The precocious Miss, Untapable, ridden by another precocious Miss, la rockette jockette, Anna Rosie Napravnik.
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People have their opinions: horses have the facts.
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Back home, in England, we say:
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Blood will out.
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UNTAPABLE  (USA) b. F, 2011 {8-d} DP = 4-5-8-1-0 (18) DI = 2.60 CD = 0.67 – 6 Starts, 4 Wins, 0 Places, 1 Shows Career Earnings: $548,125 |
| Owner: Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC Breeder: Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC State Bred: KY Winnings: 6 Starts: 4 – 0 – 1, $548,125At 2: Won Pocahontas S. (G2,CD,8½f); 3rd Hollywood Starlet S. (G1,Hol,8½f) At 3: Won Fair Grounds Oaks (G2,FG,8½f), Rachel Alexandra S. (G3,FG,8½f)Foaled February 13, 2011.Updated 29Mar14(CLOSE) |
| TAPIT (USA) gr. 2001 |
PULPIT (USA) dkb/br. 1994 |
A.P. INDY (USA) dkb/br. 1989 [IC] |
SEATTLE SLEW (USA) br. 1974 [BC] |
BOLD REASONING (USA) | dkb/br. 1968 | |||||
| MY CHARMER (USA) | b. 1969 * | |||||||||
| WEEKEND SURPRISE (USA)* b. 1980 |
SECRETARIAT (USA) | ch. 1970 [IC] | ||||||||
| LASSIE DEAR (USA) | b. 1974 * | |||||||||
| PREACH (USA) b. 1989 |
MR. PROSPECTOR (USA) b. 1970 [BC] |
RAISE A NATIVE (USA) | ch. 1961 [B] | |||||||
| GOLD DIGGER (USA) | b. 1962 * | |||||||||
| NARRATE (USA)* dkb/br. 1980 |
HONEST PLEASURE (USA) | dkb/br. 1973 | ||||||||
| STATE (USA) | b. 1974 | |||||||||
| TAP YOUR HEELS (USA) gr/r. 1996 |
UNBRIDLED (USA) b. 1987 [BI] |
FAPPIANO (USA) b. 1977 [IC] |
MR. PROSPECTOR (USA) | b. 1970 [BC] | ||||||
| KILLALOE (USA) | b. 1970 | |||||||||
| GANA FACIL (USA) ch. 1981 |
LE FABULEUX (FR) | ch. 1961 [P] | ||||||||
| CHAREDI (USA) | dkb/br. 1976 | |||||||||
| RUBY SLIPPERS (USA)* gr. 1982 |
NIJINSKY (CAN) b. 1967 [CS] |
NORTHERN DANCER (CAN) | b. 1961 [BC] | |||||||
| FLAMING PAGE (CAN) | b. 1959 * | |||||||||
| MOON GLITTER (USA)* gr. 1972 |
IN REALITY (USA) | b. 1964 [BC] | ||||||||
| FOGGY NOTE (USA) | gr. 1965 * | |||||||||
| FUN HOUSE (USA) b. 1999 |
PRIZED (USA) b. 1986 |
KRIS S (USA) dkb/br. 1977 |
ROBERTO (USA) b. 1969 [C] |
HAIL TO REASON (USA) | br. 1958 [C] | |||||
| BRAMALEA (USA) | b. 1959 * | |||||||||
| SHARP QUEEN (USA) b. 1965 |
PRINCEQUILLO (IRE) | b. 1940 [IS] | ||||||||
| BRIDGEWORK (USA) | dkb/br. 1955 | |||||||||
| MY TURBULENT MISS (USA) b. 1976 |
MY DAD GEORGE (USA) b. 1967 |
DARK STAR (USA) | blk/br. 1950 | |||||||
| MABEKKY (USA) | b. 1951 | |||||||||
| TURBULENT MISS (USA) dkb/br. 1969 |
PETARE (ARG) | b. 1951 | ||||||||
| BEHAVING DEBY (USA) | blk. 1961 | |||||||||
| BISTRA (USA) b. 1986 |
CLASSIC GO GO (USA) b. 1978 |
PAGO PAGO (AUS) b. 1960 |
MATRICE (AUS) | ch. 1951 | ||||||
| POMPILIA (AUS) | b. 1951 | |||||||||
| CLASSIC PERFECTION (USA) dkb/br. 1972 |
NEVER BEND (USA) | br. 1960 [BI] | ||||||||
| MIRA FEMME (USA) | b. 1964 * | |||||||||
| CAROLS CHRISTMAS (USA)* dkb/br. 1977 |
WHITESBURG (USA) ch. 1969 |
CRIMSON SATAN (USA) | ch. 1959 | |||||||
| MIRABIO (FR) | b. 1960 | |||||||||
| LIGHT VERSE (USA) b. 1970 |
REVERSE (USA) | b. 1962 | ||||||||
| BRIGHTON VIEW (USA) | ch. 1962 * | |||||||||
Gentlemen:
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First things first:
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Ladies go…first.
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The ladies have their own Derby, called the Kentucky Oaks, on Friday, 2 May, 2014.
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Girls can compete in the Derby but the race is traditionally considered to be a showcase for future stallion prospects:
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That is one of the prime reasons why Derby exists:
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With an eye towards future baby horses in the unending cycle of life of the race horse:
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Birth, racing, breeding, death and re-birth, through the generations on generations, inherited.
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That is at least, for the traditionalists among us:
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I am so sad to say that many other race goers view our wonderful enterprise as an arithmetical exercise involving numbers on a page.
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Attention, mes amis:
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Horse racing is about BEAUTY,
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Beauty in the flesh. Beauty on the hoof. Beauty in motion.
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Horse racing has nothing to do with:
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Numbers on a page.
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At least for the traditionalists among us.
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If a girl competes in Derby, she gets 5 pound off and leaves with 121 pound instead of the flat 126 pound carried by boy horses in the Derby.
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Three girl horses have won the Kentucky Derby:
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Regret, Genuine Risk and Winning Colors:
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The latter two, in our lifetimes.
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This year, take a second trust, rob banks, sell narcotics, sell your daughters and nieces into the white slave trades and bet it ALL on:
Untapable.
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To win the Kentucky Oaks, May 2, 2014.
Untapable will be ridden by the ebullient, unflappable, Miss Anna Rosie Napravnik, and, between them, they will go gangbusters and make:
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YOU…
Money, hunney.
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It won’t be much money, just a little happy meal, to get you ready for the big dance on Saturday in the:
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Kentucky Derby, in which race, we see these factors now dawning:
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And, so we go now, on to the boys of Saturday afternoon, 3 May, 2014 and their date with the ROSES…
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Should Andrew Beyer plant the kiss of death on both California Chrome and Intense Holiday, bet on this horse:
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DANZA
Should Andrew Beyer make laudatory mention of California Chrome, Intense Holiday or DANZA, bet on this horse:
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Ride On Curlin
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YOUNG JOHN DANIEL BEGG’S
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“MAGNIFICENT IMPOSSIBILITY”
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That Magnificent Impossibility:
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Here, achieved!!
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My dears, when I was young, long, long, years now, I had but 2 ambitions:
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To be a great writer and an even better race rider.
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Few get to live their dreams.
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Most of us are relegated to watching, in grief and some sadness, as others realize our dreams for us.
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Before the savage combat, the Derby is led off, at parade to the post, by a song that, if it does not bring a tear to the eye, is evidence prima facie of one’s having no heart or emotion of any kind.
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Attend, please:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phHhTeD5mcA
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“My Old Kentucky Home” lyrics
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State Song of Kentucky – Contemporary lyrics (1986)
Originally by Stephen Foster
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The sun shines bright in My Old Kentucky Home,
‘Tis summer, the people are gay;
The corn-top’s ripe and the meadow’s in the bloom
While the birds make music all the day.
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The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright;
By ‘n’ by hard times comes a knocking at the door,
Then My Old Kentucky Home, good night!
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Chorus
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Weep no more my lady
Oh!! weep no more today;
We will sing one song
For My Old Kentucky Home
For My Old Kentucky Home, far away.
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Blood on the turf~~blood on the saddle~~
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Be it running in tumult and sweet triumph:
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In fully extended motion.
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Or spilt and shattered in painful passion:
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Is royal, noble, pure, blue blood come Derby Day.
The great John Steinbeck described the Kentucky Derby as “one of the most beautiful and violent and satisfying things” he had ever experienced.
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The Kentucky Derby, run first Saturday of May at Churchill Downs beneath the Twin Spires, is:
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What the irrepressible horseman and social gadabout John Daniel Begg long ago christened:
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“That Magnificent Impossibility.”
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This year, That Magnificent Impossibility, looms May 3, 2014.
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The Kentucky Derby is, beyond reasoned argument, the most enchanting of all social and sporting events in the American calendar.
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It is over in 2 minutes.
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The Derby is colorful, dramatic, thrilling, awe-inspiring and absolutely impossible to suss out.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_ZbX60Oa4
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The horses who compete in the Derby are babies.
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The race is limited to 3 year olds:
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But many are not even full that tender age.
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All thoroughbreds have their birthday on January 1st, so, conceivably, a horse could be one minute old in real life and yet a full year old the next minute.
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Conversely, one would like one’s horse born as early on New Year’s Day as possible.
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Just a minute past the champagne.
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Both outcomes are unlikely as the foaling cycle is in Spring.
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But just when in Spring is important.
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One will have a “young three” or an “old three,” dependent upon one’s luck.
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The difference of a few months is terribly important as the horses running in Derby are well off of being fully mature.
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An age reached at full 4 years.
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And many are just coming into themselves:
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While others developed very young, already made their flash in the pan, and are already past their prime periods.
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They peaked too soon.
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By Derby Day they are what we call “jaded.”
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Over raced.
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Off peak.
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Worn, frayed and tired.
As with everything else of consequence with the Americans, The Derby:
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Child of the English:
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Dar~~BY
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Called after Lord Dar~~BY
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Well before we were born a nation, is imitative of the English version of things.
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Here, Her Majesty appears keen of intent on taking her flyers at Epson with quite a good deal of seriousness.
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Bravo, Mam!!
Lamentably, things here seem to have come a cropper for Queen, as she appears very much vexed by the outcome of a race in which she had taken, a quite serious, flyer.
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So sorry, Mam.
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Called, appropriately, The Sport of Kings, horse racing in America, and for that matter in England, is nevertheless dominated on the one end by very poor men with holes in their soles, who support the business on the gray days of winter and on through the year. At the high-end, by the silk hat crowd, who, in America and England, come out for the big dances–most notably:
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The senior prom.
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The big dance.
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The one that counts.
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The Kentucky Derby here and The Epson Dar~BY over the waters..
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On first Saturday, May, deep within the American middle orders, men of modest ambition and riches, and yet, far, far, worse taste in suits than their English cousins, succumb to Derby fever and to:
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That Magnificent Impossibility.
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Some such:
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**********Credits~~The Kentucky Derby Museum and Derby Central*****************
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US Presidents are fans of the Kentucky Derby
Posted: October 2nd, 2012
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The Kentucky Derby is rich in tradition and can be considered one of our nation’s greatest sporting events. So great, in fact, several of our nation’s Presidents have attended the Derby, one while in office. The Derby ties run even deeper when we examine details of those Presidential race fans visits. Here are some facts about our Commanders in Chief you might not know:
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Harry Truman.
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- Kentucky Governor Earle Clements invited the President to attend the 75th running of the Derby in 1949. In a letter declining the invitation, Truman stated that he would like to attend “another Kentucky Derby” someday, because it was a spectacle he had enjoyed in the past. (Truman Library, President’s Personal File (PPF) 3550)
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- In a letter to a Kentucky friend, Truman pays tribute to the Derby as one of several great Kentucky traditions, although he does not mention attending the event. (Truman Library, President’s Personal File (PPF) 2575)
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- A pair of “Kentucky Derby cups” were presented to the President and the First Lady around March of 1952. (Truman Library, President’s Personal File (PPF) 9-G)
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Lyndon Johnson
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- Senator Lyndon Johnson described his visit to the 1952 Kentucky Derby as “my day off”. (Louisville Courier-Journal, 5/4/1952)
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- Johnson in 1952: As Senator attending the Derby, he was said to be “uncommunicative” saying “I’m not talking. This is my day off.” (1993 Kentucky Derby Souvenir Magazine)
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Richard Nixon
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- Nixon in 1968: attended the champagne toast for the winners with Kentucky Governor Louis B. Nunn and Churchill Downs President Wathen Knebelkamp. (1993 Kentucky Derby Souvenir Magazine)
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- Nixon in 1969: Several accounts say that he was touting the eventual winner Majestic Prince, which hailed from Nixon’s native California. As Majestic Prince crossed the finish line, Nixon apparently yelled, “He won, he won!” (1993 Kentucky Derby Souvenir Magazine)
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- When Nixon attended in 1969, it was not immediately known whether or not he placed a bet on a horse. He said he would “take the California horse” (Courier-Journal, 5/4/1969)
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- Nixon in 1969: He said, “I’m going to savor this race, Kentucky style” when asked whether or not he would try a mint julep. His usual drink was Scotch and soda. (Courier-Journal, 5/4/1969)
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- Nixon in 1969: He watched the sixth race on Derby Day with California Governor Ronald Reagan. (Courier-Journal, 5/4/1969)
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- Nixon in 1969: There are conflicting reports as to whether or not Nixon actually bet. In 1978, John V. Brennan, assistant to Nixon, claimed someone else placed a bet on Majestic Prince and gave the ticket to Nixon. (1993 Kentucky Derby Souvenir Magazine)
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- Nixon in 1969: “Security was tight from the spires on down to the tulip beds and over in the barn area. Secret Service men, whose serious mien was indistinguishable from that of the normal race track player, inconspicuously infiltrated Churchill Downs long before Richard Nixon became the first President of the United States to witness the Kentucky Derby. Louisville police, Kentucky state police, National Guard troops, Churchill Downs security guards, and Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau agents co-ordinated security efforts with walkie-talkies to insure protection, not only of the President, but of the Republican governors whose spring conference in Lexington was concluded the day before the Kentucky Derby.” (Jim Bolus, Derby Fever)
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Gerald Ford
- Gerald Ford has attended more Derbys than any former president with his wife, Betty. He stated that Genuine Risk was his favorite Derby winner. In 1989, said “We’ve always been thrilled with the excitement of the Kentucky Derby. It is one of the great American sporting events.” (1993 Kentucky Derby Souvenir Magazine)
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Jimmy Carter
- Carter in 1983: spent a lot of time with Kentucky breeder Tom Gentry. On Derby Day, Gentry lost Laffit Pincay, Jr. as the rider for Flag Admiral in the fourth race. Carter accompanied Gentry to the jockeys’ room to find a replacement rider. Apparently, Carter impressed many in the jocks’ room with his command of Spanish. (1993 Souvenir Magazine)
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- Carter in 1983: Dale Sights, Kentucky State Racing Commission member and Carter’s host for the Derby, stated that the former president accompanied Gentry to the paddock to help saddle Flag Admiral for the fourth race. Carter supposedly gave jockey Jorge Velasquez instructions on how to ride the race “and the race worked out exactly the way he told him to ride it.” (1993 Souvenir Magazine)
- Carter in 1983: apparently had placed a bet on Flag Admiral on Derby Day. The colt ran in the Preakness two weeks later with Carter as part owner. Apparently, Carter stipulated that any financial gain from the investment go the Carter Library in Atlanta. (1993 Souvenir Magazine)
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George H.W. Bush
- George H.W. Bush attended the Derby in 1993, 1995 and 2000. In 1995, he bet on two horses for the Derby but kept his picks to himself. (Lexington Herald-Leader, 5/7/1995)
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- George H.W. Bush in 1993: wore a red, white and blue tie with stars, stripes and a Texas longhorn. His pick for the race was Personal Hope because the owners, Lee and Debi Lewis, were from Lubbock, Texas. (Personal Hope finished 4th.) Bush presented the trophy for the Churchill Downs Handicap. (Blood-Horse, 5/8/1993)
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- George H.W. Bush in 1993: Apparently had been betting and losing all day but said he would “…make it all back in the Derby.” He didn’t, as he bet on Union City, which finished 15th. (Jim Bolus, Derby Fever)
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- George H.W. Bush in 2000: Won big by betting on his friend Will Farish’s horse, Secret Status, in the Oaks; declined to say whether or not he placed a Derby bet saying “Don’t ask, don’t tell”. (The Courier-Journal, 5/7/2000)
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Bill Clinton
- Clinton in 1994: Clinton never attended but was the first president to call and congratulate the winner of the Derby (Go for Gin, 1994). (Jim Bolus, Derby Fever)
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George W. Bush
- George W. Bush in 2000: Attended as Texas governor; appeared in the paddock and made a presentation in the winner’s circle; dined in the Skye Terrace with his father, former president George H.W. Bush; said to press “I don’t think I’ll be wagering too much. This is a great day. It’s a spectacle.” (The Blood Horse, 5/13/2000)
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- George W. Bush in 2000: “I’m really glad I came. The energy of the crowd is magnificent, the horses are beautiful. It’s a fantastic experience.” (Thoroughbred Times, 5/13/2000)
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- George W. Bush in 2000: “I’m not a good bettor-I’m not against betting-I’m just against losing money, especially my own. You should have seen me 20 years ago. I would have been betting and drinking out here all day.” (Thoroughbred Times, 5/13/2000)
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- George W. Bush in 2000: Said he did not bet, but if had it would have been on The Deputy, which was “an interesting story”. (The Courier-Journal, 5/7/2000)
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- **********Credits~~The Kentucky Derby Museum and Derby Central*****************
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I am asked the winner of this year’s:
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Magnificent Impossibility, and very appropriately so, as I thought that name of it!!
TREVE!!!!
| Sire Motivator (GB) b. 2002 |
Montjeu (IRE) b. 1996 |
Sadler’s Wells b. 1981 |
Northern Dancer* |
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| Fairy Bridge | |||
| Floripedes b. 1985 |
Top Ville | ||
| Toute Cy | |||
| Out West b. 1994 |
Gone West b. 1984 |
Mr. Prospector | |
| Secrettame | |||
| Chellingoua b. 1983 |
Sharpen Up | ||
| Uncommitted | |||
| Dam Trevise (FR) b. 2000 |
Anabaa (USA) b. 1992 |
Danzig b. 1977 |
Northern Dancer* |
| Pas de Nom | |||
| Balbonella b. 1984 |
Gay Mecene | ||
| Bamieres | |||
| Trevillari b. 1987 |
Riverman b. 1969 |
Never Bend | |
| River Lady | |||
| Trevilla b. 1981 |
Lyphard | ||
| Trillion |
Note: b. = Bay
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Above:
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Winning ,the 2013 L’Arc.
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Le Gran Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe, a Longchamps, a Paris, 2013.
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The greatest race on The Continent, run each year, during L’Arc weekend, first weekend of October.
TREVE–L’Arc winner, 2013
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Racing is:
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So brilliantly, so ferociously, so savagely, fast.
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So exhilarating. So terrifying. So terribly dangerous.
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Mr. Steinbeck was right to remark:
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” The most beautiful and violent and satisfying thing”
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Mr Steinbeck had ever experienced.
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Let us pray that it be God’s will that all who race and ride be spared the violent savagery that can, and does, attend this most beautiful of God’s Sports, even as many others have not been so spared in the going of :
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That happy, colorful event, that beautiful race:
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That Magnificent Impossibility.
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Amen.
John Daniel Begg
At
Washington DC
Thursday, 1st May, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi, 2014
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Amen~~
~The Original Angry Bird~~The Catholic University of America Screaming Red Cardinal Mascot~~
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