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Posts: 4822 (05/17/08 14:21:17) Internet Broadcaster |
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Posts: 4824 (05/18/08 06:04:28) Internet Broadcaster |
I'm convinced he can do it. Yesterday he only 'ran' 3/8 of a mile, the rest of the time he was holding back. When he hit it, it looked like he had
jets on his back, he annihilated the competition by 5+ lengths, it was amazing! His jockey, Kent Desormeaux, is convinced as well. He should know best, he has
already ridden 2 other previous derby winners and another Preakness winner, there's also another great story (see below). This is great for the industry
seeing all the heartbreak of late, i.e. Barbaro/Eight Belles:(
30 years is a long time man....
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Posts: 4826 (05/18/08 07:04:34) Internet Broadcaster |
Desormeaux taking family, fans on ride of lifetime
BALTIMORE (AP) - Dad was somewhere else getting all the pats on the back for his winning ride Saturday. Jacob Desormeaux was too distracted to notice anyway. Sitting on a friend's shoulders, the 9-year-old boy patted his mom on the head and asked a question that had nothing to do with winning the Triple Crown. "I wish daddy would buy Big Brown," Jacob said. "Mom, can we buy Big Brown?" "No," said Sonia Desormeaux, laughing. "We can't afford Big Brown. He's too expensive." Maybe dad can't afford the dazzling colt. But jockey Kent Desormeaux is taking Big Brown, family and friends on the Triple Crown ride of a lifetime. Desormeaux rode Big Brown to a 5 1/4-length victory at the Preakness, setting up a Triple Crown try at the Belmont Stakes in three weeks. "There are so many hurdles," Desormeaux said. "I can't wait to find out what happens." Greatness again awaits Desormeaux. This time, the jockey wants to finish what he started. Ten years after a crushing near-miss at racing history, Desormeaux has one more shot at winning the Triple Crown. The 38-year-old Desormeaux led Big Brown to the Preakness' winner's circle only two weeks after he guided the colt to a thrilling 4 3/4-length victory in the Kentucky Derby. Up ahead, the Belmont. Up ahead, the chance to become racing's 12th Triple Crown winner and the first since Affirmed in 1978. Desormeaux called Big Brown the best horse he's ever ridden, even better than Real Quiet, the colt that nearly ended the Triple Crown drought in 1998. This one was never even close. Desormeaux had so much time he could sneak a peek under his right arm looking for Big Brown's competition. He never found it down the stretch. Never needed the whip, either. And the race ended the same way as the other four run by the big bay colt: With a win. "I started slowing him down and watching TV, make sure nothing went crazy," he said. Win the Triple Crown, and an ordinary jockey's life would never be the same. Desormeaux seems fit to handle all the chaotic changes that come along with grouping your name with such winners like Steve Cauthen or Ron Turcotte. "When you can win geared down like Kent had him, it's amazing," Cauthen, who rode Affirmed, said by telephone from Kentucky. "The thing is, I think somebody said today if he gets boxed in and gets dirt in his face, maybe that would stop him, but he's proven that doesn't bother him." Desormeaux's professional disappointments have been a blip compared to the personal hardships in his family. Jacob was born with Usher syndrome, a genetic disorder that stole his hearing at birth and is slowly robbing him of his sight. Jacob acted like any other boy on this night. "I'm thankful that I've been blessed with three beautiful people and a freak of a horse," Desormeaux said. Sonia, and sons Jacob and Joshua, watched the race on TV from a suite. It was too difficult to watch the big screen, even with Jacob seemingly perched on someone else's shoulders the whole time. "He got to see how (Kent) was pulling away easily," Sonia Desormeaux said. Jacob will likely be on some broad shoulders again at the Belmont, where his father experienced perhaps the biggest disappointment of his career. Desormeaux was in this position before, with Real Quiet in 1998. He rode trainer Bob Baffert's Real Quiet to nearly a four-length lead at the Belmont, only to have Victory Gallop catch him in the final stride of a sensational stretch run and win the race by a nose. "It's very comparable," Sonia Desormeaux said of 1998 and '08. "But winning as impressive as he has been, it's definitely a lot more exciting for all of us." The sport still waits for its 12th Triple Crown winner. Now, Desormeaux is positioned again to sweep the Derby, Preakness and Belmont for the first time in 30 years. AP Sports Writer Will Graves in Louisville, Ky., contributed to this report. |
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Posts: 4827 (05/18/08 07:25:59) Internet Broadcaster |
TRA.com talks to hall of fame jockey Kent Desormeaux about his favored Kentucky Derby mount, Big Brown, on Thusday, May 1, 2008. |
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Posts: 4828 (05/18/08 07:27:24) Internet Broadcaster |
Big Brown, Eight Belles, Denis Of Cork, Tale of Ekati, Recapturetheglory, Colonel John, Anak Nakal, Pyro, Cowboy Cal, Z Fortune, Smooth Air, Visionaire, Court Vision, Z Humor, Cool Coal Man, Bob Black Jack, Gayego, Big Truck, Adriano and Monba battle it out in the 2008 Kentucky Derby.
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Posts: 4829 (05/18/08 07:33:32) Internet Broadcaster |
Big Brown easily takes the second leg of the Triple Crown... Contains post race interviews |
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Posts: 12847 (05/18/08 07:44:59) listing to starboard |
Big Brown is quite a horse.
Gunsite "Well yes, doom and gloom is a result of fear, which itself is a natural consequence of an inability to think for oneself." -Satch-the prophet |
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Posts: 4832 (05/19/08 03:41:41) Internet Broadcaster |
He's gonna be greater here in 3 weeks!!
Jockeys Pay Tribute to Eight Belles by Deirdre B. Biles Updated: May 18, 2008 Jockeys honored the memory of Eight Belles by wearing stickers on their boots or mud pants May 16 and 17 at Pimlico, which was hosting the 133rd running of the Preakness Stakes (gr. I) and a variety of other graded races. Each red and white adhesive label had a bell, the number 8, and the word "Belles" on it. Eight Belles broke down after finishing second to Big Brown in the May 3 Kentucky Derby Presented By Yum! Brands (gr. I) at Churchill Downs and was euthanized. "It's something to remind everybody of a great horse," said jockey John Velazquez. "What happened was a really sad thing, and we're sad. I think it (wearing the stickers) is a good thing to bring awareness to our game. We'll do whatever is possible to minimize anything that happens like that." The idea for the stickers came from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA). "It's not related to a specific cause; it's just really to pay tribute to the filly," said Keith Chamblin, senior vice president of communications for the NTRA. "We thought it would be nice for the jockeys to wear something. We had them made for the jockeys." According to Terry Meyocks, the National Manager of the Jockeys' Guild, "they (NTRA officials) asked us if we would consider asking our riders to do it, and we said, 'Absolutely.' The jocks have been very supportive." Copyright © 2008 The Blood-Horse, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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Posts: 9647 (05/19/08 15:29:57) hey... give peace at |
Cool, maybe they can euthanize him on the track after they're done with him too.
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Posts: 9648 (05/19/08 16:23:20) hey... give peace at |
"What happened was a really sad thing, and we're sad. I think it (wearing the stickers) is a good thing to bring awareness to our game." "So, so sad. We absolutely hate it when we breed an animal for speed and then run it so hard that its front legs shatter. Don't you just hate when that happens? We loved that horse so much because it made us so much money even though we were killing her in the process. These stickers are a real sacrifice for us to wear." Blah. |
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Posts: 9650 (05/19/08 18:12:04) hey... give peace at |
Never needed the whip, either. Wow, how kind. |
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Posts: 4836 (05/20/08 04:08:31) Internet Broadcaster |
1 fatality after 134 years, yeah let's abolish the whole damn thing, oh wait, you say horseback riding causes more injuries and deaths to horses than
racing? OK, let's stop that cruelness now!!! Stop breeding Thoroughbreds too!! No, they would go extinct!! Can't do that, ummm, didn't Dale
Earnhardt die in a Nascar race? Yep, down with that too. I remember that high school student dying of a heart attack while playing basketball,,,hmmmm, OK no
more basketball. Mowing lawns kills more worms and grasshoppers too, D.U.N.!!!! No sports or recreational activities that can cause injries at all. We'll
all just sit around the computer finding other things to bitch about that aren't PC OK????
Sports like Life have tragedies. Sad but true.. BTW I kinda like the no lawnmowing bit:) |
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Posts: 9651 (05/20/08 16:18:25) hey... give peace at |
Whatever, Flo. You think exploiting a horse by running it until it dies while cracking it with a whip is ok and not cruel. I don't. Bad analogy re
Earnhardt, though. Nobody was forcing him to go around the track; he did it of his own volition. All of your analogies are flawed, for that matter.
Sports like Life have tragedies. Sad but true.. A tragedy would be spending your life being forced to run around a track while being whipped. Care to try it?
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Posts: 4840 (05/21/08 04:16:53) Internet Broadcaster |
you think exploiting a horse by running it until it dies while cracking it with a whip is ok
When/Where did I ever say that?
Blaming her injuries on what you 'think' is wrong with the industry is wrong. Nobody knows why she went down YET. The entire community is heartbrokem. I am heartbroken about it. Discounting the efforts of an entire community, an entire culture, all the jockey's, who place their lives on the line every race, to remember her and prevent it from ever happening again, with your flippant, distasteful and disrespectful words is disgusting.
I was saying how exciting it is to have a potential triple crown winner after 30 years, man...that's it. I live in it.
I'm excited. I'm positive that there are LOT of others who feel the same.
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Posts: 9653 (05/21/08 10:49:12) hey... give peace at |
Disgusting or not, I stand by my comments. Call it what you want, horse racing is the exploitation of an animal for profit, in this case to the point of
physical trauma and death.
Nobody knows why she went down YET. Yeah well that's bullshit. She went down because of two broken front ankles. Remember? Ya think that maybe, just maybe, her occupation might have had just a smidge of something to do with that? Possibly?
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Posts: 4841 (05/21/08 13:11:23) Internet Broadcaster |
134 years, 1 fatality man. Add both the Preakness and Belmont and you have over 400+ years 1 fatality. If it was happening year after year, race after race, I
would agree with you here.
You don't read what I type and you make up shit that I say. I don't like disagreeing with you:) |
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Posts: 9654 (05/21/08 13:35:10) hey... give peace at |
Flo, if you want to argue that 1 fatality in that many years is a good record, that's a reasonable argument to make. All I'm saying is, there is no
denying that they ran that horse to death and that race horses, like greyhounds, are treated as commodities to be profited from (regardless of the
consequences) rather than living things.
As for making things up, look....if you agree with the sport of horse racing and in that sport they run horses hard and whip them if they don't think they're running hard enough, then...... And sorry, little yellow stickers after years of abuse is just a bit of grandstanding, imo. |
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Posts: 4842 (05/21/08 13:55:07) Internet Broadcaster |
I beg to differ 100%
Comparing this industry to the greyhound racing is plain WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would love to see you argue your points to Pat Day. That god loving man would get pissed at you as well:) |
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Posts: 9655 (05/21/08 16:58:33) hey... give peace at |
That god loving man would get pissed at you as well:) Well, too bad for that god loving man then. And you still haven't told me yet how you'd like being run around a track at the end of a whip. I have a feeling that you (nor I, for that matter) wouldn't like it. |
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Posts: 4843 (05/21/08 18:14:55) Internet Broadcaster |
Been married for 14 years:)
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