Gee, can't believe this is nearly 40 years ago! I was 19 and just getting interested in Standardbreds then. Niatross was the first pacing star that I remember; still arguably the best of all time, isn't he?
Saw Jittlin' Joe O'brian win the Adios @ mea5/8 WtoW! 2nd best that yr.Otherwise he'd have earned a lot more in purses without Niatross around! Still had some very nice get to carry on!
@bocajonw I seen him race at Batavia also..And was even happier to see him lead a post parade during his retirement..He was 18 and was deck out all in his purple.. And still looked like a monster... Owner, driver, Trainer, Sam Schillaci had the honor to be his pilot...
@carlfoggin I was only 6 years old when Niatross was 3 years old. His Legacy still lives on today. I could not appreciate him or cam fella at the time I watched them but I did when I got older. I actually had the pleasure of training sons of Niatross and Cam Fella. Your rignt about Niatross value of 40 million. He was so special they built a breeding farm just for him.
Jordon Matthews I disagree. .Niatross 1. Bret Hanover /Albatross 2. Clints niece may disagree as good a trainer as Galbraith was..he was not a top driver..take off a few fifths for every race Niatross raced, if Dancer or Houghton drove him..
@carlfoggin Well thanks to modern technology you can. I am 36 and love these old races. I had the honor to talk to Clint Galbraith many times as a kid at Vernon downs. I also got to go meet Niatross and touch him when he was standing stud! What an honor to touch this magical horse!
Just like with Pat Crowe and Cam Fella, what is lost is that both of these men had great success before they raced the benchmark horses of their careers...Pat was a great horseman who did quite well on the Chicago-detroit-Windsor circuit and he always had good numbers every year..Same with Clint..he always had solid NYSSstock and befor the Great One, horses like Hue Kash and ABC Freight put him in the headlines...both of these gentlemen were far from one-hit-wonders...
This was the final heat of the JUG and even though you couldn't see it, there was $49,000.00+ bet to win on the race, $48,000.00+ of it was bet to win on Niatross....that was the definitive example of a 1/9 shot on the tote board....
Who nows how Popular Alm and Pure Steel would go. They are all great horses. Niatross went under 1:50 for the mile! Albatross, Greyhound, Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay were good ones too. Them were the days!
@@suatkayatennis one was a royally bred trotting mare owned by a crotchety old farmer from Vermont. She was good enough to compete at Yonkers or Roosevelt but her owner carved out his own training track on his farm and just raced her at county fairs in N.H. & Vt. This way, he could drive her himself and enjoy that one good horse he said he'd always wanted. She would race against the best pacers on the grounds, and I don't recall her ever losing. It was a treat to watch her but frustrating at the same time because she could whip our butts without having to try too awfully hard. 🤨
@howardm74 I remember when they retired him to stud - I vaguely recall a parade being televised. I also vaguely recall a long article about him in one of the mainstream magazines (possibly Sports Illustrated). They estimated his value to be over $40 million at the time! I saw Cam Fella win the Confederation Cup back in '82 at Flamboro Downs (I still have the program somewhere). I was a kid at the time, so I didn't appreciate what I was seeing at the time.
Which track? The Little Brown Jug in Delaware? If so, it's very much still there and pretty much the same as the video shows save for some extra setting and more buildings around the track.
what gets forgotten because he made it look so easy is that niatross was breaking world and track records everytime he raced,only wud put one horse in his catagory and thats the beach ,somebeachsomewhere was scary good
NIATROSS WAS A MIRICLE STAR FOR CLINT IF HE WAS RACING IN 2013 HE WOULD EASY PACE IN 144 CLINT LATE FATHER ALLWAYS DREAM OF HAVING A 200 MINIUTE PACER ITS JUST TO BAD HE WAS NOT HERE TO WITNESS HIS SON GREAT SUCCESS
JUST A MIRACLE HORSE NIATROSS THE KIND WE HORSEMEN ALL DREAM ABOUT JUST LIKE THE GREAT DAN PATCH OF THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 155 USEING THE OLD STYLE WOODEN BIKES BOTH MIRICLE HORSE AND NIATROSS MAKING 200000 IN 1980
Niatross was a horse very much ahead of his time. He is still by most considered the Greatest Ever. The only other pacer you can put on his level or a little bit ahead of Niatross is Somebeachsomewhere. Somebeach lost one race every other race he destroyed the competition. The Meadowlands pace he lost by a nose it took everything to go wrong for him to lose and everything right for Art Official to get up by a nose. All the other races Somebeach raced there was never competition that could beat him. Its so hard to wonder what Niatross would have done if he was racing today how fast could he have went and could he be beaten.
Not really,Storm was a great horse,but Niatross was the BEST horse,Ever! Bad timing "Damaged" his time to shine like the sun! Niatross was just a "Crazy Diamond"! All U "Pink "Floyd"fans will get that reference!
I think American race commentators are terrible. Give me Johnny Tapp any day. Great horse though. Would have been good to see how he went against Popular Alm and Pure Steel over a bit of distance.
bgardiner2000 You never had the chance to hear Jack E. Lee, Robin Burns, or Jim Dolan..they were three of the best callers we had...Im not a Roger Huston fan...
I am & he definitely deserves to be in that circle with them in the Hall of Fame,regardless of your personal opinion that you are fully entitled to! Opinions are like assholes,everybody's got one!
lol been awhile since iv looked at this didnt notice your ignorant reply..I grew up watching clint drive at buffalo raceway.Where which i am a driver and i say he sucks im entitled to my opinion arent 1?
Stanley Dancer was probably a better driver than all of them! We both know why you didn't include Herve there! But in this case,yeah,it was all Albatross,except in the Jug!
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Watching Niatross gives me goose bumps everytime. Niatross and Somebeachsomewhere the 2 greatest pacers ever!
Gee, can't believe this is nearly 40 years ago! I was 19 and just getting interested in Standardbreds then. Niatross was the first pacing star that I remember; still arguably the best of all time, isn't he?
Yes. The greatest.
@@lisaachilli8581 he reached the quarter in :27.3 behind Denali, then Clint said: "that's enough of that!" and let Niatross go...he was the greatest!
I wish I was old enough to appreciate races like this at the time.
Just go watch them!
He beat some very good competition all that year & made it look EASY! 1 of the elite BEST Ever!
He was simply THE BEST!
"Bullet" Bob Meyer was a terrific racecaller at Roosevelt & Yonkers Raceway in the 70s. I'd stack his precise and clear calls against anyones.
Very talented and Funny!
So neat to see. Storm Damage is my horse myrna's "grandfather".
Saw Jittlin' Joe O'brian win the Adios @ mea5/8 WtoW! 2nd best that yr.Otherwise he'd have earned a lot more in purses without Niatross around! Still had some very nice get to carry on!
If Joe could have carried that horse on his back to win it, he would have. As I recall Stormy wasn't fully sound, but he had a lot of heart.
@bocajonw
I seen him race at Batavia also..And was even happier to see him lead a post parade during his retirement..He was 18 and was deck out all in his purple.. And still looked like a monster...
Owner, driver, Trainer, Sam Schillaci had the honor to be his pilot...
I saw Albatross run at Yonkers in the 60s. Harry Harvey took him as wide as necessary to get the lead and never looked back. What a horse!
&,Who beat him in the Jug upset? HERVE! In a driving masterpiece!
I always felt Harry had earned the right to keep Albatross in his barn. Don't know what Bert James was thinking.
@carlfoggin I was only 6 years old when Niatross was 3 years old. His Legacy still lives on today. I could not appreciate him or cam fella at the time I watched them but I did when I got older. I actually had the pleasure of training sons of Niatross and Cam Fella. Your rignt about Niatross value of 40 million. He was so special they built a breeding farm just for him.
Jordon Matthews
I disagree. .Niatross 1. Bret Hanover /Albatross 2.
Clints niece may disagree as good a trainer as Galbraith was..he was not a top driver..take off a few fifths for every race Niatross raced, if Dancer or Houghton drove him..
@carlfoggin Well thanks to modern technology you can. I am 36 and love these old races. I had the honor to talk to Clint Galbraith many times as a kid at Vernon downs. I also got to go meet Niatross and touch him when he was standing stud! What an honor to touch this magical horse!
Just like with Pat Crowe and Cam Fella, what is lost is that both of these men had great success before they raced the benchmark horses of their careers...Pat was a great horseman who did quite well on the Chicago-detroit-Windsor circuit and he always had good numbers every year..Same with Clint..he always had solid NYSSstock and befor the Great One, horses like Hue Kash and ABC Freight put him in the headlines...both of these gentlemen were far from one-hit-wonders...
Just as Niatross was!
Niatross' granddaughter, Last Valentine, lived at the barn down the road from me for alot of years. She looked alot like him. :)
This was the final heat of the JUG and even though you couldn't see it, there was $49,000.00+ bet to win on the race, $48,000.00+ of it was bet to win on Niatross....that was the definitive example of a 1/9 shot on the tote board....
Niatross best pacer ever !!!.next question please..
YES!!
Agreed
I was lucky enough to watch him race in Batavia. I still remember no show bets allowed and he went off at 1/9 smoking the field.
BRAVO! Remember it well !
Great call !!!
Big names in this race
CLINT LEARNED HIS LESSON WELL FROM HIS FATHER GRANT AND DEVELOPED THE BEST HORSE IN THE WORLD
Yes he did
The Little Brown Jug , Delaware , Ohio !
Who nows how Popular Alm and Pure Steel would go. They are all great horses. Niatross went under 1:50 for the mile! Albatross, Greyhound, Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay were good ones too. Them were the days!
as an australian i look for niatross blood in the sires line
I love my a trust for a monster he was champion champion champion
Big names in here
That was some crop of three year olds.
Beach Towel and Albatross both passed down a good blood as well as Cam .
Imagine a race with Niatross against Mack Lobell,Muscle Hill,Bret Hanover,Varenne and Somebeachsomewhere at the red mile .
Suat Kaya trotters against pacers?
@@danearley9494 why not ?
Used to happen occasionally at county fairs when I was a kid.
@@comesahorseman nice,tell me about some of the racing horses you witnessed.
@@suatkayatennis one was a royally bred trotting mare owned by a crotchety old farmer from Vermont. She was good enough to compete at Yonkers or Roosevelt but her owner carved out his own training track on his farm and just raced her at county fairs in N.H. & Vt. This way, he could drive her himself and enjoy that one good horse he said he'd always wanted. She would race against the best pacers on the grounds, and I don't recall her ever losing. It was a treat to watch her but frustrating at the same time because she could whip our butts without having to try too awfully hard. 🤨
I AGREE WITH BRIAN CLINT DROVE THE HORSE HAS BEST HAS ANYBODY BACK IN THOSE DAY NIATROSS 154 HIS DAD GRANT WOULD BE LOOKING WITH BIG SMILE
Your right Ken Uncle Grant would have a big smile on his face and would be so proud of Clint. My heart rate still races when I see these clips.
@howardm74 I remember when they retired him to stud - I vaguely recall a parade being televised. I also vaguely recall a long article about him in one of the mainstream magazines (possibly Sports Illustrated). They estimated his value to be over $40 million at the time!
I saw Cam Fella win the Confederation Cup back in '82 at Flamboro Downs (I still have the program somewhere). I was a kid at the time, so I didn't appreciate what I was seeing at the time.
Which track? The Little Brown Jug in Delaware? If so, it's very much still there and pretty much the same as the video shows save for some extra setting and more buildings around the track.
what gets forgotten because he made it look so easy is that niatross was breaking world and track records everytime he raced,only wud put one horse in his catagory and thats the beach ,somebeachsomewhere was scary good
that's not roosevelt
I saw Niatross at the Syracuse Mile around this time. Is there any video of this anywhere?
Niatross time trialled at Syracuse in 1980 and there is a video of that on UA-cam. I was at that time trial. What a pacer!
@@joewarner546 lucky bastard
NIATROSS WAS A MIRICLE STAR FOR CLINT IF HE WAS RACING IN 2013 HE WOULD EASY PACE IN 144 CLINT LATE FATHER ALLWAYS DREAM OF HAVING A 200 MINIUTE PACER ITS JUST TO BAD HE WAS NOT HERE TO WITNESS HIS SON GREAT SUCCESS
Well said yes wish Uncle Grant could have seen these races.
JUST A MIRACLE HORSE NIATROSS THE KIND WE HORSEMEN ALL DREAM ABOUT JUST LIKE THE GREAT DAN PATCH OF THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 155 USEING THE OLD STYLE WOODEN BIKES BOTH MIRICLE HORSE AND NIATROSS MAKING 200000 IN 1980
Niatross was a horse very much ahead of his time. He is still by most considered the Greatest Ever. The only other pacer you can put on his level or a little bit ahead of Niatross is Somebeachsomewhere. Somebeach lost one race every other race he destroyed the competition. The Meadowlands pace he lost by a nose it took everything to go wrong for him to lose and everything right for Art Official to get up by a nose. All the other races Somebeach raced there was never competition that could beat him. Its so hard to wonder what Niatross would have done if he was racing today how fast could he have went and could he be beaten.
@mritaliano do you have to use heel balm on the italian
horses or are they naturally greasy?
clint did just has good with him has anyone could of these guys would likely gun him to death
has anyone heard of a horse called gale damage
Storm Damage yeah
Gale Damage no
My parents had a homebred named Gale Barnes. She was born during a near hurricane, believe it or not.
Would have loved to See Niatross and Storm damage vs. Pure Steel and Satinover circa 1980..similar to Cardigan bay vs. Bret Hanover
Not really,Storm was a great horse,but Niatross was the BEST horse,Ever! Bad timing "Damaged" his time to shine like the sun! Niatross was just a "Crazy Diamond"! All U "Pink "Floyd"fans will get that reference!
This.horse
You.see.him
1980.and.his.gait.pace.was.like.no.other.still.bulldog.would.beat.niotross.in.145.flat..
its Delaware ohio
I think American race commentators are terrible. Give me Johnny Tapp any day. Great horse though. Would have been good to see how he went against Popular Alm and Pure Steel over a bit of distance.
bgardiner2000 You never had the chance to hear Jack E. Lee, Robin Burns, or Jim Dolan..they were three of the best callers we had...Im not a Roger Huston fan...
I am & he definitely deserves to be in that circle with them in the Hall of Fame,regardless of your personal opinion that you are fully entitled to! Opinions are like assholes,everybody's got one!
@>bgardinor,Another Opinion!
lol been awhile since iv looked at this didnt notice your ignorant reply..I grew up watching clint drive at buffalo raceway.Where which i am a driver and i say he sucks im entitled to my opinion arent 1?
Another opinion!
indeed a great horse...clint galbraith wasnt that great of a driver average at best..it was all horse niatross was a machine...
imagine if Niatross had a driver like Campbell, Brennan or Tetrick?
Stanley Dancer was probably a better driver than all of them! We both know why you didn't include Herve there! But in this case,yeah,it was all Albatross,except in the Jug!
Wouldn't have mattered.
@@comesahorseman of course it would have mattered, Galbreath was a statue driving a horse
@@jamsid33 Niatross was so far above the competition, it wouldn't have mattered.
@@comesahorseman i am just talking about how fast Niatross could have paced, with a top catch driver he could have paced in 1;47 and a piece
That announcer is terrible yelling like that