Yeah... I'm throwing a Belmont watching party today. The Belmont Breeze seemed like a pretty lame drink, so my wife decided to make fresh Strawberry Martinis instead. We'll probably be too plastered to watch the race by then![]()
The wife just went into Secrertariat orgasm mode.
We have a family room that looks like a Sectretariat Shrine.
Possibly the best of the best, not only winning the TC but winning by thirty fucking one lengths, that's not a race, that's an annihilation LOL,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horses/2014/06/05/the-lineup-belmont-stakes-starting-eleven/10046025/
His time was 2:24 still stands as the track (and world) record holder for the 1.5 mile circuit, only 2-3 other horses have cracked the 2:26 mark 1978's "Affirmed" being one of them. Sadly the horse's that lost to Affirmed by inches sometimes "Alydar" was to have a horrific end to his life, his leg intentionally snapped by tying it to a truck and breaking it to collect the insurance $$, they got caught, prosecuted, and sent to jail, F-ing pricks, here's a hores that ran it's guts out for you and damm near upset Affirmed on several occasions and you intentionally subjected him to this untimely and excruciating death, here's the Wiki on what happened,
"Suspicious death
On November 13, 1990, Alydar appeared to have shattered his right hind leg in his stall at Calumet Farms in Lexington, Kentucky. Emergency surgery was performed the next day in an attempt to repair the injury, but the leg broke again. On November 15, Alydar was euthanized. At the time the owner of Calumet Farm was in dire trouble financially, but suspicions of foul play by the management were not raised until federal prosecutors investigated in the late 1990s. John Thomas (J.T.) Lundy was indicted and convicted in 2000 on separate but related fraud charges - bribing a bank executive for favorable loans - and served nearly four years in prison. The farm's former attorney, Gary Matthews, was also convicted and received a 21-month prison sentence. The Texas Monthly described Alydar's death as "a sweeping saga of greed, fraud, and almost unimaginable cruelty that could have been lifted straight from a best-selling Dick Francis horse-racing novel. Alydar is buried at Calumet Farm. In Houston Federal Court, MIT Professor George Pratt testified that Alydar had to have been killed. He speculated that someone had tied the end of a rope around Alydar's leg and attached the other end of the rope to a truck that could easily have been driven into the stallion barn. The truck then took off, pulling Alydar's leg from underneath him until it snapped; he testified that the force involved was at least three times that which a horse was able to exert. About five days before Alydar's injury his original night watchman, Harold "Cowboy" Kipp, testified that he was at work on the farm when he was ordered to take Tuesday, November 13 off."
Possibly the best of the best, not only winning the TC but winning by thirty fucking one lengths, that's not a race, that's an annihilation LOL,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...neup-belmont-stakes-starting-eleven/10046025/
His time was 2:24 still stands as the track (and world) record holder for the 1.5 mile circuit, only 2-3 other horses have cracked the 2:26 mark 1978's "Affirmed" being one of them. Sadly the horse's that lost to Affirmed by inches sometimes "Alydar" was to have a horrific end to his life, his leg intentionally snapped by tying it to a truck and breaking it to collect the insurance $$, they got caught, prosecuted, and sent to jail, F-ing pricks, here's a hores that ran it's guts out for you and damm near upset Affirmed on several occasions and you intentionally subjected him to this untimely and excruciating death, here's the Wiki on what happened,
"Suspicious death
On November 13, 1990, Alydar appeared to have shattered his right hind leg in his stall at Calumet Farms in Lexington, Kentucky. Emergency surgery was performed the next day in an attempt to repair the injury, but the leg broke again. On November 15, Alydar was euthanized. At the time the owner of Calumet Farm was in dire trouble financially, but suspicions of foul play by the management were not raised until federal prosecutors investigated in the late 1990s. John Thomas (J.T.) Lundy was indicted and convicted in 2000 on separate but related fraud charges - bribing a bank executive for favorable loans - and served nearly four years in prison. The farm's former attorney, Gary Matthews, was also convicted and received a 21-month prison sentence. The Texas Monthly described Alydar's death as "a sweeping saga of greed, fraud, and almost unimaginable cruelty that could have been lifted straight from a best-selling Dick Francis horse-racing novel. Alydar is buried at Calumet Farm. In Houston Federal Court, MIT Professor George Pratt testified that Alydar had to have been killed. He speculated that someone had tied the end of a rope around Alydar's leg and attached the other end of the rope to a truck that could easily have been driven into the stallion barn. The truck then took off, pulling Alydar's leg from underneath him until it snapped; he testified that the force involved was at least three times that which a horse was able to exert. About five days before Alydar's injury his original night watchman, Harold "Cowboy" Kipp, testified that he was at work on the farm when he was ordered to take Tuesday, November 13 off."
You do not deserve to even post in this thread.secretariat didnt "win" by 31 lengths, he was the most jacked horse in history. he was the barry bonds/lance armstrong of horseracing
I didn't bet at all, but ya might be right we'll see.Bet my life savings on Matterhorn
Yeah, my wife grew up in Schenectady, the harness track there was well known for shady things, she even had an Aunt owned a horse there, and was approached a few times by people trying to throw races.
I married a hard core Saratoga fan.
