Horse Racing on Youtube

[Flanders]

Didn't know if anyone is interested in this, ignore if so.

The channel Horse Racing that used to upload older race footage, after 5 years just recently started uploading again. For anyone interested, the new videos are the 95 Swaps, 96 Matron, 96 BC Preview Day at Belmont, Pat Day "Race Rider" documentary, and Holy Bull's Career Recap video/Stallion Promotional Video. They'll probably have that VHS whistle that everything did when recorded off television. But I'm really happy to see what else they'll upload.

I completely forgot Thunder Gulch shipped out west to run in the Swaps in 95 instead of the Haskell.

https://www.youtube.com/@Partymanners2

[Curtis]

Didn't know if anyone is interested in this, ignore if so.

The channel Horse Racing that used to upload older race footage, after 5 years just recently started uploading again. For anyone interested, the new videos are the 95 Swaps, 96 Matron, 96 BC Preview Day at Belmont, Pat Day "Race Rider" documentary, and Holy Bull's Career Recap video/Stallion Promotional Video. They'll probably have that VHS whistle that everything did when recorded off television. But I'm really happy to see what else they'll upload.

I completely forgot Thunder Gulch shipped out west to run in the Swaps in 95 instead of the Haskell.

https://www.youtube.com/@Partymanners2

That was, if I remember correctly, the last hurrah for the Swaps as a major race. It had a good run, especially when it was 10f. It is interesting to note that the Hollywood Derby had been contested at 10f and after 1972–one of its most memorable runnings—it was switched to turf for a few years and carded at 12f. In 1973, Hollywood Park had no 10f race for 3yo’s. The Swaps was inaugurated in 1974 and Agitate, who was 3rd in that year’s KY Derby, won both it and the temporarily elongated Hollywood Derby. For various reasons, the Hollywood Derby never could find a celebrated place on the calendar. After 3 years as a 12f turf stake, it was switched to 9f on dirt and was run the first weekend of the meet as a Derby prep and it did well, there. When the so. CA calendar changed in 1981, Hollywood Park opened too late to stage a Derby prep so the race was moved back to the turf during the new fall meet. At any rate, staying with YouTube, look up the 1972 Hollywood Derby as it was a great race. Had social media existed then, many a keyboard trainer would have been all over Lucien Lauren for sending Riva Ridge west for it. That race took a colt that was 1-10 to win the 3yo male Eclipse and made him a distant 2nd in the voting, rendering him the first of only two dual Classic winners to not win the Eclipse.