Easy Goer Was Better than Sunday Silence

[westcoastinvader]

Originally Posted by Slewbopper

Wow!!! I have an '84 version of Kentucky Tavern with Swale. A friend who owned a liquor store back then gave it to me. Kind of chintzy bar wall type stuff, but I love it.

Chinty or not, I love bar wall stuff. Ferdinand's Kentucky Tavern Mirror is hung in the same grouping as the Kentucky Tavern Mirrors of Unbridled and Winning Colors.


All are to the left of Jean Cruguet autographed Belmont finish line photo with him aboard Seattle Slew. Slew's Preakness winner's circle photo is there, too. As is an obscure shot from the infield of Slew winning the Kentucky Derby with The Twin Spires in the background.

And to the right of the Slew photographs is a collage of real $2 tickets on Seattle Slew to win each race of his Triple Crown.




Changing paces, I was living in South Carolina when Woody Stephens with his South Carolina connections was dealing publicly with the passing of Swale.

[GenuineRisk]

I googled to see if I could find any photos showing Easy Goer's alleged attempted bite (no luck, though some article mentioned it) but I also found this neat article from 1989 on the naming of Sunday Silence:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/sp...in-a-name.html

The ending made me laugh.

[gales0678]

Originally Posted by Slewbopper

IMO Sunday and Easy can be compared to Affirmed and Alydar. The '89 Preakness is the perfect example. It is similar to the '78 Belmont. The reason Sunday is #31 and Easy is #34 is the will to win. In the Preakness the fact that Day gave him one of many sh/tty rides is of little consequence. Easy could run all day as shown in his Belmont and JCGC wins.. The two were hooked for a 1/4 mile in the Preakness and Sunday just would not him him go by. That is the difference between the two...just like A & A....a greater will to win.

pat day's ride cost his horse the race plain and simple , he made the move to the top and instead of allowing easy goer to go on and extend his lead he choked the horse back and allowed SS to catch him , if he had just let him go just like turcotte did with secretariat then SS would never have caught him. ending up pinned in down on the rail , day cleary was bested by p val that day , they have a show called trips and traps and if it was around in '89 , the mods would have pointed all of this out to show that SS would be a trap in the belmont , day did everything wrong a rider could do in that race , p val did everything right sure eneough at the belmont sunday silence is left in the dust and beaten handily

take a look at easy goer's stride in the belmont coming down the stretch , then take a look at his stride in the stretch at pimlico , at best easy goer was running at 80% when he was pinned in on the rail

[HaloWishingwell]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Much as I like Birdstone ( and love Easy Goer ), the Champagne-Belmont-Travers triple may not be the world's greatest example to establish his greatness.

This argument can go around forever. They were both truly great horses. Sunday Silence's speed gave him a tactical edge over Easy Goer that more than narrowed any possible gap in their abilities. Pat Day further exacerbated the situation with his inept riding.

But SS won races even with a druggie on his back.