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Ash Tarasin
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Eastern Westside

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I was saddened to read that Eastern Westside passed away today.
He won the Derby in year 44 which was the same year I joined the SIM. He was special in so many ways. Winning the Derby as a gelding, not carrying a "superstar" pedigree, continuing to race for years and years after. I also just now saw that he ran a 100 in the Japan Trophy Dirt back in year 47, back when 100 definitely wasn't common among DR.


Eastern Westside Bred, owned and trained by Mark Branch

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Eastern Westside's Derby : https://www.simhorseracing.com/race.php?RaceID=763885
Racecall and Presentation of horses in the Louisville Derby of Y44 https://youtu.be/cNazzVCBF8U?t=7305

"G is for great gelding" article written by Anna Nowak two months ago: https://www.simhorseracing.com/featurer ... leID=19145

Retirement thread from three years ago: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=46382&p=397712&hili ... de#p397712
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That is SUPER sad.... I freaking adored this horse. The only Derby winner to be a gelding at the time of winning. RIP big pixel star
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Wow, that's really cool. I often kick myself for giving up when I first joined the sim, I missed out on many years of history before I came crawling back. Hopefully the future will have some more types like that. Makes the sim more interesting to follow than real-life racing in some ways, it's hard for me to really get invested in horses who run 5-6 races and then retire.
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Thank you for sharing this. So amazing.

Like Shannon, I was away from the game for the vast majority of this guy's career. Sad that I missed it.

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Added racecall and presentation of horses in the Louisville Derby of Y44 https://youtu.be/cNazzVCBF8U?t=7305
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HOF
Got bombed, got frozen
Got finally off to finally dozin’
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