Pure Steel would have to have been the gutsiest and toughest pacer ever seen in Australia. His never say die will to win, won him many races. He was an exciting horse to watch. His win in the 1978 A G Hunter Cup when he absolutely demoralized a great field after racing outside Rip Van Winkle for most of the race was his toughest win. The amount of times he caused me to get goosebumps with his sheer guts and will to win will stay with me forever.
there was so many great races and great pacers for so long WA was blessed but surely no horse had the heart, guts and wanting to win the Pure Steel bought tears to my eyes. Poor Satinover was never quite the same horse again.
Brings back fond memories of a golden era. No crowds like that any more. Two great pacers with Steelo winning in his trademark style, grinding down his opposition... fantastic!
Because all races are fixed or rigged until they put slot machines into the racetrack. Then they race honest races after that. Anyone who can't make a living betting honest races should never go to the racetracks in the first place.
The horse is a tub a fuckin' shit!! I live in Ontario Canada horses like homebred Apache's Fame would run circles around that tub a shit. His sire was a pig!!
I was there too, cheering for the iron horse. Weren't we lucky/privileged to experience that great era of harness racing ?? I still carry the memories & passion for that wonderful time of this sport.
WOW as Steelo ranged along side the sound of the crowd carrying him home was spine tingling and brought a tear to my eye,remembering my late father who was there to watch the race and would relate to me how the great Steelo broke the heart of the super horse Satinover many years later!
I didn't see the Great Mt Eden or the Legend Polly Farmer saw Footage of them but not Live. But the Greatest Sporting Event ever held in W.A was this Match Race between 2 Champion Horses and 2 Champion Reinsman. But what made the Race more Spine Tingling and an Adrenaline Rush was the call of the Great George Griljusich. I still get Goosebumps watching this 2day.
I was there and still get emotional about the race every time I watch it. I was standing on the hand rails leading into the upper area so I could see the race - I'm 6'3" tall. I was a PS fan and I was screaming "kill the #@$%^ kill the #@$%^". Greatest race I have seen. Near flat to the board for the last 1000m. PS had to cover 9m more every corner. I believe they raced for $60,000.
The horse is a tub a fuckin' shit!! I live in Ontario Canada horses like homebred Apache's Fame would run circles around that tub a shit. His sire was a pig!!
I was a regular at Greenwood Race Track in Toronto, Canada for forty years before it closed. I was also 6 time world pinball champion so all the lucky people also got to see me play pinball at the racetrack and at the Orchard Park Tavern directly across the street. It was my idea to name some of the newer streets in Stouffville Ontario after Cam Fella. Yeah, I watch the best of the best throughout all the years, every two and three year old world champion. They built B tracks like Orangeville and Barrie raceway for goats like Pure Steel... one step away from the glue factory.
Pure Steel broke Satinover's heart this night. Satinover had won 19 in a row prior to the match race. Satinover only won 2 of its following 13 starts. A great time for the sport with Rip, Paleface,Steelo and Marko keeping the turnstiles clicking. A couple of years later it was Poppy and Gamma. Harness racing will never see these heights again.
'Broke his heart' is just a myth. They just couldn't get the horse right after this. And Satinover was sweated up from what I can see in this - I also remember watching it on ABC TV at the time, that's how great the interest was. He accounted for Pure Steel in their only meeting before this - not taking anything away from Pure Steel an out and out great champion arguably the best stayer to race in Australia but Satinover by no stretch had a hard run in this that would 'break a horses heart'. When they had the horse right he was razor sharp, almost impossible to beat, as per his winning streak when he was firing on all cylinders.
Newsflash!! Jaya Bae probably the greatest bred trotter in all of history has just began racing as a two year old. This horse will make the morons forget Secretariat even if she's a trotter not a thoroughbred. Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment on youtube shows her qualifier September 25th 2021 in the 3rd qualifier.
I was there that night in the Steelo camp- I now live in Qld and last year I found this video - it brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it. A champ.
2 Great horses,used to see him Ted Demmlers Carrum Downs,raced at Cranbourne on Monday arvo,Was at M/Valley when Steel did the same to Rip Van Winkle,broke his heart !!and wasn't the same horse after that !
Throw in the kid, preaux chevalier, san simeon and eastern stater gammalite and U have a snapshot of golden era. No smoother pacing action or determination than steelo.
Great horses, exciting times. Years later I would be fortunate to see Somebeachsomewhere. Next-level. But you don’t see crowds like the one at Gloucester Park that night, that is remarkable, incredible really. Re: watching the pre-race footage when Pure Steel strikes out, it looked like his hoof might have kicked at Satinover! No inspection, so apparently no contact. It reminded me of the finish of the 2021 Forego Stakes at Saratoga, look for that crazy finish if you’ve never seen.
Popular Alm as well. Although me personally I think the greatest standardbred to race in Australia was Maori's Idol. Aside from his 24 race win streak any trotter who can take on the grand circuit pacers and beat them is a genuine freak in my opinion.
Maybe the best Australian harness race ive ever seen.. Very very close to my favorite race.."March of Dimes trot" . .Ourasi (France) vs. Mack Lobell (usa).. every horse in the field had over a million in purse winnings..head to head..
Mount eden was better by far. Steelo was a champ but Mount Eden possesed unbelievable stamina. If only they could have stopped him trying to trot instead of pace. They could probably do it now but back then they didn't recognize the problem really.
@@jamesmcdermott8328 Being from the States, I didnt know Mount Eden was that good, I have been told by others as well. I know there was a plan for Eden to come to the US and race against Albatross, but Eden had tied up and almost died at that time.. then I heard later in 1980- the owner of" Pure Steel" wanted to come to United States which would have been great, because I think he could have held his own- but that was also the Golden Age of harness racing here as well with Niatross and then Cam Fella, burning up everyone. No doubt in my mind the ANZ horses have closed the gap and I see them here winning race after race.
brianjschumer are you too young to know about Halwes, to me , the best ever pacer in Australasia.. short career, but A super horse. John Tapp has a web site in which he tells us about his trip to Tazzy to see Halwes ( he did in 1987} . He described what his driver said about Halwes.. he said good horses can go twice in a race, but a Halwes could go three times and hold the final sprint by either zooming home, or simply breaking the heart of top flight horses, one against Voice Derby, an exceptional horse. Halwes came from 36 to win.. just superb
brianjschumer are you too young to know about Halwes, to me , the best ever pacer in Australasia.. short career, but A super horse. John Tapp has a web site in which he tells us about his trip to Tazzy to see Halwes ( he did in 1987} . He described what his driver said about Halwes.. he said good horses can go twice in a race, but a Halwes could go three times and hold the final sprint by either zooming home, or simply breaking the heart of top flight horses, one against Voice Derby, an exceptional horse. Halwes came from 36 to win.. just superb
brianjschumer brianjschumer are you too young to know about Halwes, to me , the best ever pacer in Australasia.. short career, but an absolute super horse. John Tapp has a web site in which he tells us about his trip to Tazzy to see Halwes ( he did in 1987} . He described what his driver Kevin Newman said about Halwes...he said good horses can go twice in a race, but aHalwes could go three times and hold the final sprint by either zooming home, or simply breaking the heart of top flight horses, one against Voice Derby, an exceptional horse. Halwes came from 36 to win.. just superb. He said very few horses if any could do what Halwes could do
Casinos brought honest races to Woodbine and Mohawk. I've been killing them since they brought in slot machines and without Ron Waples senior. I doubt there's a better handicapper in Canada than myself or ever has been. I have a background in all forms of gambling not just horseracing.
I remember Alberton versus Justin Passing at Greenwood in Toronto, Canada. Not the highest level race at the time but a clash everyone who saw the race remembers. Alberton got the print photo with Dr. John Hayes aboard.
Jaya Bae versus Venerable now that's a real matchup. The best bred trotter in the last 150 years against the undefeated. The entire world will be talking about this one soon enough when it happens. Jaya Bae has just started racing as a two year old. If there's a better bred trotter in history I'd like to know who it is?
@@marknorris1381 probably. My brother worked for Colin Joss in the 80's. Satinover was carrying a few injuries at that stage and had missed a lot of work... but you couldn't reschedule an event like that. Steelo was still the better horse... but there was less between them than this suggests.
@@bgardiner3354 thanks. Slightly different Satinover here to the Satinover that beat Pure Steel when they met in a race before this. Although it was close in that race.
They are running imbo...standardbreds pace in the paddock as yearlings. Why do you think standardbreds and thoroughbreds and greyhounds are used for racing? Because it's in their nature.
Wild horses have short lives, many predators get them too, I do agree they should be taken better care of by their owners after they can no longer race well..
This may be true now but you obviously didn't see the 3rd & final heat race off between Probe (& Bill Fahey)vs.Park Avenue Joe (&Ron Waples Sr.)Ending in a dead heat of the Hambeltonian! Not that they were great trotters,but, certainly a great raceoff,I was privileged to witness live! Everyone was a winner! It took over a year to agree on how to fairly divide the giant purse money,with both sides having good points as to who should declared the best that day,as it had never happened before in the rich history of this event,& will probably never happen again! Both of these classy gentlemen drivers held each others hand,high in victory,after the race! Maybe they should just stick to the Pacers down under,as they always have! Probe has spawned some nice ofsprings,but neather near the greatness of a Pure Steel!
@@louismercantino2751 I don't think there was a better driver of trotters than Ron Waples senior. The big M is what it is, a longer stretch might make for more exciting races. Pure Steel was out of a good sire at the time but Toledo Hanover never produced much. The broodmare Pure Band was a pig in every respect the lineage being all glue factory horses even back to the fake Dan Patch.
@@Souljah2008 To bad he wasn't up to par vs. McWwicked in the Breeders Crown Final 2018'! I still don't believe anyone there could near touch him that night!
@@Souljah2008 Hey,I don't doubt that @all! He's gonna be awesome. These animals are like every living thing.they have their good & bad days! Lazarus has the potential to be as good or better than any,just like all the great ones! Why so argumentative? He'll show everyone just how great he is in the future.I'm rooting for them all to show their best if given the opportunity! Direct your comments to non-believers,not me! Just the facts dude,just the facts! THX,!
how do you compare a pacer racing in the late 70's and early 80's to one in 2007-2008? The tracks are faster, another near 3 decades of breeding to race, gear has changed etc.
Has to be the toughest pacer to
Ever go around and to know my grandfather bred the horse and sold him as a yearling for $1000 back in the day
He sat in the death seat a lot of times.
I was there,the atmosphere was electric....great days and nights,kylegalley superb Thank YOU so much..for the memories...steven
Pure Steel would have to have been the gutsiest and toughest pacer ever seen in Australia. His never say die will to win, won him many races. He was an exciting horse to watch. His win in the 1978 A G Hunter Cup when he absolutely demoralized a great field after racing outside Rip Van Winkle for most of the race was his toughest win. The amount of times he caused me to get goosebumps with his sheer guts and will to win will stay with me forever.
The definition of HEART in horse racing!
Great comment Neil
2 amazing horses, gave me goosebumps listening to the crowd when Pure Steel pulled out.
Hard to go past Blacks A Fake as best ever
@Baskerville22 who?
there was so many great races and great pacers for so long WA was blessed but surely no horse had the heart, guts and wanting to win the Pure Steel bought tears to my eyes. Poor Satinover was never quite the same horse again.
One of the all time greats Pure Steel .Brilliant pacer .
This was like a Heavyweight Title Fight! What an atmosphere!
Brings back fond memories of a golden era. No crowds like that any more. Two great pacers with Steelo winning in his trademark style, grinding down his opposition... fantastic!
Because all races are fixed or rigged until they put slot machines into the racetrack. Then they race honest races after that. Anyone who can't make a living betting honest races should never go to the racetracks in the first place.
I was there came close to a heart attack amazing race. Pure Steel is a legend.
The horse is a tub a fuckin' shit!! I live in Ontario Canada horses like homebred Apache's Fame would run circles around that tub a shit. His sire was a pig!!
An exciting race made all the better by a huge crowd and atmosphere.
@@parkerbohnn you live in Ontario and you are pointing fun at someone else's mother?? Lol
I was there too, cheering for the iron horse.
Weren't we lucky/privileged to experience that great era of harness racing ??
I still carry the memories & passion for that wonderful time of this sport.
There's proof that good horses love racing and love winning.
WOW as Steelo ranged along side the sound of the crowd carrying him home was spine tingling and brought a tear to my eye,remembering my late father who was there to watch the race and would relate to me how the great Steelo broke the heart of the super horse Satinover many years later!
Still does in 2023.
I didn't see the Great Mt Eden or the Legend Polly Farmer saw Footage of them but not Live. But the Greatest Sporting Event ever held in W.A was this Match Race between 2 Champion Horses and 2 Champion Reinsman. But what made the Race more Spine Tingling and an Adrenaline Rush was the call of the Great George Griljusich. I still get Goosebumps watching this 2day.
I was there and still get emotional about the race every time I watch it. I was standing on the hand rails leading into the upper area so I could see the race - I'm 6'3" tall. I was a PS fan and I was screaming "kill the #@$%^ kill the #@$%^". Greatest race I have seen. Near flat to the board for the last 1000m. PS had to cover 9m more every corner. I believe they raced for $60,000.
Was there that night with family, Steelo was just brilliant.
There was one great horse out of a New Zealand mare if anyone remembers GENGHIS KHAN? Out of the broodmare Robin Dundee.
Held the Meadowland NJ track record for quite a while
@@brianjschumer That's right.
Magnificent Steelo! At his prime, he would have been unbeatable in any two horse race.
His breeding goes back to the fake Dan Patch not the real Dan Patch. Pure Steel produced nothing because no one wanted home as a sire.
Pure Steel was the best pacer to come out of WA He was an Animal of the highest order !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The horse is a tub a fuckin' shit!! I live in Ontario Canada horses like homebred Apache's Fame would run circles around that tub a shit. His sire was a pig!!
I was a regular at Greenwood Race Track in Toronto, Canada for forty years before it closed. I was also 6 time world pinball champion so all the lucky people also got to see me play pinball at the racetrack and at the Orchard Park Tavern directly across the street. It was my idea to name some of the newer streets in Stouffville Ontario after Cam Fella. Yeah, I watch the best of the best throughout all the years, every two and three year old world champion. They built B tracks like Orangeville and Barrie raceway for goats like Pure Steel... one step away from the glue factory.
Hi he was my pops horse Russle Roberts but he just died sadly:(
Both horses (mooses) are pigs!!
lol just no. Horses you watched were fucking terrible. You poor thing hahaha @@parkerbohnn
Pure Steel broke Satinover's heart this night. Satinover had won 19 in a row prior to the match race. Satinover only won 2 of its following 13 starts. A great time for the sport with Rip, Paleface,Steelo and Marko keeping the turnstiles clicking. A couple of years later it was Poppy and Gamma. Harness racing will never see these heights again.
Yep Steelo destroyed Satinover and it was like he intended to when he rose up at Satinover prerace. Steelo was the soul of Western Australia.
'Broke his heart' is just a myth. They just couldn't get the horse right after this. And Satinover was sweated up from what I can see in this - I also remember watching it on ABC TV at the time, that's how great the interest was. He accounted for Pure Steel in their only meeting before this - not taking anything away from Pure Steel an out and out great champion arguably the best stayer to race in Australia but Satinover by no stretch had a hard run in this that would 'break a horses heart'. When they had the horse right he was razor sharp, almost impossible to beat, as per his winning streak when he was firing on all cylinders.
Newsflash!! Jaya Bae probably the greatest bred trotter in all of history has just began racing as a two year old. This horse will make the morons forget Secretariat even if she's a trotter not a thoroughbred. Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment on youtube shows her qualifier September 25th 2021 in the 3rd qualifier.
@@parkerbohnn can you post a link please. Interested to see this horse.
@@marknorris1381 ua-cam.com/video/-0a-Dz65BFg/v-deo.html
Wow what a beautiful race. thanks Darryl
OMFG what a crowd!
Wow that was exciting! Glory days!
I go back into the breeding of Satinover and find yes this horse did have good breeding.
i was there it was awesome to watch 2 legends
I was there that night in the Steelo camp- I now live in Qld and last year I found this video - it brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it. A champ.
Jaya Bae versus Venerable now that's a real matchup.
Great race wat bout the crowd there high😆✅👍
2 Great horses,used to see him Ted Demmlers Carrum Downs,raced at Cranbourne on Monday arvo,Was at M/Valley when Steel did the same to Rip Van Winkle,broke his heart !!and wasn't the same horse after that !
Pure Steel = Many Clouds = Native River = Wings of Eagles. All these Champions had a common denominator. Super courage and great stamina and heart.
Throw in the kid, preaux chevalier, san simeon and eastern stater gammalite and U have a snapshot of golden era. No smoother pacing action or determination than steelo.
Yeah m8 all greats Gammalites big win in Perth was incredible but nothing beats a great Steelo win.
Great horses, exciting times. Years later I would be fortunate to see Somebeachsomewhere. Next-level. But you don’t see crowds like the one at Gloucester Park that night, that is remarkable, incredible really. Re: watching the pre-race footage when Pure Steel strikes out, it looked like his hoof might have kicked at Satinover! No inspection, so apparently no contact. It reminded me of the finish of the 2021 Forego Stakes at Saratoga, look for that crazy finish if you’ve never seen.
Popular Alm as well. Although me personally I think the greatest standardbred to race in Australia was Maori's Idol. Aside from his 24 race win streak any trotter who can take on the grand circuit pacers and beat them is a genuine freak in my opinion.
Phil didnt move on Steelo
Maybe the best Australian harness race ive ever seen..
Very very close to my favorite race.."March of Dimes trot" . .Ourasi (France) vs. Mack Lobell (usa).. every horse in the field had over a million in purse winnings..head to head..
Mount eden was better by far. Steelo was a champ but Mount Eden possesed unbelievable stamina. If only they could have stopped him trying to trot instead of pace. They could probably do it now but back then they didn't recognize the problem really.
@@jamesmcdermott8328
Being from the States, I didnt know Mount Eden was that good, I have been told by others as well. I know there was a plan for Eden to come to the US and race against Albatross, but Eden had tied up and almost died at that time.. then I heard later in 1980- the owner of" Pure Steel" wanted to come to United States which would have been great, because I think he could have held his own- but that was also the Golden Age of harness racing here as well with Niatross and then Cam Fella, burning up everyone.
No doubt in my mind the ANZ horses have closed the gap and I see them here winning race after race.
brianjschumer are you too young to know about Halwes, to me , the best ever pacer in Australasia.. short career, but A super horse. John Tapp has a web site in which he tells us about his trip to Tazzy to see Halwes ( he did in 1987} . He described what his driver said about Halwes.. he said good horses can go twice in a race, but a Halwes could go three times and hold the final sprint by either zooming home, or simply breaking the heart of top flight horses, one against Voice Derby, an exceptional horse. Halwes came from 36 to win.. just superb
brianjschumer are you too young to know about Halwes, to me , the best ever pacer in Australasia.. short career, but A super horse. John Tapp has a web site in which he tells us about his trip to Tazzy to see Halwes ( he did in 1987} . He described what his driver said about Halwes.. he said good horses can go twice in a race, but a Halwes could go three times and hold the final sprint by either zooming home, or simply breaking the heart of top flight horses, one against Voice Derby, an exceptional horse. Halwes came from 36 to win.. just superb
brianjschumer brianjschumer are you too young to know about Halwes, to me , the best ever pacer in Australasia.. short career, but an absolute super horse. John Tapp has a web site in which he tells us about his trip to Tazzy to see Halwes ( he did in 1987} . He described what his driver Kevin Newman said about Halwes...he said good horses can go twice in a race, but aHalwes could go three times and hold the final sprint by either zooming home, or simply breaking the heart of top flight horses, one against Voice Derby, an exceptional horse. Halwes came from 36 to win.. just superb. He said very few horses if any could do what Halwes could do
Look at the crowd size
Notable for a B track. Like the time Niatross Waverly ran at Orangeville raceway in Ontario, Canada. Not Niatross, Niatross Waverly.
Two great trotters I would have loved to see Mount Eden raced with them
You not get this kinda of crowd nowadays
Casinos came and the crowds vanished.
Casinos brought honest races to Woodbine and Mohawk. I've been killing them since they brought in slot machines and without Ron Waples senior. I doubt there's a better handicapper in Canada than myself or ever has been. I have a background in all forms of gambling not just horseracing.
I remember Alberton versus Justin Passing at Greenwood in Toronto, Canada. Not the highest level race at the time but a clash everyone who saw the race remembers. Alberton got the print photo with Dr. John Hayes aboard.
Jaya Bae versus Venerable now that's a real matchup. The best bred trotter in the last 150 years against the undefeated. The entire world will be talking about this one soon enough when it happens. Jaya Bae has just started racing as a two year old. If there's a better bred trotter in history I'd like to know who it is?
Great. Do you have any of Lucky Creed's big wins ?
AMAZING!
Hello, do you have a big catalog of videos from 92-94? Looking for a horse called Shot for Cash. Raced only in Western Australia. Thanks
Satinover looks fantastic.
It's a shame that he wasn't quite at his best this night... also a shame he was infertile
@@bgardiner3354 he looked 'sweated up' before they started. What do you think?
@@marknorris1381 probably. My brother worked for Colin Joss in the 80's. Satinover was carrying a few injuries at that stage and had missed a lot of work... but you couldn't reschedule an event like that. Steelo was still the better horse... but there was less between them than this suggests.
@@bgardiner3354 thanks. Slightly different Satinover here to the Satinover that beat Pure Steel when they met in a race before this. Although it was close in that race.
@@marknorris1381 it's a shame that race isn't available on here
All out and never broke stride . Champs
08/24/2020
These horses r born to run , not in a harness for humans greed. . ..the ones that fail ... dog food
They are running imbo...standardbreds pace in the paddock as yearlings. Why do you think standardbreds and thoroughbreds and greyhounds are used for racing? Because it's in their nature.
Wild horses have short lives, many predators get them too, I do agree they should be taken better care of by their owners after they can no longer race well..
This is why the BIG M sucks. You see more action in a 2 horse race like this than in an entire race card of 12 races. What a joke!
This may be true now but you obviously didn't see the 3rd & final heat race off between Probe (& Bill Fahey)vs.Park Avenue Joe (&Ron Waples Sr.)Ending in a dead heat of the Hambeltonian! Not that they were great trotters,but, certainly a great raceoff,I was privileged to witness live! Everyone was a winner! It took over a year to agree on how to fairly divide the giant purse money,with both sides having good points as to who should declared the best that day,as it had never happened before in the rich history of this event,& will probably never happen again! Both of these classy gentlemen drivers held each others hand,high in victory,after the race! Maybe they should just stick to the Pacers down under,as they always have! Probe has spawned some nice ofsprings,but neather near the greatness of a Pure Steel!
@@louismercantino2751 I don't think there was a better driver of trotters than Ron Waples senior. The big M is what it is, a longer stretch might make for more exciting races. Pure Steel was out of a good sire at the time but Toledo Hanover never produced much. The broodmare Pure Band was a pig in every respect the lineage being all glue factory horses even back to the fake Dan Patch.
Pure Steel was Pure Shit!! Has an Aussie even a single one of them ever seen a real standardbred horse like Somebeachsomewhere race live?
Who's this bigger idiot here?
Beach isn't just a real Standardbred.He's a real SUPERSIRE to boot!!
@@Souljah2008 To bad he wasn't up to par vs. McWwicked in the Breeders Crown Final 2018'! I still don't believe anyone there could near touch him that night!
@@Souljah2008 Hey,I don't doubt that @all! He's gonna be awesome. These animals are like every living thing.they have their good & bad days! Lazarus has the potential to be as good or better than any,just like all the great ones! Why so argumentative? He'll show everyone just how great he is in the future.I'm rooting for them all to show their best if given the opportunity! Direct your comments to non-believers,not me! Just the facts dude,just the facts! THX,!
how do you compare a pacer racing in the late 70's and early 80's to one in 2007-2008? The tracks are faster, another near 3 decades of breeding to race, gear has changed etc.