, plus all of the 88-90 DRF's; 2012 NY Post article titled "The 11 horses who missed out on Triple Crown at Belmont" found on the web; DRF's Mike Watchmaker, Ed Fountaine & Paul Moran; Wikipedia articles with many reliable sources cited; 2 Claiborne books; NY Law; DRF, Bloodhorse & Thor. Record; & mounds more.
"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." The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race (NOT even ONE) drug-free without any drugs. What a joke of a horse - never forget. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. What a joke of a horse - never forget. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f - ss LOST 4 races on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f. What a joke of a horse - never forget. Of course the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside his drug-free home state & away from his drug-free home track. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside drug-free NY, & won 6 races away from his drug-free home track, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in other races to drug-reliant horses like ss who had been given illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs. Make the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence run without all of his CUSHY COMFORT performance enhancing drugs, & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. SS LOST ALL races when forced to run drug-free without any drugs. Make the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence run without his CUSHY COMFORT banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. SS LOST ALL races when forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. Make sunday silence run on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f & off his CUSHY COMFORT one small sized 8f tracks, & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. ss LOST 4 RACES on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, & the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant Sunday Silence 0 wins drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer BEAT far far more horses than the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside drug-free NY, & won 6 races away from his drug-free home track, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in other races to drug-reliant horses like ss who had been given illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs. POOR sunday silence was a drug-reliant horse; POOR ss was a banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse; POOR ss needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him! POOR ss needed everything perfectly set up for him; POOR ss needed the perfect run & trip set up for him, POOR ss needed FIXED races set up for him. Of course the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer WON OUTSIDE drug-free NY (The only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill as well), & EG won 6 races away from his drug-free home track. ss won ZERO races (ss got cremated) when he was forced to run drug-free (The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free w/o any drugs) without all of his banned illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, Banamine, Furosemide, etc); ss LOST all races (ss got obliterated) when he was forced to run drug-free (Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free without any drugs) without all of his banned illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, Banamine, Furosemide, etc); ss also won ZERO races (ss got pulverized) when he was forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST ALL races (ss got smashed) when he was forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss also LOST 4 races on bigger tracks (Easy Goer won on all 3 sized tracks - 8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) with circumferences larger than 8f; ; ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f only with illegal performance enhancing drugs & only on small 8f sized tracks with much more time & rest between races & ran far less career races; the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free w/o any drugs on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f) on sloppy, wet, muddy, & fast tracks with much less time & rest between races & ran far more career races, & ran faster times at all distances & ran far superior speed figures & far superior performance ratings at all distances. Easy Goer won on muddy, wet & sloppy tracks & ran 7f in a blazing 1:22 in one of them, and 10f in 2:01 (25 lengths faster than ss ran 10f in mud) in the other on muddy, wet & sloppy tracks. POOR sunday silence was a drug-reliant horse; POOR ss was a banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse; POOR ss needed to bring his ped drugs & one sized small 8f track with him. POOR ss needed everything perfectly set up for him; POOR ss needed the perfect run & trip set up for him, POOR ss needed FIXED races set up for him. Case closed. End of story.
Every time I watch this, Sunday Silence beats Easy Goer. It's awesome.
Easy Goer never gains on SS until SS thought it was over at the end. You can clearly see McCarron stop riding SS in the last 100 meters.
This race was won by a half length. Don't know where the neck comes from. Look at the wire photo. SS smoked EG at the Derby while SS ran all over the track at the end.
Pat Day talked about EG turning his head at the start, but so did SS, who ran wide out of the box.
He did not stop pushing him hard until the shadow of the wire...NOT a 100 meters....Obviously you have no idea how far 100 meters is and you must think you are the only person to watch the race and everyone else is blind so you can just type random crap
Easy Goer, with a very bold burst of explosive speed down the backstretch, then taken in hand and eased up, then another very bold burst of explosive speed in the stretch finishing with a fantastic flourish one jump short by a very rapidly diminishing neck, soaring by like a shot.
Yes. Day's errors and mistakes were he would make enormous, immense, dramatic moves and then ease up and let up, and do this continuously.
An endless amount of racing experts ranked/voted (not that rankings & voters matter at all) the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer superior & ahead of the drug-reliant & criminal juicer doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence. As "reported" about "reporters/voters", "Had the question on the ballot been, 'Who's the better horse? A LOT more than 20 "reporters/voters" would have voted for Easy Goer." Charles Justice's 'Greatest Horses of All" Book with objective rankings ranked Easy Goer the best 3 yr old of all time besides Secretariat (who lost 3 races at age 3 by a combined 11 lengths) & ranked Easy Goer far far ahead of & far superior to sunday silence. All speed figures experts (Brown, Ragozin, Beyer, Sheets, Graphs), experts Mike Watchmaker, Steve Crist, Paul Moran, Dave Litfin, Bill Christine, Edwin Pope, and Simon Rowland Timeform Performance Rankings ranked Easy Goer far ahead of & far superior to Sunday Silence, stating. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer is a superior horse than the drug-dependent & criminal doper juicer vet Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence officially is as clear as day. Ss held the slight 3-1 edge over EG by the slimmest of margins in the races they met, but he never beat him in a way that proved he was just plain better & also left no one thinking they could not easily have gone EG's way. In one of EG's best races, he walloped SS in the only state at the time which banned all drugs (SS needed the drugs, when ss didn't get the drugs he got crushed). Despite Ss's slight 3-1 edge in their races by the nose of his Preakness, Easy Goer's dominance, enormously superior performance ratings/speed figures, vastly superior time
ratings, conceding weight while defeating older horses numerous times,
& superiority while running far more outstanding performances make his body of work far superior to that of ss. EG was a far superior horse than ss whose best & near best performances were far superior to those of ss. There are alternatives to the attempt to define racehorses by a few head to head races, to give greater coverage to the array of performances. A fuller picture allows all to weigh everything. A vital way is to consider what would happen if many races were to take place, w/ each horses effort picked at random from their historical performances/performance ratings over a timescale. If you repeat this, you get a reflection of how often each horse would actually win based on the horses performances (all of them, not just the peak ones). For this, you take the horses array of performances. If you run every possible permutation of the races, sampling from each horse’s array of performances, you get in excess of 100 races. & it is Easy Goer who
wins 69% of them. The reason: Many, many more of EG's wins were
outstanding on Timeform performance ratings & time figures. EG,
who won many more great races by sizeable margins & in faster times,
also ran a much larger amount of elite performances than ss. The
enduring message is to see that an array of outstanding performances
gives a much fuller picture of horses & reflects things like the
number of times elite levels have been reached. Other than SS's
slightest edge in head to head races, Easy Goer was superior than SS in
almost all other factors. That the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy
Goer is a superior horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer
doper veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss officially is as clear as
day." So much for that.
Better horse? Who was 'better' is nonobjective & intuitive, but they both clearly were great Hall of Fame champs. Easy Goer was inches away (Preakness) from it being a level, even 2 to 2 (four races are a small sample) when opposing SS in direct competition (yes it still was 3-1 SS), no excuses. Easy Goer did have a superior career re'sum'e & accomplished & achieved more in his career. In this race, Whittingham ordered McCarron to not hit him with the whip. They were both whipped in the other races they ran vs each other, though EG was hand ridden the last eighth of a mile coasting in the Belmont. Easy Goer was a Hall of Fame champion who ran a still standing (over 26 years & counting) record mile in 1:32 & change (fastest mile of all time by any 3 yr old) , ran the second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time behind only Secretariat, - ran among the fastest versions of many momentous races (Whitney, Travers, Belmont, Champagne, Suburban, Gotham, near 6 1/2 furlong record at age 2, fastest 7 furlongs of the year in Florida) at all distances. Easy Goer also ran a historic, strenuous, toilsome 3 yr old campaign (Belmont, Whitney, Travers, Woodward, Jockey Club Gold Cup etc). Easy Goer ran 1:53 4/5 for 9.5f in Maryland, and ran 2:00 1/5 for 10f in Florida, losing by inches and a neck in these races. Easy Goer also ran the fastest 7 furlongs of the year in Florida in 1989. Easy Goer ran 17 of his 20 total races in New York or Florida. His old school, old timer owner ran him mostly in the historic, prestigious Grade 1 races in New York & Florida (mostly NY, 2 in FL). EG was a Hall of Fame champion (SS was also) who didn't have any problem at all with shipping to other states and other tracks. He did specifically despise the quirky, peanut buttery, sticky Churchill mud and seemed to flounder in it being a huge, extremely powerful horse with chronically bad, puffy ankles, though his talent, class and ability landed him 2nd's in those races. Though EG won & ran great in mud elsewhere. He was among many great horses (Skip Away, Point Given, Go For Wand, Holy Bull, etc) who hated Churchill, however he never ran over a fast track there.
I don't think it was about having it his way, the states, the adapting, the surfaces or shipping at all. They BOTH had to ship for the 3 TC races and the BC. Easy Goer ALSO had to ship & adapt to different tracks, states and surfaces as well, as his shipping schedule was- from NY to Florida for the winter, from Florida to NY, from NY to Kentucky, then back to NY in between, then from NY to Maryland, from Maryland to NY, then upstate & back downstate NY, then from NY to Florida for the BC. If my count is correct, that is the same amount of ships as SS. Easy Goer ran many more races (and ran a much more strenuous post Triple Crown campaign) and also never got beat by more than 2 lengths (also never finishing off the board) in his career. SS had a much less strenuous post Triple Crown campaign. You can also look at the timing, distance and spacing of the so called prep races. Easy Goer ran a record mile in the Gotham, then 2 weeks later won the Wood Memorial, then only 2 weeks later was the start of the Triple Crown races (total of 5 races in 9 weeks). SS ran his last Derby prep 4 weeks out. EG also ran in the 1 1/2 mile Jockey Club against older horses in his 'prep' for the BC (after the Whitney, Travers, & Woodward, and defeated older horses conceding weight in a few of them), while SS had one easy 10f prep vs three year olds in the 3 months leading into the BC.
But to me, It was most likely much more about track circumferences. Easy Goer did win on ALL the major track circumferences of USA dirt tracks (1 mile, 1 1/8 mile, 1 1/2 mile). EG was an Undefeated 5 for 5 over 1 1/8 miles tracks at all distances. SS did not win over all tracks. In fact, SS lost 3 races over larger 1 1/8 tracks (at his HOME track of Hollywood) and lost his 1 race over a 1 1/2 mile track by 8 lengths. EG's record over mile tracks (4 losses though narrow losses) was very similar to SS's record over 1 1/8 or larger tracks (SS lost 3 races at his home 1 1/8mile larger track & lost 4 races over 1 1/8 or bigger tracks). I think Easy Goer would (did) have had an advantage running over moderately wide & wider turned 1 1/8 mile tracks (or larger), regardless of state or region, in: Florida (Hialeah Park), Chicago (Arlington Park, where they were supposed to meet at age 4), Hollywood (California), Atlantic City (NJ), Saratoga (NY), Aqueduct (NY), Laurel Park (Maryland), Keeneland (KY), Ellis Park (KY), Colonial (Va.), Belmont (NY), and the current Gulfstream in Florida is also NOW a larger 1 1/8 mile oval. SS would (did) have had an advantage of running against EG on any sharper, tighter turned mile track, including in NY if they ran at the mile oval in Finger Lakes. I think Easy Goer did (would) have an advantage over Sunday Silence on 1 1/8 mile tracks or larger (while SS did-would have adv. on mile sized tracks). The way we saw these two horses run around the different sized turns (not only when they ran vs. each other, but in their careers) at various distances. The fact that Easy Goer was an undefeated 5 for 5 on 1 1/8 mile sized tracks, won 8 of 10 on the 1 1/2 mile sized track (total of 13 for 15 on larger tracks), but lost 4 of 5 on mile tracks. The fact that Sunday Silence won 7 of 8 on mile sized tracks, but lost 3 of 5 on 1 1/8 tracks and lost a total of 4 of 6 on 1 1/8 or larger tracks. Easy Goer was a robust, massive, powerful, long striding horse with club feet & oversized, puffy ankles & knees & was well suited, far more effective & excelled on 1 1/8 miles or larger tracks. Sunday Silence was a compact, short-actioned, cat like horse who was well suited , far more effective & excelled on the tighter, sharper turns of mile tracks. I think SS had (& would have) an advantage on sharper, tighter turned mile tracks vs EG, while EG had (& would have) an advantage on the moderately wide & wider turned 1 1/8m or larger tracks vs SS.
Sunday Silence did much more with "less." His breeding wasn't nearly as regal as that of Easy Goer. Easy Goers sire was Alydar.
Easy Goer did much more with less. Sunday Silence's sire Halo was a great sire, and Halo was leading sire more times than Alydar. The Halo sire line is far better than Alydar's sire line. Easy Goer's female family was superior.
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I have never heard such nonsense of "tremendous failure, non fighter race horse etc". In the Preakness, you have two Hall of Fame champions(one of them pinned,wedged,bumped,tightly boxed on rail & with head turned not allowing him to stride properly) nose to nose with BOTH fighting with vigor,fortitude,tenaciousness, and distinction. Nonsense.
Only time 1 of these horses did not show any fight or heart was in the Belmont when Easy Goer ran right past Sunday Silence like he was standing still and Sunday Silence did not put up ANY fight at all...Blew by him on the "far turn" also...
This 2colts are the best horse racing history I’ve ever seen ❤️ Both are champions 👍 RIP Easygoer and Sunday silence 🙏🏻 Thanks for the great race
Sunday silence won every time he faced easy goer over a neutral track. Easy Goer won the one time they raced over his home track. They never faced off in Sunday silence's backyard. Likely, Sunday silence would win there too.
Northern Taste and ss certainly were the best sires Japan has ever had. I'd even say ss was one and northern taste was two, with hindostan and tesco boy behind the top two. Easy Goer died after only a few years at stud with very few foals, yet amazingly he has been influential in the USA and Europe with numerous G1 offspring and descendants.
The many attempts that have been made to generate Sunday Silence's sire-line outside the insular, restricted, big fish in small pond Japan have had very little to very modest success, demonstrating his worth outside Japan is minimal - sons of Sunday Silence that have stood at stud outside Japan in Europe, Australia and the U.S.A. have had very little to very modest success, including Divine Light, Born King, Keep the Faith, Layman, Tayasu Tsuyoshi, Real Impact, Bubble Gum Fellow, Genuine, Hat Trick, Silent Name, Fuji Kiseki, Fusaichi Zenon, Agnes Gold, Victoire Pisa, Neorealism, Brave Smash, Black Tuxedo, et cetera. Sunday Silence himself did not even sire one G-1 winner in all of Europe and the U.S.A., and many attempted to, including Dance Partner, Dance in the Mood, Sundrop, Layman, Keep the Faith, Silent Name, Deep Impact {disqualified from 3rd place finish due to a positive drug test for an illegal drug}, To the Victory, Zenno Rob Roy, Heart's Cry, Sunday Joy, Seven Moons, Negotiator, Wild Sunday and others - All of these sons and daughters of Sunday Silence lost all of their G-1 races in Europe and the U.S.A. The great Japanese sires Sunday Silence and Deep Impact both took over from Northern Taste and Tesco Boy as leading sire in the insular, restricted, big fish in small pond Japan. While a few Deep Impact's have had success with G-1 wins in Europe, et cetera, it must be noted that he was bred to the best of the best Coolmore Galileo, Sadler's Wells and Giant's Causeway mares to do so in most cases - and in the other cases he was bred to the best of the best Niarchos family mares who are descendants of the great Miesque. However, none of these compare to Galileo, Danehill, Sadler's Wells, Northern Dancer, Mr. Prospector, Danzig, Native Dancer, Bold Ruler, Man o' War and some others. Dubawi, Tapit, Curlin, Sea the Stars and Frankel may be on their way to these aforementioned sires above. Japan's great successes cannot be attributed only because Sunday Silence and Deep Impact. While SS's blood is oversaturated in Japan, some horses without any SS blood have also been leading sires in Japan, including the aforementioned Northern Taste and Tesco Boy, as well as King Kamehameha, Symboli Kris S, Kurofune, Rulership, Harbinger, Sakura Bakushin O, Brian's Time and Lord Kanaloa. Many horses without any SS blood at all have been greats in Japan and worldwide, including all of these G-1 winners: Panthalassa {G-1 Saudi Cup & G-1 Dubai Turf winner}, El Condor Pasa {G-1 winner in Europe}, Taiki Shuttle {G-1 winner in Europe}, Seeking the Pearl {G-1 winner in Europe}, Lord Kanaloa, Vodka, TM Opera O, Jungle Pocket, King Kamehameha, Apapane, Narita Brian, Symboli Kris S, Meisho Samson, Rey de Oro, Agnes Digital, Mayano Top Gun, Air Groove, Grass Wonder, Tap Dance City, Sweep Tosho, Satono Crown, et cetera.
Super post! I was there in the twilight, part of the crowd that day, convinced that Easy Goer was beatable on a mile track. He was and contrary to the resultant lore, McCarron had that race won by the sixteenth-pole.
The horse Yoshida from Japan, Bringing Sunday Silence Back to U.S. Breeders , It seems that the snooty breeders in america are finally interested in Sunday Silence blood after all these years.
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??
The two best horses I ever witnessed in person - Easy Goer and Sunday.
Not sure if you were around to see Forego carry over 130 multiple times and win horse of the year four straight years, or Spectacular Bid break multiple track and world records in 1980, or American Pharaoh in the Triple Crown races, Haskell(perhaps the most dominant race I have ever seen) and Breeders, or Zenyatta winning 19 in a row, or a properly trained Seattle Slew(perhaps the most poorly trained, mismanaged and, too often, especially by Cordero(See the JCGC), ridden horse in history . There are a good number of all-time greats and Goer and Silence deserve recognition among them!
Sunday silence 3 out of 4 easy goer ate dust lol
@Serial Killers indeed, all involved are Serial killers.
SS's vet 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.' "
@@traviswest949 Alex Harthill told all ? show it
once again Sunday Silence shows how game he is
Two great champs in one year! That is rare.
Dick Jerardi said it best: "Easy Goer was absolutely the better and faster racehorse. Let's get that straight. But the intangibles such as Pat Day's horrible riding as if he would burn in hell if he made the first move in the direction of the finish line, and Day would make make moves and then ease up.Day would make moves and never complete the move. And Whittingham,the mystical master trainer,who made good horses great."
He lost 75% of the time when he faced SS. Sooooooo.....lol you're gonna have a hard time pleading your case to anyone with a brain.
@@user-mc4ql8qx8j Citation lost 80% of the time when he faced Noor, Citation lost 4 of 5 races when he faced Noor. You're gonna have a hard time pleading your case to anyone with a brain that Citation was a better horse than Noor. NOT. Ditto Easy Goer. Kelso lost 75% of the time when he faced Beau Purple, Kelso lost 3 of 4 races to Beau Purple. You're going to have a hard time pleading your case to anyone with a brain that Kelso was a better horse than Beau Purple. NOT. Ditto Easy Goer. If Citation was so fast & so great, why didn't he get to the finish line first if 4 of the 5 times he faced Noor? If Kelso was so fast & so great, why didn't he get to the finish line first in 3 of the 4 times he faced Beau Purple? The better horse historically loses 3 out of 4 to the same competitor. Kelso lost 3 of 4 races to Beau Purple. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 5 to the same competitor. Citation lost 4 of 5 races to Noor. The better horse historically loses 3 out of 4 to the same competitor. Pleasant Colony lost 3 of 4 races to Akureyri. The better horse historically loses 2 out of 3 to the same competitor. Forego lost 2 of 3 races to both Big Spruce & Wajima. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 4 to the same competitor. John Henry lost 4 of 4 races to Cabrini Green. The better horse historically loses 3 out of 3 to the same competitor. John Henry lost 3 of 3 races to Darby Creek Road. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 5 to the same competitor. Shuvee lost 4 of 5 races to Gallant Bloom. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 6 to the same competitor. Skip Away lost 4 of 6 races to Formal Gold. The better horse historically loses 2 out of 4 to the same competitor. Dr Fager lost 2 of 4 races to Damascus by a combined 12 lengths. The better horse historically loses 8 out of 12 to the same competitor. Sir Barton lost 8 of 12 races to Billy Kelly. The list is endless. Nothing will change racing history that the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free without any drugs, while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence won 0 (ZERO) races drug-free without any drugs. Easy Goer was without a doubt the much better horse on the track when they had to run without all drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs, & also banned Sunday Silence's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. The TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER was inducted in the Hall of Fame while doing it drug-free without any drugs in all of his races in his career; while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence did it with the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug), Sublimaze (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute) & Etorphine (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), plus the powerful performance enhancing diuretic drug Furosemide/Lasix (scientifically proven to give a 9 length performance enhancement), etc etc. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill admitted he gave the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine to sunday silence to the DRF's Jay Hovdey in 2001 in 2001 DRF Hovdey article. Harthill was arrested, banned, suspended & fined numerous times in many states for giving many horses illegal performance enhancing drugs. The truth is eternal. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's brilliance is seen in his progeny...quit deluding yourself. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer demolished the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence when forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state during that era which banned all drugs, & also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence winning by the slimmest of margins being given the remarkably effective performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, Furosemide (scientifically proven to give a 9 length performance enhancement), etc, & only on smaller 8f sized tracks & only at 9f to 10f, but failing to do so drug-free without any drugs & on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f, & at distances of 7f - 12f don't cut it. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer beat the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence by a far far bigger margin than he beat all the other competition, all because ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 6 races away from his own backyard, won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free without any drugs with much less time & rest between races & ran many more career races, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in a few races because sunday silence was given all of his performance enhancing drugs. Case closed.
@@user-mc4ql8qx8j Sunday Silence's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill told all how & why ss beat EG 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." DRF 01 article: "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 & raceday testing, & tested for an enormous amount of drugs. 01 DRF: "Alex Harthill was BOLD ENOUGH to tell me 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 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. Clenbuterol is 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 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. Etorphine is an Opiate 80,000 Times More Powerful than Morphine. Sublimaze is a potent narcotic. 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. 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. The US DEA filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of these & other drugs. Alex Harthill & drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in 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 for tampering, bribery & doping horses with drugs. Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history. Harthill's innovation in this area got him arrested many times for illegally injecting horses with numerous drugs & for public bribery. Harthill bribed state officials to throw away positive drug tests from horses that he had treated, & lost his license in many states. Harthill was the vet that manipulated horse races & he Publicly Acknowledged Doing So many times. Harthill was the most important factor in countless outcomes of numerous races. Harthill made Bob Baffert, Rick Dutrow, etc., look like Altar Boys."
Harthill said, 'I was used for horses pointing for, & running in, MAJOR RACES who NEEDED DRUGS & had INFIRMITIES. I earned the reputation I had. I am very proud of the horses 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 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 whom my horses defeated even more, to do all they were asked to do, just to fall a slight bit short of horses who had been given performance-enhancing drugs 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.' " ss was also given Lasix & Lasix is a potent ped drug & the main drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs; plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs, & the study of 23k races shows it gives a significant 9 length performance enhancement.
Easy Goer was still perfectly capable of unleashing spectacular moves on
the sharper turns, as he did when he romped in the 1989 Swale Stakes at
Gulfstream in Florida. Easy Goer was also perfectly capable of staying
close to SS on any and every track/track size as he did in all 3 Triple
Crown races. Easy Goer had numerous weapons in his arsenal with
brilliant natural speed, superb tactical speed, sensational athleticism,
great agility and he was very versatile; he could go to the lead
dictating pace & race running very fast fractions (Champagne, Suburban, etc); he could stalk, prompt and track up close to very fast pace's (Gotham, Belmont,
Preakness, Travers, Cowdin, maiden, etc) dictating race & pace; and he had a devastating turn of foot with extraordinary, explosive, electrifying acceleration. A lot of it also had to do with riding styles/riding strategies and tactics, training/trainers etc. Easy Goer ran so many perennial all timer performances at every distance he ran, 6.5F, 7F, 8F, 9F, 10F, 12F. Easy Goer had that peerless all timer talent, ability, constitution, speed-stamina combo. There is no way to downplay Easy Goer's numerous all timer performances.
From the recent book Ride 2 win by Gary West and the DRF champions book,
I quote: "At various points in races, Day would merely 'let' Easy Goer
run, not asking him. With the red flash Easy Goer, a request to run
was not needed; Day would sit motionless with no encouragement. Easy
Goer loved to run, and in an INSTANT, Easy Goer would take off with
accelerated BURSTS that were visually STUNNING, reminiscent of moves of
other legendary Hall of Fame champions. Easy Goer also would unleash
SPECTACULAR moves around turns over bigger, larger turns on bigger,
larger tracks." Clearly, Easy Goer had instant acceleration at all
points in races. Easy Goer was generally faster on straightaways and larger, bigger turns and larger, bigger tracks. SS was generally faster on sharper, smaller turns on sharper, smaller tracks. Although - as I said - Easy Goer was still capable of
unleashing spectacular moves on the sharper turns, as he did when he
romped in the Swale Stakes at Gulfstream in Florida. But a lot of it
also had to do with riding styles/riding strategies and tactics,
training/trainers etc. 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
& medications. 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 & medications. Sunday
Silence's record (Lost 4 of 6 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.
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. 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; Skip Away got beat 4 out of 6 by Formal Gold;
& there are an endless amount of other similar examples. 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 LIMITED 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).
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 that can be said other than head to heads.
Of course, in Japan Sunday Silence founded a racing dynasty.
Of course their definitely is not and it is not posted and shown on none of the videos for you Travis West
😅This was “edited”? For what? Objectivity? This is clearly an epic rant by someone who, 30 years after the fact, still can’t accept the obvious: Easy Goer had a chance to show the Derby and Preakness were flukes and he couldn’t.
@@andredarin8966 The obvious chance to show the very narrow drug-aided wins by ss in the Derby & Preakness were flukes? The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer SURE DID as he 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. SS's vet 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." "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.' "
Of course scoreboards, scores & numbers LIE & DON'T TELL the TRUTH when it is attained illegally with performance enhancing drugs. The very slight 3-1 edge by the slimmest of margins (attained ILLEGALLY by ss the narrowest of margins; ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitted to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Etorphine & Sublimaze) is equivalent to the "final scores in the record books" for Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, Floyd Landis, East Germany in Olympics, Ben Johnson, Diego Maradona, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco, Ken Caminiti, Jason Giambi, etc., plus all of the G1 winners that Jason Servis & Jorge Navarro trained, including G1 winners Maximum Security, World of Trouble, Firenze Fire, Sharp Azteca, XY Jet, Private Zone, El Deal & many others. All of these horses also won G1 races illegally with illegal ped drugs, & the racing associations HAVE NOT & CANNOT GO BACK & "take him down" (dq him) from these wins YEARS AFTER all winning purse money has been long ago (MANY YEARS BEFORE) paid out. Ditto that The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Harthill-reliant sunday silence also won by the slimmest of margins illegally with illegal ped drugs, & the racing associations HAVE NOT & CANNOT GO BACK & "take him down" (dq him) from these wins YEARS AFTER all winning purse money has been long ago (MANY YEARS BEFORE) paid out. Why wasn't the illegal vet of ss, Harthill, given jail time, lengthy bans, fines, etc? HE WAS MANY TIMES! The US DEA filed suit against Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of these & other drugs. Harthill was arrested, banned, suspended & fined many other times for tampering, bribery & illegally doping horses with drugs, & he lost his license in many states many times. But, Harthill DIED only a few years after he admitted in 2001 to DRF to illegally administering illegal ped drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, etc) to the drug-reliant & illegal vet Harthill-reliant ss (& many other horses). Harthill DIED before these 2001 admissions could be penalized. So much for the "final scores in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. The only final scores & records that count, & the only ones in the record books are those that were/are run drug-free without any drugs, & that is why the scores are Easy Goer 14, SS 0; & EG 1, ss 0.
The very slight 3-1 edge by the narrowest of margins (attained ILLEGALLY by ss by the slimmest of margins, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) 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. During that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, NY banned the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill. 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 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 races were/are true championship races. Only no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drugs races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drugs races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. The only final scores & records that count, & the only ones in the record books are those that were/are run drug-free without any drugs, & that is why the TRUE FINAL scores are Easy Goer 14, SS 0; & EG 1, ss 0.
Favorite race call of all time.
Easy Goer gobbling up real estate like a monster
And getting beat again by Sunday Silence..
Easy Goer was always a better horse, even though who's better in any way is totally subjective.
Numerous greats were behind or tied on the head to head, including
Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua,
John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many
others; and who's better in any way is totally subjective period. There
was the Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes 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 Sunday Silence 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 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. Better in any way is
totally subjective. 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; 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 an
infinite amount more other than head to heads.
Easy Goer was always a better horse, even though who's better in any way is totally subjective.
Numerous greats were behind or tied on the head to head, including
Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua,
John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many
others; and who's better in any way is totally subjective period. There
was the Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes 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 Sunday Silence 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 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. Better in any way is
totally subjective. 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; 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 an
infinite amount more other than head to heads.
Easy Goer was always a better horse, even though who's better in any way is totally subjective.
Numerous greats were behind or tied on the head to head, including
Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua,
John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many
others; and who's better in any way is totally subjective period. There
was the Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes 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 Sunday Silence 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 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. Better in any way is
totally subjective. 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; 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 an
infinite amount more other than head to heads.
gobbling up MANY DRUGS TOO
Rankings? Charles Justice's objective, statistical study in his book "The Greatest Horse of All," ranked Easy Goer the 2nd best 3 year old of all time behind only Secretariat, and ahead of many greats including Dr Fager, Damascus, Sunday Silence etc. His study was based on objective, statistical factors like times, track variants, average times, average distance run, average speed, top speed, weights, post positions, speed ratings, time between races, time vs distance run, time vs weights, records set and near records run, foal crop, stakes races won, winning margins, etc. According to you, head-to-head races are the end all/say all; so I am sure you also think that Beau Purple is better than Kelso, as he beat Kelso in 3 of 4 races; I am sure you also think that Noor is better than Citation, as Noor beat him in 4 of 5 races. I am sure you also think that Damascus is dead even with Dr Fager as he beat him in 2 of 4 races. A numerous amount of greats were behind or tied in head to heads 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; Skip Away got beat 4 out of 6 by Formal Gold; and there are many other similar examples.
The Bloodhorse rankings by a small seven person panel are just as subjective and flawed as any other. Does this make the Blood horse panel of seven official, true, right and the authority? In the foreword written in the beginning of the Bloodhorse top 100 book, they even admit how subjective and debatable their list - or any list - is, as they said: Blood-Horse stated that its rankings "will generate debate for years to come." The electoral friction was ultimately reflected in the introduction to the Blood-Horse's "Top 100 Racehorses" book, which said, "For all the work and dreaming that went into it, one approaches the list with a nagging sense of its folly as a rational exercise and of the maddening arbitrariness of its outcome. However one views the list, whether in peace - or shock and dismay - all such judgments, of course, are ENTIRELY SUBJECTIVE, a mixture of WHIM, wisdom, and whatever prejudices howl through the mind." In the Greatest Horse of All book by Charles Justice, Easy Goer was ranked the second best three year old of all time behind only Secretariat, and Ahead of Citation, Sunday Silence, Dr Fager, Damascus etc etc. Better is subjective and flawed; and who is better objectively is also flawed. The subjective, flawed Blood-horse list was done by ONE small panel of seven racing writers. There are plenty of racing writers that were not on this panel that state that Easy Goer was better than SS, including Alan Shuback, Edwin Pope, Dave Litfin, Steve Crist, Mike Watchmaker, Dick Jerardi, Paul Moran, Bill Finley, Andy Serling, etc etc .
The Racing Post, Racing Times, Timeform, World Thoroughbred Rankings, Associated Press, Daily Racing Form, Thoroughbred Times, Thoroughbred Record, Sports Illustrated, Espn etc., all did not do subjective ranking lists of the top 100. If they had, many horses would have been ranked differently. SI & AP ranked a top 10, and horses four through ten were ranked differently than the Bloodhorse. Who's true, right, official and the authority on this? Sports Illustrated, Associated Press, Blood horse, Charles Justice etc? Oh, and in the Bloodhorse top 100, Buckpasser was ranked narrowly ahead of Damascus (head to head winner over Buckpasser); Dr Fager (lost 2 of 4 to Damascus) was ranked ahead of Damascus; Spectacular Bid was ranked narrowly ahead of Affirmed (head to head winner over Bid); Seattle Slew was ranked narrowly ahead of Affirmed; Swaps was ranked narrowly ahead of Nashua (1 to 1 head to head); Man O War was ranked narrowly ahead of Secretariat and Citation; Citation was ranked far ahead of Noor, who beat him 4 of 5; War Admiral was ranked ahead of Seabiscuit, yet Seabiscuit beat War Admiral head to head; Majestic Prince was ranked far ahead of Arts and Letters; Native Dancer was ranked narrowly ahead of Tom Fool; Cigar was ranked far ahead of Skip Away and Holy Bull; Alysheba was ranked but Bet Twice was not; Round Table was ranked far ahead of Sword Dancer; Round Table was ranked narrowly ahead of Bold Ruler, yet Bold Ruler was ahead in head to head races. Does this make the Blood horse panel of seven official, true, right and the authority? I am sure you agree with all their rankings, which are all still totally subjective opinions. If The Racing Post, Racing Times, Timeform, World Thoroughbred Rankings, Associated Press, Daily Racing Form, Thoroughbred Times, Thoroughbred Record, Sports Illustrated, Espn etc also do subjective ranking lists of the top 100 - many horses including Easy Goer and SS would be ranked differently.
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.
How did the better racehorse Easy Goer(the 2nd fastest ranked 3 yr old all time on stats) lose by a snout and despairing neck in a few races? Pat Day's admitted jockey botches and mistakes, take off full of momentum and full of run, then ease up, gear down, start stop start stop confusing, commit then uncommit riding. SS wasn't even remotely close to Easy Goer on all figures(sheets,ragozins,Jerry Browne,Beyers,etc).
Race against inferior horses and Easy Goer a monster...arceg against true champions and Easy Goer shows his colors...second best. 3 out of 4 ...record dont lie. Accept it.
Easy Goer was always a better horse, even though who's better in any way is totally subjective. Numerous greats were behind or tied on the head to head, including Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua, John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many others; and who's better in any way is totally subjective period. There was the Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes 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 Sunday Silence 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 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, inferior horses including Houston, Prized, Criminal Type, and Cro Lover. Better in any way is totally subjective. 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; 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 an infinite amount more other than head to heads.
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After all these years, Sunday Silence still wins. Once again. Again.
Easy Goer was Sunday Silence's DRUG-FREE 'Daddy!' Easy Goer clobbered him 'everytime' they raced without drugs, with no drugs allowed. Easy Goer destroyed him 'everytime' they raced over larger track with a circumference larger than a mile. Noor was Citation's Daddy! Noor beat Citation in 4 of 5 big races, Noor beat Citation everytime except in one race. Beau Purple was Kelso's Daddy! Beau Purple beat Kelso in 3 of 4 big races, Beau Purple beat Kelso everytime except one race. And the list is endless of 'Daddy's' and head to head scoreboards. Numerous greats were behind or tied on the head to head, including
Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua,
John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many
others; and who's better in any way is totally subjective period. There
was the Test of the Champion Belmont Stakes 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 Sunday Silence 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 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. Better in any way is
totally subjective. 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; 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 an
infinite amount more other than head to heads.
LOL. Why do you cry so much? Were you half owner of EG? 🤣
@@user-mc4ql8qx8j If Citation was so fast & so great, why didn't he get to the finish line first if 4 of the 5 times he faced Noor? If Kelso was so fast & so great, why didn't he get to the finish line first in 3 of the 4 times he faced Beau Purple? The better horse historically loses 3 out of 4 to the same competitor. Kelso lost 3 of 4 races to Beau Purple. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 5 to the same competitor. Citation lost 4 of 5 races to Noor. The better horse historically loses 3 out of 4 to the same competitor. Pleasant Colony lost 3 of 4 races to Akureyri. The better horse historically loses 2 out of 3 to the same competitor. Forego lost 2 of 3 races to both Big Spruce & Wajima. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 4 to the same competitor. John Henry lost 4 of 4 races to Cabrini Green. The better horse historically loses 3 out of 3 to the same competitor. John Henry lost 3 of 3 races to Darby Creek Road. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 5 to the same competitor. Shuvee lost 4 of 5 races to Gallant Bloom. The better horse historically loses 4 out of 6 to the same competitor. Skip Away lost 4 of 6 races to Formal Gold. The better horse historically loses 2 out of 4 to the same competitor. Dr Fager lost 2 of 4 races to Damascus by a combined 12 lengths. The better horse historically loses 8 out of 12 to the same competitor. Sir Barton lost 8 of 12 races to Billy Kelly. The list is endless. Nothing will change racing history that the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free without any drugs, while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence won 0 (ZERO) races drug-free without any drugs. Easy Goer was without a doubt the much better horse on the track when they had to run without all drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs, & also banned Sunday Silence's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. The TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER was inducted in the Hall of Fame while doing it drug-free without any drugs in all of his races in his career; while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence did it with the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug), Sublimaze (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute) & Etorphine (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), plus the powerful performance enhancing diuretic drug Furosemide/Lasix (scientifically proven to give a 9 length performance enhancement), etc etc. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill admitted he gave the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine to sunday silence to the DRF's Jay Hovdey in 2001 in 2001 DRF Hovdey article. Harthill was arrested, banned, suspended & fined numerous times in many states for giving many horses illegal performance enhancing drugs. The truth is eternal. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's brilliance is seen in his progeny...quit deluding yourself. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer demolished the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence when forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state during that era which banned all drugs, & also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence winning by the slimmest of margins being given the remarkably effective performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, Furosemide (scientifically proven to give a 9 length performance enhancement), etc, & only on smaller 8f sized tracks & only at 9f to 10f, but failing to do so drug-free without any drugs & on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f, & at distances of 7f - 12f don't cut it. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer beat the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence by a far far bigger margin than he beat all the other competition, all because ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 6 races away from his own backyard, won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free without any drugs with much less time & rest between races & ran many more career races, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in a few races because sunday silence was given all of his performance enhancing drugs. Case closed.
@@user-mc4ql8qx8j Sunday Silence's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill told all how & why ss beat EG 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." DRF 01 article: "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 & raceday testing, & tested for an enormous amount of drugs. 01 DRF: "Alex Harthill was BOLD ENOUGH to tell me 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 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. Clenbuterol is 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 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. Etorphine is an Opiate 80,000 Times More Powerful than Morphine. Sublimaze is a potent narcotic. 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. 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. The US DEA filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of these & other drugs. Alex Harthill & drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in 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 for tampering, bribery & doping horses with drugs. Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history. Harthill's innovation in this area got him arrested many times for illegally injecting horses with numerous drugs & for public bribery. Harthill bribed state officials to throw away positive drug tests from horses that he had treated, & lost his license in many states. Harthill was the vet that manipulated horse races & he Publicly Acknowledged Doing So many times. Harthill was the most important factor in countless outcomes of numerous races. Harthill made Bob Baffert, Rick Dutrow, etc., look like Altar Boys."
Harthill said, 'I was used for horses pointing for, & running in, MAJOR RACES who NEEDED DRUGS & had INFIRMITIES. I earned the reputation I had. I am very proud of the horses 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 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 whom my horses defeated even more, to do all they were asked to do, just to fall a slight bit short of horses who had been given performance-enhancing drugs 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.' " ss was also given Lasix & Lasix is a potent ped drug & the main drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs; plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs, & the study of 23k races shows it gives a significant 9 length performance enhancement.
@@user-mc4ql8qx8j The only things my 100% Truthful comments prove is that : 1) the use of performance enhancing drugs (all drugs) are strictly about the fact they disgrace, dishonor & tarnish the drug-reliant horses like sunday silence who were given performance enhancing drugs, as well as tarnish the sport; while banning all ped drugs, all drugs, assure 'graciousness', integrity, fair play & complete fairness for all, & are DEFINITELY NOT 'excuses NOR obsessed, bitter, wounded fans.' The "issue" with ped drugs, indeed all drugs, is absolutely the most important issue - integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. The use of drugs disgraces, dishonors & tarnishes all drug-reliant horses like sunday silence; & the use of drugs disgraces, dishonors & tarnishes the sport. Sunday Silence's vet Alex Harthill & ped drugs (all drugs) have led to the destruction of integrity in racing. 1a) 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, & tested for an enormous amount of drugs with a zero tolerance policy - zero amount of any drugs allowed w/o having to quibble about even tiny amounts. Plus, as importantly, NY banned the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill. 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 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 races were/are true championship races. Only no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drugs races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drugs races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. 1b) according to Sunday Silence's banned illegal criminal Official vet Alex Harthill, SS ran on the remarkably effective performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine in the 1989 KY Derby, Preakness & BC Classic; 2) According to the Official 88-90 DRF & FIGS Forms, SS ran on the performance-enhancing diuretic drug Furosemide (a scientific study of 23,000 races showed it gives a 9 length performance enhancement), as well as Banamine/Flunixin (5 times more powerful than aspirin bute), Acetylsalicylic Acid, Meclofanemic Acid, Naproxen & Aspirin Bute in all 13 of his 14 career races outside drug-free New York; 3) According to the Official DRF's Mike Watchmaker, ss was given Furosemide & other drugs in all of his races, except the Belmont Stakes, in 1989, which includes the 89 KY Derby, Preakness, BC Classic, etc.; 4) According to the Official Newsday & LA Times' Paul Moran, ss was treated with Lasix & other drugs in the 1989 Kentucky Derby, Preakness & BC Classic; 5) according to the Official 2012 NY Post article (titled "11 horses who missed out on Triple Crown at Belmont") found on the web, ss was given Lasix in all of his races vs EG except the drug-free Belmont Stakes; 6) Easy Goer did not run on any performance enhancing drugs at all in all 20 of his career races; 7) Sunday Silence & the 20+ other horses Harthill admitted he gave illegal performance enhancing drugs, Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, Floyd Landis, East Germany in Olympics, Maria Sharapova, Ben Johnson, Diego Maradona, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco, Ken Caminiti, Jason Giambi, etc., plus all of the G1 winners that trainers Jason Servis & Jorge Navarro trained, including G1 winners Maximum Security, World of Trouble, Firenze Fire, Sharp Azteca, XY Jet, Private Zone, El Deal, & many others, all won major events & G1 races illegally with illegal performance enhancing drugs. Case shut tight.
@@user-mc4ql8qx8j Sunday Silence's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill told all how & why ss beat EG 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." DRF 01 article: "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 & raceday testing, & tested for an enormous amount of drugs. 01 DRF: "Alex Harthill was BOLD ENOUGH to tell me 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 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. Clenbuterol is 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 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. Etorphine is an Opiate 80,000 Times More Powerful than Morphine. Sublimaze is a potent narcotic. 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. 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. The US DEA filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of these & other drugs. Alex Harthill & drugs have led to the destruction of integrity in 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 for tampering, bribery & doping horses with drugs. Alex Harthill did more cheating with drugs to win horse races than any vet in history. Harthill's innovation in this area got him arrested many times for illegally injecting horses with numerous drugs & for public bribery. Harthill bribed state officials to throw away positive drug tests from horses that he had treated, & lost his license in many states. Harthill was the vet that manipulated horse races & he Publicly Acknowledged Doing So many times. Harthill was the most important factor in countless outcomes of numerous races. Harthill made Bob Baffert, Rick Dutrow, etc., look like Altar Boys."
Harthill said, 'I was used for horses pointing for, & running in, MAJOR RACES who NEEDED DRUGS & had INFIRMITIES. I earned the reputation I had. I am very proud of the horses 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 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 whom my horses defeated even more, to do all they were asked to do, just to fall a slight bit short of horses who had been given performance-enhancing drugs 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.' " ss was also given Lasix & Lasix is a potent ped drug & the main drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs; plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs, & the study of 23k races shows it gives a significant 9 length performance enhancement.
The amazing part of ss isn't his rivalry with EG but it is his progeny. His line will carry on with great success and should be mentioned with Galileo and Montjeu as the most successful sire in the last 20 years. Hearts cry, stay gold and deep impact also seem to have extremely strong traits that pass on well.
In Charles Justice 2008 book "Greatest Horse of All", there was a scientific, mathematical, statistical study done on the best horses by age. Easy Goer was ranked the #2 best 3 year old of all time behind Secretariat, and was ranked ahead of other great 3 yr olds Seattle Slew, Affirmed, Spectacular Bid, Damascus, Buckpasser,etc etc.
Well, that certainly settles it. An obscure author employs egregiously harvested data to put a healing balm on the still open wounds of Easy Goer devotees.
Case closed.
@@andredarin8966 An endless amount of experts rank Easy Goer superior to ss. Sunday Silence's banned illegal criminal vet 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.' " Case closed.
Of course scoreboards, scores & numbers LIE & DON'T TELL the TRUTH when it is carried out illegally with performance enhancing drugs. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion EASY GOER 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, SS 0 wins drug-free without any drugs. Easy Goer 14, SS 0 ; EG 1, ss 0 are the TRUE FINAL SCORES. The very slight 3-1 edge by the narrowest of margins (attained ILLEGALLY by ss by the slimmest of margins; Harthill admitted he gave the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine to ss) 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 attained 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 horse than the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet 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, NY 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 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 races were/are true championship races. Only no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drugs races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drugs 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 slimmest 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 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. 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 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). 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 to Sunday Silence, & not Banamine (5 times more powerful than aspirin bute) & Lasix (which were legal in every state in the US except NY back then anyways; but ss was listed as being administered Lasix & Banamine 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.
Of course scoreboards, scores & numbers LIE & DON'T TELL the TRUTH when it is attained illegally with performance enhancing drugs. The very slight 3-1 edge by the slimmest of margins (attained ILLEGALLY by ss by the narrowest of margins; ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitted to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Etorphine & Sublimaze) is equivalent to the "final scores in the record books" for Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, Floyd Landis, East Germany in Olympics, Ben Johnson, Diego Maradona, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco, Ken Caminiti, Jason Giambi, etc., plus all of the G1 winners that Jason Servis & Jorge Navarro trained, including G1 winners Maximum Security, World of Trouble, Firenze Fire, Sharp Azteca, XY Jet, Private Zone, El Deal & many others. All of these horses also won G1 races illegally with illegal ped drugs, & the racing associations HAVE NOT & CANNOT GO BACK & "take him down" (dq him) from these wins YEARS AFTER all winning purse money has been long ago (MANY YEARS BEFORE) paid out. Ditto that The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Harthill-reliant sunday silence also won by the slimmest of margins illegally with illegal ped drugs, & the racing associations HAVE NOT & CANNOT GO BACK & "take him down" (dq him) from these wins YEARS AFTER all winning purse money has been long ago (MANY YEARS BEFORE) paid out. Why wasn't the illegal vet of ss, Harthill, given jail time, lengthy bans, fines, etc? HE WAS MANY TIMES! The US DEA filed suit against Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of these & other drugs. Harthill was arrested, banned, suspended & fined many other times for tampering, bribery & illegally doping horses with drugs, & he lost his license in many states many times. But, Harthill DIED only a few years after he admitted in 2001 to DRF to illegally administering illegal ped drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, etc) to the drug-reliant & illegal vet Harthill-reliant ss (& many other horses). Harthill DIED before these 2001 admissions could be penalized. So much for the "final scores in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. The only final scores & records that count, & the only ones in the record books are those that were/are run drug-free without any drugs, & that is why the scores are Easy Goer 14, SS 0; & EG 1, ss 0.
The very slight 3-1 edge by the narrowest of margins (attained ILLEGALLY by ss by the slimmest of margins, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) 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. During that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, NY banned the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill. 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 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 races were/are true championship races. Only no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drugs races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drugs races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. The only final scores & records that count, & the only ones in the record books are those that were/are run drug-free without any drugs, & that is why the TRUE FINAL scores are Easy Goer 14, SS 0; & EG 1, ss 0.
"The use & abuse of drugs disgraced & dishonored the year of Sunday Silence. All should not bestow honors on drug-dependent horses. Even trainer Charlie Whittingham acknowledged his colt's impediments, & didn't run him in the Travers Stakes in view of the fact that he wouldn't have been able to utilize drugs there in New York. Sunday Silence, & many other horses, would never have made it minus drugs. Sunday Silence is a drug-dependent horse. ALL of his races IN 1989, EXCEPT the Belmont Stakes in New York, came with the benefit of various drugs, INCLUDING the diuretic DRUG FUROSEMIDE, which is a performance enhancer in many ways & can flush & mask the presence of many other illegal drugs in drug tests. Sunday Silence required the assistance of drugs to WIN his races, while he sustained a MONUMENTAL LOSS to Easy Goer when he wasn't able to use the drugs. Because of Sunday Silence's advantage of drugs, all call into question his accomplishments as a horse. Sunday Silence, like Sunny's Halo, Spend a Buck, Gate Dancer & Wild Again before him, is a classic, illustrative example of why drugs & racing don't merge, especially at the sport's highest level. After his narrow drug-aided wins in the Kentucky Derby & Preakness, Sunday Silence went to New York in search of winning the Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown. Because New York doesn't allow horses to run on any drugs -it's the only jurisdiction in America that doesn't-the suspicion was whether he could win without being given the drugs. It was a distressingly captivating matter in question, which served to remove the Triple Crown of the excitement & allure it has always had. Sunday Silence got overwhelmed in the Belmont, finishing a widening 8 lengths behind Easy Goer. Sunday Silence required the assistance of drugs to WIN his races, while he sustained a monumental loss when he wasn't able to use the drugs. Even trainer Charlie Whittingham acknowledged his colt's impediments, & didn't run him in the Travers Stakes in view of the fact that he wouldn't have been able to utilize drugs there in New York. No wonder so many condemn the usage of drugs. Sunday Silence, & many other horses, would never have made it minus drugs. The use & abuse of drugs disgraced & dishonored the year of Sunday Silence. All should not bestow honors on drug-dependent horses." DRF Jan 90 Mike Watchmaker.
Sunday silence being handriding all the way easy Gore getting vigorously beaten by the whip. Sunday Silence was the better horse out of this matchup
LEGEND HAS IT EASY GOER WAS BEATEN SO BAD IT TOOK ABOUT 20 YEARS OFF HIS LIFE....OOOOOOHHH SNNNNAAAPPP..😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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@@sigscorpion9275 The only Hall of Fame inductions, Eclipse Awards, races, records & wins that count are those that were/are run drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs at all, without any drugs at all, & that is why the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's Hall of Fame induction, Eclipse Awards, races, records & wins count (& Not the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence), & the legal, moral, ethical score is Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, SS 0 drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, & the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant Sunday Silence 0 wins drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER earned induction in the Hall of Fame & earned Eclipse Awards while doing it drug-free without any ped drugs, without any drugs, in all of his races in his career; while the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence did it with the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug), Sublimaze (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute) & Etorphine (an extraordinarily powerful performance enhancing drug; & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), plus the powerful performance enhancing diuretic drug Furosemide/Lasix (a study of 23,000 races proved it gives a 6 TO 9 LENGTH performance enhancement, plus it reduces body weight by 16lbs to 25 pounds, & is the main drug which masks other drugs), etc etc. Harthill admitted he gave the illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine to sunday silence. Harthill was arrested, banned, suspended & fined numerous times in many states for giving many horses illegal performance enhancing drugs.
During that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs, & had the most advanced out-of-competition & raceday drug testing. Plus, as importantly, NY banned the illegal criminal vet of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses; & Harthill admitted that he illegally gave illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to 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 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 races were/are true championship races. Only no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drugs races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drugs races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. EG dusted ss when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. EG only lost by the slimmest of margins in a few races to ss because ss needed & was given the ped drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze & Etorphine, plus Furosemide/Lasix (a study of 23,000 races showed it gives a 9 length performance enhancement), etc. Easy Goer won 14 races, 12 stakes races, 9 G1 races drug-free without any drugs on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) on fast, muddy & sloppy tracks at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f with much less time & rest between races & ran many more career races in faster times at all distances; while ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with ped drugs & only on small 8f sized tracks with much more time & rest between races & ran far less career races. Easy Goer was far better & far superior. Period. EG demolished ss when they were forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs. EG was the better horse plain & simple. It's the truth based on Harthill's voluntary admission to DRF Hovdey in 01, plus all of the 88-90 DRF's; 2012 NY Post article titled "The 11 horses who missed out on Triple Crown at Belmont" found on the web; DRF's Mike Watchmaker, Ed Fountaine & Paul Moran; Wikipedia articles with many reliable sources cited; 2 Claiborne books; NY Law; DRF, Bloodhorse & Thor. Record; & mounds more.
@@sigscorpion9275 The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthil-reliant sunday silence died at the young age of 16 of heart failure, infectious disease & the chronic foot disease laminitis. The drug-reliant & banned 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, Furosemide, 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. "Dr. Thomas Swerczek, the veterinary pathologist who conducted Easy Goer's necropsy, determined he died of an anaphylactic reaction to an allergen, AND the vets 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." 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 True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran all of his races in his career DRUG-Free without any drugs. The True 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 that. OH SNAP!
"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." The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race (NOT even ONE) drug-free without any drugs. What a joke of a horse - never forget. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. What a joke of a horse - never forget. The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill sunday silence NEVER won a race on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f - ss LOST 4 races on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f. What a joke of a horse - never forget. Of course the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside his drug-free home state & away from his drug-free home track. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside drug-free NY, & won 6 races away from his drug-free home track, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in other races to drug-reliant horses like ss who had been given illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs. Make the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence run without all of his CUSHY COMFORT performance enhancing drugs, & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. SS LOST ALL races when forced to run drug-free without any drugs. Make the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence run without his CUSHY COMFORT banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. SS LOST ALL races when forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. Make sunday silence run on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f & off his CUSHY COMFORT one small sized 8f tracks, & he's not only not winning, ss is getting destroyed. ss LOST 4 RACES on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, & the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant Sunday Silence 0 wins drug-free without any drugs; Easy Goer 14, SS 0; EG 1, ss 0. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer BEAT far far more horses than the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won outside drug-free NY, & won 6 races away from his drug-free home track, & only lost by the slimmest of margins in other races to drug-reliant horses like ss who had been given illegal Performance Enhancing Drugs. POOR sunday silence was a drug-reliant horse; POOR ss was a banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse; POOR ss needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him! POOR ss needed everything perfectly set up for him; POOR ss needed the perfect run & trip set up for him, POOR ss needed FIXED races set up for him. Of course the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer WON OUTSIDE drug-free NY (The only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill as well), & EG won 6 races away from his drug-free home track. ss won ZERO races (ss got cremated) when he was forced to run drug-free (The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free w/o any drugs) without all of his banned illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, Banamine, Furosemide, etc); ss LOST all races (ss got obliterated) when he was forced to run drug-free (Easy Goer won 14 races drug-free without any drugs) without all of his banned illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, Banamine, Furosemide, etc); ss also won ZERO races (ss got pulverized) when he was forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST ALL races (ss got smashed) when he was forced to run without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss also LOST 4 races on bigger tracks (Easy Goer won on all 3 sized tracks - 8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) with circumferences larger than 8f; ; ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f only with illegal performance enhancing drugs & only on small 8f sized tracks with much more time & rest between races & ran far less career races; the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free w/o any drugs on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f) on sloppy, wet, muddy, & fast tracks with much less time & rest between races & ran far more career races, & ran faster times at all distances & ran far superior speed figures & far superior performance ratings at all distances. Easy Goer won on muddy, wet & sloppy tracks & ran 7f in a blazing 1:22 in one of them, and 10f in 2:01 (25 lengths faster than ss ran 10f in mud) in the other on muddy, wet & sloppy tracks. POOR sunday silence was a drug-reliant horse; POOR ss was a banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse; POOR ss needed to bring his ped drugs & one sized small 8f track with him. POOR ss needed everything perfectly set up for him; POOR ss needed the perfect run & trip set up for him, POOR ss needed FIXED races set up for him. Case shut. End of story.
heard through the grapevine that pat day is still sitting on easy goer waiting to move the horse
Tom Durkins call in this race was so great!
You can tell Easy Goer was Durkins horse
The 3-1 win-loss record means as much or as little as all these win-loss records 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. And 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 (Clenbuterol, 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 to ss. I quote the DRF for the factual truths: "Sunday Silence's veterinarian Alex 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 illegal drugs, including Clenbuterol 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 Clenbuterol regularly in the 1980's, 15 years before it was approved by the FDA, on his horses, INCLUDING using it on sunday silence. 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 bute), Banamine (50 times more powerful than the aspirin 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. Case closed!
Two great horses and great rivalry between Easy Goer and Sunday Silence.
Easy Goer was a great Hall of Famer everywhere, however Easy Goer was a
true champion running in many drug free and medication free championship
races, and this is an important point. New York's no-medication no-drug
rules during that era kept the outcomes crystal clear. New York's
refusal to allow drugs was a key factor in keeping New York's major
races the true tests of champions in that era. New York was the center
of the horse racing universe and the place where championships were
decided every year throughout most of racing history. New York was the
only drug free and medication free state back then. Obviously,
California, Kentucky, Florida, Maryland, Louisiana, etc. allowed drugs
back then. New York banned ALL drugs, and these included much more than
just the diuretic Lasix [which masks other drugs by flushing prohibited
substances from a horse's system in order to elude post-race detection].
These included banning various anti-inflammatory drugs , diuretics,
painkillers, stimulants, adjunct drugs, bronchodilators [helps to breath
better, get more air] , etc like Procaine, Banamine, Ketoprofun, Bute, cocaine,
caffeine, snake venom, Flunixin, acetylsalicylic acid, meclofanemic
acid, Naproxen, Clenbuterol, aminocaproic acid [ACA], tranexamic acid
[antifibrinolytics], carbazochrome ["Kentucky Red"], etc. And these
included banning MANY more exotic treatments, both legal and illegal in
other states, but NOT in New York. NONE were permitted in New York, Only
Hay, oats and water. Not until 1995-96 did this change, when N.Y.
allowed ONLY Lasix for proven bleeders.
The entire history of thoroughbred racing in every part of the world had
been governed by the rule that horses may not be treated with drugs
when they compete. But in the 1970s, many American horsemen argued that
the stress of year-round racing required that thoroughbreds needed some
therapeutic help, and the era of permissive medication was inaugurated.
However back then, New York was alone [in the US] and was the only state
that had the courage to ban all drugs. New York's no-medication no-drug
rules kept the results crystal clear. New York's refusal to allow drugs
was a key factor in keeping New York's major races the true tests of
champions. Back then, the connections of many top horses, including
Blushing John, Dance Smartly, Tight Spot, Hollywood Wildcat, Paseana, Lost Code, Desert Wine, Snow Chief, Wild Again, Tank's Prospect, Skywalker, King Glorious, Spend a Buck, Capote, Sunny's Halo, The Wicked North, Suave Prospect, Tejano Run, Lil E. Tee, Summer Squall, Best Pal, etc., freely admitted that their horses could not compete in top company without the drugs and medications, and never [or rarely] ran
them in the prominent, illustrious races in drug free New York. In doing that, they came clean with the fans, bettors, breeders and the Eclipse Award voters. In my view, Only the drug free, medication free races can truly be called championship events. Horses such as the ones I mentioned would pass up these drug free races, or were exposed for what they were, if that was not already apparent from them having skipped these drug free, illustrious Grade 1 races with huge purses. Even some
unabashed trainers, writers, media [like Charlsey Cantey], fans etc of
these horses would distinguish themselves by saying that so and so horse
would have to beat so and so horse in New York - without the drugs and
medications- to win titles and championships.
When Charlie Whittingham [trainer of SS] was asked what he was going to
do with SS in the six months between the Triple Crown & the
Breeders' Cup, & why he would run SS for a smaller purse [$400k] in
the less competitive Grade 2 Swaps, and why he did not run SS in the
drug free and star studded $1.1 million dollar Grade 1 Travers, $1.1
million dollar Jockey Club Gold Cup against older, or just under $1
million dollar Grade 1 Woodward against older, Whittingham said: "I'd
rather run with BLUE COWS and BILLY GOATS." Highly intelligent and a
master trainer. No facing older horses or Easy Goer until the Cup in
Florida. No illustrious Grade 1 races with big purses in the only drug
& medication free state [at that time] of New York like Whittingham
did when he brought so many top horses to N.Y., including Greinton,
Perrault, Lively One, Cougar II, Dahlia, Porterhouse, Goodbye Halo,
Exceller, etc. From the 1800's until 1984 [creation of the Breeders'
Cup], New York was the center of the horse racing universe and the place
where championships were decided every year. The Preakness, Derby and
Breeders' Cup ALLOWED all horses to run on drugs and medications in all
their big races, except when the Cup was in, you guessed it - New York.
New York ran the most illustrious, prominent races with the biggest
purses. They still do after 1983, and they still do carry a lot of
weight, but the game has changed. Even though the game has changed, New
York continues to host the ceaseless tide of champions. The constancy of
excellence and distinction in New York has prevailed mostly unaltered.
Europe, Australia, Dubai etc., has never allowed drugs and medications. I am not questioning the great trainer Whittingham's integrity, but he did get suspended in 1986 for the procaine [painkiller] positive drug tests. Although Whittingham's vet, Harthill, was a total and absolute corrupt crook. Just do a search on Harthill. You will find lots of corruption. As for these two terrific horses [Sunday Silence and Easy Goer] , neither was a bleeder so I don't think Lasix was an issue at all. But obviously Easy Goer ran many races in New York where all drugs and medications were not allowed anyway. I'd much rather see top horses compete completely drug free and medication free. Really the last of the great drug free and medication free races [and horses] were run in New York until 1995-96. The bottom line is: New York's no-medication no-drug rules kept the outcomes crystal clear. New York's refusal to allow drugs was a key factor in keeping New York's major races the true tests
of champions, and Easy Goer was a true Hall of Fame champion running in
many drug free and medication free championship races.
Easy Goer came into this race off brutal historic campaign...Sunday Silence came in fresh...Sunday Silence also had another easy candy trip that is usual for him...Speed favoring track...Easy Goer only missing by a desperate "neck" under all these circumstances was amazing....The better horse ran 2nd in this race...Easy Goer was also a staggering "1-2" favorite...
That’s only four excuses. You forgot that it was really warm and humid that day.
@@andredarin8966 You forgot that Sunday Silence's banned illegal criminal vet 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.' "
Citation, Kelso, Easy Goer, Forego, John Henry, Dr Fager, Shuvee, Skip Away, Pleasant Colony, Sir Barton, Unbridled, Whirlaway, California Chrome, etc., all made history. It's very common that the "superior, better, & faster" contestants whether in a boxing match, triathlon, or pretty much any contest, loses head-to-head matches to slower & inferior competitors. Inferior horses frequently beat very superior, gifted almost supernatural horses. The very slight 3-1 edge by the narrowest of margins (attained ILLEGALLY by ss by the slimmest of margins, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) 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. The very slight 3-1 edge by the slimmest of margins (attained ILLEGALLY by ss by the narrowest of margins; ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitted to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs Clenbuterol, Etorphine & Sublimaze) is equivalent to the "final scores in the record books" for Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, Floyd Landis, East Germany in Olympics, Ben Johnson, Diego Maradona, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco, Ken Caminiti, Jason Giambi, etc., plus all of the G1 winners that Jason Servis & Jorge Navarro trained, including G1 winners Maximum Security, World of Trouble, Firenze Fire, Sharp Azteca, XY Jet, Private Zone, El Deal & many others. All of these athletes & horses also won major events & G1 races illegally with illegal ped drugs.
Easy Goer was faster than ss.
Easy Goer was held back to much
Pat Day cost Easy Goer terrible ride !
Easy Goer WON out of NY. Easy Goer ran the vast majority of his races in NY & Florida. He ran 17 of 20 races in NY & Florida, in many of the most historic, landmark prestigious races. Forego only won in NY & FLorida also. However, Easy Goer did not lose by a snout in Maryland, & and a very rapidly diminishing desperate neck in FL because they of what state or track they were run in. He lost by a snout in MD, & a rapidly diminishing desperate neck in FL because of Pat Day's self admitted total rider errors. Overrated? No horse that runs the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32, second fastest Belmont of all time behind only Secretariat, many of the fastest editions of the most prestigious races(Travers,Whitney,Suburban,Champagne,Swale,Belmont,Gotham,6 1/2f, 7f-12f) at all distances, and many(7 or 8) 120+ or higher beyers(while SS ran 1), the most since Bid, can be.
He is 1 - 5 outside of NY Talk about a horse that had to bring his track with him..he is just that horse
Sig Sunday Silence was 0 for 5 when forced to run drug-free without any drugs. SS was 1 for 5 on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f. Talk about a horse that had to bring his performance enhancing drugs & one small sized 8f track with him....ss is just that horse.
@@traviswest949 TALK ABOUT A HORSE THAT TOOK DRUGS AS A 2 YEAR OLD AND 3 YEAR OLD AND WHO COULD NOT WIN A RACE OUTSIDE OF NY AND COULD NOT WIN HORSE OF THE YEAR AND NEEDED ALL HIS DRUGS TO WIN IN JUST 1 STATE , EASY GOER IS JUST THAT HORSE😄😄😄
@@sigscorpion9275 Totally false. If it's not with all of his illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, Furosemide, etc) at age 2, 3 & 4, the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence is not only not winning, ss is getting crushed. If it's not with his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill, the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence is not only not winning, ss is getting crushed. If it's not on a small 8f sized track, the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence is not only not winning, ss is getting crushed. ss was 0 for 5 on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f. WHAT RACE DID THE DRUG-RELIANT & BANNED ILLEGAL CRIMINAL VET ALEX HARTHILL-RELIANT SUNDAY SILENCE WIN DRUG-FREE WITHOUT ANY DRUGS? ZERO. What race did the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence win without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill? What race did the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence win on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f? ZERO, ss was 0 for 5 on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f.
@@sigscorpion9275 The drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence was cremated when forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill & on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than 8f - ss was 0 for 5 running drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill, & ss was 0 for 5 on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f. End of story.
Before they ran this race Charlie Whittingham took a shot at Shug for running Easy Goer in a 1 1/2 race before the Classic and said that SS was trained perfectly for the race...He pretty much said he did the much better and smarter Training job than Shug leading up to this race...Maybe he was still a little upset with Shugs horse ending his Crown bid in the belmont..Or maybe he was just being honest and did not mean to be disrespectful
3:18 Chris knew SS was the better horse😄😄😄
Just let him continue once he's rolling pat.
"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.
Easy Goer slung like a slingshot soaring by
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won on numerous different tracks of all track sizes (8f, 9f and 12f sized tracks) in drug-free New York and outside drug-free NY, & won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f. Meanwhile, ss with a DISMAL record with ZERO wins LOSING ALL races when forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs (and as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well); ss with a DISMAL record with ZERO wins LOSING ALL races when forced to run drug-free without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss also with a DISMAL record LOSING 4 races on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than a mile; and only winning G1's with drugs only at 9f to 10f on the small 8f sized tracks. SS was a drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill reliant race horse and that is all he really was; ss was also a one track (only the small 8f sized track) race horse and that is all he really was. And yes, The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion was as brilliant in drug-free New York on many different NY tracks as he was in Florida, Maryland, etc. on different tracks. EG was an undefeated 5 for 5 on 9f sized tracks away from his "home track" at distances of 7f, 1 mile, 1 1/8m twice and 1 1/4m; EG also ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida; & EG lost a few photo finish races by the slimmest of margins having nothing at all to do with what state or track these races were in/on. So much for that.
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.
Gulfstream is such a speed favouring track. Never understood why East Goer was so far back allowing Sunday Silence to get the jump on him. Despite this he was still narrowly beaten. A better trip closer to the pace with his devastating kick & he’d have won this race.
IT WAS MORE OF A WORKOUT FOR SUNDAY SILENCE. SUNDAY SILENCE HANDRIDDEN ALL THE WAY EASY GOER WAS GETTING WHIPPED TO DEATH BY THE WHIP.
@@sigscorpion9275 No kidding he was so far back & stopping and starting like he did in that race reminded me a bit of Spectacular Bid in the Florida Derby.
@@sigscorpion9275 The TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER HANDRIDDEN ALL THE WAY by 8 Widening Lengths with the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence GETTING WHIPPED & BEATEN TO DEATH to barely beat the claimer Le Voyageur in the Drug-Free Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes run 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. Alex Harthill admitted that he illegally gave illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss. When the Beaten & Whipped to Death ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs (& also without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well), ss not only gets Cremated & Destroyed by the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer, but ss barely beats the claimer Le Voyageur while being Beaten & Whipped to Death. Oh, and officially, EG won drug-free without any drugs "ridden out" by a widening 8 lengths under a hand ride in the Belmont Stakes, plus EG won G1's drug-free without any drugs under hand rides at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f; while ss needing & getting illegal ped drugs by the narrowest of margins, & officially won "DRIVING" as McCarron hit him multiple times with the left handed whip, Driving means a horse is full out being asked for everything under the strongest urging, while ridden out does not. Not to mention that ss got his ass whipped by Pat Valenzuela and Easy Goer; ss got his ass whipped by Pat Valenzuela and Prized; Sunday Silence got his ass whipped by Pat Valenzuela and Houston; ss got his ass whipped by Pat Valenzuela and Criminal Type; ss got his ass whipped by Aaron Gryder and the maiden Caro Lover.
@@robertsmale3714 That's why he was called Pat ron franklin esque Day, Pat start stop start stop Day, Pat wait all Day, Pat a day late Day, Pat delay Day, Pat so patient he can watch a faucet drip for days Day!
@@sigscorpion9275 The TRUE DRUG-FREE HALL OF FAME CHAMPION EASY GOER in a gallop trot HANDRIDDEN ALL THE WAY by 8 Widening Lengths with the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence GETTING WHIPPED & BEATEN TO DEATH to barely beat the claimer Le Voyageur in the Drug-Free Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes run 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. Alex Harthill admitted that he illegally gave illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss. When the Beaten & Whipped to Death ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs (& also without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well), ss not only gets Cremated & Destroyed by the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer, but ss barely beats the claimer Le Voyageur while being Beaten & Whipped to Death. Oh, and officially, EG won drug-free without any drugs "ridden out" by a widening 8 lengths under a hand ride in the Belmont Stakes, plus EG won G1's drug-free without any drugs under hand rides at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f & 12f; while ss needing & getting illegal ped drugs by the narrowest of margins, & officially won "DRIVING" as McCarron hit him multiple times with the left handed whip, Driving means a horse is full out being asked for everything under the strongest urging, while ridden out does not. Not to mention that ss got his ass whipped by Pat Valenzuela and Easy Goer; ss got his ass whipped by Pat Valenzuela and Prized; Sunday Silence got his ass whipped by Pat Valenzuela and Houston; ss got his ass whipped by Pat Valenzuela and Criminal Type; ss got his ass whipped by Aaron Gryder and the maiden Caro Lover.
Sunday Silence and Easy Goer brought it EVERY race. EVERY.SINGLE.RACE. Neither of them ever had a "clunker" or throw out.