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05-05-2010, 03:59 PM
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05-05-2010, 04:15 PM
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 I started a thread (last year maybe?) about favorite claimers -- he was mine. I hope he has a great home and enjoys retirement!
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#683
05-06-2010, 07:07 PM
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Happy retirement to a champion...
Two-time champion Good Night Shirt retired Written by Sean Clancy May 06, 2010 Good night, Shirt. Two-time Eclipse Award winner Good Night Shirt has been retired. The 9-year-old injured his ankle after finishing second in the Iroquois last spring and was unable to heal properly to return to the races. Dr. Dean Richardson performed surgery on the injury last year and after an extensive rehabilitation, the horse’s return to racing was deemed impossible. Owned by Sonny and Ann Via, Good Night Shirt retires as the second leading money earner in the sport’s history and one of just two horses to earn more than $1 million in American steeplechasing. Good Night Shirt will live out his days with another Fisher champion, six-time Virginia Gold Cup winner Saluter, at Fisher’s Maryland farm. “He’s sound in the field and that’s important,” Fisher said. “I was worried we might have to put him down. We were worried about his quality of life but it looks like he’ll be able to have a good retirement.” Bred by Dr. Tom and Chris Bowman, Good Night Shirt won twice on the flat in 2004 before being sold to Via and Fisher. The infield sport proved a perfect niche for the stamina-laden, long-galloping chestnut. He broke his maiden in the demanding Nashville maiden race as a 4-year-old in 2005. Unpolished and raw, he won on talent alone. That summer, he won a Saratoga allowance before losing five consecutive novice stakes through the fall and the following spring. Later in 2006, he won a weak edition of the Ferguson and finished second to Hirapour in Saratoga’s A.P. Smithwick before missing the fall season. One step from becoming a timber horse in 2007, Good Night Shirt showed he was for real when rallying to just miss in the Royal Chase. At 21-1, in his first open Grade I stakes start, he missed nailing Mixed Up by a diminishing neck. That’s when things changed. He won the Iroquois in his next start and went 9-for-11 over the next two years. Finally able to ration his pace and polish his jumping, Good Night Shirt knocked McDynamo from the Eclipse podium with wins in the Lonesome Glory and Colonial Cup in 2007. And, well, 2008 was one of the best seasons in history for any horse in any sport. Perfection is hard to top. Under Willie Dowling, Good Night Shirt started five times and won five times, picking off the Georgia Cup, Iroquois, Lonesome Glory, Grand National and Colonial Cup (each a Grade I). Employing a punishing resolve on or near the lead, Good Night Shirt had no peers. In 2009, he returned to win the Carolina Cup before being caught late by Pierrot Lunaire in the Iroquois while trying to become the first horse to win three consecutive runnings of the 3-mile classic. Rested for the summer as usual, Good Night Shirt returned to training in the fall but was soon on the sidelines – and at New Bolton Center – with the ankle injury. Surgery helped stabilize the joint, as did months of exercise on an underwater treadmill, but the scant hopes of a return to racing were snuffed out. “He was just a pleasure to train, just a pleasure to have in the field,” Fisher said. “Even the landscaping people, they show up, a guy who knows nothing about horses looks out in the field and says, ‘I like that one.’ It’s Shirt, standing there, turning his lip up. Just a cool a horse. People say go find me another Good Night Shirt or find me another Saluter and I tell them, ‘They don’t make them.’ ” In all, Good Night Shirt won 14 races from 33 starts and earned $1,041,083. Over jumps, he won 12 races and earned $1,006,493 from 23 starts. He never fell. http://www.st-publishing.com/cms/ind...1214&Itemid=73
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#684
05-07-2010, 06:34 PM
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Eskendereya...
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#686
05-17-2010, 07:18 PM
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#687
05-19-2010, 06:40 AM
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Are there 35 pages in this thread or 36?
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#688
05-19-2010, 12:49 PM
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Oh wow, that's really weird!
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#689
05-20-2010, 04:07 AM
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After 700 the board may blow, therefore no more horses can retire.
Last edited by chucklestheclown : 05-20-2010 at 05:08 AM.
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#690
05-20-2010, 05:57 PM
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Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrr!
nice story http://arrrrrjourney.blogspot.com/
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05-23-2010, 01:15 PM
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#692
05-27-2010, 04:32 PM
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Happy retirement, Silverfoot.
Thanks for the memories. http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...erfoot-retired
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#693
05-28-2010, 07:41 PM
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Young Mick...
http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse...ed/721819/top/ Seattle Smooth... http://www.drf.com/news/article/113330.html Don't know how we missed this one... Scooter Roach... http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...-roach-retired
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#694
06-02-2010, 08:05 PM
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Happy retirement to a consummate professional, a horse with a heart as big as Phar Lap, a hard knocker (he almost died earlier in his career), a horse who defines racing.
He didn't always win but he always gave it everything he had. Always. Happy retirement to Jonesboro. Hope he has a long, happy and healthy life and gets to go somewhere nice.
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06-02-2010, 11:45 PM
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06-16-2010, 11:21 PM
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Battle Plan
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06-24-2010, 06:17 PM
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From Mick Channon...
SOM TALA RETIRES It's with great sadness that we must announce the retirement of the 2009 Northumberland Plate winner SOM TALA with immediate effect. A reoccurance of an old injury in the Ascot Stakes last week led to an acceptance of the inevitable. The old boy has had enough. Although only seven, "Sommie" has plenty of miles on the clock, with joints and tendons that were certainly well tested in the tough staying handicaps on summer ground over the past five seasons. Mick reflected today on the career of a proper racehorse. "Som Tala was a superb servant to West Ilsley Stables and a proper character who will be missed by everybody. He had his problems throughout his career and we just had to go softly with him at times, but he always bounced back and had a truly admirable attitude both in his work and on the track. "He was placed fourth and second in the Chester Cup and was a perennial feature in the Ascot Stakes where he was 3rd in 2007 and 5th in 2008 - always under weighty marks. Last year's Pitman's Derby was obviously his career highpoint, he was so tough that day and although many accused us of nicking the race under an inspired front-running ride from Tony Culhane, he deserved his day after so many near misses. "We all love him and it's just great that he's entering into Darley's rehabilitation and retraining scheme. They always do right by their horses and he's deserves nothing else than care and attention before embarking on what we all hope will be a long and enjoyable career away from the racecourse." * * * Line of David... (for the sake of trying to keep this up to date)... http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36740
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06-26-2010, 07:03 PM
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06-29-2010, 11:04 AM
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