Pre-1980 Preakness Stakes

It seems some collectors are rather slow in putting up old Preakness races, and a few of them refuse to put in embed codes.

Spectacular Bid 1979:



Affirmed 1978:



Seattle Slew 1977 from this link.


Master Derby 1975


Secretariat 1973. Secretariat's move on the first turn is the most sensational in the history of the race. I HATE the music with this race. Just show the race with no trimmings:



Canonero II 1971. This is in Spanish:



Majestic Prince 1969:



Northern Dancer 1964


Greek Money 1962 by a tiny margin over Ridan.

Bold Ruler 1957. Footage is silent:



Bold Ruler, the greatest sire in thoroughbred racing history, sired 1973 winner Secretariat, who in turn sired 1988 winner Risen Star.

Fabius, son of Citation, 1956. Newsreel ighlights:

1976 Belmont Stakes.

Bold Forbes, an outstanding race horse and winner of the Kentucky Derby that year, won the Belmont:




I think Bold Forbes may have been jockey Angel Cordero's favorite horse. He thought Seattle Slew was his best mount, but he had sentimental feelings for this horse. Bold Forbes raced in Puerto Rico, and Cordero was born in Puerto Rico.

Bold Forbes was a grandson of the great sire Bold Ruler, perhaps the greatest thoroughbred sire of all time. His line utterly dominated the classics in the 1970s.

As the World Turns.

There's no limit to how far gone in stupidity some people will go:

A 60-year-old woman impregnated in the United States via in-vitro fertilization will become what is believed to be the oldest single mother in Japan to give birth from a donated egg, medical officials said Thursday.

By the time that baby grows up, there's a good chance the mother will be dead.
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Darren Mack's trial is being moved to Las Vegas.
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Stevie Wonderboy, champion 2-year-old male of 2005 and once owned by the late Merv Griffin, will stand at stud at Airdrie Stud near Midway, Kentucky.

The colt has the pedigree. He is Bold Ruler through and through on both his sire's line and his dam's. His sire, A.P. Indy*, now 18, is one of the top sires in the world and probably the most successful of Seattle Slew's progeny. He was Horse of the Year in 1992 and won the second-fastest Belmont Stakes in history at 2:26 (tied with Easy Goer). A.P. Indy's grandsire, the immortal Secretariat, owns the fastest Belmont, probably for all time. Stevie Wonderboy's grandsire on his dam's side, Summer Squall, won the 1990 Preakness and is a half-brother to A.P. Indy. Their dam is Weekend Surprise, a daughter of Secretariat. Seattle Slew was a great-grandson of Bold Ruler, and Secretariat was a son of Bold Ruler.

People talk as if the Bold Ruler line has died out. It hasn't at all, but it isn't as popular as it was in the 1960s and 1970s. The Raise a Native, Northern Dancer, and Mr. Prospector lines have been dominant in recent decades. But because his descendants so dominated thoroughbred racing during those two decades, especially in the classics, Bold Ruler has to be considered the greatest thoroughbred sire of all time.

Remember, too, that while Northern Dancer, Nijinsky II, and Mr. Prospector sired far more winners, they also lived far longer than Bold Ruler, who was only 17 when he was put down because of cancer in 1971. They also were bred to far more mares each year. Bold Ruler was bred to only 35 mares a year, for a total of only 356 foals, yet his percentage of winners was an incredible 23 percent. He was sire of the year eight times. That is what is called dominance.
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A few heartless people will say there was always something wrong in the head with Senator Domenici, but this time it's for real and his retirement has nothing to do with his involvement in the Justice Department scandals.

Here is an article about his health problem:

A progressive disease that can cause dysfunction in parts of the brain is the reason Sen. Pete Domenici's decided not to seek re-election, according to a draft of remarks prepared for delivery today.

The disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, is marked by deterioration of brain areas important for organization, decision-making and control of mood and behavior.

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A Los Angeles task force is combating animal cruelty.
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*--A.P. Indy is currently the number 2 leading sire in North America. He was number 1 last year. link