had a day off today to finally get over the flu and spent ages looking for horses i used to handle as a kid. I love equibase, but I did find I spent a lot of time with some very slow horses:
Ariga (NY), the first stud I groomed, and the one who really taught me about handling stallions. He was an absolute gentleman, which was good, because I was 14. he was used to cross with QH.
Tested Tough (KY) the first OTTB I retrained. Knee chips kept him from jumping but he did pretty well in dressage
Trap de Smoke - a yearling filly I fell in love with when I worked in yearling prep for Sunset Hill farm (Run the Gantlet was there at the time). I also got hooked on a North Pole filly there but I don't think she raced, and the best of 'my' yearlings turned out to be Mardis Gras Belle, who shows nothing on Equibase but went to Bahrain and won a bit. THAT was one seriously good looking filly.
Anybody else snoop around Equibase for lost loves? Find any? There's one other I've searched for but that wasn't a horse so I'm saying nothing.
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Re: Equibase
yes gigi i also like to pass a couple of hours on equibase looking at old results,i watched a lot of breeders cup reruns last week and arazi's win is still amazing
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Now that I have an account that let's me see all the features that cost money, I spend way too much time on there. It's always fun to look up a horse I haven't thought about in a while to see what they've been doing.
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Now I know who to go to when I need to find something! lolMelissa Mae wrote:Now that I have an account that let's me see all the features that cost money, I spend way too much time on there. It's always fun to look up a horse I haven't thought about in a while to see what they've been doing.
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So, that North Pole filly I adored is out of a mutliple stakes placed mare, Dynamo Dotty, and a half to Coin Collector.
http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Result ... registry=T
but no sign of her 1984 filly by North Pole. Or of that trainer that smelled just delicious.
http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Result ... registry=T
but no sign of her 1984 filly by North Pole. Or of that trainer that smelled just delicious.
"I was afraid of Gigi, it was true." Oh yes. Be afraid. Be very afraid...
"Gigi, you continue to impress the heck out of me." - The Steward. Okay, it was 10 RL years ago, but I'm keeping it.
"Gigi, you continue to impress the heck out of me." - The Steward. Okay, it was 10 RL years ago, but I'm keeping it.
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Stumbled across this as I was looking for something else. here are some updates;
My broodmare's half sister is Pure Xena. Thought I might be onto a big one here but no. I kept checking her equibase wistfully looking for her to come back but now I guess I should be watching the sales results in 2022 for a yearling.
The Dynamo Dotty filly by North Pole that I loved was named Cold Power.
I did find that yummy-smelling trainer though. But that's all I'm sayin'
My broodmare's half sister is Pure Xena. Thought I might be onto a big one here but no. I kept checking her equibase wistfully looking for her to come back but now I guess I should be watching the sales results in 2022 for a yearling.
The Dynamo Dotty filly by North Pole that I loved was named Cold Power.
I did find that yummy-smelling trainer though. But that's all I'm sayin'
"I was afraid of Gigi, it was true." Oh yes. Be afraid. Be very afraid...
"Gigi, you continue to impress the heck out of me." - The Steward. Okay, it was 10 RL years ago, but I'm keeping it.
"Gigi, you continue to impress the heck out of me." - The Steward. Okay, it was 10 RL years ago, but I'm keeping it.