I algorithm gifted me (yeah, gifted me😁) with a video from this project yesterday, and I love it. So glad these stories are being told and preserved. Also, I'm hoping for wisdom as I finalize my Derby picks...
Here is one man of integrity in the racing industry! I worked for Darby Dan when His Majesty was still alive and they had to put a cage on him so he wouldn't bite his self with Turkoman, Sunshine Forever, and their Brian's Time paid $57 to win the Florida Derby and put me through my last semester of college and I was flat broke...+ their trainer Lou Rhondinello let me put my pony in one of their stalls at Hialeah when he got a case of impaction from alfalfa hay, that horse had come from Centennial Racetrack and still held the record TimeWise for a mile70 and where butazolidin first started out....when they did the autopsy on him they found out that the butazolidin had ate up his entire intestinal tract...
I worked for Darby Dan's Ohio farm May '89-Dec '90..there were 16 yearlings to break in '89..I was raised in Columbus..so I grew up hearing about Darby Dan and wanted so much to work there as a kid..I was goofing off one day and started choosing which yearlings I felt would grow up to be stakes winners..'89 was my very 1st year in the business..I told John my picks and he said "I hope your right"..I chose 8 out of 16, including Kyle's Our Man. 7out of 8 became stakes winners ..the one that didn't had gotten hurt as a yearling..I had such fun learning while working there!..
@@kathleenhuff3059 I was always impressed with John Phillips very respectable man the history that went with Darby Dan the last thing I did for them was I took Memories of Silver to Belmont Park in the back of a Sallee horse van
@@kathleenhuff3059 I went up to their Ohio Farm once with Sallee horse Vans to pick up their yearnings once I guess and I made the van driver stop and let me pick some jewelweed/milkweed to put on because I had Poison Ivy from stem to stern that was growing along their fence line
What I forgot to tell you is I have a filly, she's 22 this year by Banquet Circuit who was. a full brother to Graustark and she's a spittin image of her Grandpa except she don't have the hole in the left side of her Cranium where evidently he had a sinus problem or somebody hit him with a twitch
@@montanawarren8462 what year did you ride with Memories of Silver?...I remember her...I didn't handle her...but I watched her race...I did however care for 2 of her siblings..out of her dam..
Nice video from Mr. Phillips - I visited Darby Dan Farm in the early 90’s as part of a TOBA organized clinic and saw His Majesty - great historic farm
I love horse racing and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Both had their last glory years in the 1970's. Thanks for this very insightful interview!
Let’s never forget our great past. Thanks JP. (From RAT).
I algorithm gifted me (yeah, gifted me😁) with a video from this project yesterday, and I love it. So glad these stories are being told and preserved. Also, I'm hoping for wisdom as I finalize my Derby picks...
Here is one man of integrity in the racing industry! I worked for Darby Dan when His Majesty was still alive and they had to put a cage on him so he wouldn't bite his self with Turkoman, Sunshine Forever, and their Brian's Time paid $57 to win the Florida Derby and put me through my last semester of college and I was flat broke...+ their trainer Lou Rhondinello let me put my pony in one of their stalls at Hialeah when he got a case of impaction from alfalfa hay, that horse had come from Centennial Racetrack and still held the record TimeWise for a mile70 and where butazolidin first started out....when they did the autopsy on him they found out that the butazolidin had ate up his entire intestinal tract...
I worked for Darby Dan's Ohio farm May '89-Dec '90..there were 16 yearlings to break in '89..I was raised in Columbus..so I grew up hearing about Darby Dan and wanted so much to work there as a kid..I was goofing off one day and started choosing which yearlings I felt would grow up to be stakes winners..'89 was my very 1st year in the business..I told John my picks and he said "I hope your right"..I chose 8 out of 16, including Kyle's Our Man. 7out of 8 became stakes winners ..the one that didn't had gotten hurt as a yearling..I had such fun learning while working there!..
@@kathleenhuff3059 I was always impressed with John Phillips very respectable man the history that went with Darby Dan the last thing I did for them was I took Memories of Silver to Belmont Park in the back of a Sallee horse van
@@kathleenhuff3059 I went up to their Ohio Farm once with Sallee horse Vans to pick up their yearnings once I guess and I made the van driver stop and let me pick some jewelweed/milkweed to put on because I had Poison Ivy from stem to stern that was growing along their fence line
What I forgot to tell you is I have a filly, she's 22 this year by Banquet Circuit who was. a full brother to Graustark and she's a spittin image of her Grandpa except she don't have the hole in the left side of her Cranium where evidently he had a sinus problem or somebody hit him with a twitch
@@montanawarren8462 what year did you ride with Memories of Silver?...I remember her...I didn't handle her...but I watched her race...I did however care for 2 of her siblings..out of her dam..