"The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful chestnut frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME."
Easy Goer 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 - no matter what anyone does. There is no way to downplay the fact that Easy Goer (1:32 2/5) ran 1/5 of a second off the WORLD RECORD mile of Dr. Fagers (1:32 1/5 as an older horse) and destroyed Secretariat's stakes record by a full second and he did it very easily while in hand - and it was only Easy Goers second start as a three year old; Easy Goer still holds the mile track record to this day - 27 years and counting; and Easy Goer ran the fastest mile ever by any three year old conceding significant weight. Easy Goer also ran the second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f behind only Secretariat. Easy Goer also ran right on the 6.5f track record as a two year old; ran right on the 8f Champagne record at age two; ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida in his first start at age three; ran right on the existing 9f track record in one of the fastest Whitney's ever against older horses conceding weight; ran just off the 10f track record in one of the fastest Travers ever; ran right on the existing 10f track record in the 10f Suburban conceding significant weight. Even EG's very narrow losses at 9.5f (1:53 4/5) and 10f (2:00 1/5) were very fast races. Easy Goer's so called 'slow' timed races in the Wood Memorial (112 speed figure) and the Jockey Club Gold Cup (122 speed figure) against older horses were actually very fast, as they were run on very slow playing surfaces doing it easily under hand rides. Churchill - when muddy - plays (played) very very slow. Easy Goer ran numerous 120 or faster speed figures in his career, and also consistently ran in the 120 speed figure range on a regular basis in his races; he also ran the fastest Speed Figure performance by any two-year-old, as well as the fastest Speed Figure performance in any Triple Crown race since racing figures were first published.
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. Easy Goer was also 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. 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).
Historic campaign for Easy Goer. What a diamond, what a gem. Easy Goer ran another monumental race among the fastest all time runnings. Easy Goer ran all these historic races (many of them had over 100 runnings) in the top 1 to 5 fastest of all time: Belmont Stakes at 12f , Gotham at 8f, Whitney at 9f, Travers at 10f, Champagne at 8f, Suburban at 10f, including the fastest mile of all time by any 3 yr old in 1:32:2, the second fastest Belmont of all time with only Secretariat ever faster, and in addition running right on the track record at 6.5f at 2, and the fastest 7f of the year in Florida.
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People put down one while trying to prop up the other at their expense. Or they take ONLY ONE factor, as if Hall of Fame champions Forego, Kelso and Easy Goer are diminished one bit for their drug free, medication free New York exploits. EG & SS were both great Hall of Fame champions. Derby, Classic nonsense? There are numerous legendary, all time Hall of Fame greats like Dr. Fager, Easy Goer, Bold Ruler, Swaps, Gallant Man, Sword Dancer, Arts and Letters, Forego, Kelso, Tom Fool, Buckpasser, Round Table, John Henry, Seabiscuit, Skip Away, Holy Bull, Ruffian, etc, who won 1 or 0 TC races, but won numerous other big races. The legendary, all time greats Dr. Fager, Forego, Kelso, Tom Fool, Buckpasser, Round Table, John Henry, Seabiscuit, Skip Away, Holy Bull, Ruffian, and many many many others were all time great horses who didn't win any TC races and/or Classic, but they all won numerous other 'big' races. That doesn't diminish them at all. Other all time Hall of Fame greats like like Bold Ruler, Easy Goer, Swaps, Gallant Man, Sword Dancer, Arts and Letters, etc etc won 1 TC race, but they all won numerous other 'big' races. That doesn't diminish them at all either. Derby & Classic winners Unbridled and Ferdinand are not in the Hall of Fame. That's also like saying that SS failed the "great" tests on "all" levels - or many levels. SS had the almost same exact record (LOST 4 of 6) on larger circumferenced tracks that EG had on smaller mile circumferenced tracks. SS had a LOSING record (LOST 3 races) at his larger circumferenced HOME track of Hollywood. SS got romped when he ran in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs and medications. SSSS LOST a total of 4 of 6 races on larger tracks with circumferences larger than a mile, including 3 LOSSES at his LARGER circumferenced HOME track at Hollywood. Sunday Silence's record (Lost 4 of 6 races) on bigger tracks with a circumference of 1 1/8 miles or larger was very similar to Easy Goer's record on smaller mile circumferenced tracks. Sunday Silence lost 36% of his career races, mostly to lesser horses including Houston, Prized and Cro Lover. SS barely beat EG in a few close races. SS also barely beat Stylish Winner, SS also barely beat Le Voyageur. SS LOST to Prized in a Grade 2, Easy Goer beat Prized by 25 lengths in a G1 against top elders. SS barely beat Le Voyageur, EG crushed Le Voyageur numerous times by double digit lengths. Easy Goer beat Expensive Decision, who was a WORLD record holder for over 20 years at both a mile and a mile and sixteenth. And he beat Cryptoclearance, Slew City Clew, Proper Reality, Clever Trevor, Awe Inspiring, Blushing John, Prized etc were all multimillionaire, multiple Grade 1 winners. They both beat Crypto, Slew, Trevor, John and Awe Inspiring, but Easy Goer beat them many more times by much farther. And they both beat Hawkster multiple times, and Hawkster also was a world record holder for over 30 years. Easy Goer also ran mostly in the only state in the entire country at the time that didn't allow any drugs and medications. Easy Goer ran brilliantly fast outside NY in the Swale, Preakness and Classic. When SS LOST the Grade 2 Swaps to Prized, he ran 10f in 2:02 on a rock hard very fast California track. Meanwhile Easy Goer beat Prized by 25 lengths in the Jockey Club Gold Cup on a dull, deep slow playing track. When SS won the Louisiana Super Derby he beat the Louisiana claimer Big Earl, and ran 10f in over 2:03 1/5. When SS won the Californian he beat a 2 horse field of Stylish Winner and Charlatan. When they both lost to Criminal Type, EG had to concede more weight (7 to 14 pounds) than SS (only 5 pounds) did. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. There was also the Belmont 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. 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.
DELMARCLUB1 - Great points about the sizes of the tracks, the prohibition of the drugs and medications, the fact that Easy Goer ran significantly more races with significantly less time and less rest between those races at significantly diverse distances, et al. Endless, complicated factors that can't be simplified. In my opinion, the drugs and track sizes were huge. New York's no-medication no-drug rules during that era kept the outcomes crystal clear. New York's refusal to allow drugs during that era was a major factor in keeping New York's major races the true tests of champions. Back then, New York was alone [in the USA] and was the only state that had the courage to ban all drugs. New York was the ONLY state in the entire country during that era that didn't allow ANY drugs and medications. New York didn't allow horses to race on ANY drugs during that era, while the rest of the country did. New York banned and prohibited all race-day drugs and medications. Only New York, among all of the nation's racing jurisdictions, forbade the use of all drugs and medications on horses while racing. It was to New York's credit that the Belmont Stakes and numerous other huge, rich, historic, prestigious G1 races stood as huge obstacles to drug-dependent horses. Winning any big race on medication was/is not what racing is about; and they were commonly and legally used in all the sport's most prestigious races run outside New York. Only the drug-free medication-free races could/can be called championship events. An endless amount of connections would NOT run in drug-less NY, and the ones that did had MOST of their horses exposed when they ran in drug-free medication-free NY. SS's connections tried only once because they had to, but they refused to come back for the Travers, Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup because of the no-drug, no-medication rules in NY. They also were angered that their crooked controversial veterinarian Alex Harthill was not licensed in New York and prohibited from practicing. Most of these trainers decisions not to run was influenced mostly by New York's no-medication rules more than anything else. The connections of many many top horses, including Summer Squall, Best Pal, Dance Smartly, Hollywood Wildcat, Tight Spot, Paseana, Blushing John, Lost Code, Desert Wine, Snow Chief, Wild Again, Tank's Prospect, Skywalker, King Glorious, Spend a Buck, Great Communicator, Infinidad, Capote, Sunny's Halo, Gate Dancer, The Wicked North, Suave Prospect, Tejano Run, Lil E. Tee, et al, freely admitted that their horses could not compete in top company without the drugs and medications, and never [or very rarely] ran them in the prominent, illustrious races in drug free New York. In doing that, they came clean with the fans, bettors, breeders, et al. These horses trainers and connections would pass up these drug free races - and if they ran in them they were often exposed for what they were by not running well and/or getting beaten decisively - if that was not already apparent from them having skipped [and/or not run well and/or getting beaten decisively] most of these drug free, illustrious Grade 1 races with huge purses. Hall of Fame Champions are born, made, based and/or trained anywhere in the world, but most American Hall of Fame champions are still crowned having run in the major races in New York. And New York was and still is the most prominent racing circuit in North America - best horses, highest purses by far, richest G1 stakes races, most G1 stakes races, et al. Belmont Park was, is and will always be "The Championship Track" because nearly every major American champion - and Hall of Famer - in racing history has competed on the racetrack [ditto Saratoga], and because it's by far the fairest with the best horse mostly always winning. West-coast based Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens says, "Belmont Park is by far the fairest track in America. If you’re on the best horse, you have plenty of room to navigate. The best horse almost always wins at Belmont Park." West-coast based Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas says, "It's not even close. Belmont is the fairest of all American tracks. The track is big, and you don't get jammed up like you do on most other tracks because of the tighter turns. And speed, tactical speed, versatility and handiness are still needed at Belmont Park. While a horse can win with any style at Belmont, there is a false perception that in the "The Test of the Champion" Belmont Stakes - or at Belmont in general - that you can come from left field and run down tired horses in front. But the truth is you really have to be in the mix and show speed and tactical speed. You really need to be on or near the lead within striking distance, and/or have tactical speed and not drop too far out of it." West-coast based Hall of Fame rider Laffit Pincay says, "Belmont Park is the best by far. Everything is perfect-it's just a wonderful track. The big wide track is great for horses." West-coast based Hall of Fame rider Bill Shoemaker, "Belmont Park, it's ideal. Belmont Park has the best track with it's fine surface and size. It's wide and wonderful. Big, wide sweeping turns and long straightaways. Riders and horses seldom bunch and jam, and a horse can run the turns as fast as the straightaways."
Rankings, ratings, who's better in any way, who would beat who, etc, are all TOTALLY SUBJECTIVE. Having said that, I'd totally disagree. Easy Goer and Sunday Silence are both all-time great Hall of Fame champions, and both are better than Risen Star and Alysheba. Easy Goer's times dwarf those of Risen Star and Alysheba. While all subjective, almost all of Easy Goer's speed figures (his best, what he ran in most races, and his avg) dwarf both Risen Star and Alysheba's. Even a few of SS best speed figures dwarf both Risen Star and Alysheba's. Easy Goer and SS timeform ratings (137 or 138) and BH rankings dwarf both Risen Star and Alysheba's. All totally subjective, but notable. Furthermore, you can put down and denigrate many of Risen Star and Alysheba's losses, competition, etc, as you do for EG & SS. Easy Goer and SS ran 1:53 4/5 in their Preakness; Alysheba ran 1:55 4/5, a full 2 seconds slower, or about 12 lengths slower. Easy Goer ran a 2:26 second fastest Belmont of all time; while Alysheba ran a 2:31 Belmont, a full 5 seconds slower, or about 30 lengths slower. Easy Goer also ran faster than Alysheba at almost all distances. Alysheba had a LOSING RECORD in his career. Alysheba LOST 15 of 26 total races. Alysheba LOST 7 of 10 races at age 3. Alysheba LOST 13 of 17 races at age 2 and 3. Alysheba LOST to an endless amount of horses whom YOU would denigrate, including losing to Fleeting Jet, Biloxi Blues, Soy Amigo, Gem Master, Rainbow East, Orono, Qualify, Capote, Temperate Sil, Barb's Relic, Blanco, Rakaposhi, Chart the Stars, etc. Alysheba also lost 4 times to Bet Twice. Alysheba lost to Cryptoclearance 3 times, a very good horse whom Easy Goer beat numerous times easily. SS also beat Cryptoclearance. Alysheba also lost to Cutlass Reality, Polish Navy, Lost Code, etc. Alysheba barely beat Slew City Slew, a good horse whom Easy Goer beat numerous times easily. SS also beat Slew City. Alysheba lost races by a whopping 20 lengths, a whopping 14 lengths, 6 lengths, 5 lengths numerous times, etc. Alysheba only won G1 races at 9f to 10f; Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f. Easy Goer and SS total loss margins and avg loss margins were BOTH minuscule compared to Alysheba. Easy Goer & SS ran 1:53 4/5 in their Preakness; Risen Star ran 1:56 1/5, 2 and 2/5 seconds slower, or about 14 to 15 lengths slower. Easy Goer ran his second fastest Belmont 2/5 faster, or about 3 to 4 lengths faster. Easy Goer ran every distance faster than Risen Star. Risen Star lost to Pastourelles. Risen Star also lost by 15 lengths to Success Express. Risen Star lost to a filly. Risen Star ran every distance slower than Easy Goer. Risen Star also was very unsound and very fragile and delicate, only running 11 career races and not even one after the Belmont. Even the very fragile SS ran more races. Risen Star won a whopping TWO G1 races in his career at 9.5f (very slow) and 12f. Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f. However, these are just a few of the numerous factors 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 and factors 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 (or would 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. Rankings, ratings, who's better in any way, who would beat who, etc, are all TOTALLY SUBJECTIVE.
Easy Goer ran a countless amount of these other-worldly performances in countless races; he was undeniably something special without a doubt. Easy Goer possessed super-sonic speed and displayed brilliant acceleration with great versatility. Easy Goer's brilliance, acceleration, speed, power and stamina was sublime at all distances of ground that he ran; from six and a half furlongs to a mile and a half. What Easy Goer accomplished after the Triple Crown races also was astounding.
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede).
The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede).
The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede). Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
"Easy Goer was so phenomenally and conspicuously talented, so dominant and extraordinary despite problem ankles", and his monumental and giant shows and feats at all distances, "not only invited, but insisted upon him being mentioned with greats like Secretariat,etc." West
Don't forget this performance by Easy Goer followed a grueling triple crown schedule of three solid efforts capped by a brilliant win in the Belmont Stakes. It's exceptionally rare for a horse to stay in top form over the course of the triple crown and the Travers.
I don't think we'll ever see a horse like this again. No one won the string of races he did before and there's no doubt no one will do it again. What a horse and what a rivalry with Sunday Silence. I miss those days of racing!
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that. The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede). Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
@@traviswest9388 yes, there were NO LEGAL or illegal drugs in new york back then.....lolololol. Nicky Cheato(zito)? Won 5 triple crown races, but this year is 0-47 and cant win a maiden 10 claimer at turfway? Lololol....dr steven allday? Shoot em up and they run all day(its all sport s medicine wink-wink). Its a game of cheaters and always will be.
3rd Fastest edition ever recorded of the Travers since 1864....Majority of Stakes races he would either Threaten or Break the Track or Stakes record and put up Big Speed figures and numbers...HUGE Talent
In this Travers, Easy Goer made a big move running very fast into a fast pace and made up 3 full lengths early on the far turn on a front-running speedster & multiple G1 winner Clever Trevor; then Pat wait all Day - Pat start stop start stop Day - clearly waited when he got right next to him, then drew away under a hand ride running one of the fastest Travers ever and a 123 Beyer. In EG's JCGC, Easy Goer got to the lead early down the backstretch, then maintained the lead around the far turn even with Pat wait all Day - Pat start stop start stop Day - purposely waiting & letting the multi-millionaire Cryptoclearance right alongside, still maintained the lead throughout the entire turn, then drew off under a hand ride defeating top older horses for a third time running a 122 Beyer. In the 1989 Whitney & Woodward, Easy Goer was making big moves around the turns, but Pat wait all Day - Pat start stop start stop Day - got him checked & stopped numerous times making numerous riding errors; but EG still won defeating top older horses while conceding weight and running 120 or faster Beyer speed figures. Easy Goer was also 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.
Easy Goer, what a masterpiece of a champion he was! And New York was the ONLY state in the entire country during that era that didn't allow ANY drugs and medications. New York didn't allow horses to race on ANY drugs during that era, while the rest of the country did. New York banned and prohibited all race-day drugs and medications. Only New York, among all the nation's racing jurisdictions, forbid the use of all drugs and medications on horses while racing. New York's no-medication no-drug rules during that era kept the outcomes crystal clear. New York's refusal to allow race-day drugs was a big factor in keeping New York's major races the true tests of champions in that era. Champions are born, made, based and/or trained anywhere in the world, but most American champions are still crowned having run in the major races in New York. And New York was and still is the most prominent racing circuit in North America. Belmont Park was, is and will always be "The Championship Track" because nearly every major American champion - and Hall of Famer - in racing history has competed and will compete on the racetrack. Almost all of the greatest thoroughbreds of all-time have raced on the hallowed grounds of Belmont and Saratoga Race Course. Belmont and Saratoga are the gold standard - the best in racing. Historic Saratoga Race Course - the third-oldest racetrack in the United States - is also a most revered and renowned race track. Most of the greatest horses in history also have competed at Saratoga. West-coasted based Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, "Belmont Park is by far the fairest track in America. If you’re on the best horse, you have plenty of room to navigate. The best horse almost always wins at Belmont Park." West-coast based Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, "It's not even close. Belmont is the fairest of all American tracks. The track is big, and you don't get jammed up like you do on most other tracks because of the tighter turns. And speed, tactical speed, versatility and handiness are still needed. While a horse can win with any style at Belmont, there is a false perception that in the "The Test of the Champion" Belmont Stakes - or at Belmont in general - that you can come from left field and run down tired horses in front. But the truth is you really have to be in the mix. You really need to be on or near the lead within striking distance, and/or have tactical speed and not drop too far out of it. " West-coasted based Hall of Fame rider Laffit Pincay, "Belmont Park is the best by far. Everything is perfect-it's just a wonderful track. The big wide track is great for horses." West-coast based Hall of Fame rider Bill Shoemaker, "Belmont Park, it's ideal. Belmont Park has the best track with it's fine surface and size. It's wide and wonderful. Big, wide sweeping turns and long straightaways. Riders and horses seldom bunch and jam, and a horse can run the turns as fast as the straightaways."
Had SS been ridden by Ronnie Franklin, I suppose you would say something similar, "If Sunday Silence had been ridden by Ronnie Franklin he would have died a Maiden."
Actually, New York was and still is the most prominent racing circuit in North America - best horses, still the highest purses by far, still the richest G1 stakes races, still run the most G1 stakes races, still run the most Graded Stakes races, et al. Of the over 200 horses in the Hall of Fame, ALL but 5 ran in many prestigious, historic, championship Grade I races in New York. That's 99% of ALL Hall of Fame horses. And that includes an ENDLESS amount of horses who ran from the 1980's through 2018.
Actually, New York was and still is the most prominent racing circuit in North America - best horses, still the highest purses by far, still the richest G1 stakes races, still run the most G1 stakes races, still run the most Graded Stakes races, et al. Of the over 200 horses in the Hall of Fame, ALL but 5 ran in many prestigious, historic, championship Grade I races in New York. That's 99% of ALL Hall of Fame horses. And that includes an ENDLESS amount of horses who ran from the 1980's through 2018. New York's no-medication no-drug rules during that era kept the outcomes crystal clear. New York's refusal to allow drugs during that era was a major factor in keeping New York's major races the true tests of champions. Back then, New York was alone [in the USA] and was the only state that had the courage to ban all drugs. New York was the ONLY state in the entire country during that era that didn't allow ANY drugs and medications. New York didn't allow horses to race on ANY drugs during that era, while the rest of the country did. New York banned and prohibited all race-day drugs and medications. Only New York, among all of the nation's racing jurisdictions, forbade the use of all drugs and medications on horses while racing. It was to New York's credit that the Belmont Stakes and numerous other huge, rich, historic, prestigious G1 races stood as huge obstacles to drug-dependent horses. Winning any big race on medication was/is not what racing is about; and they were commonly and legally used in all the sport's most prestigious races run outside New York. Only the drug-free medication-free races could/can be called championship events. An endless amount of connections would NOT run in drug-less NY, and the ones that did had MOST of their horses exposed when they ran in drug-free medication-free NY. SS's connections tried only once because they had to, but they refused to come back for the Travers, Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup because of the no-drug, no-medication rules in NY. They also were angered that their crooked controversial veterinarian Alex Harthill was not licensed in New York and prohibited from practicing. Most of these trainers decisions not to run was influenced mostly by New York's no-medication rules more than anything else. The connections of many many top horses, including Summer Squall, Best Pal, Dance Smartly, Hollywood Wildcat, Tight Spot, Paseana, Blushing John, Lost Code, Desert Wine, Snow Chief, Wild Again, Tank's Prospect, Skywalker, King Glorious, Spend a Buck, Great Communicator, Infinidad, Capote, Sunny's Halo, Gate Dancer, The Wicked North, Suave Prospect, Tejano Run, Lil E. Tee, et al, freely admitted that their horses could not compete in top company without the drugs and medications, and never [or very rarely] ran them in the prominent, illustrious races in drug free New York. In doing that, they came clean with the fans, bettors, breeders, et al. These horses trainers and connections would pass up these drug free races - and if they ran in them they were often exposed for what they were by not running well and/or getting beaten decisively - if that was not already apparent from them having skipped [and/or not run well and/or getting beaten decisively] most of these drug free, illustrious Grade 1 races with huge purses. Hall of Fame Champions are born, made, based and/or trained anywhere in the world, but most American Hall of Fame champions are still crowned having run in the major races in New York. And New York was and still is the most prominent racing circuit in North America - best horses, highest purses by far, richest G1 stakes races, most G1 stakes races, et al. Belmont Park was, is and will always be "The Championship Track" because nearly every major American champion - and Hall of Famer - in racing history has competed on the racetrack [ditto Saratoga], and because it's by far the fairest with the best horse mostly always winning. West-coast based Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens says, "Belmont Park is by far the fairest track in America. If you’re on the best horse, you have plenty of room to navigate. The best horse almost always wins at Belmont Park." West-coast based Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas says, "It's not even close. Belmont is the fairest of all American tracks. The track is big, and you don't get jammed up like you do on most other tracks because of the tighter turns. And speed, tactical speed, versatility and handiness are still needed at Belmont Park. While a horse can win with any style at Belmont, there is a false perception that in the "The Test of the Champion" Belmont Stakes - or at Belmont in general - that you can come from left field and run down tired horses in front. But the truth is you really have to be in the mix and show speed and tactical speed. You really need to be on or near the lead within striking distance, and/or have tactical speed and not drop too far out of it." West-coast based Hall of Fame rider Laffit Pincay says, "Belmont Park is the best by far. Everything is perfect-it's just a wonderful track. The big wide track is great for horses." West-coast based Hall of Fame rider Bill Shoemaker, "Belmont Park, it's ideal. Belmont Park has the best track with it's fine surface and size. It's wide and wonderful. Big, wide sweeping turns and long straightaways. Riders and horses seldom bunch and jam, and a horse can run the turns as fast as the straightaways."
As Time passes.. people are starting to realize how phenomenal this horse really was...just look at his current ranking on Horse Racing Nation web page... Phenom!
EG was a monster. I almost believe any 5lb bug who allowed him to run his own race would have done better than some of the rides Day gave him. I also agree with the comment EG seems not to take it seriously at times. Like he's looking for competition and loafing. You really saw his stride explode when he ran against SS though. It was incredible. This field wasn't much for him other than a serious workout.
"Easy Goer was a natural, with his strongly defined, chiseled features, luminescent red coat, and with the force of his bearing and power in his performances. Easy Goer would win with uncommon authority, displaying unbridled power and acceleration. Easy Goer was an explosive, powerful bolt who accelerated past horses instantly with a huge, fluid, ground-swallowing stride, the ground a blur beneath his hooves, leaving horses behind in widening wakes while appearing to make only fleeting contact with the dirt. Easy Goer was a red blur who whooshed by horses like a Ferrari passing tricycles, defying gravity and physics with an aristocratic nonchalance; an explosion of will and determination that he routinely unveiled with immense ability which brought him to the Hall of Fame, a shrine which is the ultimate honor for any and every Thoroughbred. Since the genesis of the breed, no Thoroughbred has fun a faster mile than Easy Goer as a three-year-old, while he came within only one-fifth of Dr. Fager's hallowed world-record; and only one horse, Secretariat, has run a faster mile-and-a-half Test-of-the-Champion Belmont Stakes than Easy Goer. Easy Goer also is the only horse in racing history to win the Belmont, Whitney, Travers, Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup and the only 3-year-old to win the Whitney, Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup while defeating older horses in the latter three. Easy Goer is one of only two horses to win the Champagne, Belmont, and Travers. He is also one of only two horses to notch a Travers, Whitney and Belmont Stakes triple, and the only one to do so in the same year. Additionally, he is one of only five horses to tally a Whitney-Travers double in the same year. Since 1919, Easy Goer is one of only ten horses to sweep the Belmont, Travers and Jockey Club Gold Cup. Since 1973, Easy Goer is one of only seven horses that have won three consecutive Grade I races longer than 1 1/8 miles on dirt; with the other six being Triple Crown winners Affirmed, Seattle Slew, Secretariat, American Pharoah, as well as Alysheba and Gentlemen. Thus Easy Goer ran a series of victories only rarely interrupted in a few races by another great Hall of Fame rival in Sunday Silence, and in the unique kind of mud found at Churchill Downs; with his largest margin of defeat in his entire career being only two and a half lengths. Even Easy Goer's narrow defeats did nothing to dispel the notion that Easy Goer was one of the best of all-time; the brilliance in his performances were worthy of only a highly special racehorse. Even his narrow losses were resounding; there was never any quit in Easy Goer. Even certifiable legends are allowed some transgressions and losses, and Easy Goer would summon up enough class and heart even in his infrequent, tight losses. He always ran well and was right there even in his close defeats." - In Easy Goer's Hall of Fame induction article in BloodHorse magazine. Former DRF chairman Steven Crist: "Even as the racing world mourns the death of Secretariat, it will turn its attention tomorrow to the colt Easy Goer, who is on the verge of completing the most impressive 3-year-old campaign since Secretariat's 1973 Triple Crown season. He lost the Derby by two and a half lengths on a muddy track and the Preakness by inches, two races that Secretariat won, but he has already won three races Secretariat lost by combined margins of 9 and a half lengths as a 3-year-old: the Wood Memorial, the Whitney Handicap against older and the Woodward Handicap vs elders. His burgeoning list of racing triumphs in the Belmont, Whitney beating older horses, Travers, Woodward beating elders again, and Jockey Club Gold Cup defeating older again, is arguably the most impressive campaign by a 3-year-old since Secretariat's Triple Crown season in 1973. With that super-impressive list of successive triumphs, Easy Goer's credentials for ranking among the sport's greatest horses is certain. This leaves Easy Goer looking like what he really is: one of the best horses racegoers have had the pleasure to watch, and a worthy addition to the sport's Hall of Fame." Jay Hovdey, of the DRF: "In days of yore, they called this the "handicap" division, and often a 3-year-old would earn the title by dominating his elders. Prior to 1971 the American Champion Older Male Horse award was referred to as "Champion Handicap Male Horse." It was open to any horse ages three years old and up, and this award was given to some all time great champions at the age of three, such as Citation, Buckpasser, Damascus, Arts and Letters and Sword Dancer. Each reduced the older horses to mere spear carriers in major handicap races. This is a perfect year (1989) to reinstate the Champion Handicap Male category as it was, for no horse deserves it more than Easy Goer. The three-year-old Easy Goer conceded weight on scale while defeating top older horses in both the Whitney (G1) and Woodward (G1) Handicaps; defeated leading older horses a third time in the weight-for-age mile-and-a-half Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1); and beat prominent older horses again in the weight-for-age Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). This is the ideal year to reinstitute the Champion Handicap Male category as it was, for no horse merits it more than Easy Goer." Former DRF racing writer Ed Fountaine: "The Triple Crown campaign takes a savage toll. After the Belmont Stakes, even great champions like Seattle Slew, Affirmed and Silver Charm took months to recover. That’s why the post-Triple Crown exploits of Easy Goer are so remarkable."
Noor had Citation's 'ticket' as Noor beat Citation in 4 of 5 races. Beau Purple had Kelso's ticket as Beau Purple beat Kelso in 3 of 4 races. Big Spruce had Forego's ticket as Big Spruce beat Forego in 2 of 3 races. An endless amount of many more Hall of Fame champion's were tied or behind on the scoreboard (tickets), including Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua, John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many others. Who was 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. 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.
It was Andrew Beyer who stated that from a speed performances standpoint, that Easy Goer ran even better and faster than Seattle Slew,Affirmed and Bid, at the ages of two and three years old, with his amazing performances. And only ran a few times at the ages of four, but still ran ten furlongs in near track record time of two minutes flat.
The Drug-free Eclipse Award Champion & Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer will always be the Drug-Free Eclipse Award Champion and Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion, and the most coveted honor and prize, by far, is being inducted in the Hall of Fame, and Easy Goer did it drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence needed and was given performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to barely beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. When ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs (and without ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill) in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well - ss was Crushed by the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer. And as importantly ss's veterinarian Alex Harthill fully voluntarily admitted that he gave illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; but Harthill could NOT do so in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs - and as importantly banned the illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Triple Crown winner Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Triple Crown winner Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Forego 1; Wajima 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Hall of Famer Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Eclipse Award Champion Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Eclipse Award Champion Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion Kotashaan 1; and an endless amount of others. The Classic Distance for the whole world is 12f, but Easy Goer won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less time and rest between races and ran many more career races; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f with much more time and rest between races and ran far less career races. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's body of work & career accomplishments are far superior to ss's as well. The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned the illegal criminal veterinarian of sunday silence Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses]. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-dependent horses like ss; and these horses, like ss, and many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drug drug-free races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug drug-free races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. And, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs and banned Alex Harthill as well. New York by far ran/runs the most Prestigious, Championship G1 races in the USA with by far the highest purse money in the country; NY was/is by far the best racing circuit in the USA; champions are crowned and championships are won on the Championship Tracks in New York - they are by far the fairest tracks in the USA in New York, with Belmont Park being by far the fairest of them all, because they are all larger tracks with large, sweeping turns where horses run as fast around the bigger turns as they do on straightaways - (although I will note all these larger tracks in and out of NY with circumferences larger than a mile - Saratoga, Arlington, Hollywood, Hialeah, Aqueduct, Laurel, Woodbine, Atlantic City, Keeneland, Ellis, Colonial, Kentucky Downs, and the new Gulfstream); NY was and still is the Center of Racing in the USA; and most importantly, there are over 200 horses in the Hall of Fame and no matter where they were/are/will be based, 99% of them ran/run/will run in NY for the reasons listed above!!
"The Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer was a natural, with his strongly defined, chiseled features, luminescent red coat, and with the force of his bearing and power in his performances. Easy Goer would win with uncommon authority, displaying unbridled power and acceleration. Easy Goer was an explosive, powerful bolt who accelerated past horses instantly with a huge, fluid, ground-swallowing stride, the ground a blur beneath his hooves, leaving horses behind in widening wakes while appearing to make only fleeting contact with the dirt. Easy Goer was a red blur who whooshed by horses like a Ferrari passing tricycles, defying gravity and physics with an aristocratic nonchalance; an explosion of will and determination that he routinely unveiled with immense ability which brought him to the Hall of Fame, a shrine which is the ultimate honor for any and every Thoroughbred. Since the genesis of the breed, no Thoroughbred has fun a faster mile than Easy Goer as a three-year-old, while he came within only one-fifth of Dr. Fager's hallowed world-record; and only one horse, Secretariat, has run a faster mile-and-a-half Test-of-the-Champion Belmont Stakes than Easy Goer. Easy Goer also ran some of the fastest performances of all-time in the Travers, Whitney, Suburban and Champagne Stakes races. Even Easy Goer's few narrow defeats did nothing to dispel the notion that Easy Goer was one of the best of all-time; the brilliance in his performances were worthy of only a highly special racehorse. Even his scarce, slim losses were resounding; there was never any quit in Easy Goer. Even certifiable legends are allowed some transgressions and losses, and Easy Goer would summon up enough class, courage and heart even in his infrequent, tight losses. He always ran well and was right there even in his close defeats." - In Easy Goer's Hall of Fame induction article in BloodHorse magazine.
Ben Judah If you can get a copy Of the form lookup the Preakness chart from that day and that race it says in mid/stretch easy goer savaged the closest horse Sunday silence that means they were so.close well you have the picture eAsy goer finishes second in what was the best ever and I have been to 35 of them he was a new Yorker I saw him win wood at Aqueduct the Belmont At Belmont and the travers at the spa
True. Jay Hovdey made valid, good point: "Without SS, Easy Goer would have been crowned with statues right alongside Man O' War, Secretariat, Citation. Without Easy Goer, SS didn't have the overall historical career and overall historical campaign like Easy Goer." Both would have been Triple Crown champions with only history as a benchmark.
Writer on the coastJay Hovdey spoke the truth that SS was given performance enhancing drugs by CHARLIES BUDDY VET. You know it you know his Vet. Sickening ignoring the truth. Spit it out all these years later. DISGRACEFUL.
Beating clever trevor by 2 lengths was an all time performance? Hanging vs sunday silence for 3rd time in BC was all time performance?losing the 88 BC juvenile vs the most ATRICIOUS field of all time was an all time performance? Nope...
Travis west. You are so dumb. The drug free hall of fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile ever run by 3yo in 1:32 2/5 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record while smashing Secretariats record at 8f in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned drugs (plus as importantly also banned as criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill), the 2nd fastest Test of the Champion Belmont stakes behind only Secretariat at 12f, right on 6.5f record at age 2, the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes at 8f beating Is it true numerous times, 2/5 of a second off the Whitney record at 9f, the 3rd Fastest Travers of all time at 10f just a few ticks off the 10f record, 3/5 of a second off 10f record in the Suburban at 10f, and his times at all distances and 120 to 126 speed figures dwarf the drug dependent and criminal drugger veterinarian dependent Sunday silence. The drug dependent and criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill couldn't win and got demolished when he was forced to run drug free without any drugs and without his criminal cheater veterinarian alex harthill. The criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill admitted to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs. The drug dependent and criminal cheater veterinarian alex harthill dependent Sunday silence also lost 4 races on bigger tracks with a larger circumference than a mile. Plus EG won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with no drugs running many more races with much less rest and time between races. The drug dependent and criminal cheater veterinarian alex harthill dependent ss could only win G1 races at 9f to 10f with drugs and with much more rest and time between races. Case closed.
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that. The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede). Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
Tom LaMarra: "The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful CHESTNUT frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME."
Easy Goer-one of the true all time great, once in a lifetime horses who combined blistering,record speed at a mile and at shorter distances, with a truly supreme and genuinely brilliant stamina at the longer and classic distances.
"Easy Goer was a Secretariat emulator. A big,powerful chestnut, physically in the mold of Secretariat. His brilliant display of speed in the record mile in 1:32:2 & at shorter distances. His overpowering second fastest Belmont of all time, Travers & Champagne,etc. His explosive & extraordinary accelerations & dashes out of trouble in the Whitney & Woodward. Both many facile wins,both with a penchant for large winning margins & extremely speedy clockings. Both mortal.Phenomenal performances."
Easy Goer was the Last none MEDICATED, WITHOUT LASIX horse to be a tremedous champion, I am glad we are going back to those day were horses ran the way the creator build the Thoroughbred to do, which is run NATURALLY and the last true one was EASY GOER!!
Very true, Easy Goer's record three year old mile of all time in 1:32 just a tick off Dr. Fager's world record and crushing Secretariat's record by a full second,and his monster,second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time are the two greatest performances by any horse since Bid in 1980. And Easy Goer's Whitney(overcoming Day's despicable riding again) and his Travers are truly up there with those two.
The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Triple Crown winner Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Triple Crown winner Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Forego 1; Wajima 2, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Hall of Famer Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Eclipse Award Champion Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Eclipse Award Champion Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion Kotashaan 1; and an endless amount of others. And it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss - the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, 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 performance enhancing drugs that he gave his horses were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than aspirin bute), Banamine (50 times more powerful than aspirin bute) and Sublimaze (infinitely more powerful than aspirin bute). The drugs Etorphine and Sublimaze are drugs that gave/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.
Clevor Trevor just celebrated his 30th birthday last week. A very under rated horse who was training second to none when The Travers was run. Easy Goer getting by him was hardly easy.
I was on the East Coast, when they ran that race, the Clockers were saying to folks, hey Clever Trevor can run, it was fun to see a horse that started his career at Blue Ribbon downs, do so well that day.
Easy Goer, a phenom, just phenomenal performance after phenomenal performance he unleashed, time after time, in his storied career, until his terribly,problematic ankles really caught up to him. Phenomenal champion
William Leggett of the Thoroughbred Times made a great point & it's hard to argue: "Easy Goer was a superhorse, just bad timing for a few of his narrow defeats. Grace & speed &brilliant acceleration blended with power & stamina in as fine an imitation of Secretariat as we can recall." Secretariat(we know what he won) lost 3 big races(Whitney,Woodward&Wood Memorial) at 3. Easy Goer won(we know the 3 he lost) the Whitney,Woodward,Wood Memorial,Travers,Belmont,JCGC,etc. Timing is everything
"Easy Goer, the big,powerful horse with many similarities to Secretariat apparent. He looked the image of a Secretariat or a Swaps. Both many facile wins, both mortal & both not perfect. Both with a penchant for large winning margins & extremely speedy clockings. Both superb displays of speed, explosive & extraordinary accelerations & overpowering stamina." Ed Bowen
A colossal beast is right Gberet83. Easy Goer, just colossal performance after colossal performance in his career, and he was a colossal beast at all distances of ground.
"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 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 & still only won by the narrowest of margins. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was better than the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer crushed the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. New York was the only state in the entire country during that era which banned all drugs, & also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. Enough said.
the handsomest boy ever. rest in peace sweet pretty powerful boy. if pat day could ride one step no one would ever have touched you. we all miss you big strong handsome boy.
@@sigscorpion9275 remember the suffering Sunday Silence went thru for years the amount of pain he endured from the disease he had that a good chance brought on after four years of narcotic poison put in his bloodstream to benefit human pigs. Effecting his metabolism as well as triggering diseases over the years to arise. Slobber for all the suffering he went thru because the new owners wanted him to breed when he had continuos debilitating pain instead of mercifully putting him down. Keeping him alive and SUFFERING. Also thanks to Charlie no cred, his friend the Vet criminal HARTHILL for injecting him for four years of narcotic poisons that triggered his painful demise. SIG THE PIG
Pat Day all of us Easy Goer fans would like to thank you for Closing too late as the overwhelming 1-2 favorite in the 1989 Classic and missing by a Neck...You sure Knew how to lose close races aboard the Best Horse in the race
joe chrow No doubt Easy Goer was the best horse and no doubt he was the better horse. Much like Citation losing 4 of 5 to Noor, but Citation was better. Much like Kelso losing 3 of 4 to Beau Purple, but Kelso was better. Much like Shuvee losing 4 of 5 races to Gallant Bloom, but Shuvee was better. Much like Forego losing 2 of 3 to Big Spruce, but Forego was better. Much like Dr Fager losing 2 of 4 to Damascus, but Dr Fager was better. Much like John Henry losing 4 of 4 to Cabrini Green, but John Henry was better. Much like John Henry losing 3 of 3 to Darby Creek Road, but John Henry was better. Much like Pleasant Colony losing 3 of 4 to Akureyri, but Pleasant Colony was better. Much like Skip Away losing 4 of 6 races to Formal Gold, but Skip Away was better. Much like so many others, an infinite amount of others.
joe chrow No doubt Easy Goer was the best horse and no doubt he was the better horse. Much like Citation losing 4 of 5 to Noor, but Citation was better. Much like Kelso losing 3 of 4 to Beau Purple, but Kelso was better. Much like Shuvee losing 4 of 5 races to Gallant Bloom, but Shuvee was better. Much like Forego losing 2 of 3 to Big Spruce, but Forego was better. Much like Dr Fager losing 2 of 4 to Damascus, but Dr Fager was better. Much like John Henry losing 4 of 4 to Cabrini Green, but John Henry was better. Much like John Henry losing 3 of 3 to Darby Creek Road, but John Henry was better. Much like Pleasant Colony losing 3 of 4 to Akureyri, but Pleasant Colony was better. Much like Skip Away losing 4 of 6 races to Formal Gold, but Skip Away was better. Much like so many others, an infinite amount of others.
@Insert Name Noor won 4 of 5 races over your Citation, and Noor was the best horse over Citation in all 4 races he beat him in, and Noor was the better horse. Beau Purple won 3 of 4 races over your Kelso (vast majority of major wins were in NY and you are a total hypocrite with all of your BLAH BLAH excuses for so many other horses), and Beau Purple was the best horse in all 3 races he beat him in, and Beau Purple was the better horse. Ditto Big Spruce beat your Forego (ALL of his wins were in NY and FL like EG, and lost ALL of his races outside NY & FL) in 2 of 3 races. Ditto Dr Fager 2/Damascus 2, Gallant Bloom4/Shuvee 1, Formal Gold 4/Skip Away 2, Billy Kelly 8/Sir Barton 4, Akureyri 3/Pleasant Colony 1, Cabrini Green 4/John Henry 0, Darby Creek Road 3/John Henry 0, Summer Squall 4/Unbridled 2, and an endless amount of others.
You are the total hypocrite with so many BLAH BLAH excuses for other horses flaunting your hypocrisy. Funny how you write so many positives (and NO NEGATIVES) about so many great horses and give them so many BLAH BLAH EXCUSES; ALL EXCEPT EASY GOER, including Citation, Kelso, Secretariat, Swaps, Nashua, Damascus (so it's perfectly ok for you to think Damascus was better than Dr Fager, yet it's not perfectly ok for others to think Easy Goer was better than SS? You are a total hypocrite), Dr Fager (yet you can rave with so many positives about both rivals Damascus and Dr Fager, yet you can't and don't rave with so many positives about BOTH rivals, including Easy Goer? You are a total hypocrite), Bold Ruler, Tom Fool, Native Dancer, Coaltown, Whirlaway, Sunday Silence, Spectacular Bid, Affirmed, Seattle Slew, Round Table, Forego etc. I quote you and you are a total hypocrite with all of your BLAH BLAH excuses for so many other horses: "With races won I look at it this way. Any horse under 50% has to be thrown out when you consider the best of all time, because they don’t even win 50% (what?). But even if you have a very inconsistent horse who runs the fastest races 51 times, but loses 49, they still beat every horse alive more than half the time, which would make them better (better? who's better is totally subjective and you know it). Cy will always be my fave as well. And even though his final winning percentage was 71% (why, Easy Goer's winning % was similar), it was hard to beat him in those 71% races (again, similar to Easy Goer). I don’t think a 75% win percentage for sec is too terrible considering what his owner and trainer (what BLAH BLAH excuses you total hypocrite) put him through (BLAH, BLAH with all your fucking excuses you total hypocrite). I was at those races and all those excuses (BLAH BLAH again with all your fucking excuses and you are a total hypocrite) about him are completely valid (BLAH BLAH again with all your fucking excuses you total hypocrite). He looked terrible (BLAH BLAH again and again and again) in the paddock. But was pretty unbeatable (maybe something positive about Easy Goer could have been mentioned, especially since you are commenting on an Easy Goer Gotham record video comment thread) in those 9 races he won. And if 75% is bad, then you have to throw kelso (Vast majority of his wins in NY like EG you fucking total hypocrite) out as the best since he had 62% lifetime win percentage, which I don’t think is right. Even though kelso lost a lot, he was hard to beat when he was on, which is important (must not be important at all for Easy Goer). I think some losses (more of your endless BLAH BLAH excuses you total hypocrite), probably about 10 (10? That beats all the excuses and losses of both Sec & EG) of Cy’s shouldn’t be pitted on the horse, but rather the connections (BLAH BLAH with your fuckin excuses you total hypocrite). For Cy, Warren Wright for being millionaire hungry (BLAH BLAH excuses). Tom Fool (vast majority of wins in NY too) needed to develop a little more. Dang, was he a superstar. With who’s the best is everyone always looks at a category (like yourself you hypocrite) they think shows it (you do this too you hypocrite), then sticks to that (you again you hypocrite), while usually ignoring (you again you hypocrite) others. That’s why arguments can get kinda ugly. You’ve gotta look at everything, times, wins, competition faced, all of it (I can add drugs, G1 wins at various distances, size of tracks, human connections, and an endless amount of others). And that can be very difficult (must not be for you you hypocrite). I saw forego(ONLY won in NY and FL like EG you hypocrite) a lot as well. He looked very different from kelso. But still a great horse (Forego ONLY won in NY and Florida just like Easy Goer you hypocrite)." What a total hypocrite you are, and you are filled with an endless amount of BLAH BLAH EXCUSES for so many other horses. You are the biggest hypocrite BLAH BLAH excuse maker. Those are all entirely different horses and scenarios that have nothing to do with any others. They are called red herrings. Look it up, it’s a logical fallacy. But, hey, that’s one of the few things you’re actually good at, using logical fallacies. BLAH BLAH this and that excuse after excuse. BLAH BLAH more excuses. Keep flaunting your hypocrisy.
You are the total hypocrite with so many BLAH BLAH excuses for other horses flaunting your hypocrisy. Funny how you write so many positives (and NO NEGATIVES) about so many great horses and give them so many BLAH BLAH EXCUSES; ALL EXCEPT EASY GOER, including Citation, Kelso, Secretariat, Swaps, Nashua, Damascus (so it's perfectly ok for you to think Damascus was better than Dr Fager, yet it's not perfectly ok for others to think Easy Goer was better than SS? You are a total hypocrite), Dr Fager (yet you can rave with so many positives about both rivals Damascus and Dr Fager, yet you can't and don't rave with so many positives about BOTH rivals, including Easy Goer? You are a total hypocrite), Bold Ruler, Tom Fool, Native Dancer, Coaltown, Whirlaway, Sunday Silence, Spectacular Bid, Affirmed, Seattle Slew, Round Table, Forego etc. I quote you and you are a total hypocrite with all of your BLAH BLAH excuses for so many other horses: "With races won I look at it this way. Any horse under 50% has to be thrown out when you consider the best of all time, because they don’t even win 50% (what?). But even if you have a very inconsistent horse who runs the fastest races 51 times, but loses 49, they still beat every horse alive more than half the time, which would make them better (better? who's better is totally subjective and you know it). Cy will always be my fave as well. And even though his final winning percentage was 71% (why, Easy Goer's winning % was similar), it was hard to beat him in those 71% races (again, similar to Easy Goer). I don’t think a 75% win percentage for sec is too terrible considering what his owner and trainer (what BLAH BLAH excuses you total hypocrite) put him through (BLAH, BLAH with all your fucking excuses you total hypocrite). I was at those races and all those excuses (BLAH BLAH again with all your fucking excuses and you are a total hypocrite) about him are completely valid (BLAH BLAH again with all your fucking excuses you total hypocrite). He looked terrible (BLAH BLAH again and again and again) in the paddock. But was pretty unbeatable (maybe something positive about Easy Goer could have been mentioned, especially since you are commenting on an Easy Goer Gotham record video comment thread) in those 9 races he won. And if 75% is bad, then you have to throw kelso (Vast majority of his wins in NY like EG you fucking total hypocrite) out as the best since he had 62% lifetime win percentage, which I don’t think is right. Even though kelso lost a lot, he was hard to beat when he was on, which is important (must not be important at all for Easy Goer). I think some losses (more of your endless BLAH BLAH excuses you total hypocrite), probably about 10 (10? That beats all the excuses and losses of both Sec & EG) of Cy’s shouldn’t be pitted on the horse, but rather the connections (BLAH BLAH with your fuckin excuses you total hypocrite). For Cy, Warren Wright for being millionaire hungry (BLAH BLAH excuses). Tom Fool (vast majority of wins in NY too) needed to develop a little more. Dang, was he a superstar. With who’s the best is everyone always looks at a category (like yourself you hypocrite) they think shows it (you do this too you hypocrite), then sticks to that (you again you hypocrite), while usually ignoring (you again you hypocrite) others. That’s why arguments can get kinda ugly. You’ve gotta look at everything, times, wins, competition faced, all of it (I can add drugs, G1 wins at various distances, size of tracks, human connections, and an endless amount of others). And that can be very difficult (must not be for you you hypocrite). I saw forego(ONLY won in NY and FL like EG you hypocrite) a lot as well. He looked very different from kelso. But still a great horse (Forego ONLY won in NY and Florida just like Easy Goer you hypocrite)." What a total hypocrite you are, and you are filled with an endless amount of BLAH BLAH EXCUSES for so many other horses. You are the biggest hypocrite BLAH BLAH excuse maker. Those are all entirely different horses and scenarios that have nothing to do with any others. They are called red herrings. Look it up, it’s a logical fallacy. But, hey, that’s one of the few things you’re actually good at, using logical fallacies. BLAH BLAH this and that excuse after excuse. BLAH BLAH more excuses. Keep flaunting your hypocrisy.
Easy Goer, one of the rare all time great Hall of Fame champions that combined blistering,record speed at a mile and shorter distances(fastest three year old mile of all time in 1:32,near track record at 6.5f at two,fastest 7f of the yr in Florida,among the top 5 fastest Champagnes of all time at 8f) with a thoroughly supreme stamina to run the second fastest Belmont of all time,and all distances in between supreme(near track records in Whitney at 9f,Travers at 10f & Suburban at 10f).
1989 HOY and the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Sunday Silence will always be the Drug-Free Test of the Champion (The Classic Distance for the whole world) winner; the most coveted prize is being the 1989 Horse of the year and Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion in the Hall of Fame and beat Easy Goer 3 out of 4 times
the classic distance for the whole world is 1 1/2m; The Test of the Champion is the Belmont Stakes which was run in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill as well - and ss got obliterated in it by the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer; ss was NOT drug-free as he ran every race in his entire very short career with drugs, except only one; and the most coveted prize and honor, by far, is being inducted in the Hall of Fame, but Easy Goer did so running drug-free without any ped drugs, while ss did so with ped drugs and his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill
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. 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. There was also the Belmont 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 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 met those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful chestnut frame and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame racing career, and he will always be mentioned in the same breath with the greatest of all time." B.H.
Easy Goer had just towering and overwhelming performance after towering, overwhelming performance and he indeed did unleash them at all distances. Certainly one of the greatest thoroughbreds of all time.
"Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies & debates about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran of DRF, LA Times & Newsday.
It's really kind of ironic if you think about it? Every time that Pat Day rode Easy Goer that Sunday Silence wasn't involved in the field? He looked like he was born to ride the horse. But every time Day rode Easy Goer with Sunday Silence contesting, he always managed to give Easy Goer the most horrendous rides? That's not a knock whatsoever at Sunday Silence either. No doubt he was a class horse, also. But Day's worst rides on Easy Goer were always in the races that involved Sunday Silence. JMO
@GBeret83 There is no doubt in my mind that EG was a superior talent to SS (which is saying a lot because SS was a great horse), but the horse has no control over how/where he is trained, what conditions he races on, how he is ridden, how many horses he races against., and from what track position he starts. That said, I think many would agree that bad racing strategy/tactics cost EG three very high profile races, and an unqualified claim of being a legend.
I would have to agree. I believe Easy Goer had more raw talent and raw ability than any horse since Secretariat, and he ran many colossal gigantic performances at every distance he ran. Though I agree with the many bad riding/training mistakes,racing strategy/tactics,etc, SS gets immense credit for what he was able to do also vs. a freak like Easy Goer.
Totally wrong Travis West. It was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
So true. Secretariat lost to Angle Light, Onion, Prove Out, Herbull, Fleet n royal and master achiever. Kelso lost 3 of 4 to beau purple. Citation lost 4 of 5 to Noor. John Henry lost 4 of 4 to cabrini green. John Henry lost 3 of 3 to Darby creek rd. Shuvee lost 4 of 5 to gallant bloom. Dr fager lost 2 of 4 to Damascus. Forego lost 2 of 3 to big spruce. Sir Barton lost 8 of 12 to Billy kelly. Skip away lost 4 of 6 to formal gold. Pleasant colony lost 3 of 4 to akureyri. Unbridled lost 4 of 6 to summer squall. The list is endless
Another performance where pat day made many moves on Easy Goer during a race and still won easily..Pat Day treated Easy Goer like a sports car , not a horse..and it cost Easy Goer a few big races..Pat Day had ZERO respect for Sunday Silence..He thought he could do whatever he wanted with Easy Goer in a race..Most of the time it didnt cost him..Pat Day would make an average of 3 moves per race with easy goer and easy goer would still win big without ever feeling the whip..Easy Goer was that talented..but Pat Day was too spoiled with Easy Goer and it cost Easy Goer at possibly the best horse racing has ever seen..Easy Goer still put on a 2-3 yr old campaign that cannot be TOUCHED...Just wish Easy Goer had a different jockey
Amen-- Easy Goer should have had the 89 Preakness & Breeders Cup-- SS had the better jockey.. The 89 BCup ticks me off to this day-- Easy Goer had so much left in the tank,, PDay waited FOREVER to hit the gas
I agree with you. He costed our boy accolades that will stand the test of time and he still achieved greatness that stands the test of time! We love you Easy Goer!
TJ Strong I agree with you - in the Preakness he got EG out of position and pinned up against the rail and in BCC just waited way too long to pull the trigger. I think we came from 12 lengths back and lost by a neck. Cmon dude! I miss Easy Goer!!
I would've choked Pat Day out if I ever ran into him back then. It was criminal how he rode Easy Goer. Phipps and McGaughey sticking with Day pissed me off to no end. Easy Goer was still able to overcome a horrible jockey to be one of the best race horses ever.
"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. 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 & debates about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran of DRF, Newsday & LA Times.
Easy Goer was far superior. EG ran every distance faster. Even the trainer John Veitch said, "Easy Goer had far more weapons & was far more versatile than his sire. Easy Goer was much more in the league of his grandfather Buckpasser, great grandfather Tom Fool, his other great grandfather Native Dancer, & his great great grandfather Man o' War." EG ran every distance faster, or as fast as any & all the greats except for Secretariat (who still lost 3 big races by a combined 10 lengths at age 3). Easy Goer even ran faster than his great great grandfather Man O' War (ages 2 & 3), his great grandfather Native Dancer (ditto), Citation (ditto), Slew, Affirmed, Aly, Bid (at age 3), his grandfather Buckpasser, his great grandfather Tom Fool, Dr Fager (at ages 2 & 3), Damascus (at ages 2 & 3), Swaps, Nashua, etc. Easy Goer even ran faster at 1 mile in 1:32 than Secretariat, & as fast at 9f in 1:45 & change. Easy Goer ran in the Top 5 Fastest all-time runnings of numerous historic, prestigious, championship Drug-Free G1 races at all distances. Easy Goer will always be mentioned in the same breath with the greatest of all time, & his scoreboard with the drug-reliant & criminal doper juicer veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent ss means as much or as little as Citation (Lost 4 of 5 to Noor), Kelso (Lost 3 of 4 to Beau Purple), Forego (Lost 2 of 3 to Big Spruce), Dr Fager (lost 2 of 4 to Damascus), Pleasant Colony (lost 3 of 4 to Akureyri), Skip Away (lost 4 of 6 to Formal Gold), Shuvee (lost 4 of 5 to Gallant Bloom), & an an endless amount of other greats.
The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion is Easy Goer. The Drug-free Eclipse Award Champion & Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer will always be the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion, and the most coveted honor and prize, by far, is being inducted in the Hall of Fame, and Easy Goer did it drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's career accomplishments and body of work were far superior to the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs at all, and the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer Obliterated the drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs (and, as importantly, also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well; Harthill was 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 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. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence got obliterated when he couldn't get all of his performance enhancing drugs from his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs (and also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! The drug-reliant & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence NEEDED EVERYTHING in his favor to beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence LOST 4 RACES on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than a mile (including ss having a LOSING RECORD while LOSING 3 races at his larger HOME track at the bigger circumferenced Hollywood Park track). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his track with him, ss is just that horse! Meanwhile, the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won Drug-free G1's at 7f, 1 mile, 1 1/8m, 1 1/4m & 1 1/2m on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) drug-free with much less rest and time between races and ran far more races with faster times at all distances and ran far superior speed figures and far superior performance ratings; while the drug-dependent and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence only won G1's with performance enhancing drugs and his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill and only at 9f to 10f only with performance enhancing drugs and only on small 8f sized tracks and with much more rest and time between races and ran far less races even with performance enhancing drugs. Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! Talk about a horse that needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him, ss is just that horse. The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Triple Crown winner Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Hall of Fame Champion & 5 time HOY Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Triple Crown winner Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Hall of Fame Champion & 3 time HOY Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, Hall of Fame Champion & 2 time HOY John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, Hall of Fame Champion & 2 time HOY John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Eclipse Award Champion Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Eclipse Award Champion Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion Kotashaan 1; and an endless amount of others. The Classic Distance for the whole world is 12f, but Easy Goer won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less time and rest between races and ran many more career races; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f with much more time and rest between races and ran far less career races. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's body of work & career accomplishments are far superior to ss's as well!
Sunday Silence met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful chestnut frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME
New York was the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. When a "horse carries his home track everywhere he went", he runs great on all tracks, not just his "home track" . 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"; so much for that. EG actually lost two races by the narrowest of margins and while conceding a large amount of weight on his "home track". So much for that. New York by far ran/runs the most Prestigious, Championship G1 races in the USA with the highest purses 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 (they are by far the fairest tracks in the USA because they are all larger tracks with large, sweeping turns where horses run as fast around the bigger turns as they do on straightaways) in New York; 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 based, 99% of them ran/will run in NY for the reasons listed above. Having acknowledged these facts, EG won on all 3 sized tracks - 8f, 9f and 12f sized tracks; EG won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less rest and time between races and ran many more career races. The drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant SS gets Destroyed by 8 widening lengths in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs - and, as importantly, banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss LOSES a GRADE 2 race to the drug-reliant Prized; when Prized is forced to run drug-free in the only state in the whole country at the time which prohibited all drugs, Prized gets crushed by 25 lengths by the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer. SS also LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than a mile. SS only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f on small 8f sized tracks with much more rest and time between races and ran far less career races. SS was a horse who needed drugs, needed his illegal criminal vet, and needed his small one size 8f track. 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 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 also with a DISMAL record LOSING 4 races on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f; 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 small 8f sized tracks) race horse and that is all he really was.
New York was the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. When a "horse carries his home track everywhere he went", he runs great on all tracks, not just his "home track" . 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"; so much for that. EG actually lost two races by the narrowest of margins and while conceding a large amount of weight on his "home track". So much for that. New York by far ran/runs the most Prestigious, Championship G1 races in the USA with the highest purses 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 (they are by far the fairest tracks in the USA because they are all larger tracks with large, sweeping turns where horses run as fast around the bigger turns as they do on straightaways) in New York; 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 based, 99% of them ran/will run in NY for the reasons listed above. Having acknowledged these facts, EG won on all 3 sized tracks - 8f, 9f and 12f sized tracks; EG won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less rest and time between races and ran many more career races. The drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant SS gets Destroyed by 8 widening lengths in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs - and, as importantly, banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss LOSES a GRADE 2 race to the drug-reliant Prized; when Prized is forced to run drug-free in the only state in the whole country at the time which prohibited all drugs, Prized gets crushed by 25 lengths by the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer. SS also LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than a mile. SS only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f on small 8f sized tracks with much more rest and time between races and ran far less career races. SS was a horse who needed drugs, needed his illegal criminal vet, and needed his small one size smaller 8f track. 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 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 also with a DISMAL record LOSING 4 races on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f; 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 small 8f sized tracks) race horse and that is all he really was
@@marklewen9384 You can't fault a horse for having poor competition to face. His connections certainly never ducked anyone. He ran in NINE Grade one races as a three year old including the Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup, beating older horses. He received a suboptimal ride in the Kentucky Derby, a downright lousy ride in the Preakness and even Day couldn't mess up his Belmont. You remember that one, don't you? Never out of the money in 20 lifetime starts, winning 14 of them. Also a Hall Of Fame inductee. Yeah-pure rubbish.
@@richardk6196 I never said easy WA bad; HE WAS GREAT. but his achilles heal was that he was too big for sharp turns. Its why he lost BC juvy, ky derby,and BC classic. I know pat day...he said exact same thing. He was unbeatable at wide turned belmont, but was less athletic around gulfs sharper turns. I was there that day. Easy had more raw ability, Sunday was more polished racehorse.
Totally wrong Travis West. The Dreug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that. Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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. Caseclosed
"Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS, 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. 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, who benefited immeasurably by all of their incredibly effective performance enhancing effects.
Easy Goer, like the Bloodhorse Top 100 book states in the Easy Goer article, "Easy Goer will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME", despite the two awful kid gloves and baby hands rides that cost him by a nostril and desperate neck in two outs.
@@makingthecoin3647 The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that.
I don't know what it is but theres something awesome about watching EG run. He seems like he never takes it serious and plays around with his opponents and his stride is one of my favorites of all time.
Easy Goer was in the Top 3 to 5 all time fastest runnings of all these races(Many of which have well over 100 runnings): Champagne,Belmont Stakes,Gotham,Whitney,Travers,Suburban, and also the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, and at 6.5f as a two year old. Any horse that ran against Easy Goer in many races would have had to break track records to beat him.
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that. The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede). Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
Copying and pasting Bloodhorse expert Avalyn Hunter's quote about the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer is the GREATEST FORM of Flattery. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, when you imitate what others say, it’s the biggest compliment to those people you are imitating and copying and pasting!
Read Joe Drape's book ,Race for the Triple Crown, and their is an entire chapter,or a good portion of one, on Pat Day's "passive,deliberate,horrible" riding really costing a lot of his mounts,many in huge races as well. I agree with the many racing experts from both coasts(Christine,Nack,Pope,Crist,Hirsch) and even trainers Wayne Lukas and Woody Stephens who saw and stated and observed this in Pat Day's riding on Easy Goer and other horses as well."Exposed end of a live wire." Better horse
The Hall of Fame champion and all timer Easy Goer's record three yr old mile of all time in 1:32, smashing Secretariat's record by a full second and just a tick off Dr. Fager's world record mile, and the monsterly overwhelming, second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time, are the two best performances since Bib in 1980, and this Travers and his 89' Whitney are truly not far off those two performances.
This was the fastest Travers since 1989 until Arrogate just recently broke the Track Record...Easy Goer either put up the biggest number in history or 1 of the biggest numbers in history in about 9 different Graded Stakes races he competed in...At various distances...He even just missed a Track Record by 1/5th of a second in an Allowance event in only his 3rd career start at 6 1/2 furlongs...
Easy Goer,Hall of Fame Eclipse Award Champion who ran the fastest 3 yr old mile in history in 1:32.2,destroying Secretariat's mark by 1 full second,a tick off Fager's world record,second fastest Belmont of all time,most of the best,most prestigious races in near track record performances at all distances,and an inch and desperate neck losses due to despicable Patsy Day riding.
A beast!! No other way to put it. I know the lifetime record between the two doesn't support me saying this? But I still to this day believe that Easy Goer was the better horse of the two between himself and Sunday Silence. I just don't believe that Sunday Silence could've reeled off the string of G1 win's at Belmont and Saratoga that Easy Goer reeled off. Easy Goer would've been great, no matter what surface he raced on, IMO.
"In 1984 I gave serious consideration about getting out of racing. I was going to sell my equipment and go into the seminary. But The Lord told me to stay in racing" Pat Day (October 13, 1953 - ) Retired jockey. Greetings from Venezuela.
The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion is Easy Goer. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's career accomplishments and body of work were far superior to the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs at all, and the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer Obliterated the drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs (and, as importantly, also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well; Harthill was 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 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. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence got obliterated when he couldn't get all of his performance enhancing drugs from his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs (and also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! The drug-reliant & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence NEEDED EVERYTHING in his favor to beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence LOST 4 RACES on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than a mile (including ss having a LOSING RECORD while LOSING 3 races at his larger HOME track at the bigger circumferenced Hollywood Park track). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his track with him, ss is just that horse! Meanwhile, the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won Drug-free G1's at 7f, 1 mile, 1 1/8m, 1 1/4m & 1 1/2m on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) drug-free with much less rest and time between races and ran far more races with faster times at all distances and ran far superior speed figures and far superior performance ratings; while the drug-dependent and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence only won G1's with performance enhancing drugs and his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill and only at 9f to 10f only with performance enhancing drugs and only on small 8f sized tracks and with much more rest and time between races and ran far less races even with performance enhancing drugs. Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! Talk about a horse that needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him, ss is just that horse!
1 of the fastest Travers in history...Easy Goer holds the best or 1 of the best numbers in history in like 9 different Graded Stakes..His Gotham performance was arguably the most spectacular performances this sport had the privilege to witness..He also had an unofficial gallop out time of "1:45 4/5" for the 1 1/8th during that race..All while "cantering" throughout...Sorry but this horse was much better than Sunday Silence..3 to 1 edge means nothing to me at all...The Belmont showcased how much better 1 horse can be over the other also..This horse was a FREAK..At all distances
Was much better than silence? No, he wasn't. He was better than him in his home track, but lost 3 times on neutral tracks. Goer had more raw ability, Sunday a better race horse...and much better in breeding shed.
Totally wrong Travis West. The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. Plus, t was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
joe chrow True indeed. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was far superior to the drug-reliant & criminal illegal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss. The drug-reliant & criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill reliant sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs & ss could not win w/o his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile. Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal cheater veterinarian of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses] to perform his magic & drug the drug-reliant & criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-reliant horses like ss; & these horses, like ss & many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of 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. 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. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer, even with passing away so young, is the sire, grandsire, broodmare sire, etc. to an endless amount of G1 winners in both the USA & Europe. SS did NOT sire even ONE G1 winner in all of the USA & all of Europe. Breeding experts Anne Peters, Avalyn Hunter & Alan Porter: "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. 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; Discovery H winner Miles D; Suburban H winner Dynamic One; 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 a few producing daughters but they have produced a phenomenal amount of G1 winners & stakes winners. Easy Goer would have made an even more phenomenal contribution had he lived longer."
Easy Goer was far superior. EG ran every distance faster. Even the trainer John Veitch said, "Easy Goer had far more weapons & was far more versatile." EG ran every distance faster, or as fast as any & all the greats except for Secretariat (who still lost 3 big races by a combined 10 lengths at age 3). Easy Goer even ran faster than Man O' War (ages 2 & 3), Native Dancer (ditto), Citation (ditto), Slew, Affirmed, Aly, Bid (at age 3), Buckpasser, Dr Fager (at ages 2 & 3), Damascus (at ages 2 & 3), Swaps, Nashua, etc. Easy Goer even ran faster at 1 mile in 1:32 than Secretariat, & as fast at 9f in 1:45 & change. Easy Goer ran in the Top 5 Fastest all-time runnings of numerous historic, prestigious, championship Drug-Free G1 races at all distances. Easy Goer will always be mentioned in the same breath with the greatest of all time, & his scoreboard with the drug-reliant ss means as much or as little as Citation (Lost 4 of 5 to Noor), Kelso (Lost 3 of 4 to Beau Purple), Forego (Lost 2 of 3 to Big Spruce), Dr Fager (lost 2 of 4 to Damascus), Pleasant Colony (lost 3 of 4 to Akureyri), Skip Away (lost 4 of 6 to Formal Gold), Shuvee (lost 4 of 5 to Gallant Bloom), & an an endless amount of other greats.
This non homer,unbiased expert stated the obvious about Day's despicable riding. "After falling asleep for the first 6f of the race, Day cost Easy Goer a full head of steam down the backstretch. Day put out the fire of a splendid champion colt in full flame. If Day and McCarron had switched mounts, or Laffit Pincay,Angel Cordero rode Easy Goer, Easy Goer never loses by a poorly timed,desperate neck."
Sunday Silence met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful chestnut frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME
And DOWN THE STRETCH they come!! Still brings tears to my eyes! But I don’t think Dave Johnson was a regular NYRA track announcer right? Wasn’t it Tom Durkin?
my point being it seems like pat would ask him for speed and then slow him down. in this vid at the top of the stretch he asks him to go and then its like he stopped him when he went to run past the lead horse and waited for them to straighten out to let goer go by. he should just let goer carry the speed by when he asks him the first time and end the race at that point. idk maybe im wrong.
Easy Goer 14, SS 0 is the legal, moral, ethical score. The 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY) means as much or as little as Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Wajima 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; & an endless amount of others. It was all done ILLEGALLY by ss - the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior 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, NYbanned 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 narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, etc) to ss. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was just better than the drug-dependent & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence. Harthill confessed to DRF's Hovdey of illegally giving illegal ped drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state (NY) in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal vet Harthill as well. The criminal vet of ss, Alex Harthill, confessed in 2001 to DRF's Jay Hovdey, to illegally administering illegal ped drugs to sunday silence (plus many other horses), including the significantly powerful potent performance enhancing drug Clenbuterol (an extraordinary drug with 2 completely different effects that dramatically & greatly enhance performance & significantly enhance speed, stamina, endurance, lung capacity & energy levels; it greatly aids breathing by significantly expanding the air passages in the lungs letting air flow much more freely, & it causes rapid fat burning significantly decreasing fat; it also has a similar effect on the body as Epinephrine & Amphetamines by increasing the production of Epinephrine & Noradrenaline, & thus significantly enhancing performance: it also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, & thus significantly increases energy, & thus significantly enhances performance), Sublimaze (A Potent Narcotic So powerful that it makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), Etorphine (An Opiate 80,000 Times More Powerful than Morphine - So powerful that it also makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), & Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin Bute, & provides significantly more potent pain relief than aspirin Bute & is far superior for relief of pain than aspirin Bute). Besides Harthill admitting it, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. Harthill only admitted to administering the illegal ped drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine & Banamine to Sunday Silence, & not Lasix (which was legal in every state in the US except NY back then anyways; but ss was listed as being administered Lasix in the DRF in all races outside drug-free NY); & it should also be noted Lasix is a potent diuretic & the main drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs; plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs, & the study of 23k races showed Lasix gives a significant 6 length performance enhancement. Case closed forever.
@@sigscorpion9275 Easy Goer 14 FINAL VICTORY SALUTES, SS 0. Easy Goer 14, SS 0 is the legal, moral, ethical score. The 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY) means as much or as little as Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Wajima 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; & an endless amount of others. It was all done ILLEGALLY by ss - the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior 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, NYbanned 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 narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, etc) to ss. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was just better than the drug-dependent & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence. Harthill confessed to DRF's Hovdey of illegally giving illegal ped drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state (NY) in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal vet Harthill as well. The criminal vet of ss, Alex Harthill, confessed in 2001 to DRF's Jay Hovdey, to illegally administering illegal ped drugs to sunday silence (plus many other horses), including the significantly powerful potent performance enhancing drug Clenbuterol (an extraordinary drug with 2 completely different effects that dramatically & greatly enhance performance & significantly enhance speed, stamina, endurance, lung capacity & energy levels; it greatly aids breathing by significantly expanding the air passages in the lungs letting air flow much more freely, & it causes rapid fat burning significantly decreasing fat; it also has a similar effect on the body as Epinephrine & Amphetamines by increasing the production of Epinephrine & Noradrenaline, & thus significantly enhancing performance: it also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, & thus significantly increases energy, & thus significantly enhances performance), Sublimaze (A Potent Narcotic So powerful that it makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), Etorphine (An Opiate 80,000 Times More Powerful than Morphine - So powerful that it also makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), & Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin Bute, & provides significantly more potent pain relief than aspirin Bute & is far superior for relief of pain than aspirin Bute). Besides Harthill admitting it, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. Harthill only admitted to administering the illegal ped drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine & Banamine to Sunday Silence, & not Lasix (which was legal in every state in the US except NY back then anyways; but ss was listed as being administered Lasix in the DRF in all races outside drug-free NY); & it should also be noted Lasix is a potent diuretic & the main drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs; plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs, & the study of 23k races showed Lasix gives a significant 6 length performance enhancement. Case closed forever.
@@sigscorpion9275 Easy Goer 14 FINAL VICTORY SALUTES, SS 0. Easy Goer 14, SS 0 is the legal, moral, ethical score & the only one that counts legally, morally & ethically, & is in the legal, moral, ethical record books. The only 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 legal, moral, ethical score is Easy Goer 14, SS 0. The 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY by ss, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) is equivalent to the "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" for Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco, Ken Caminiti, Jason Giambi, Ben Johnson, etc., plus all of the G1 winners that Jason Servis, Jorge Navarro, Rick Dutrow, etc., trained, including G1 winners Maximum Security, Big Brown, St Liam, Silver Train, Kip Deville, World of Trouble, Firenze Fire, Sharp Azteca, XY Jet, Private Zone, & 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 Whittingham given jail time, lengthy bans, fines, etc? Because Whittingham DIED in 1999, which was 2 years before the criminal vet Harthill admitted in 2001 to the DRF's Hovdey to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, etc) to the drug-reliant & illegal vet Harthill-reliant ss (& many other horses). Though it should be noted that Whittingham was banned, suspended & fined for many months numerous times in his career for many of his horses having positive drug tests (Cocaine, Morphine, Procaine, etc). 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 many other times for tampering, bribery & illegally doping horses with drugs, & lost his license 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 "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. The only 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 legal, moral, ethical score is Easy Goer 14, SS 0. The 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY by ss, 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. So much for the "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. Even with the 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY by ss, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) being the "only one that counts in the records books", the true facts are it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss - the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss. So much for the "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. Even with the 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY by ss, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) being the "only one that counts in the records books", the true facts are the True drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior horse than the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day. So much for the "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. Even with the 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY by ss, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) being the "only one that counts in the records books", the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was Ranked Superior to the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence by a numerous amount of racing experts, including Timeform Performance experts & Timeform expert Simon Rowlands, DRF/Bloodhorse's Jay Hovdey, SI's William Nack, long-time racing secretary & steward Tommy Trotter, DRF's Steve Crist, DRF's Mike Watchmaker, DRF's Dave Litfin, DRF's Alan Shuback, Paul Moran, Edwin Pope, Bill Finley, Russ Harris, Ed Fountaine, Joe Drape, trainers Bud Delp, John Veitch, Lucien Laurin, Woody Stephens, Allen Jerkens, & all the speed figures & performance rating experts Mark Hopkins, Dick Jerardi, Len Ragozin/Ragozins, Jerry Brown/Thoro-Graph, etc., as well as Charles Justice's Objective Rankings in the "Greatest Horse of All" book ranked the best 3 yr olds of all time, with EG ranked far superior than ss. So much for the "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. The only 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 legal, moral, ethical score is Easy Goer 14, SS 0.
Easy Goer had so much talent and versatility...Could go to the lead..Could sit off pace..Could come from the back..Handle any distance..Pat Day just did not know exactly how to ride this horse..That is why he would make multiple moves in 1 race and also give Easy Goer horrible trips..Easy Goer would overcome all of this because of his raw ability but this also spoiled Pat Day while aboard Easy Goer...Pat Day had zero respect for any field and zero respect for Sunday Silence...He thought his horse could overcome ANY ride or ANY situation without ANY tactics...
People put down one while trying to prop up the other at their expense. Or they take ONLY ONE factor, as if Hall of Fame champions Forego, Kelso and Easy Goer are diminished one bit for their drug free, medication free New York exploits. EG & SS were both great Hall of Fame champions. Derby, Classic nonsense? There are numerous legendary, all time Hall of Fame greats like Dr. Fager, Easy Goer, Bold Ruler, Swaps, Gallant Man, Sword Dancer, Arts and Letters, Forego, Kelso, Tom Fool, Buckpasser, Round Table, John Henry, Seabiscuit, Skip Away, Holy Bull, Ruffian, etc, who won 1 or 0 TC races, but won numerous other big races. The legendary, all time greats Dr. Fager, Forego, Kelso, Tom Fool, Buckpasser, Round Table, John Henry, Seabiscuit, Skip Away, Holy Bull, Ruffian, and many many many others were all time great horses who didn't win any TC races and/or Classic, but they all won numerous other 'big' races. That doesn't diminish them at all. Other all time Hall of Fame greats like like Bold Ruler, Easy Goer, Swaps, Gallant Man, Sword Dancer, Arts and Letters, etc etc won 1 TC race, but they all won numerous other 'big' races. That doesn't diminish them at all either. Derby & Classic winners Unbridled and Ferdinand are not in the Hall of Fame. That's also like saying that SS failed the "great" tests on "all" levels - or many levels. SS had the almost same exact record (LOST 4 of 6) on larger circumferenced tracks that EG had on smaller mile circumferenced tracks. SS had a LOSING record (LOST 3 races) at his larger circumferenced HOME track of Hollywood. SS got romped when he ran in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs and medications. SSSS LOST a total of 4 of 6 races on larger tracks with circumferences larger than a mile, including 3 LOSSES at his LARGER circumferenced HOME track at Hollywood. Sunday Silence's record (Lost 4 of 6 races) on bigger tracks with a circumference of 1 1/8 miles or larger was very similar to Easy Goer's record on smaller mile circumferenced tracks. Sunday Silence lost 36% of his career races, mostly to lesser horses including Houston, Prized and Cro Lover. SS barely beat EG in a few close races. SS also barely beat Stylish Winner, SS also barely beat Le Voyageur. SS LOST to Prized in a Grade 2, Easy Goer beat Prized by 25 lengths in a G1 against top elders. SS barely beat Le Voyageur, EG crushed Le Voyageur numerous times by double digit lengths. Easy Goer beat Expensive Decision, who was a WORLD record holder for over 20 years at both a mile and a mile and sixteenth. And he beat Cryptoclearance, Slew City Clew, Proper Reality, Clever Trevor, Awe Inspiring, Blushing John, Prized etc were all multimillionaire, multiple Grade 1 winners. They both beat Crypto, Slew, Trevor, John and Awe Inspiring, but Easy Goer beat them many more times by much farther. And they both beat Hawkster multiple times, and Hawkster also was a world record holder for over 30 years. Easy Goer also ran mostly in the only state in the entire country at the time that didn't allow any drugs and medications. Easy Goer ran brilliantly fast outside NY in the Swale, Preakness and Classic. When SS LOST the Grade 2 Swaps to Prized, he ran 10f in 2:02 on a rock hard very fast California track. Meanwhile Easy Goer beat Prized by 25 lengths in the Jockey Club Gold Cup on a dull, deep slow playing track. When SS won the Louisiana Super Derby he beat the Louisiana claimer Big Earl, and ran 10f in over 2:03 1/5. When SS won the Californian he beat a 2 horse field of Stylish Winner and Charlatan. When they both lost to Criminal Type, EG had to concede more weight (7 to 14 pounds) than SS (only 5 pounds) did. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. There was also the Belmont 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. 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.
Put a jock like Irad Ortiz on a horse like Easy Goer and he would definitely have won the 1989 classic and probably by 2 lengths...Irad would have exploited the world of talent easy goer had and not been so patient and careless as pat day in that race
No, he wouldn't have. Easy Goer's problem was that he was too big,trained at wide turned belmont, and couldn't handle sharp turned tracks like churchill and gulfstream. He was slow around sharp turns. Not pat days fault. Watch 88 BC juvenile. Goer was slow around turn vs AWFUL field...
Totally wrong Travis West. The Dreug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that. Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
@@traviswest9388 easy Goer blazed gulfstream AROUND ONE TURN, not two. You just emphasized my point. After Belmont stakes and saratoga, EVERYONE was convinced Goer would trounce Sunday at gulfstream. And what happens? The SAME EXACT RESULT as the other 3 races not held at belmont: the better racehorse( silence) again beat the horse with more raw ability...
@@traviswest9388 So true. The Drug free Hall of fame Champion Easy Goer was far superior at two turns than one turn, although EG ran every distance faster than ss and ran far superior speed figures and performance ratings than ss at every distance around 1 or 2 turns. Easy Goer won G1 races at 7/8 at one turn, 1 mile at one turn, 1 1/8m at 2 turns, 1 1/4m at 2 turns, and 1 1/2m at 2 turns without any drugs running many more races with much less time and rest between races. Easy Goer won on all 3 track sizes of 8f ovals, 9f ovals and 12f oval. Ss did NOT. The drug reliant and criminal illegal vet Alex Harthill reliant Sunday silence Lost 4 races on larger tracks with ovals larger than a mile. The drug reliant and criminal illegal vet alex harthill reliant ss only won G1s at 9f to 10f with drugs running far less races with much more time and rest between races. The drug reliant and criminal illegal vet alex harthill reliant ss could not win without all of illegal performance enhancing drugs confessed by Alex harthill that he drugged ss with the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator drug Clenbuterol. Enough said, case closed.
After Easy Goer blew by Sunday Silence on the "far turn" in the Belmont and "trounced" him by 8 lengths he then went on a brutal historic campaign along with beating "older horses" leading up to the Classic while Sunday Silence only ran "twice" against his inferior peers along with having an extra month rest coming into the Classic..Easy Goer only missing by a "neck" showed who the superior horse was...
@@louminox3065 Dr. Fager and Native Dancer's superiority never won them the Kentucky Derby and Breeder's Cup Classic (or Jockey Club Gold Cup). Neither did Kelso, Forego, Buckpasser, Round Table, Tom Fool, Bold Ruler, John Henry, Seabiscuit, Holy Bull, Point Given and an endless amount of other's superiority. Meanwhile, Unbridled's superiority did win him the Kentucky Derby and Breeder's Cup Classic, yet Unbridled lost 4 of 6 races to Summer Squall. Alysheba did as well, yet Alysheba lost 4 races to Bet Twice. Citation's superiority lost him 4 of 5 races to Noor. Kelso's superiority lost him 3 of 4 races to Beau Purple. Dr. Fager's superiority lost him 2 of 4 races to Damascus. Forego's superiority lost him 2 of 3 races to Big Spruce. Triple Crown winner Sir Barton's superiority lost him 8 of 12 races to Billy Kelly. Shuvee's superiority lost her 4 of 5 races to Gallant Bloom. Skip Away's superiority lost him 4 of 6 races to Formal Gold. John Henry's superiority lost him 3 of 3 races to Darby Creek Road; and John Henry's superiority lost him 4 of 4 races to Cabrini Green. Pleasant Colony's superiority lost him 3 of 4 races to Akureyri. The list is endless.
@@louminox3065 The same exact way that a horse that lost 4 races out of 5 (Citation) was superior to the horse that won 4 out of 5 (Noor). The same exact way that a horse that lost 3 races out of 4 (Kelso) was superior to the horse that won 3 out of 4 (Beau Purple). The same exact way that a horse that lost 3 races out of 4 (Pleasant Colony) was superior to the horse that won 3 out of 4 (Akureyri). The same exact way that a horse that lost 2 races out of 4 (Dr. Fager) was superior to the horse that won 2 out of 4 (Damascus). The same exact way that a horse that lost 4 races out of 6 (Skip Away) was superior to the horse that won 4 out of 6 (Formal Gold). Ditto John Henry 0/ Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0/ Cabrini Green 4, and an endless amount of others.
Copying and pasting quote about the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion SS is the GREATEST FORM of Flattery. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, when you imitate what others say, it’s the biggest compliment to those people you are imitating and copying and pasting
Anyone have any idea what Pat Day was waiting for in the 1989 Classic on the Gulfstream Surface?....Lagging and Lagging behind the Field....Even at the 3/8th Pole he was Still sitting on Easy Goer like a Statue....Sitting aboard a world of talent and heavy 1-2 favorite why not let the horse do some running...Pat Day left so much in the tank on the track that day...
@danylson10 Easy Goer ran seven or eight 120+ or higher beyers in his life(double the amount of any horse since Bid, including Ghostzapper,Skip Away,Cigar,Holy Bull,Alysheba,Zenyatta,Curlin,John Henry,etc). His ragozin speed figures were also amazing.
Totally wrong Travis West. It was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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
Easy Goer (March 21, 1986 - May 12, 1994) * Sire: Alydar * Grandsire: Raise a Native * Dam: Relaxing * Damsire: Buckpasser * Breeder: Ogden Phipps * Owner: Ogden Phipps * Trainer: Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey III * 20 Starts * 14 Wins * 5 Seconds * 1 Third * U.S:$ 4,873,770 earned * U.S. Champion Two Year-Old Colt in 1988 * Inducted to The National Musuem of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1997. * No. 34 in "The BloodHorse Magazine Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th. Century List" Greetings from Venezuela. Easy Goer (21 de Marzo, 1986 - 12 de Mayo, 1994) * Padre: Alydar * Abuelo Paterno: Raise a Native * Madre: Relaxing * Abuelo Materno: Buckpasser * Criador: Ogden Phipps * Propietario: Ogden Phipps * Entrenador: Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey III * 20 Salidas * 14 Primeros * 5 Segundos * 1 Tercero * U.S:$ 4,873,770 producidos * Potro Campeón de Dos Años en Estados Unidos (1988) * Esaltado al museo Nacional de las Carreras y Salón de la Fama en 1997. * No. 34 en la "Lista de los 100 Mejores Caballos de Carrera del Siglo XX" de la revista "TheBloodHorse Magazine" Saludos desde Venezuela.
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's career accomplishments and body of work were far superior to the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs at all, and the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer Obliterated the drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs (and, as importantly, also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well; Harthill was arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses). During that era, it was a huge credit to New York [& 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. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence got obliterated when he couldn't get all of his performance enhancing drugs from his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs (and also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! The drug-reliant & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence NEEDED EVERYTHING in his favor to beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence also LOST 4 RACES on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than a mile (including ss having a LOSING RECORD while LOSING 3 races at his larger HOME track at the bigger circumferenced Hollywood Park track). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his track with him, ss is just that horse! Meanwhile, the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won Drug-free G1's at 7f, 1 mile, 1 1/8m, 1 1/4m & 1 1/2m on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) drug-free with much less rest and time between races and ran far more races with faster times at all distances and ran far superior speed figures and far superior performance ratings; while the drug-dependent and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence only won G1's with performance enhancing drugs and his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill and only at 9f to 10f only with performance enhancing drugs and only on small 8f sized tracks and with much more rest and time between races and ran far less races even with performance enhancing drugs. Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! Talk about a horse that needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him, ss is just that horse. 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!
Sunday Silence met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful chestnut frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME
Jim McKay and Easy Goer two Greats. I still love hearing Jims Voice and watching Big Easy run... glorious.
"The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful chestnut frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME."
Easy Goer 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 - no matter
what anyone does. There is no way to downplay the fact that Easy Goer (1:32 2/5) ran 1/5 of a second off the WORLD RECORD mile of Dr. Fagers (1:32 1/5 as an older horse) and destroyed Secretariat's stakes record by a
full second and he did it very easily while in hand - and it was only
Easy Goers second start as a three year old; Easy Goer still holds the
mile track record to this day - 27 years and counting; and Easy Goer ran
the fastest mile ever by any three year old conceding significant
weight. Easy Goer also ran the second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time
at 12f behind only Secretariat. Easy Goer also ran right on the 6.5f
track record as a two year old; ran right on the 8f Champagne record at
age two; ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida in his first start at
age three; ran right on the existing 9f track record in one of the
fastest Whitney's ever against older horses conceding weight; ran just
off the 10f track record in one of the fastest Travers ever; ran right
on the existing 10f track record in the 10f Suburban conceding
significant weight. Even EG's very narrow losses at 9.5f (1:53 4/5) and 10f (2:00
1/5) were very fast races.
Easy Goer's so called 'slow' timed races in the Wood Memorial (112
speed figure) and the Jockey Club Gold Cup (122 speed figure) against
older horses were actually very fast, as they were run on very slow
playing surfaces doing it easily under hand rides. Churchill - when
muddy - plays (played) very very slow. Easy Goer ran numerous 120 or
faster speed figures in
his career, and also consistently ran in the 120 speed figure range on a
regular basis in his races; he also ran the fastest Speed Figure
performance by any two-year-old, as well as the fastest Speed Figure
performance in any Triple Crown race since racing figures were first
published.
And when he ran, people trashed speed figures and still used the DRF rating/variant combo.
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Correction: pretty positive the 2nd-fastest Belmont was by Secretariat’s own son, Risen Star, the year prior. 2:26 even.
@@bkras483 Belmont Stakes fastest times
Secretariat - 2:24.00 (1973)
Easy Goer - 2:26.00 (1989)
A.P. Indy - 2:26.13 (1992)
Risen Star - 2:26.40 (1988)
Point Given - 2:26.56 (2001)
@@bkras483 nope. 2:26 2/5
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. Easy Goer was also 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.
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).
Historic campaign for Easy Goer. What a diamond, what a gem. Easy Goer ran another monumental race among the fastest all time runnings. Easy Goer ran all these historic races (many of them had over 100 runnings) in the top 1 to 5 fastest of all time: Belmont Stakes at 12f , Gotham at 8f, Whitney at 9f, Travers at 10f, Champagne at 8f, Suburban at 10f, including the fastest mile of all time by any 3 yr old in 1:32:2, the second fastest Belmont of all time with only Secretariat ever faster, and in addition running right on the track record at 6.5f at 2, and the fastest 7f of the year in Florida.
God bless both Ogden Phipps (November 26, 1908 - April 21, 2002) (2:43) and his son Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps (September 18, 1940 - April 6, 2016) (2:54) Greetings from Venezuela.
EASYGOER4LIFE, A sensational horse, one of the best.
People put down one while trying to prop up the other at their expense. Or they take ONLY ONE factor, as if Hall of Fame champions Forego, Kelso and Easy Goer are diminished one bit for their drug free, medication free New York exploits. EG & SS were both great Hall of Fame champions. Derby, Classic nonsense? There are numerous legendary, all time Hall of Fame greats like Dr. Fager, Easy Goer, Bold Ruler, Swaps, Gallant Man, Sword Dancer, Arts and Letters, Forego, Kelso, Tom Fool, Buckpasser, Round Table, John Henry, Seabiscuit, Skip Away, Holy Bull, Ruffian, etc, who won 1 or 0 TC races, but won numerous other big races. The legendary, all time greats Dr. Fager, Forego, Kelso, Tom Fool, Buckpasser, Round Table, John Henry, Seabiscuit, Skip Away, Holy Bull, Ruffian, and many many many others were all time great horses who didn't win any TC races and/or Classic, but they all won numerous other 'big' races. That doesn't diminish them at all. Other all time Hall of Fame greats like like Bold Ruler, Easy Goer, Swaps, Gallant Man, Sword Dancer, Arts and Letters, etc etc won 1 TC race, but they all won numerous other 'big' races. That doesn't diminish them at all either. Derby & Classic winners Unbridled and Ferdinand are not in the Hall of Fame.
That's also like saying that SS failed the "great" tests on "all" levels - or many levels. SS had the almost same exact record (LOST 4 of 6) on larger circumferenced tracks that EG had on smaller mile circumferenced tracks. SS had a LOSING record (LOST 3 races) at his larger circumferenced HOME track of Hollywood. SS got romped when he ran in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs and medications. SSSS LOST a total of 4 of 6 races on larger tracks with circumferences larger than a mile, including 3 LOSSES at his LARGER circumferenced HOME track at Hollywood. Sunday Silence's record (Lost 4 of 6 races) on bigger tracks with a circumference of 1 1/8 miles or larger was very similar to Easy Goer's record on smaller mile circumferenced tracks. Sunday Silence lost 36% of his career races, mostly to lesser horses including Houston, Prized and Cro Lover. SS barely beat EG in a few close races. SS also barely beat Stylish Winner, SS also barely beat Le Voyageur. SS LOST to Prized in a Grade 2, Easy Goer beat Prized by 25 lengths in a G1 against top elders. SS barely beat Le Voyageur, EG crushed Le Voyageur numerous times by double digit lengths. Easy Goer beat Expensive Decision, who was a WORLD record holder for over 20 years at both a mile and a mile and sixteenth. And he beat Cryptoclearance, Slew City Clew, Proper Reality, Clever Trevor, Awe Inspiring, Blushing John, Prized etc were all multimillionaire, multiple Grade 1 winners. They both beat Crypto, Slew, Trevor, John and Awe Inspiring, but Easy Goer beat them many more times by much farther. And they both beat Hawkster multiple times, and Hawkster also was a world record holder for over 30 years. Easy Goer also ran mostly in the only state in the entire country at the time that didn't allow any drugs and medications. Easy Goer ran brilliantly fast outside NY in the Swale, Preakness and Classic. When SS LOST the Grade 2 Swaps to Prized, he ran 10f in 2:02 on a rock hard very fast California track. Meanwhile Easy Goer beat Prized by 25 lengths in the Jockey Club Gold Cup on a dull, deep slow playing track. When SS won the Louisiana Super Derby he beat the Louisiana claimer Big Earl, and ran 10f in over 2:03 1/5. When SS won the Californian he beat a 2 horse field of Stylish Winner and Charlatan. When they both lost to Criminal Type, EG had to concede more weight (7 to 14 pounds) than SS (only 5 pounds) did.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. There was also the Belmont 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.
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.
DELMARCLUB1 - Great points about the sizes of the tracks, the prohibition of the drugs and medications, the fact that Easy Goer ran significantly more races with significantly less time and less rest between those races at significantly diverse distances, et al. Endless, complicated factors that can't be simplified. In my opinion, the drugs and track sizes were huge. New York's no-medication no-drug rules during that era kept the outcomes crystal clear. New York's refusal to allow drugs during that era was a major factor in keeping New York's major races the true tests of champions. Back then, New York was alone [in the USA] and was the only state that had the courage to ban all drugs. New York was the ONLY state in the entire country during that era that didn't allow ANY drugs and medications. New York didn't allow horses to race on ANY drugs during that era, while the rest of the country did. New York banned and prohibited all race-day drugs and medications. Only New York, among all of the nation's racing jurisdictions, forbade the use of all drugs and medications on horses while racing. It was to New York's credit that the Belmont Stakes and numerous other huge, rich, historic, prestigious G1 races stood as huge obstacles to drug-dependent horses. Winning any big race on medication was/is not what racing is about; and they were commonly and legally used in all the sport's most prestigious races run outside New York. Only the drug-free medication-free races could/can be called championship events.
An endless amount of connections would NOT run in drug-less NY, and the ones that did had MOST of their horses exposed when they ran in drug-free medication-free NY. SS's connections tried only once because they had to, but they refused to come back for the Travers, Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup because of the no-drug, no-medication rules in NY. They also were angered that their crooked controversial veterinarian Alex Harthill was not licensed in New York and prohibited from practicing. Most of these trainers decisions not to run was influenced mostly by New York's no-medication rules more than anything else. The connections of many many top horses, including Summer Squall, Best Pal, Dance Smartly, Hollywood Wildcat, Tight Spot, Paseana, Blushing John, Lost Code, Desert Wine, Snow Chief, Wild Again, Tank's Prospect, Skywalker, King Glorious, Spend a Buck, Great Communicator, Infinidad, Capote, Sunny's Halo, Gate Dancer, The Wicked North, Suave Prospect, Tejano Run, Lil E. Tee, et al, freely admitted that their horses could not compete in top company without the drugs and medications, and never [or very rarely] ran them in the prominent, illustrious races in drug free New York. In doing that, they came clean with the fans, bettors, breeders, et al. These horses trainers and connections would pass up these drug free races - and if they ran in them they were often exposed for what they were by not running well and/or getting beaten decisively - if that was not already apparent from them having skipped [and/or not run well and/or getting beaten decisively] most of these drug free, illustrious Grade 1 races with huge purses.
Hall of Fame Champions are born, made, based and/or trained anywhere in the world, but most American Hall of Fame champions are still crowned having run in the major races in New York. And New York was and still is the most prominent racing circuit in North America - best horses, highest purses by far, richest G1 stakes races, most G1 stakes races, et al. Belmont Park was, is and will always be "The Championship Track" because nearly every major American champion - and Hall of Famer - in racing history has competed on the racetrack [ditto Saratoga], and because it's by far the fairest with the best horse mostly always winning. West-coast based Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens says, "Belmont Park is by far the fairest track in America. If you’re on the best horse, you have plenty of room to navigate. The best horse almost always wins at Belmont Park." West-coast based Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas says, "It's not even close. Belmont is the fairest of all American tracks. The track is big, and you don't get jammed up like you do on most other tracks because of the tighter turns. And speed, tactical speed, versatility and handiness are still needed at Belmont Park. While a horse can win with any style at Belmont, there is a false perception that in the "The Test of the Champion" Belmont Stakes - or at Belmont in general - that you can come from left field and run down tired horses in front. But the truth is you really have to be in the mix and show speed and tactical speed. You really need to be on or near the lead within striking distance, and/or have tactical speed and not drop too far out of it." West-coast based Hall of Fame rider Laffit Pincay says, "Belmont Park is the best by far. Everything is perfect-it's just a wonderful track. The big wide track is great for horses." West-coast based Hall of Fame rider Bill Shoemaker, "Belmont Park, it's ideal. Belmont Park has the best track with it's fine surface and size. It's wide and wonderful. Big, wide sweeping turns and long straightaways. Riders and horses seldom bunch and jam, and a horse can run the turns as fast as the straightaways."
Rankings, ratings, who's better in any way, who would beat who, etc, are all TOTALLY SUBJECTIVE. Having said that, I'd totally disagree. Easy Goer and Sunday Silence are both all-time great Hall of Fame champions, and both are better than Risen Star and Alysheba. Easy Goer's times dwarf those of Risen Star and Alysheba. While all subjective, almost all of Easy Goer's speed figures (his best, what he ran in most races, and his avg) dwarf both Risen Star and Alysheba's. Even a few of SS best speed figures dwarf both Risen Star and Alysheba's. Easy Goer and SS timeform ratings (137 or 138) and BH rankings dwarf both Risen Star and Alysheba's. All totally subjective, but notable.
Furthermore, you can put down and denigrate many of Risen Star and Alysheba's losses, competition, etc, as you do for EG & SS. Easy Goer and SS ran 1:53 4/5 in their Preakness; Alysheba ran 1:55 4/5, a full 2 seconds slower, or about 12 lengths slower. Easy Goer ran a 2:26 second fastest Belmont of all time; while Alysheba ran a 2:31 Belmont, a full 5 seconds slower, or about 30 lengths slower. Easy Goer also ran faster than Alysheba at almost all distances. Alysheba had a LOSING RECORD in his career. Alysheba LOST 15 of 26 total races. Alysheba LOST 7 of 10 races at age 3. Alysheba LOST 13 of 17 races at age 2 and 3. Alysheba LOST to an endless amount of horses whom YOU would denigrate, including losing to Fleeting Jet, Biloxi Blues, Soy Amigo, Gem Master, Rainbow East, Orono, Qualify, Capote, Temperate Sil, Barb's Relic, Blanco, Rakaposhi, Chart the Stars, etc. Alysheba also lost 4 times to Bet Twice. Alysheba lost to Cryptoclearance 3 times, a very good horse whom Easy Goer beat numerous times easily. SS also beat Cryptoclearance. Alysheba also lost to Cutlass Reality, Polish Navy, Lost Code, etc. Alysheba barely beat Slew City Slew, a good horse whom Easy Goer beat numerous times easily. SS also beat Slew City. Alysheba lost races by a whopping 20 lengths, a whopping 14 lengths, 6 lengths, 5 lengths numerous times, etc. Alysheba only won G1 races at 9f to 10f; Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f. Easy Goer and SS total loss margins and avg loss margins were BOTH minuscule compared to Alysheba. Easy Goer & SS ran 1:53 4/5 in their Preakness; Risen Star ran 1:56 1/5, 2 and 2/5 seconds slower, or about 14 to 15 lengths slower. Easy Goer ran his second fastest Belmont 2/5 faster, or about 3 to 4 lengths faster. Easy Goer ran every distance faster than Risen Star. Risen Star lost to Pastourelles. Risen Star also lost by 15 lengths to Success Express. Risen Star lost to a filly. Risen Star ran every distance slower than Easy Goer. Risen Star also was very unsound and very fragile and delicate, only running 11 career races and not even one after the Belmont. Even the very fragile SS ran more races. Risen Star won a whopping TWO G1 races in his career at 9.5f (very slow) and 12f. Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f.
However, these are just a few of the numerous factors 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 and factors 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 (or would 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. Rankings, ratings, who's better in any way, who would beat who, etc, are all TOTALLY SUBJECTIVE.
Easy Goer ran a countless amount of these other-worldly performances in countless races; he was undeniably something special without a doubt. Easy Goer possessed super-sonic speed and displayed brilliant acceleration with great versatility. Easy Goer's brilliance, acceleration, speed, power and stamina was sublime at all distances of ground that he ran; from six and a half furlongs to a mile and a half. What Easy Goer accomplished after the Triple Crown races also was astounding.
What did he accomplish? Beating the Okie bred clever trevor? Hanging vs sunday silence AGAIN?
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede).
The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede).
The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede). Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
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"Easy Goer was so phenomenally and conspicuously talented, so dominant and extraordinary despite problem ankles", and his monumental and giant shows and feats at all distances, "not only invited, but insisted upon him being mentioned with greats like Secretariat,etc." West
Don't forget this performance by Easy Goer followed a grueling triple crown schedule of three solid efforts capped by a brilliant win in the Belmont Stakes. It's exceptionally rare for a horse to stay in top form over the course of the triple crown and the Travers.
I don't think we'll ever see a horse like this again. No one won the string of races he did before and there's no doubt no one will do it again. What a horse and what a rivalry with Sunday Silence. I miss those days of racing!
Horse racing today is so different than those days easy goer was durable and didn’t duck anyone he race against the best.
We wont see it again? What exactly? He lost the Classic....lost the BC Juvenile...was ALL OUT to beat okie bred clever trevor.
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that. The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede). Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
True true true Travis West
@@traviswest9388 yes, there were NO LEGAL or illegal drugs in new york back then.....lolololol. Nicky Cheato(zito)? Won 5 triple crown races, but this year is 0-47 and cant win a maiden 10 claimer at turfway? Lololol....dr steven allday? Shoot em up and they run all day(its all sport s medicine wink-wink). Its a game of cheaters and always will be.
3rd Fastest edition ever recorded of the Travers since 1864....Majority of Stakes races he would either Threaten or Break the Track or Stakes record and put up Big Speed figures and numbers...HUGE Talent
He was such a magnificent horse. I was so upset when he died young.
This Was 1 of The Fastest Travers Ever Run Since 1864
In this Travers, Easy Goer made a big move running very fast into a fast pace and made up 3 full lengths early on the far turn on a front-running speedster &
multiple G1 winner Clever Trevor; then Pat wait all Day - Pat start
stop start stop Day - clearly waited when he got right next to him, then
drew away under a hand ride running one of the fastest Travers ever and
a 123 Beyer. In EG's JCGC, Easy Goer got to the lead early down the
backstretch, then maintained the lead around the far turn even with Pat
wait all Day - Pat start stop start stop Day - purposely waiting &
letting the multi-millionaire Cryptoclearance right alongside, still
maintained the lead throughout the entire turn, then drew off under a
hand ride defeating top older horses for a third time running a 122
Beyer. In the 1989 Whitney & Woodward, Easy Goer was making big
moves around the turns, but Pat wait all Day - Pat start stop start stop
Day - got him checked & stopped numerous times making numerous
riding errors; but EG still won defeating top older horses while
conceding weight and running 120 or faster Beyer speed figures. Easy
Goer was also 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.
Easy Goer, what a masterpiece of a champion he was! And New York was the ONLY state in the entire country during that era that didn't allow ANY drugs and medications. New York didn't allow horses to race on ANY drugs during that era, while the rest of the country did. New York banned and prohibited all race-day drugs and medications. Only New York, among all the nation's racing jurisdictions, forbid the use of all drugs and medications on horses while racing. New York's
no-medication no-drug rules during that era kept the outcomes crystal
clear. New York's refusal to allow race-day drugs was a big factor in
keeping New York's major races the true tests of champions in that era.
Champions are born, made, based and/or trained anywhere in the world,
but most American champions are still crowned having run in the major
races in New York. And New York was and still is the most prominent
racing circuit in North America.
Belmont Park was, is and will always be "The Championship Track" because nearly every major American champion - and Hall of Famer - in racing history has competed and will compete on the racetrack. Almost all of the greatest thoroughbreds of all-time have raced on the hallowed grounds of Belmont and Saratoga Race Course. Belmont and Saratoga are the gold standard - the best in racing. Historic Saratoga Race Course - the third-oldest racetrack in the United States - is also a most revered and renowned race track. Most of the greatest horses in history also have competed at Saratoga. West-coasted based Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, "Belmont Park is by far the fairest track in America. If you’re on the best horse, you have plenty of room to navigate. The best horse almost always wins at Belmont Park." West-coast based Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, "It's not even close. Belmont is the fairest of all American tracks. The track is big, and you don't get jammed up like you do on most other tracks because of the tighter turns. And speed, tactical speed, versatility and handiness are still needed. While a horse can win with any style at Belmont, there is a false perception that in the "The Test of the Champion" Belmont Stakes - or at Belmont in general - that you can come from left field and run down tired horses in front. But the truth is you really have to be in the mix. You really need to be on or near the lead within striking distance, and/or have tactical speed and not drop too far out of it. " West-coasted based Hall of Fame rider Laffit Pincay, "Belmont Park is the best by far. Everything is perfect-it's just a wonderful track. The big wide track is great for horses." West-coast based Hall of Fame rider Bill Shoemaker, "Belmont Park, it's ideal. Belmont Park has the best track with it's fine surface and size. It's wide and wonderful. Big, wide sweeping turns and long straightaways. Riders and horses seldom bunch and jam, and a horse can run the turns as fast as the straightaways."
In your dreams. "The true tests of champions" indeed!
"Hall of Fame Champions will always be crowned" without question.
Had SS been ridden by Ronnie Franklin, I suppose you would say something similar, "If Sunday Silence had been ridden by Ronnie Franklin he would have died a Maiden."
Actually, New York was and still is the most prominent racing circuit in North America - best horses, still the highest purses by far, still the richest G1 stakes races, still run the most G1 stakes races, still run the most Graded Stakes races, et al. Of the over 200 horses in the Hall of Fame, ALL but 5 ran in many prestigious, historic, championship Grade I races in New York. That's 99% of ALL Hall of Fame horses. And that includes an ENDLESS amount of horses who ran from the 1980's through 2018.
Actually, New York was and still is the most prominent racing circuit in North America - best horses, still the highest purses by far, still the richest G1 stakes races, still run the most G1 stakes races, still run the most Graded Stakes races, et al. Of the over 200 horses in the Hall of Fame, ALL but 5 ran in many prestigious, historic, championship Grade I races in New York. That's 99% of ALL Hall of Fame horses. And that includes an ENDLESS amount of horses who ran from the 1980's through 2018. New York's no-medication no-drug rules during that era kept the outcomes crystal clear. New York's refusal to allow drugs during that era was a major factor in keeping New York's major races the true tests of champions. Back then, New York was alone [in the USA] and was the only state that had the courage to ban all drugs. New York was the ONLY state in the entire country during that era that didn't allow ANY drugs and medications. New York didn't allow horses to race on ANY drugs during that era, while the rest of the country did. New York banned and prohibited all race-day drugs and medications. Only New York, among all of the nation's racing jurisdictions, forbade the use of all drugs and medications on horses while racing. It was to New York's credit that the Belmont Stakes and numerous other huge, rich, historic, prestigious G1 races stood as huge obstacles to drug-dependent horses. Winning any big race on medication was/is not what racing is about; and they were commonly and legally used in all the sport's most prestigious races run outside New York. Only the drug-free medication-free races could/can be called championship events.
An endless amount of connections would NOT run in drug-less NY, and the ones that did had MOST of their horses exposed when they ran in drug-free medication-free NY. SS's connections tried only once because they had to, but they refused to come back for the Travers, Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup because of the no-drug, no-medication rules in NY. They also were angered that their crooked controversial veterinarian Alex Harthill was not licensed in New York and prohibited from practicing. Most of these trainers decisions not to run was influenced mostly by New York's no-medication rules more than anything else. The connections of many many top horses, including Summer Squall, Best Pal, Dance Smartly, Hollywood Wildcat, Tight Spot, Paseana, Blushing John, Lost Code, Desert Wine, Snow Chief, Wild Again, Tank's Prospect, Skywalker, King Glorious, Spend a Buck, Great Communicator, Infinidad, Capote, Sunny's Halo, Gate Dancer, The Wicked North, Suave Prospect, Tejano Run, Lil E. Tee, et al, freely admitted that their horses could not compete in top company without the drugs and medications, and never [or very rarely] ran them in the prominent, illustrious races in drug free New York. In doing that, they came clean with the fans, bettors, breeders, et al. These horses trainers and connections would pass up these drug free races - and if they ran in them they were often exposed for what they were by not running well and/or getting beaten decisively - if that was not already apparent from them having skipped [and/or not run well and/or getting beaten decisively] most of these drug free, illustrious Grade 1 races with huge purses.
Hall of Fame Champions are born, made, based and/or trained anywhere in the world, but most American Hall of Fame champions are still crowned having run in the major races in New York. And New York was and still is the most prominent racing circuit in North America - best horses, highest purses by far, richest G1 stakes races, most G1 stakes races, et al. Belmont Park was, is and will always be "The Championship Track" because nearly every major American champion - and Hall of Famer - in racing history has competed on the racetrack [ditto Saratoga], and because it's by far the fairest with the best horse mostly always winning. West-coast based Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens says, "Belmont Park is by far the fairest track in America. If you’re on the best horse, you have plenty of room to navigate. The best horse almost always wins at Belmont Park." West-coast based Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas says, "It's not even close. Belmont is the fairest of all American tracks. The track is big, and you don't get jammed up like you do on most other tracks because of the tighter turns. And speed, tactical speed, versatility and handiness are still needed at Belmont Park. While a horse can win with any style at Belmont, there is a false perception that in the "The Test of the Champion" Belmont Stakes - or at Belmont in general - that you can come from left field and run down tired horses in front. But the truth is you really have to be in the mix and show speed and tactical speed. You really need to be on or near the lead within striking distance, and/or have tactical speed and not drop too far out of it." West-coast based Hall of Fame rider Laffit Pincay says, "Belmont Park is the best by far. Everything is perfect-it's just a wonderful track. The big wide track is great for horses." West-coast based Hall of Fame rider Bill Shoemaker, "Belmont Park, it's ideal. Belmont Park has the best track with it's fine surface and size. It's wide and wonderful. Big, wide sweeping turns and long straightaways. Riders and horses seldom bunch and jam, and a horse can run the turns as fast as the straightaways."
Still 1 of The Fastest Travers Ever Run (3rd Fastest All Time) in 160 Years and Only Arrogate (With DREAM Trip) Has Ran Faster Since 1989
As Time passes.. people are starting to realize how phenomenal this horse really was...just look at his current ranking on Horse Racing Nation web page... Phenom!
"Grace blended with phenomenal speed, power and stamina in as fine a resemblance of Secretariat as we can recall." William Leggett
My favorite horse I still love to watch his videos
He was one of my favorites. His sire, Alydar, the 1978 winner is my all-time favorite.
EG was a monster. I almost believe any 5lb bug who allowed him to run his own race would have done better than some of the rides Day gave him. I also agree with the comment EG seems not to take it seriously at times. Like he's looking for competition and loafing. You really saw his stride explode when he ran against SS though. It was incredible. This field wasn't much for him other than a serious workout.
Paid workout indeed. Agree with you about Pat Day
"Easy Goer was a natural, with his strongly defined, chiseled features, luminescent
red coat, and with the force of his bearing and power in his performances. Easy Goer would win with uncommon authority, displaying unbridled power and acceleration. Easy Goer was an explosive, powerful bolt who accelerated past horses instantly with a huge, fluid, ground-swallowing stride, the ground a blur beneath his hooves, leaving horses behind in widening wakes while appearing to make only fleeting contact with the dirt. Easy Goer was a red blur who whooshed by horses like a Ferrari passing tricycles, defying gravity and physics with an aristocratic nonchalance; an explosion of will and determination that he routinely unveiled with immense ability which brought him to the Hall of Fame, a shrine which is the ultimate honor for any and every Thoroughbred.
Since the genesis of the breed, no Thoroughbred has fun a faster mile than Easy Goer as a three-year-old, while he came within only one-fifth of Dr. Fager's hallowed world-record; and only one horse, Secretariat, has run a faster mile-and-a-half Test-of-the-Champion Belmont Stakes than Easy Goer. Easy Goer also is the only horse in racing history to win the Belmont, Whitney, Travers, Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup and the only 3-year-old to win the Whitney, Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup while defeating older horses in the latter three. Easy Goer is one of only two horses to win the Champagne, Belmont, and Travers. He is also one of only two horses to notch a Travers, Whitney and Belmont Stakes triple, and the only one to do so in the same year. Additionally, he is one of only five horses to tally a Whitney-Travers double in the same year. Since 1919, Easy Goer is one of only ten horses to sweep the Belmont, Travers and Jockey Club Gold Cup. Since 1973, Easy Goer is one of only seven horses that have won three consecutive Grade I races longer than 1 1/8 miles on dirt; with the other six being Triple Crown winners Affirmed, Seattle Slew, Secretariat, American Pharoah, as well as Alysheba and Gentlemen. Thus Easy Goer ran a series of victories only rarely interrupted in a few races by another great Hall of Fame rival in Sunday Silence, and in the unique kind of mud found at Churchill Downs; with his largest margin of defeat in his entire career being only two and a half lengths. Even Easy Goer's narrow defeats did nothing to dispel the notion that Easy Goer was one of the best of all-time; the brilliance in his performances were worthy of only a highly special racehorse. Even his narrow losses were resounding; there was never any quit in Easy Goer. Even certifiable legends are allowed some transgressions and losses, and Easy Goer would summon up enough class and heart even in his infrequent, tight losses. He always ran well and was right there even in his close defeats." - In Easy Goer's Hall of Fame induction article in BloodHorse magazine.
Former DRF chairman Steven Crist: "Even as the racing world mourns the death of Secretariat, it will turn its attention tomorrow to the colt Easy Goer, who is on the verge of completing the most impressive 3-year-old campaign since Secretariat's 1973 Triple Crown season. He lost the Derby by two and a half lengths on a muddy track and the Preakness by inches, two races that Secretariat won, but he has already won three races Secretariat lost by combined margins of 9 and a half lengths as a 3-year-old: the Wood Memorial, the Whitney Handicap against older and the Woodward Handicap vs elders. His burgeoning list of racing triumphs in the Belmont, Whitney beating older horses, Travers, Woodward beating elders again, and Jockey Club Gold Cup defeating older again, is arguably the most impressive campaign by a 3-year-old since Secretariat's Triple Crown season in 1973. With that super-impressive list of successive triumphs, Easy Goer's credentials for ranking among the sport's greatest horses is certain. This leaves Easy Goer looking like what he really is: one of the best horses racegoers have had the pleasure to watch, and a worthy addition to the sport's Hall of Fame."
Jay Hovdey, of the DRF: "In days of yore, they called this the "handicap" division, and often a 3-year-old would earn the title by dominating his elders. Prior to 1971 the American Champion Older Male Horse award was referred to as "Champion Handicap Male Horse." It was open to any horse ages three years old and up, and this award was given to some all time great champions at the age of three, such as Citation, Buckpasser, Damascus, Arts and Letters and Sword Dancer. Each reduced the older horses to mere spear carriers in major handicap races. This is a perfect year (1989) to reinstate the Champion Handicap Male category as it was, for no horse deserves it more than Easy Goer. The three-year-old Easy Goer conceded weight on scale while defeating top older horses in both the Whitney (G1) and Woodward (G1) Handicaps; defeated leading older horses a third time in the weight-for-age mile-and-a-half Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1); and beat prominent older horses again in the weight-for-age Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). This is the ideal year to reinstitute the Champion Handicap Male category as it was, for no horse merits it more than Easy Goer."
Former DRF racing writer Ed Fountaine: "The Triple Crown campaign takes a savage toll. After the Belmont Stakes, even great champions like Seattle Slew, Affirmed and
Silver Charm took months to recover. That’s why the post-Triple Crown exploits of Easy Goer are so remarkable."
Sunday silence have easy goer ticket
Noor had Citation's 'ticket' as Noor beat Citation in 4 of 5 races. Beau Purple had Kelso's ticket as Beau Purple beat Kelso in 3 of 4 races. Big Spruce had Forego's ticket as Big Spruce beat Forego in 2 of 3 races. An endless amount of many more Hall of Fame champion's were tied or behind on the scoreboard (tickets), including Dr Fager, Damascus, Swaps, Nashua, John Henry, Skip Away, Sir Barton, Pleasant Colony, Shuvee and many others. Who was 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.
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.
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If I remember correctly, from an article, Easy Goer's jockey messed up in the Preakness and it costed Easy Goer the win.
It was Andrew Beyer who stated that from a speed performances standpoint, that Easy Goer ran even better and faster than Seattle Slew,Affirmed and Bid, at the ages of two and three years old, with his amazing performances. And only ran a few times at the ages of four, but still ran ten furlongs in near track record time of two minutes flat.
Goers problem was that he was too big for sharp turn tracks like gulfstream and churchill. He was slow and awkward around sharp turns.
Travis West Travis West
True true Travis West
Easy Goer ran as fast and as fluid as any horse who ever lived!
RIP Clever Trevor 7-22-16
So far, the best Oklahoma bred racehorse I ever seen run.
The Drug-free Eclipse Award Champion & Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer will always be the Drug-Free Eclipse Award Champion and Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion, and the most coveted honor and prize, by far, is being inducted in the Hall of Fame, and Easy Goer did it drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence needed and was given performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to barely beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. When ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs (and without ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill) in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well - ss was Crushed by the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer. And as importantly ss's veterinarian Alex Harthill fully voluntarily admitted that he gave illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; but Harthill could NOT do so in the only state in the whole country during that era which banned all drugs - and as importantly banned the illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Triple Crown winner Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Triple Crown winner Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Forego 1; Wajima 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Hall of Famer Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Eclipse Award Champion Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Eclipse Award Champion Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion Kotashaan 1; and an endless amount of others. The Classic Distance for the whole world is 12f, but Easy Goer won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less time and rest between races and ran many more career races; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f with much more time and rest between races and ran far less career races. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's body of work & career accomplishments are far superior to ss's as well.
The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned the illegal criminal veterinarian of sunday silence Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses]. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-dependent horses like ss; and these horses, like ss, and many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drug drug-free races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug drug-free races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. And, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs and banned Alex Harthill as well. New York by far ran/runs the most Prestigious, Championship G1 races in the USA with by far the highest purse money in the country; NY was/is by far the best racing circuit in the USA; champions are crowned and championships are won on the Championship Tracks in New York - they are by far the fairest tracks in the USA in New York, with Belmont Park being by far the fairest of them all, because they are all larger tracks with large, sweeping turns where horses run as fast around the bigger turns as they do on straightaways - (although I will note all these larger tracks in and out of NY with circumferences larger than a mile - Saratoga, Arlington, Hollywood, Hialeah, Aqueduct, Laurel, Woodbine, Atlantic City, Keeneland, Ellis, Colonial, Kentucky Downs, and the new Gulfstream); NY was and still is the Center of Racing in the USA; and most importantly, there are over 200 horses in the Hall of Fame and no matter where they were/are/will be based, 99% of them ran/run/will run in NY for the reasons listed above!!
"The Hall of Fame champion Easy Goer was a natural, with his strongly defined, chiseled features, luminescent red coat, and with the force of his bearing and power in his performances. Easy Goer would win with uncommon authority, displaying
unbridled power and acceleration. Easy Goer was an explosive, powerful bolt who accelerated past horses instantly with a huge, fluid, ground-swallowing stride, the ground a blur beneath his hooves, leaving horses behind in widening wakes while appearing to make only fleeting contact with the dirt. Easy Goer was a red blur who whooshed by horses like a Ferrari passing tricycles, defying gravity and physics with an aristocratic nonchalance; an explosion of will and determination that he routinely unveiled with immense ability which brought him to the Hall of Fame, a shrine which is the ultimate honor for any and every Thoroughbred.
Since the genesis of the breed, no Thoroughbred has fun a faster mile than Easy Goer as a three-year-old, while he came within only one-fifth of Dr. Fager's hallowed world-record; and only one horse, Secretariat, has run a faster mile-and-a-half Test-of-the-Champion Belmont Stakes than Easy Goer. Easy Goer also ran some of the fastest performances of all-time in the Travers, Whitney, Suburban and Champagne Stakes races. Even Easy Goer's few narrow defeats did nothing to dispel the notion that Easy Goer was one of the best of all-time; the brilliance in his performances were worthy of only a highly special racehorse. Even his scarce, slim losses were resounding; there was never any quit in Easy Goer. Even certifiable legends are allowed some transgressions and losses, and Easy Goer would summon up enough class, courage and heart even in his infrequent, tight losses. He always ran well and was right there even in his close defeats." - In Easy Goer's Hall of Fame induction article in BloodHorse magazine.
Ben Judah If you can get a copy Of the form lookup the Preakness chart from that day and that race it says in mid/stretch easy goer savaged the closest horse Sunday silence that means they were so.close well you have the picture eAsy goer finishes second in what was the best ever and I have been to 35 of them he was a new Yorker I saw him win wood at Aqueduct the Belmont At Belmont and the travers at the spa
True. Jay Hovdey made valid, good point: "Without SS, Easy Goer would have been crowned with statues right alongside Man O' War, Secretariat, Citation. Without Easy Goer, SS didn't have the overall historical career and overall historical campaign like Easy Goer." Both would have been Triple Crown champions with only history as a benchmark.
Writer on the coastJay Hovdey spoke the truth that SS was given performance enhancing drugs by CHARLIES BUDDY VET. You know it you know his Vet. Sickening ignoring the truth. Spit it out all these years later. DISGRACEFUL.
Not to mention Doc Harthill
WHY DO YOU IGNORE HARTHILL . INJUSTICE TO EASY GOER.
@@makingthecoin3647 With out a doubt.
Without NICKY CHEATO(zito), Smarty Jones would be there as well...
Easy Goer ran so many of these top ten all timer performances at every distance. Consitution,talent,ability,speed-stamina combination
Beating clever trevor by 2 lengths was an all time performance? Hanging vs sunday silence for 3rd time in BC was all time performance?losing the 88 BC juvenile vs the most ATRICIOUS field of all time was an all time performance? Nope...
Travis west. You are so dumb. The drug free hall of fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile ever run by 3yo in 1:32 2/5 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record while smashing Secretariats record at 8f in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned drugs (plus as importantly also banned as criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill), the 2nd fastest Test of the Champion Belmont stakes behind only Secretariat at 12f, right on 6.5f record at age 2, the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes at 8f beating Is it true numerous times, 2/5 of a second off the Whitney record at 9f, the 3rd Fastest Travers of all time at 10f just a few ticks off the 10f record, 3/5 of a second off 10f record in the Suburban at 10f, and his times at all distances and 120 to 126 speed figures dwarf the drug dependent and criminal drugger veterinarian dependent Sunday silence. The drug dependent and criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill couldn't win and got demolished when he was forced to run drug free without any drugs and without his criminal cheater veterinarian alex harthill. The criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill admitted to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs. The drug dependent and criminal cheater veterinarian alex harthill dependent Sunday silence also lost 4 races on bigger tracks with a larger circumference than a mile. Plus EG won G1 races at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with no drugs running many more races with much less rest and time between races. The drug dependent and criminal cheater veterinarian alex harthill dependent ss could only win G1 races at 9f to 10f with drugs and with much more rest and time between races. Case closed.
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that. The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede). Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
True true Travis West
Tom LaMarra: "The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful CHESTNUT frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME."
He wasnt even the greatest in his year...
@@marklewen9384talking out of your imposter Hebrew hemorrhoidal hell hole.
Losers always coming up with excuses why they lose 😂😂😂😂😂
Easy Goer-one of the true all time great, once in a lifetime horses who combined blistering,record speed at a mile and at shorter distances, with a truly supreme and genuinely brilliant stamina at the longer and classic distances.
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"Easy Goer was a Secretariat emulator. A big,powerful chestnut, physically in the mold of Secretariat. His brilliant display of speed in the record mile in 1:32:2 & at shorter distances. His overpowering second fastest Belmont of all time, Travers & Champagne,etc. His explosive & extraordinary accelerations & dashes out of trouble in the Whitney & Woodward. Both many facile wins,both with a penchant for large winning margins & extremely speedy clockings. Both mortal.Phenomenal performances."
My fav horse of all time Easy Goer.
I wish I could go back in time and somehow give Easy Goer a jockey who would be more in synch with him.
tubeyhamster rubbish! Ya sound like Bill Finly!
Give him Cordero and he doesn't lose 2 of those key races... he might be Triple Crown champ too!
Easy Goer was the Last none MEDICATED, WITHOUT LASIX horse to be a tremedous champion, I am glad we are going back to those day were horses ran the way the creator build the Thoroughbred to do, which is run NATURALLY and the last true one was EASY GOER!!
Very true, Easy Goer's record three year old mile of all time in 1:32 just a tick off Dr. Fager's world record and crushing Secretariat's record by a full second,and his monster,second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time are the two greatest performances by any horse since Bid in 1980. And Easy Goer's Whitney(overcoming Day's despicable riding again) and his Travers are truly up there with those two.
Time only means anything in jail. I was there that SUNDAY, track was concrete. NY bred maidens went 1 08 flat 2 races before.
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The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Triple Crown winner Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Triple Crown winner Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Forego 1; Wajima 2, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Hall of Famer Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Eclipse Award Champion Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Eclipse Award Champion Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion Kotashaan 1; and an endless amount of others. And it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss - the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, 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 performance enhancing drugs that he gave his horses were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than aspirin bute), Banamine (50 times more powerful than aspirin bute) and Sublimaze (infinitely more powerful than aspirin bute). The drugs Etorphine and Sublimaze are drugs that gave/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.
Clevor Trevor just celebrated his 30th birthday last week. A very under rated horse who was training second to none when The Travers was run. Easy Goer getting by him was hardly easy.
I was on the East Coast, when they ran that race, the Clockers were saying to folks, hey Clever Trevor can run, it was fun to see a horse that started his career at Blue Ribbon downs, do so well that day.
Easy Goer, a phenom, just phenomenal performance after phenomenal performance he unleashed, time after time, in his storied career, until his terribly,problematic ankles really caught up to him. Phenomenal champion
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I was a bit young (9 yo) for Saratoga at the time, but one of my best memories of my Dad who was a horse racing fan was our love for Easy Goer!
William Leggett of the Thoroughbred Times made a great point & it's hard to argue: "Easy Goer was a superhorse, just bad timing for a few of his narrow defeats. Grace & speed &brilliant acceleration blended with power & stamina in as fine an imitation of Secretariat as we can recall." Secretariat(we know what he won) lost 3 big races(Whitney,Woodward&Wood Memorial) at 3. Easy Goer won(we know the 3 he lost) the Whitney,Woodward,Wood Memorial,Travers,Belmont,JCGC,etc. Timing is everything
"Easy Goer, the big,powerful horse with many similarities to Secretariat apparent. He looked the image of a Secretariat or a Swaps. Both many facile wins, both mortal & both not perfect. Both with a penchant for large winning margins & extremely speedy clockings. Both superb displays of speed, explosive & extraordinary accelerations & overpowering stamina." Ed Bowen
A colossal beast is right Gberet83. Easy Goer, just colossal performance after colossal performance in his career, and he was a colossal beast at all distances of ground.
"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 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 & still only won by the narrowest of margins. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was better than the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer crushed the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence when ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs & without his banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. New York was the only state in the entire country during that era which banned all drugs, & also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well. Enough said.
the handsomest boy ever. rest in peace sweet pretty powerful boy. if pat day could ride one step no one would ever have touched you. we all miss you big strong handsome boy.
Will's Way, his son, followed in his hoof prints and won the Travers in 1996! I love Will's Way. I take care of him at his retirement farm.
That's wonderful they deserve to be taken care of after bringing us so much joy. Thanks for the work you do
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@@sigscorpion9275 remember the suffering Sunday Silence went thru for years the amount of pain he endured from the disease he had that a good chance brought on after four years of narcotic poison put in his bloodstream to benefit human pigs. Effecting his metabolism as well as triggering diseases over the years to arise. Slobber for all the suffering he went thru because the new owners wanted him to breed when he had continuos debilitating pain instead of mercifully putting him down. Keeping him alive and SUFFERING. Also thanks to Charlie no cred, his friend the Vet criminal HARTHILL for injecting him for four years of narcotic poisons that triggered his painful demise. SIG THE PIG
Pat Day all of us Easy Goer fans would like to thank you for Closing too late as the overwhelming 1-2 favorite in the 1989 Classic and missing by a Neck...You sure Knew how to lose close races aboard the Best Horse in the race
joe chrow No doubt Easy Goer was the best horse and no doubt he was the better horse. Much like Citation losing 4 of 5 to Noor, but Citation was better. Much like Kelso losing 3 of 4 to Beau Purple, but Kelso was better. Much like Shuvee losing 4 of 5 races to Gallant Bloom, but Shuvee was better. Much like Forego losing 2 of 3 to Big Spruce, but Forego was better. Much like Dr Fager losing 2 of 4 to Damascus, but Dr Fager was better. Much like John Henry losing 4 of 4 to Cabrini Green, but John Henry was better. Much like John Henry losing 3 of 3 to Darby Creek Road, but John Henry was better. Much like Pleasant Colony losing 3 of 4 to Akureyri, but Pleasant Colony was better. Much like Skip Away losing 4 of 6 races to Formal Gold, but Skip Away was better. Much like so many others, an infinite amount of others.
joe chrow No doubt Easy Goer was the best horse and no doubt he was the better horse. Much like Citation losing 4 of 5 to Noor, but Citation was better. Much like Kelso losing 3 of 4 to Beau Purple, but Kelso was better. Much like Shuvee losing 4 of 5 races to Gallant Bloom, but Shuvee was better. Much like Forego losing 2 of 3 to Big Spruce, but Forego was better. Much like Dr Fager losing 2 of 4 to Damascus, but Dr Fager was better. Much like John Henry losing 4 of 4 to Cabrini Green, but John Henry was better. Much like John Henry losing 3 of 3 to Darby Creek Road, but John Henry was better. Much like Pleasant Colony losing 3 of 4 to Akureyri, but Pleasant Colony was better. Much like Skip Away losing 4 of 6 races to Formal Gold, but Skip Away was better. Much like so many others, an infinite amount of others.
@Insert Name Noor won 4 of 5 races over your Citation, and Noor was the best horse over Citation in all 4 races he beat him in, and Noor was the better horse. Beau Purple won 3 of 4 races over your Kelso (vast majority of major wins were in NY and you are a total hypocrite with all of your BLAH BLAH excuses for so many other horses), and Beau Purple was the best horse in all 3 races he beat him in, and Beau Purple was the better horse. Ditto Big Spruce beat your Forego (ALL of his wins were in NY and FL like EG, and lost ALL of his races outside NY & FL) in 2 of 3 races. Ditto Dr Fager 2/Damascus 2, Gallant Bloom4/Shuvee 1, Formal Gold 4/Skip Away 2, Billy Kelly 8/Sir Barton 4, Akureyri 3/Pleasant Colony 1, Cabrini Green 4/John Henry 0, Darby Creek Road 3/John Henry 0, Summer Squall 4/Unbridled 2, and an endless amount of others.
You are the total hypocrite with so many BLAH BLAH excuses for other horses flaunting your hypocrisy. Funny how you write so many positives (and NO NEGATIVES) about so many great horses and give them so many BLAH BLAH EXCUSES; ALL EXCEPT EASY GOER, including Citation, Kelso, Secretariat, Swaps, Nashua, Damascus (so it's perfectly ok for you to think Damascus was better than Dr Fager, yet it's not perfectly ok for others to think Easy Goer was better than SS? You are a total hypocrite), Dr Fager (yet you can rave with so many positives about both rivals Damascus and Dr Fager, yet you can't and don't rave with so many positives about BOTH rivals, including Easy Goer? You are a total hypocrite), Bold Ruler, Tom Fool, Native Dancer, Coaltown, Whirlaway, Sunday Silence, Spectacular Bid, Affirmed, Seattle Slew, Round Table, Forego etc.
I quote you and you are a total hypocrite with all of your BLAH BLAH excuses for so many other horses: "With races won I look at it this way. Any horse under 50% has to be thrown out when you consider the best of all time, because they don’t even win 50% (what?). But even if you have a very inconsistent horse who runs the fastest races 51 times, but loses 49, they still beat every horse alive more than half the time, which would make them better (better? who's better is totally subjective and you know it). Cy will always be my fave as well. And even though his final winning percentage was 71% (why, Easy Goer's winning % was similar), it was hard to beat him in those 71% races (again, similar to Easy Goer). I don’t think a 75% win percentage for sec is too terrible considering what his owner and trainer (what BLAH BLAH excuses you total hypocrite) put him through (BLAH, BLAH with all your fucking excuses you total hypocrite). I was at those races and all those excuses (BLAH BLAH again with all your fucking excuses and you are a total hypocrite) about him are completely valid (BLAH BLAH again with all your fucking excuses you total hypocrite). He looked terrible (BLAH BLAH again and again and again) in the paddock. But was pretty unbeatable (maybe something positive about Easy Goer could have been mentioned, especially since you are commenting on an Easy Goer Gotham record video comment thread) in those 9 races he won. And if 75% is bad, then you have to throw kelso (Vast majority of his wins in NY like EG you fucking total hypocrite) out as the best since he had 62% lifetime win percentage, which I don’t think is right. Even though kelso lost a lot, he was hard to beat when he was on, which is important (must not be important at all for Easy Goer). I think some losses (more of your endless BLAH BLAH excuses you total hypocrite), probably about 10 (10? That beats all the excuses and losses of both Sec & EG) of Cy’s shouldn’t be pitted on the horse, but rather the connections (BLAH BLAH with your fuckin excuses you total hypocrite). For Cy, Warren Wright for being millionaire hungry (BLAH BLAH excuses). Tom Fool (vast majority of wins in NY too) needed to develop a little more. Dang, was he a superstar. With who’s the best is everyone always looks at a category (like yourself you hypocrite) they think shows it (you do this too you hypocrite), then sticks to that (you again you hypocrite), while usually ignoring (you again you hypocrite) others. That’s why arguments can get kinda ugly. You’ve gotta look at everything, times, wins, competition faced, all of it (I can add drugs, G1 wins at various distances, size of tracks, human connections, and an endless amount of others). And that can be very difficult (must not be for you you hypocrite). I saw forego(ONLY won in NY and FL like EG you hypocrite) a lot as well. He looked very different from kelso. But still a great horse (Forego ONLY won in NY and Florida just like Easy Goer you hypocrite)." What a total hypocrite you are, and you are filled with an endless amount of BLAH BLAH EXCUSES for so many other horses. You are the biggest hypocrite BLAH BLAH excuse maker. Those are all entirely different horses and scenarios that have nothing to do with any others. They are called red herrings. Look it up, it’s a logical fallacy. But, hey, that’s one of the few things you’re actually good at, using logical fallacies. BLAH BLAH this and that excuse after excuse. BLAH BLAH more excuses. Keep flaunting your hypocrisy.
You are the total hypocrite with so many BLAH BLAH excuses for other horses flaunting your hypocrisy. Funny how you write so many positives (and NO NEGATIVES) about so many great horses and give them so many BLAH BLAH EXCUSES; ALL EXCEPT EASY GOER, including Citation, Kelso, Secretariat, Swaps, Nashua, Damascus (so it's perfectly ok for you to think Damascus was better than Dr Fager, yet it's not perfectly ok for others to think Easy Goer was better than SS? You are a total hypocrite), Dr Fager (yet you can rave with so many positives about both rivals Damascus and Dr Fager, yet you can't and don't rave with so many positives about BOTH rivals, including Easy Goer? You are a total hypocrite), Bold Ruler, Tom Fool, Native Dancer, Coaltown, Whirlaway, Sunday Silence, Spectacular Bid, Affirmed, Seattle Slew, Round Table, Forego etc.
I quote you and you are a total hypocrite with all of your BLAH BLAH excuses for so many other horses: "With races won I look at it this way. Any horse under 50% has to be thrown out when you consider the best of all time, because they don’t even win 50% (what?). But even if you have a very inconsistent horse who runs the fastest races 51 times, but loses 49, they still beat every horse alive more than half the time, which would make them better (better? who's better is totally subjective and you know it). Cy will always be my fave as well. And even though his final winning percentage was 71% (why, Easy Goer's winning % was similar), it was hard to beat him in those 71% races (again, similar to Easy Goer). I don’t think a 75% win percentage for sec is too terrible considering what his owner and trainer (what BLAH BLAH excuses you total hypocrite) put him through (BLAH, BLAH with all your fucking excuses you total hypocrite). I was at those races and all those excuses (BLAH BLAH again with all your fucking excuses and you are a total hypocrite) about him are completely valid (BLAH BLAH again with all your fucking excuses you total hypocrite). He looked terrible (BLAH BLAH again and again and again) in the paddock. But was pretty unbeatable (maybe something positive about Easy Goer could have been mentioned, especially since you are commenting on an Easy Goer Gotham record video comment thread) in those 9 races he won. And if 75% is bad, then you have to throw kelso (Vast majority of his wins in NY like EG you fucking total hypocrite) out as the best since he had 62% lifetime win percentage, which I don’t think is right. Even though kelso lost a lot, he was hard to beat when he was on, which is important (must not be important at all for Easy Goer). I think some losses (more of your endless BLAH BLAH excuses you total hypocrite), probably about 10 (10? That beats all the excuses and losses of both Sec & EG) of Cy’s shouldn’t be pitted on the horse, but rather the connections (BLAH BLAH with your fuckin excuses you total hypocrite). For Cy, Warren Wright for being millionaire hungry (BLAH BLAH excuses). Tom Fool (vast majority of wins in NY too) needed to develop a little more. Dang, was he a superstar. With who’s the best is everyone always looks at a category (like yourself you hypocrite) they think shows it (you do this too you hypocrite), then sticks to that (you again you hypocrite), while usually ignoring (you again you hypocrite) others. That’s why arguments can get kinda ugly. You’ve gotta look at everything, times, wins, competition faced, all of it (I can add drugs, G1 wins at various distances, size of tracks, human connections, and an endless amount of others). And that can be very difficult (must not be for you you hypocrite). I saw forego(ONLY won in NY and FL like EG you hypocrite) a lot as well. He looked very different from kelso. But still a great horse (Forego ONLY won in NY and Florida just like Easy Goer you hypocrite)." What a total hypocrite you are, and you are filled with an endless amount of BLAH BLAH EXCUSES for so many other horses. You are the biggest hypocrite BLAH BLAH excuse maker. Those are all entirely different horses and scenarios that have nothing to do with any others. They are called red herrings. Look it up, it’s a logical fallacy. But, hey, that’s one of the few things you’re actually good at, using logical fallacies. BLAH BLAH this and that excuse after excuse. BLAH BLAH more excuses. Keep flaunting your hypocrisy.
Easy Goer, one of the rare all time great Hall of Fame champions that combined blistering,record speed at a mile and shorter distances(fastest three year old mile of all time in 1:32,near track record at 6.5f at two,fastest 7f of the yr in Florida,among the top 5 fastest Champagnes of all time at 8f) with a thoroughly supreme stamina to run the second fastest Belmont of all time,and all distances in between supreme(near track records in Whitney at 9f,Travers at 10f & Suburban at 10f).
1989 HOY and the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Sunday Silence will always be the Drug-Free Test of the Champion (The Classic Distance for the whole world) winner; the most coveted prize is being the 1989 Horse of the year and Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion in the Hall of Fame and beat Easy Goer 3 out of 4 times
the classic distance for the whole world is 1 1/2m; The Test of the Champion is the Belmont Stakes which was run in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill as well - and ss got obliterated in it by the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer; ss was NOT drug-free as he ran every race in his entire very short career with drugs, except only one; and the most coveted prize and honor, by far, is being inducted in the Hall of Fame, but Easy Goer did so running drug-free without any ped drugs, while ss did so with ped drugs and his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill
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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. 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. There was also the Belmont 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 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 met those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful chestnut frame and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame racing career, and he will always be mentioned in the same breath with the greatest of all time." B.H.
Easy Goer had just towering and overwhelming performance after towering, overwhelming performance and he indeed did unleash them at all distances. Certainly one of the greatest thoroughbreds of all time.
"Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies & debates about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran of DRF, LA Times & Newsday.
It's really kind of ironic if you think about it? Every time that Pat Day rode Easy Goer that Sunday Silence wasn't involved in the field? He looked like he was born to ride the horse. But every time Day rode Easy Goer with Sunday Silence contesting, he always managed to give Easy Goer the most horrendous rides? That's not a knock whatsoever at Sunday Silence either. No doubt he was a class horse, also. But Day's worst rides on Easy Goer were always in the races that involved Sunday Silence. JMO
@GBeret83 There is no doubt in my mind that EG was a superior talent to SS (which is saying a lot because SS was a great horse), but the horse has no control over how/where he is trained, what conditions he races on, how he is ridden, how many horses he races against., and from what track position he starts. That said, I think many would agree that bad racing strategy/tactics cost EG three very high profile races, and an unqualified claim of being a legend.
I would have to agree. I believe Easy Goer had more raw talent and raw ability than any horse since Secretariat, and he ran many colossal gigantic performances at every distance he ran. Though I agree with the many bad riding/training mistakes,racing strategy/tactics,etc, SS gets immense credit for what he was able to do also vs. a freak like Easy Goer.
Yet he lost to Sunday silence 3 out of 4 times...nope.
Totally wrong Travis West. It was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
Travis West Travis West
So true. Secretariat lost to Angle Light, Onion, Prove Out, Herbull, Fleet n royal and master achiever. Kelso lost 3 of 4 to beau purple. Citation lost 4 of 5 to Noor. John Henry lost 4 of 4 to cabrini green. John Henry lost 3 of 3 to Darby creek rd. Shuvee lost 4 of 5 to gallant bloom. Dr fager lost 2 of 4 to Damascus. Forego lost 2 of 3 to big spruce. Sir Barton lost 8 of 12 to Billy kelly. Skip away lost 4 of 6 to formal gold. Pleasant colony lost 3 of 4 to akureyri. Unbridled lost 4 of 6 to summer squall. The list is endless
Another performance where pat day made many moves on Easy Goer during a race and still won easily..Pat Day treated Easy Goer like a sports car , not a horse..and it cost Easy Goer a few big races..Pat Day had ZERO respect for Sunday Silence..He thought he could do whatever he wanted with Easy Goer in a race..Most of the time it didnt cost him..Pat Day would make an average of 3 moves per race with easy goer and easy goer would still win big without ever feeling the whip..Easy Goer was that talented..but Pat Day was too spoiled with Easy Goer and it cost Easy Goer at possibly the best horse racing has ever seen..Easy Goer still put on a 2-3 yr old campaign that cannot be TOUCHED...Just wish Easy Goer had a different jockey
Amen-- Easy Goer should have had the 89 Preakness & Breeders Cup-- SS had the better jockey.. The 89 BCup ticks me off to this day-- Easy Goer had so much left in the tank,, PDay waited FOREVER to hit the gas
I agree with you. He costed our boy accolades that will stand the test of time and he still achieved greatness that stands the test of time! We love you Easy Goer!
TJ Strong I agree with you - in the Preakness he got EG out of position and pinned up against the rail and in BCC just waited way too long to pull the trigger. I think we came from 12 lengths back and lost by a neck. Cmon dude! I miss Easy Goer!!
Believe his loss to SS had more to do with Doc. Hart hill then jock
I would've choked Pat Day out if I ever ran into him back then. It was criminal how he rode Easy Goer. Phipps and McGaughey sticking with Day pissed me off to no end. Easy Goer was still able to overcome a horrible jockey to be one of the best race horses ever.
"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. 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 & debates about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran of DRF, Newsday & LA Times.
Easy Goer, another near track record performance under a hand ride. Phenom.
Easy Goer was far superior. EG ran every distance faster. Even the trainer John Veitch said, "Easy Goer had far more weapons & was far more versatile than his sire. Easy Goer was much more in the league of his grandfather Buckpasser, great grandfather Tom Fool, his other great grandfather Native Dancer, & his great great grandfather Man o' War." EG ran every distance faster, or as fast as any & all the greats except for Secretariat (who still lost 3 big races by a combined 10 lengths at age 3). Easy Goer even ran faster than his great great grandfather Man O' War (ages 2 & 3), his great grandfather Native Dancer (ditto), Citation (ditto), Slew, Affirmed, Aly, Bid (at age 3), his grandfather Buckpasser, his great grandfather Tom Fool, Dr Fager (at ages 2 & 3), Damascus (at ages 2 & 3), Swaps, Nashua, etc. Easy Goer even ran faster at 1 mile in 1:32 than Secretariat, & as fast at 9f in 1:45 & change. Easy Goer ran in the Top 5 Fastest all-time runnings of numerous historic, prestigious, championship Drug-Free G1 races at all distances. Easy Goer will always be mentioned in the same breath with the greatest of all time, & his scoreboard with the drug-reliant & criminal doper juicer veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent ss means as much or as little as Citation (Lost 4 of 5 to Noor), Kelso (Lost 3 of 4 to Beau Purple), Forego (Lost 2 of 3 to Big Spruce), Dr Fager (lost 2 of 4 to Damascus), Pleasant Colony (lost 3 of 4 to Akureyri), Skip Away (lost 4 of 6 to Formal Gold), Shuvee (lost 4 of 5 to Gallant Bloom), & an an endless amount of other greats.
The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion is Easy Goer. The Drug-free Eclipse Award Champion & Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer will always be the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion, and the most coveted honor and prize, by far, is being inducted in the Hall of Fame, and Easy Goer did it drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's career accomplishments and body of work were far superior to the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs at all, and the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer Obliterated the drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs (and, as importantly, also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well; Harthill was 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 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. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence got obliterated when he couldn't get all of his performance enhancing drugs from his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs (and also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! The drug-reliant & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence NEEDED EVERYTHING in his favor to beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence LOST 4 RACES on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than a mile (including ss having a LOSING RECORD while LOSING 3 races at his larger HOME track at the bigger circumferenced Hollywood Park track). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his track with him, ss is just that horse! Meanwhile, the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won Drug-free G1's at 7f, 1 mile, 1 1/8m, 1 1/4m & 1 1/2m on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) drug-free with much less rest and time between races and ran far more races with faster times at all distances and ran far superior speed figures and far superior performance ratings; while the drug-dependent and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence only won G1's with performance enhancing drugs and his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill and only at 9f to 10f only with performance enhancing drugs and only on small 8f sized tracks and with much more rest and time between races and ran far less races even with performance enhancing drugs. Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! Talk about a horse that needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him, ss is just that horse.
The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Triple Crown winner Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Hall of Fame Champion & 5 time HOY Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Triple Crown winner Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Hall of Fame Champion & 3 time HOY Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, Hall of Fame Champion & 2 time HOY John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, Hall of Fame Champion & 2 time HOY John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Eclipse Award Champion Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Hall of Fame Champion & HOY Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Triple Crown winner Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Eclipse Award Champion Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, HOY & Eclipse Award Champion Kotashaan 1; and an endless amount of others. The Classic Distance for the whole world is 12f, but Easy Goer won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less time and rest between races and ran many more career races; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f with much more time and rest between races and ran far less career races. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's body of work & career accomplishments are far superior to ss's as well!
Sunday Silence met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful chestnut frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME
@@traviswest6437 ss did not have a chestnut frame. lies and fabrications
New York was the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. When a "horse carries his home track everywhere he went", he runs great on all tracks, not just his "home track" . 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"; so much for that. EG actually lost two races by the narrowest of margins and while conceding a large amount of weight on his "home track". So much for that. New York by far ran/runs the most Prestigious, Championship G1 races in the USA with the highest purses 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 (they are by far the fairest tracks in the USA because they are all larger tracks with large, sweeping turns where horses run as fast around the bigger turns as they do on straightaways) in New York; 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 based, 99% of them ran/will run in NY for the reasons listed above. Having acknowledged these facts, EG won on all 3 sized tracks - 8f, 9f and 12f sized tracks; EG won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less rest and time between races and ran many more career races. The drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant SS gets Destroyed by 8 widening lengths in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs - and, as importantly, banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss LOSES a GRADE 2 race to the drug-reliant Prized; when Prized is forced to run drug-free in the only state in the whole country at the time which prohibited all drugs, Prized gets crushed by 25 lengths by the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer. SS also LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than a mile. SS only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f on small 8f sized tracks with much more rest and time between races and ran far less career races. SS was a horse who needed drugs, needed his illegal criminal vet, and needed his small one size 8f track. 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 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 also with a DISMAL record LOSING 4 races on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f; 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 small 8f sized tracks) race horse and that is all he really was.
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easy goer is 1 - 5 away from New York
@@sigscorpion9275 110% TRUTH
New York was the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill. When a "horse carries his home track everywhere he went", he runs great on all tracks, not just his "home track" . 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"; so much for that. EG actually lost two races by the narrowest of margins and while conceding a large amount of weight on his "home track". So much for that. New York by far ran/runs the most Prestigious, Championship G1 races in the USA with the highest purses 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 (they are by far the fairest tracks in the USA because they are all larger tracks with large, sweeping turns where horses run as fast around the bigger turns as they do on straightaways) in New York; 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 based, 99% of them ran/will run in NY for the reasons listed above. Having acknowledged these facts, EG won on all 3 sized tracks - 8f, 9f and 12f sized tracks; EG won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less rest and time between races and ran many more career races. The drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant SS gets Destroyed by 8 widening lengths in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs - and, as importantly, banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill; ss LOSES a GRADE 2 race to the drug-reliant Prized; when Prized is forced to run drug-free in the only state in the whole country at the time which prohibited all drugs, Prized gets crushed by 25 lengths by the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer. SS also LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than a mile. SS only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f on small 8f sized tracks with much more rest and time between races and ran far less career races. SS was a horse who needed drugs, needed his illegal criminal vet, and needed his small one size smaller 8f track. 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 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 also with a DISMAL record LOSING 4 races on bigger tracks with circumferences larger than 8f; 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 small 8f sized tracks) race horse and that is all he really was
@@traviswest9388 nope
I was never a fan of the way Day rode EG. If he had rode him in the BC Classic the way he rode him here, he likely would have won.
No he wouldn't....in BC he wasn't running vs clever trevor...
@@marklewen9384 You can't fault a horse for having poor competition to face. His connections certainly never ducked anyone. He ran in NINE Grade one races as a three year old including the Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup, beating older horses. He received a suboptimal ride in the Kentucky Derby, a downright lousy ride in the Preakness and even Day couldn't mess up his Belmont. You remember that one, don't you? Never out of the money in 20 lifetime starts, winning 14 of them. Also a Hall Of Fame inductee. Yeah-pure rubbish.
@@richardk6196 I never said easy WA bad; HE WAS GREAT. but his achilles heal was that he was too big for sharp turns. Its why he lost BC juvy, ky derby,and BC classic. I know pat day...he said exact same thing. He was unbeatable at wide turned belmont, but was less athletic around gulfs sharper turns. I was there that day. Easy had more raw ability, Sunday was more polished racehorse.
@@richardk6196 take the 2 best sons of alydar: easy Goer and alysheba. Goer had more ability, Alysheba a more polished race horse.
Totally wrong Travis West. The Dreug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that. Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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. Caseclosed
"Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS, 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. 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, who benefited immeasurably by all of their incredibly effective performance enhancing effects.
Easy Goer, like the Bloodhorse Top 100 book states in the Easy Goer article, "Easy Goer will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME", despite the two awful kid gloves and baby hands rides that cost him by a nostril and desperate neck in two outs.
Easy Goer was a great one! if only Sunday Silence had come along at a different time they both would have been triple crown winners.
couldn't agree more
If only Easy GOER ran sgainst a CLEAN Sunday Silence. Get real
And what was easy goers excuse in the worst BC Juvenile of all time(1988)?
@@makingthecoin3647 The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that.
@@makingthecoin3647 True true true Travis West
I don't know what it is but theres something awesome about watching EG run. He seems like he never takes it serious and plays around with his opponents and his stride is one of my favorites of all time.
Easy Goer was in the Top 3 to 5 all time fastest runnings of all these races(Many of which have well over 100 runnings): Champagne,Belmont Stakes,Gotham,Whitney,Travers,Suburban, and also the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, and at 6.5f as a two year old. Any horse that ran against Easy Goer in many races would have had to break track records to beat him.
They didn't break track record in BC juvenile, or ky derby...
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that. The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer ran the fastest mile of all time by a 3 yr old in 1:32:2 just a tick off Dr Fagers world record smashing secretariats records, ran the 2nd fastest Test of a Champion Belmont Stakes of all time at 12f, ran right on the 6.5f track record, ran the fastest 7f of the year in Florida, ran among the top 3 Fastest Champagnes of all time at 9f, ran right on the track records in the 9f Whitney, 10f Travers & 10f Suburban. EG is the only horse in history to win the 12f Belmont Stakes, 9f Whitney vs older, 10f Travers, 10f Woodward vs older and 12f Jockey Club Gold Cup vs older beating multimillionaires Prized (by 25 lengths, meanwhile Prized beat ss in a G2), multimillionaires and multiple G1 winners Blushing John, Proper Reality, Cryptoclearance, Slew City Slew, world record holder Expensive Decision, Mercedes Won, Is It True (3 times by a combined 10 lengths), Awe Inspiring (EG beat AI by 20 lengths while SS beat AI by a few lengths); meanwhile ss loses to Prized, Houston, Cro Lover, and to Criminal Type (with ss conceding LESS weight than EG had to concede). Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
Travis West
Copying and pasting Bloodhorse expert Avalyn Hunter's quote about the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer is the GREATEST FORM of Flattery. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, when you imitate what others say, it’s the biggest compliment to those people you are imitating and copying and pasting!
Read Joe Drape's book ,Race for the Triple Crown, and their is an entire chapter,or a good portion of one, on Pat Day's "passive,deliberate,horrible" riding really costing a lot of his mounts,many in huge races as well. I agree with the many racing experts from both coasts(Christine,Nack,Pope,Crist,Hirsch) and even trainers Wayne Lukas and Woody Stephens who saw and stated and observed this in Pat Day's riding on Easy Goer and other horses as well."Exposed end of a live wire." Better horse
The Hall of Fame champion and all timer Easy Goer's record three yr old mile of all time in 1:32, smashing Secretariat's record by a full second and just a tick off Dr. Fager's world record mile, and the monsterly overwhelming, second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time, are the two best performances since Bib in 1980, and this Travers and his 89' Whitney are truly not far off those two performances.
The 89 whitney and travers were against PIGS...
This was the fastest Travers since 1989 until Arrogate just recently broke the Track Record...Easy Goer either put up the biggest number in history or 1 of the biggest numbers in history in about 9 different Graded Stakes races he competed in...At various distances...He even just missed a Track Record by 1/5th of a second in an Allowance event in only his 3rd career start at 6 1/2 furlongs...
Thanks for posting!!
Easy Goer,Hall of Fame Eclipse Award Champion who ran the fastest 3 yr old mile in history in 1:32.2,destroying Secretariat's mark by 1 full second,a tick off Fager's world record,second fastest Belmont of all time,most of the best,most prestigious races in near track record performances at all distances,and an inch and desperate neck losses due to despicable Patsy Day riding.
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A beast!! No other way to put it. I know the lifetime record between the two doesn't support me saying this? But I still to this day believe that Easy Goer was the better horse of the two between himself and Sunday Silence. I just don't believe that Sunday Silence could've reeled off the string of G1 win's at Belmont and Saratoga that Easy Goer reeled off. Easy Goer would've been great, no matter what surface he raced on, IMO.
"In 1984 I gave serious consideration about getting out of racing. I was going to sell my equipment and go into the seminary. But The Lord told me to stay in racing"
Pat Day
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Retired jockey.
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The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion is Easy Goer. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's career accomplishments and body of work were far superior to the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs at all, and the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer Obliterated the drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs (and, as importantly, also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well; Harthill was 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 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. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence got obliterated when he couldn't get all of his performance enhancing drugs from his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs (and also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! The drug-reliant & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence NEEDED EVERYTHING in his favor to beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence LOST 4 RACES on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than a mile (including ss having a LOSING RECORD while LOSING 3 races at his larger HOME track at the bigger circumferenced Hollywood Park track). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his track with him, ss is just that horse! Meanwhile, the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won Drug-free G1's at 7f, 1 mile, 1 1/8m, 1 1/4m & 1 1/2m on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) drug-free with much less rest and time between races and ran far more races with faster times at all distances and ran far superior speed figures and far superior performance ratings; while the drug-dependent and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence only won G1's with performance enhancing drugs and his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill and only at 9f to 10f only with performance enhancing drugs and only on small 8f sized tracks and with much more rest and time between races and ran far less races even with performance enhancing drugs. Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! Talk about a horse that needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him, ss is just that horse!
1 of the fastest Travers in history...Easy Goer holds the best or 1 of the best numbers in history in like 9 different Graded Stakes..His Gotham performance was arguably the most spectacular performances this sport had the privilege to witness..He also had an unofficial gallop out time of "1:45 4/5" for the 1 1/8th during that race..All while "cantering" throughout...Sorry but this horse was much better than Sunday Silence..3 to 1 edge means nothing to me at all...The Belmont showcased how much better 1 horse can be over the other also..This horse was a FREAK..At all distances
Was much better than silence? No, he wasn't. He was better than him in his home track, but lost 3 times on neutral tracks. Goer had more raw ability, Sunday a better race horse...and much better in breeding shed.
Totally wrong Travis West. The drug-dependent and criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill dependent sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs and his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile; ss had a losing record at his HOME larger track of Hollywood. Plus, t was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
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joe chrow True indeed. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was far superior to the drug-reliant & criminal illegal vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss. The drug-reliant & criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill reliant sunday silence could not win without all of his drugs & ss could not win w/o his criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill; ss LOST 4 races on bigger tracks with a circumference larger than a mile. Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal cheater veterinarian of ss Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses] to perform his magic & drug the drug-reliant & criminal cheater vet Alex Harthill-reliant ss. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-reliant horses like ss; & these horses, like ss & many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. No-drug races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. In the drug-free EG's few very slim losses by the narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races. And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration filed suit against Alex Harthill on 102 charges of possessing & using unusual quantities of 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. 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. The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer, even with passing away so young, is the sire, grandsire, broodmare sire, etc. to an endless amount of G1 winners in both the USA & Europe. SS did NOT sire even ONE G1 winner in all of the USA & all of Europe. Breeding experts Anne Peters, Avalyn Hunter & Alan Porter: "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. 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; Discovery H winner Miles D; Suburban H winner Dynamic One; 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 a few producing daughters but they have produced a phenomenal amount of G1 winners & stakes winners. Easy Goer would have made an even more phenomenal contribution had he lived longer."
Easy Goer was far superior. EG ran every distance faster. Even the trainer John Veitch said, "Easy Goer had far more weapons & was far more versatile." EG ran every distance faster, or as fast as any & all the greats except for Secretariat (who still lost 3 big races by a combined 10 lengths at age 3). Easy Goer even ran faster than Man O' War (ages 2 & 3), Native Dancer (ditto), Citation (ditto), Slew, Affirmed, Aly, Bid (at age 3), Buckpasser, Dr Fager (at ages 2 & 3), Damascus (at ages 2 & 3), Swaps, Nashua, etc. Easy Goer even ran faster at 1 mile in 1:32 than Secretariat, & as fast at 9f in 1:45 & change. Easy Goer ran in the Top 5 Fastest all-time runnings of numerous historic, prestigious, championship Drug-Free G1 races at all distances. Easy Goer will always be mentioned in the same breath with the greatest of all time, & his scoreboard with the drug-reliant ss means as much or as little as Citation (Lost 4 of 5 to Noor), Kelso (Lost 3 of 4 to Beau Purple), Forego (Lost 2 of 3 to Big Spruce), Dr Fager (lost 2 of 4 to Damascus), Pleasant Colony (lost 3 of 4 to Akureyri), Skip Away (lost 4 of 6 to Formal Gold), Shuvee (lost 4 of 5 to Gallant Bloom), & an an endless amount of other greats.
Time is only important in jail...
This non homer,unbiased expert stated the obvious about Day's despicable riding. "After falling asleep for the first 6f of the race, Day cost Easy Goer a full head of steam down the backstretch. Day put out the fire of a splendid champion colt in full flame. If Day and McCarron had switched mounts, or Laffit Pincay,Angel Cordero rode Easy Goer, Easy Goer never loses by a poorly timed,desperate neck."
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One of best ever
Easy Goer. Among racing's greats.
Sunday Silence met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful chestnut frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME
he did not have a chestnut frame; fabrications and lies
Another one of the thousands of youtube accounts with different names for you.
Still stands as 1 of the fastest Travers in history...Only Arrogate ran a faster Travers since this performance in 1989 i believe
And DOWN THE STRETCH they come!!
Still brings tears to my eyes!
But I don’t think Dave Johnson was a regular NYRA track announcer right? Wasn’t it Tom Durkin?
my point being it seems like pat would ask him for speed and then slow him down. in this vid at the top of the stretch he asks him to go and then its like he stopped him when he went to run past the lead horse and waited for them to straighten out to let goer go by. he should just let goer carry the speed by when he asks him the first time and end the race at that point. idk maybe im wrong.
Easy Goer 14, SS 0 is the legal, moral, ethical score. The 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY) means as much or as little as Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Wajima 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; & an endless amount of others. It was all done ILLEGALLY by ss - the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior 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, NYbanned 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 narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races.
And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, etc) to ss. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was just better than the drug-dependent & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence. Harthill confessed to DRF's Hovdey of illegally giving illegal ped drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state (NY) in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal vet Harthill as well. The criminal vet of ss, Alex Harthill, confessed in 2001 to DRF's Jay Hovdey, to illegally administering illegal ped drugs to sunday silence (plus many other horses), including the significantly powerful potent performance enhancing drug Clenbuterol (an extraordinary drug with 2 completely different effects that dramatically & greatly enhance performance & significantly enhance speed, stamina, endurance, lung capacity & energy levels; it greatly aids breathing by significantly expanding the air passages in the lungs letting air flow much more freely, & it causes rapid fat burning significantly decreasing fat; it also has a similar effect on the body as Epinephrine & Amphetamines by increasing the production of Epinephrine & Noradrenaline, & thus significantly enhancing performance: it also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, & thus significantly increases energy, & thus significantly enhances performance), Sublimaze (A Potent Narcotic So powerful that it makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), Etorphine (An Opiate 80,000 Times More Powerful than Morphine - So powerful that it also makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), & Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin Bute, & provides significantly more potent pain relief than aspirin Bute & is far superior for relief of pain than aspirin Bute). Besides Harthill admitting it, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. Harthill only admitted to administering the illegal ped drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine & Banamine to Sunday Silence, & not Lasix (which was legal in every state in the US except NY back then anyways; but ss was listed as being administered Lasix in the DRF in all races outside drug-free NY); & it should also be noted Lasix is a potent diuretic & the main drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs; plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs, & the study of 23k races showed Lasix gives a significant 6 length performance enhancement. Case closed forever.
@@sigscorpion9275 Easy Goer 14 FINAL VICTORY SALUTES, SS 0. Easy Goer 14, SS 0 is the legal, moral, ethical score. The 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY) means as much or as little as Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Alsab 2, Whirlaway 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Wajima 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; Bayern 2, California Chrome 1; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; & an endless amount of others. It was all done ILLEGALLY by ss - the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss. "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior 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, NYbanned 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 narrowest of margins to the drug-reliant ss, ss needed all of his performance enhancing drugs administered to him & still only beat him by the slimmest of margins. Plus, The drug-free Easy Goer won G1 races at 7f, 1 mile, 9f, 10f & 12f drug-free with much less time & rest between races & ran many more races at more fluctuating, different distances in faster times with far superior speed figures & performance ratings; while the drug-reliant ss only won G1 races at 9f to 10f with his ped drugs & much more time & rest between races & ran far less races.
And most importantly, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, etc) to ss. The True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was just better than the drug-dependent & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence. Harthill confessed to DRF's Hovdey of illegally giving illegal ped drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state (NY) in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal vet Harthill as well. The criminal vet of ss, Alex Harthill, confessed in 2001 to DRF's Jay Hovdey, to illegally administering illegal ped drugs to sunday silence (plus many other horses), including the significantly powerful potent performance enhancing drug Clenbuterol (an extraordinary drug with 2 completely different effects that dramatically & greatly enhance performance & significantly enhance speed, stamina, endurance, lung capacity & energy levels; it greatly aids breathing by significantly expanding the air passages in the lungs letting air flow much more freely, & it causes rapid fat burning significantly decreasing fat; it also has a similar effect on the body as Epinephrine & Amphetamines by increasing the production of Epinephrine & Noradrenaline, & thus significantly enhancing performance: it also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, & thus significantly increases energy, & thus significantly enhances performance), Sublimaze (A Potent Narcotic So powerful that it makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), Etorphine (An Opiate 80,000 Times More Powerful than Morphine - So powerful that it also makes horses feel like they don't even have legs, & significantly more powerful than aspirin bute), & Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin Bute, & provides significantly more potent pain relief than aspirin Bute & is far superior for relief of pain than aspirin Bute). Besides Harthill admitting it, there is the CERTAINTY of MOUNDS of more evidence regarding Harthill's illegalities. Harthill only admitted to administering the illegal ped drugs Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine & Banamine to Sunday Silence, & not Lasix (which was legal in every state in the US except NY back then anyways; but ss was listed as being administered Lasix in the DRF in all races outside drug-free NY); & it should also be noted Lasix is a potent diuretic & the main drug which masks & flushes other banned drugs; plus it reduces body weight by 16 to 25lbs, & the study of 23k races showed Lasix gives a significant 6 length performance enhancement. Case closed forever.
@@sigscorpion9275 Easy Goer 14 FINAL VICTORY SALUTES, SS 0. Easy Goer 14, SS 0 is the legal, moral, ethical score & the only one that counts legally, morally & ethically, & is in the legal, moral, ethical record books. The only 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 legal, moral, ethical score is Easy Goer 14, SS 0. The 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY by ss, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) is equivalent to the "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" for Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco, Ken Caminiti, Jason Giambi, Ben Johnson, etc., plus all of the G1 winners that Jason Servis, Jorge Navarro, Rick Dutrow, etc., trained, including G1 winners Maximum Security, Big Brown, St Liam, Silver Train, Kip Deville, World of Trouble, Firenze Fire, Sharp Azteca, XY Jet, Private Zone, & 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 Whittingham given jail time, lengthy bans, fines, etc? Because Whittingham DIED in 1999, which was 2 years before the criminal vet Harthill admitted in 2001 to the DRF's Hovdey to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Etorphine, Sublimaze, etc) to the drug-reliant & illegal vet Harthill-reliant ss (& many other horses). Though it should be noted that Whittingham was banned, suspended & fined for many months numerous times in his career for many of his horses having positive drug tests (Cocaine, Morphine, Procaine, etc). 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 many other times for tampering, bribery & illegally doping horses with drugs, & lost his license 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 "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. The only 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 legal, moral, ethical score is Easy Goer 14, SS 0.
The 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY by ss, 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. So much for the "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. Even with the 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY by ss, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) being the "only one that counts in the records books", the true facts are it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss - the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, Sublimaze, Etorphine, etc) to ss. So much for the "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. Even with the 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY by ss, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) being the "only one that counts in the records books", the true facts are the True drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior horse than the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day. So much for the "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. Even with the 3-1 (done ILLEGALLY by ss, admitted to by ss's banned illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill admitting to giving ss illegal performance enhancing drugs) being the "only one that counts in the records books", the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was Ranked Superior to the drug-reliant & banned illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence by a numerous amount of racing experts, including Timeform Performance experts & Timeform expert Simon Rowlands, DRF/Bloodhorse's Jay Hovdey, SI's William Nack, long-time racing secretary & steward Tommy Trotter, DRF's Steve Crist, DRF's Mike Watchmaker, DRF's Dave Litfin, DRF's Alan Shuback, Paul Moran, Edwin Pope, Bill Finley, Russ Harris, Ed Fountaine, Joe Drape, trainers Bud Delp, John Veitch, Lucien Laurin, Woody Stephens, Allen Jerkens, & all the speed figures & performance rating experts Mark Hopkins, Dick Jerardi, Len Ragozin/Ragozins, Jerry Brown/Thoro-Graph, etc., as well as Charles Justice's Objective Rankings in the "Greatest Horse of All" book ranked the best 3 yr olds of all time, with EG ranked far superior than ss. So much for the "only records that count & the only ones in the record books" meaning something or meaning anything at all. The only 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 legal, moral, ethical score is Easy Goer 14, SS 0.
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Easy Goer had so much talent and versatility...Could go to the lead..Could sit off pace..Could come from the back..Handle any distance..Pat Day just did not know exactly how to ride this horse..That is why he would make multiple moves in 1 race and also give Easy Goer horrible trips..Easy Goer would overcome all of this because of his raw ability but this also spoiled Pat Day while aboard Easy Goer...Pat Day had zero respect for any field and zero respect for Sunday Silence...He thought his horse could overcome ANY ride or ANY situation without ANY tactics...
People put down one while trying to prop up the other at their expense. Or they take ONLY ONE factor, as if Hall of Fame champions Forego, Kelso and Easy Goer are diminished one bit for their drug free, medication free New York exploits. EG & SS were both great Hall of Fame champions. Derby, Classic nonsense? There are numerous legendary, all time Hall of Fame greats like Dr. Fager, Easy Goer, Bold Ruler, Swaps, Gallant Man, Sword Dancer, Arts and Letters, Forego, Kelso, Tom Fool, Buckpasser, Round Table, John Henry, Seabiscuit, Skip Away, Holy Bull, Ruffian, etc, who won 1 or 0 TC races, but won numerous other big races. The legendary, all time greats Dr. Fager, Forego, Kelso, Tom Fool, Buckpasser, Round Table, John Henry, Seabiscuit, Skip Away, Holy Bull, Ruffian, and many many many others were all time great horses who didn't win any TC races and/or Classic, but they all won numerous other 'big' races. That doesn't diminish them at all. Other all time Hall of Fame greats like like Bold Ruler, Easy Goer, Swaps, Gallant Man, Sword Dancer, Arts and Letters, etc etc won 1 TC race, but they all won numerous other 'big' races. That doesn't diminish them at all either. Derby & Classic winners Unbridled and Ferdinand are not in the Hall of Fame. That's also like saying that SS failed the "great" tests on "all" levels - or many levels. SS had the almost same exact record (LOST 4 of 6) on larger circumferenced tracks that EG had on smaller mile circumferenced tracks. SS had a LOSING record (LOST 3 races) at his larger circumferenced HOME track of Hollywood. SS got romped when he ran in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs and medications. SSSS LOST a total of 4 of 6 races on larger tracks with circumferences larger than a mile, including 3 LOSSES at his LARGER circumferenced HOME track at Hollywood. Sunday Silence's record (Lost 4 of 6 races) on bigger tracks with a circumference of 1 1/8 miles or larger was very similar to Easy Goer's record on smaller mile circumferenced tracks. Sunday Silence lost 36% of his career races, mostly to lesser horses including Houston, Prized and Cro Lover. SS barely beat EG in a few close races. SS also barely beat Stylish Winner, SS also barely beat Le Voyageur. SS LOST to Prized in a Grade 2, Easy Goer beat Prized by 25 lengths in a G1 against top elders. SS barely beat Le Voyageur, EG crushed Le Voyageur numerous times by double digit lengths.
Easy Goer beat Expensive Decision, who was a WORLD record holder for over 20 years at both a mile and a mile and sixteenth. And he beat Cryptoclearance, Slew City Clew, Proper Reality, Clever Trevor, Awe Inspiring, Blushing John, Prized etc were all multimillionaire, multiple Grade 1 winners. They both beat Crypto, Slew, Trevor, John and Awe Inspiring, but Easy Goer beat them many more times by much farther. And they both beat Hawkster multiple times, and Hawkster also was a world record holder for over 30 years. Easy Goer also ran mostly in the only state in the entire country at the time that didn't allow any drugs and medications. Easy Goer ran brilliantly fast outside NY in the Swale, Preakness and Classic. When SS LOST the Grade 2 Swaps to Prized, he ran 10f in 2:02 on a rock hard very fast California track. Meanwhile Easy Goer beat Prized by 25 lengths in the Jockey Club Gold Cup on a dull, deep slow playing track. When SS won the Louisiana Super Derby he beat the Louisiana claimer Big Earl, and ran 10f in over 2:03 1/5. When SS won the Californian he beat a 2 horse field of Stylish Winner and Charlatan. When they both lost to Criminal Type, EG had to concede more weight (7 to 14 pounds) than SS (only 5 pounds) did. 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. 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.
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. 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. 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. There was also the Belmont 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. 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.
EG took Bute in the BC Juvenile and Derby and he STILL lost both races
Utter fabrications and lies is all that you spew
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YES ITS TRUE
Put a jock like Irad Ortiz on a horse like Easy Goer and he would definitely have won the 1989 classic and probably by 2 lengths...Irad would have exploited the world of talent easy goer had and not been so patient and careless as pat day in that race
No, he wouldn't have. Easy Goer's problem was that he was too big,trained at wide turned belmont, and couldn't handle sharp turned tracks like churchill and gulfstream. He was slow around sharp turns. Not pat days fault. Watch 88 BC juvenile. Goer was slow around turn vs AWFUL field...
Totally wrong Travis West. The Dreug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer blazed as fast as any horse who ever lived over the sharp turned Gulfstream track while winning the Swale Stakes in the fastest 7f of the year in the entire state of Florida. So much for that. The Drug-Free Easy Goer had obliterated the drug-reliant Is It True 3 times previously by a combined 10 lengths; that 88 BC Juv, Is It True got his much needed powerful performance enhancing diuretics and painkillers plus an awful peanut butter track & barely beat him & both IIT & EG still ran one of the top 5 speed figures of all time in any BC Juv. So much for that. Plus, it was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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.
@@traviswest9388 easy Goer blazed gulfstream AROUND ONE TURN, not two. You just emphasized my point.
After Belmont stakes and saratoga, EVERYONE was convinced Goer would trounce Sunday at gulfstream. And what happens? The SAME EXACT RESULT as the other 3 races not held at belmont: the better racehorse( silence) again beat the horse with more raw ability...
@@traviswest9388 So true. The Drug free Hall of fame Champion Easy Goer was far superior at two turns than one turn, although EG ran every distance faster than ss and ran far superior speed figures and performance ratings than ss at every distance around 1 or 2 turns. Easy Goer won G1 races at 7/8 at one turn, 1 mile at one turn, 1 1/8m at 2 turns, 1 1/4m at 2 turns, and 1 1/2m at 2 turns without any drugs running many more races with much less time and rest between races. Easy Goer won on all 3 track sizes of 8f ovals, 9f ovals and 12f oval. Ss did NOT. The drug reliant and criminal illegal vet Alex Harthill reliant Sunday silence Lost 4 races on larger tracks with ovals larger than a mile. The drug reliant and criminal illegal vet alex harthill reliant ss only won G1s at 9f to 10f with drugs running far less races with much more time and rest between races. The drug reliant and criminal illegal vet alex harthill reliant ss could not win without all of illegal performance enhancing drugs confessed by Alex harthill that he drugged ss with the powerful performance enhancing bronchodilator drug Clenbuterol. Enough said, case closed.
@@DELMARCLUB1 Easy Goer took Bute twice in the BC Juvenile and Derby and he STILL lost both races
After Easy Goer blew by Sunday Silence on the "far turn" in the Belmont and "trounced" him by 8 lengths he then went on a brutal historic campaign along with beating "older horses" leading up to the Classic while Sunday Silence only ran "twice" against his inferior peers along with having an extra month rest coming into the Classic..Easy Goer only missing by a "neck" showed who the superior horse was...
Easy Goer's superiority never won him The Kentucky Derby and The Breeder's Cup Classic...
@@louminox3065 Dr. Fager and Native Dancer's superiority never won them the Kentucky Derby and Breeder's Cup Classic (or Jockey Club Gold Cup). Neither did Kelso, Forego, Buckpasser, Round Table, Tom Fool, Bold Ruler, John Henry, Seabiscuit, Holy Bull, Point Given and an endless amount of other's superiority. Meanwhile, Unbridled's superiority did win him the Kentucky Derby and Breeder's Cup Classic, yet Unbridled lost 4 of 6 races to Summer Squall. Alysheba did as well, yet Alysheba lost 4 races to Bet Twice. Citation's superiority lost him 4 of 5 races to Noor. Kelso's superiority lost him 3 of 4 races to Beau Purple. Dr. Fager's superiority lost him 2 of 4 races to Damascus. Forego's superiority lost him 2 of 3 races to Big Spruce. Triple Crown winner Sir Barton's superiority lost him 8 of 12 races to Billy Kelly. Shuvee's superiority lost her 4 of 5 races to Gallant Bloom. Skip Away's superiority lost him 4 of 6 races to Formal Gold. John Henry's superiority lost him 3 of 3 races to Darby Creek Road; and John Henry's superiority lost him 4 of 4 races to Cabrini Green. Pleasant Colony's superiority lost him 3 of 4 races to Akureyri. The list is endless.
@@benjudah610 so how is a horse that lost 3 races out of 4 (Easy Goer) superior to the horse that won 3 out of 4 (Sunday Silence) ?!?
@@louminox3065 The same exact way that a horse that lost 4 races out of 5 (Citation) was superior to the horse that won 4 out of 5 (Noor). The same exact way that a horse that lost 3 races out of 4 (Kelso) was superior to the horse that won 3 out of 4 (Beau Purple). The same exact way that a horse that lost 3 races out of 4 (Pleasant Colony) was superior to the horse that won 3 out of 4 (Akureyri). The same exact way that a horse that lost 2 races out of 4 (Dr. Fager) was superior to the horse that won 2 out of 4 (Damascus). The same exact way that a horse that lost 4 races out of 6 (Skip Away) was superior to the horse that won 4 out of 6 (Formal Gold). Ditto John Henry 0/ Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0/ Cabrini Green 4, and an endless amount of others.
@@benjudah610 Easy Goer is not superior to Sunday Silence since he beat easy goer 3 times out of the 4 times they raced against each other.
Copying and pasting quote about the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion SS is the GREATEST FORM of Flattery. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, when you imitate what others say, it’s the biggest compliment to those people you are imitating and copying and pasting
Anyone have any idea what Pat Day was waiting for in the 1989 Classic on the Gulfstream Surface?....Lagging and Lagging behind the Field....Even at the 3/8th Pole he was Still sitting on Easy Goer like a Statue....Sitting aboard a world of talent and heavy 1-2 favorite why not let the horse do some running...Pat Day left so much in the tank on the track that day...
Pat day wasn't waiting, Easy Goer was SLOW around sharp turns....its why he lost BC Juvenile, Derby etc....
@danylson10 Easy Goer ran seven or eight 120+ or higher beyers in his life(double the amount of any horse since Bid, including Ghostzapper,Skip Away,Cigar,Holy Bull,Alysheba,Zenyatta,Curlin,John Henry,etc). His ragozin speed figures were also amazing.
In beating WHO exactly? Other than beating sunday silence ONCE, Easy Goer ran vs mule piss...
Totally wrong Travis West. It was all done ILLEGALLY by ss (the criminal cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill of the drug-reliant ss admitted to illegally administering illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss). "That the drug-free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer was the superior, better horse than the drug-reliant & criminal juicer cheater veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant ss is officially as clear as day." It means as much or as little as all the scoreboards reading Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; Billy Kelly 8, Sir Barton 4; Star of Cozzene 3, Kotashaan 1; Summer Squall 4, Unbridled 2; & an endless amount more. In the Test of the Champion drug-free Belmont Stakes Easy Goer killed ss; like drug-free wheat separating from drugged chaff, the 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 cheater veterinarian 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 & didn't allow the criminal juicer cheater 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 veterinarian 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-dependent 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 illicit, illegal performance enhancing drugs to ss. I quote the 2002 DRF for the factual truths: "Harthill, toward the end of his life, was BOLD ENOUGH to me (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. SS'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 has a similar effect on the body as epinephrine & amphetamines by increasing the production of epinephrine & noradrenaline & thus significantly enhancing performance; clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases & thus significantly increases energy & thus significantly enhances performance; plus clenbuterol dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. The drug Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance.
Some of Harthill's other favorite magic making performance enhancing drugs were Etorphine (infinitely more powerful than the aspirin-like bute), Banamine (5 times more powerful than the aspirin-like bute) & 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. 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
Travis West Travis West
Pat Day's timid overly patient rides on this remarkable Colt cost EG the TC imo.
Easy Goer
(March 21, 1986 - May 12, 1994)
* Sire: Alydar
* Grandsire: Raise a Native
* Dam: Relaxing
* Damsire: Buckpasser
* Breeder: Ogden Phipps
* Owner: Ogden Phipps
* Trainer: Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey III
* 20 Starts
* 14 Wins
* 5 Seconds
* 1 Third
* U.S:$ 4,873,770 earned
* U.S. Champion Two Year-Old Colt in 1988
* Inducted to The National Musuem of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1997.
* No. 34 in "The BloodHorse Magazine Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th. Century List"
Greetings from Venezuela.
Easy Goer
(21 de Marzo, 1986 - 12 de Mayo, 1994)
* Padre: Alydar
* Abuelo Paterno: Raise a Native
* Madre: Relaxing
* Abuelo Materno: Buckpasser
* Criador: Ogden Phipps
* Propietario: Ogden Phipps
* Entrenador: Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey III
* 20 Salidas
* 14 Primeros
* 5 Segundos
* 1 Tercero
* U.S:$ 4,873,770
producidos
* Potro Campeón de Dos Años en Estados Unidos (1988)
* Esaltado al museo Nacional de las Carreras y Salón de la Fama en 1997.
* No. 34 en la "Lista de los 100 Mejores Caballos de Carrera del Siglo XX"
de la revista "TheBloodHorse Magazine"
Saludos desde Venezuela.
The Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer's career accomplishments and body of work were far superior to the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence. The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs at all, and the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer Obliterated the drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs (and, as importantly, also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well; Harthill was arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses). During that era, it was a huge credit to New York [& 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. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence got obliterated when he couldn't get all of his performance enhancing drugs from his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs (and also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! The drug-reliant & illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence NEEDED EVERYTHING in his favor to beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. The drug-dependent and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence also LOST 4 RACES on larger tracks with circumferences bigger than a mile (including ss having a LOSING RECORD while LOSING 3 races at his larger HOME track at the bigger circumferenced Hollywood Park track). Talk about a horse that needed to bring his track with him, ss is just that horse! Meanwhile, the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer won Drug-free G1's at 7f, 1 mile, 1 1/8m, 1 1/4m & 1 1/2m on all 3 sized tracks (8f, 9f & 12f sized tracks) drug-free with much less rest and time between races and ran far more races with faster times at all distances and ran far superior speed figures and far superior performance ratings; while the drug-dependent and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-dependent sunday silence only won G1's with performance enhancing drugs and his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill and only at 9f to 10f only with performance enhancing drugs and only on small 8f sized tracks and with much more rest and time between races and ran far less races even with performance enhancing drugs. Talk about a horse that needed to bring his illegal performance enhancing drugs and illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill with him - ss is just that horse, a drug-reliant horse, an illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill-reliant horse! Talk about a horse that needed to bring his one sized small 8f track with him, ss is just that horse.
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!
Sunday Silence met and fulfilled those dreams and expectations embodied in his powerful chestnut frame, and authored an unforgettable Hall of Fame championship career, and will always be mentioned in the same breath with the GREATEST of ALL TIME
@@traviswest6437 he did not have a chestnut frame; utter lies. You want me to put that awful picture of you in that black cowboy hat??
@@traviswest6437 YEP SS DID TRAVIS WEST
Horse of the year ? You spoke to soon Dave
Very good horse