Belmont Stakes 1980-1989

Temperance Hill 1980:





Summing 1981:



Conquistador Cielo 1982:



Caveat 1983:






Swale 1984:



Creme Fraiche 1985:




It pisses me off no end when people post copyrighted material on YouTube and then not allow embedding. These races, covering 1982-1986, could very easily have been put up individually through VHS tape recordings of each race as almost all of the vintage races are.

The Danzig Connection 1986 Belmont still is not posted on YouTube, so this clip has it instead. Somebody needs to get the full race up there without any extraneous nonsense.


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Bet Twice, 1987:





Risen Star, son of Secretariat, 1988:





Easy Goer 1989:

Preakness 1980-1989

Codex 1980. This was the controversial race where Codex bore in on Derby winner Genuine Risk:



Pleasant Colony 1981:



The 1982 Preakness, won by Aloma's Ruler, is inexplicably not up on any file sharing site. Let's hope somebody puts it up.

Deputed Testimony 1983:



Gate Dancer 1984, but nobody has posted the video yet on YouTube, etc.

Tank's Prospect, 1985, here.

Snow Chief 1986, not on YouTube.

Alysheba 1987, ditto. People on YouTube are falling down on the job.

Risen Star 1988. Son of Secretariat:



Sunday Silence 1989. One of the best Preakness races in history when he was head-to-head with Easy Goer in the homestretch:

Twenty Years Ago--1988 Belmont Stakes.

Risen Star, son of Secretariat, won this race in a walk: