May222013
horseracingchick replied to your post: Are there any known races where siblings/half-siblings raced against each other?
Aren’t the Dans maternal siblings? I can’t remember, but there’s a possibility the might race against each other.

Yes! I knew there was a famous pair I was missing…

Wise Dan and Successful Dan are indeed maternal half-brothers, both sons of 2012 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year Lisa Danielle

And while they haven’t actually faced each other yet (although they have won back-to-back Ben Ali Stakes) there is that possibility in the future. They’ve both won races recently - Wise Dan romped in the Woodford Reserve on Derby Day, and Successful Dan won the Ben Ali Stakes last month at Keeneland

However, their probable campaigns won’t take them anywhere near each other. Wise Dan is tenatively set for the Fourstardave in August en route to a probable BC Mile repeat, while Successful Dan is being pointed toward the Stephen Foster and Whitney Handicaps

Plus, the fact that they race on different surfaces - Wise Dan is a mainly turf horse, while Successful Dan seems to enjoy the dirt

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10PM

Oh yeah plus a public service announcement!

If anyone out there plans on attending Comicpalooza this weekend (May 24-26 at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston), please go see the After Midnight shadow cast shows (and look for yours truly as Gentern #2 in Repo on Saturday night ;)

We’re performing Rocky Horror on Friday, Repo! The Genetic Opera on Saturday, and Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog on Sunday

Link with more info: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2013/05/after_midnight_cast.php

Also, we’re performing Repo at Numbers Night Club tomorrow night, so come out for the show!

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9PM

goforbold asked: What exactly does your job at the vet clinic consist of? I know you've mentioned cleaning dog poo, but anything else? Are you a vet tech? or...? Any medical things you do? Just curious. The vet clinic I was volunteering at hired me yesterday. I'm not 100% sure yet what all I will be doing as far as medical things go.

Basically…I started there as a vet tech intern, so yes I can do most of the medical stuff (insert IV catheters, medicate, draw blood, take ear samples, collect and run urine and feces tests, etc). And sometimes when we need an extra tech, I fill in up front

But I work mostly as a kennel tech, job skills including cleaning and sanitizing cages and runs, medicating animals, feeding and bathing animals, cleaning the clinic, running laundry, and various other tasks

I’m not sure what you might be doing, seeing how I’m at an odd position at my clinic - I do tech and kennel. But from what I’ve seen of other kennel people, even if you don’t actively train at tech stuff, you’ll pick it up eventually

Other fun things I get to do: Make clay paws (basically, when you euthanize a pet at our clinic, we take a little circle of clay and make a paw print, which we then bake and paint and give to you. Guess which part I get to do? Yep, take paw prints from dead animals), clean up after surgery, help haul big bodies back to the freezer (don’t ask about that one time when the Great Dane wouldn’t fit in the freezer XD), clean up any and all bodily excretions (and I do many all - from every orifice), and generally deal with all the nasty junk no one else wants to  

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9PM
Devil’s Bag (1981 Halo - Ballade) 1983 Champion Juvenile Colt, winner of the Champagne Stakes, Cowdin Stakes, and Laurel Futurity. Retired after injury in 1984 Flamingo Stakes Sire of 1998 Japanese Horse of the Year Taiki Shuttle, multiple stakes winner Devil His Due, and 1991 Meadowlands Cup winner Twilight Agenda, among many other stakes winners

Devil’s Bag (1981 Halo - Ballade)

1983 Champion Juvenile Colt, winner of the Champagne Stakes, Cowdin Stakes, and Laurel Futurity. Retired after injury in 1984 Flamingo Stakes

Sire of 1998 Japanese Horse of the Year Taiki Shuttle, multiple stakes winner Devil His Due, and 1991 Meadowlands Cup winner Twilight Agenda, among many other stakes winners

Devil's Bag horse horse racing racehorse winner colt champion 1983 Champagne Stakes sire stallion Taiki Shuttle Devil His Due Twilight Agenda Thoroughbred 

8PM

poizd-on-the-edge asked: Are there any known races where siblings/half-siblings raced against each other?

Depends on what your criteria for half-siblings is

There have been numerous races where paternal half-siblings faced off- that is, horses with the same sire. Maternal half-siblings, however, are much rarer and more unlikely to ever race against each other 

Of course, the most obvious answer that comes to mind is Frankel and Bullet Train, 3/4 siblings that competed many times  (along those same lines, there were calls for Black Caviar to face her half-brother All Too Hard in the past year)

As for paternal half-siblings, check out Over the Top and Grog. They were half-brothers to War Admiral and Seabiscuit, respectively. Over the Top raced against his brother several times, while Grog was more used as a lookalike for Seabsicuit 

I can’t really think of any full siblings that competed at the moment…

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7PM

3daydreams asked: Do you have any pictures of Codex, the 1980 Preakness winner? Love the blog by the way!!!

Oh of course! Codex was a handsome boy ;)

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5PM
horseracingconfessions: I really dislike the way the horse racing community on tumblr is so American-centric. Other nations never seem to get a look in unless its the Grand National or the Melbourne Cup. Everyone always harps on about the American greats but what about the other greats? Makybe Diva, Brigadier Gerard, Vodka, Sea the Stars, Goldikova etc? I really dislike the way people complain about something they can easily remedy themselves. You want to talk about those horses? Go ahead and post them! They’ll get around, trust me. Don’t sit and complain and wait for someone else to do it Plus, I’ve seen every one of those on here, especially Goldikova and Makybe Diva. If you can’t find them, you’re not looking hard enough

horseracingconfessions:

I really dislike the way the horse racing community on tumblr is so American-centric. Other nations never seem to get a look in unless its the Grand National or the Melbourne Cup. Everyone always harps on about the American greats but what about the other greats? Makybe Diva, Brigadier Gerard, Vodka, Sea the Stars, Goldikova etc?

I really dislike the way people complain about something they can easily remedy themselves. You want to talk about those horses? Go ahead and post them! They’ll get around, trust me. Don’t sit and complain and wait for someone else to do it

Plus, I’ve seen every one of those on here, especially Goldikova and Makybe Diva. If you can’t find them, you’re not looking hard enough

Confession Sorry but this annoyed me 

5PM
Teresina 1920 chestnut filly by Tracery, out of Blue Tit A daughter of American-bred and British-raced champion Tracery, Teresina won only four races from 10 career starts. However, she made her mark in taking two major stakes raced In 1923, Teresina was a good competitor. She finished third to Brownhylda in the Epsom Oaks, and was again third to fellow filly Tranquil in the St Leger Stakes. She fared better in the Eclipse Stakes, where she was beaten only a length by Lord Astor’s Saltash, and she finally found the winner’s circle in taking the Great Yorkshire Stakes late in the year Teresina grew only better as she aged, and at four in 1924, she was a fierce runner. She won the Goodwood Cup after a stretch-long battle with the younger colt Leonardo, and completed her career with a triumph in the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket. In that race, she won by half a length from her Epsom-Derby winning half brother Papyrus Teresina was retired to Sheshoon Stud, where she would prove to be an excellent broodmare. Among her best offspring were 1930 Irish Oaks winner Theresina, Imperial Produce Stakes winner and third-place finisher in the Two Thousand Guineas Gino, and New Derby and New St Leger competitor Shahpoor. Undoubtedly, her best contribution to racing was her unraced 1938 colt Alibhai, who was imported to the US and became one of the top sires of the mid-century

Teresina

1920 chestnut filly by Tracery, out of Blue Tit

A daughter of American-bred and British-raced champion Tracery, Teresina won only four races from 10 career starts. However, she made her mark in taking two major stakes raced

In 1923, Teresina was a good competitor. She finished third to Brownhylda in the Epsom Oaks, and was again third to fellow filly Tranquil in the St Leger Stakes. She fared better in the Eclipse Stakes, where she was beaten only a length by Lord Astor’s Saltash, and she finally found the winner’s circle in taking the Great Yorkshire Stakes late in the year

Teresina grew only better as she aged, and at four in 1924, she was a fierce runner. She won the Goodwood Cup after a stretch-long battle with the younger colt Leonardo, and completed her career with a triumph in the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket. In that race, she won by half a length from her Epsom-Derby winning half brother Papyrus

Teresina was retired to Sheshoon Stud, where she would prove to be an excellent broodmare. Among her best offspring were 1930 Irish Oaks winner Theresina, Imperial Produce Stakes winner and third-place finisher in the Two Thousand Guineas Gino, and New Derby and New St Leger competitor Shahpoor. Undoubtedly, her best contribution to racing was her unraced 1938 colt Alibhai, who was imported to the US and became one of the top sires of the mid-century

Teresina horse horse racing racehorse winner champion vintage filly mare legend Goodwood Cup Jockey Club Stakes dam broodmare Alibhai Thoroughbred 

5PM
The crooked blaze of Canadian-bred Northern Dancer (center) bursts past the post time favorite Hill Rise (outside) to win the 1964 Kentucky Derby

The crooked blaze of Canadian-bred Northern Dancer (center) bursts past the post time favorite Hill Rise (outside) to win the 1964 Kentucky Derby

Northern Dancer Hill Rise horse horse racing racehorse winner champion colt vintage 1964 Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs Thoroughbred 

4PM
New Zealand-bred mare Entreaty, shown with her 1931 colt, Friday Night Entreaty was born in 1920, the daughter of successful British stallion Winkie and the mare Prayer Wheel. She raced only once, broke down during that start, and was retired to stud She was first bred to the great British stallion Night Raid in 1924, and nine of her total 12 registered foals were sired by him. Her first foal, the filly Fortune’s Wheel, was unsuccessful on the track, but she can be found in the pedigree of the great New Zealand mare Sunline (seventh dam through Caliente/Honora/Nora Crena/Honey Carlyle/McAngus/Songline) It was her 1925 mating to Night Raid that would produce her greatest foal. From that, she gave birth to a large chestnut gelding, later known to the world as Phar Lap. Considered the greatest racehorse in Australian history, Phar Lap would go on to win 37 races from 51 starts, including multiple prominent stakes races, before dying tragically young from possible poisoning  Although she never produced another to equal Phar Lap, Entreaty continued to prove a useful broodmare. Her next foal, the filly Nea Lap, was imported to the US where she became the dam of the multiple stakes winning colt Four Freedoms In all, Entreaty produced three full brothers and four full sisters to Phar Lap, including Friday Night, The majority of them were unraced and used solely for bloodstock. His sister Raphis, born in 1934, was the dam of Broodmare of the Year Bobalong, and the second dam of champion Monte Carlo After the birth of Raphis, the continuing disappointment of her Night Raid foals prompted Entreaty’s owners to find her a new stallion. They selected Illiad for her 1935 mating, which lead to the birth of the colt Ilam Way In 1936, the champion Nightmarch was selected. A son of Night Raid, Nightmarch was a great racehorse and excellent sire. Entreaty produced three foals from him, the best of which was Vindicator, who became a quality steeplechaser Entreaty died in 1943, the year her last foal was born 

New Zealand-bred mare Entreaty, shown with her 1931 colt, Friday Night

Entreaty was born in 1920, the daughter of successful British stallion Winkie and the mare Prayer Wheel. She raced only once, broke down during that start, and was retired to stud

She was first bred to the great British stallion Night Raid in 1924, and nine of her total 12 registered foals were sired by him. Her first foal, the filly Fortune’s Wheel, was unsuccessful on the track, but she can be found in the pedigree of the great New Zealand mare Sunline (seventh dam through Caliente/Honora/Nora Crena/Honey Carlyle/McAngus/Songline)

It was her 1925 mating to Night Raid that would produce her greatest foal. From that, she gave birth to a large chestnut gelding, later known to the world as Phar Lap. Considered the greatest racehorse in Australian history, Phar Lap would go on to win 37 races from 51 starts, including multiple prominent stakes races, before dying tragically young from possible poisoning 

Although she never produced another to equal Phar Lap, Entreaty continued to prove a useful broodmare. Her next foal, the filly Nea Lap, was imported to the US where she became the dam of the multiple stakes winning colt Four Freedoms

In all, Entreaty produced three full brothers and four full sisters to Phar Lap, including Friday Night, The majority of them were unraced and used solely for bloodstock. His sister Raphis, born in 1934, was the dam of Broodmare of the Year Bobalong, and the second dam of champion Monte Carlo

After the birth of Raphis, the continuing disappointment of her Night Raid foals prompted Entreaty’s owners to find her a new stallion. They selected Illiad for her 1935 mating, which lead to the birth of the colt Ilam Way

In 1936, the champion Nightmarch was selected. A son of Night Raid, Nightmarch was a great racehorse and excellent sire. Entreaty produced three foals from him, the best of which was Vindicator, who became a quality steeplechaser

Entreaty died in 1943, the year her last foal was born 

Entreaty horse horse racing racehorse dam broodmare Friday Night vintage 1931 Phar Lap Night Raid Australian New Zealand Winkie Nea Lap Thoroughbred 

May182013

Okay I love you guys but family emergency is happening

I know I have a lot more questions to answer and I swear I will get one day of just sitting here and answering them all but today is not that day

My mom’s dog just popped her kneecap out of place and I’ve got it back in but we need to go get her some pain pills for the weekend until we can take her to my clinic on Monday

Anyways, happy Preakness Day to you all, good job Oxbow, wonderful ride by Gary Stevens, and remember: There’s no such thing as a sure thing

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7PM

webuiltthepyramids asked: I need to pay more attention to who owns these horses. When Orb won the Derby, I was like "oh, okay." Then I found out who owned him and was like OH MY GOD ORB! Today, when Oxbow won, I was like "darn, but yay Gary." Then I realized he was the Calumet horse and was like OH MY GOD OXBOW.

It’s like 2013 is the return of the racing titans, no? We had a Wheatley/Phipps/Claiborne horse win the Derby and now a Calumet horse won the Preakness

What are the odds, in the same year?

Who’s gonna win the Belmont, Stone Farm? Faraway? Darby Dan? Three Chimneys? King Ranch?

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7PM

shadesofbay asked: I did like Orb, but I wasn't devastated he didn't win. Like you said before, can we just appreciate who was in this race, Janneys/Phipps, Calumet, and Claiborne? The fact that they got to compete in one of our nation's biggest races is a nice thing to see - old, quality families/farms back where they belong at the top.

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Calumet back in the winner’s circle of the Preakness is nothing short of amazing

A Calumet horse hasn’t won the Preakness since Forward Pass in 1968. That’s 45 years since those colors have graced the Pimlico winner’s circle

And as near as I can figure, the last time a Phipps/Wheatley Stable/Claiborne farm horse won the Preakness was Bold Ruler in 1957

So, check out that history

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7PM

Anonymous asked: I'm not going to lie, I disagree (respectfully) with you on Orb. But as soon as he drew the 1 post my heart dropped. But Oxbow did run on a great race. And for the person asking about his color, he's called a bay roan even though he's registered as a bay. It's relatively rare in breeds outside the AQHA. He'll probably lighten more as he gets older.

Thank you for the respect there. Agreeing to disagree is the backbone of this sport, which thrives on opinions

I’m gonna say…the 1 post never really mattered all that much. In such a small field, the positions are more irrelevant than anything. The positions in the Derby are a big deal solely because it’s such a huge field that a horse can win or lose right out of the gate. With only 9 horses in the Preakness, you would literally have to have every single horse veer inside at the break for it to be a disadvantage 

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6PM

Oxbow and Cee’s Tizzy

Comments on Oxbow’s coloring and the mystery behind it: He gets his grey maternal grandsire Cee’s Tizzy, a champion sire of amazing greys

Oxbow Cee's Tizzy horse horse racing racehorse winner colt 2013 Preakness Stakes sire stallion grey roan 

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