Quote from: Flanders on October 26, 2013, 01:38:50 PM
I don't recall seeing these yet.  But with all the forum issues, I thought they deserved to be told RIP.

Unbroken Dream - 10/8 - unseated exercise rider-ran loose to barn hitting flower box-fx LF leg-euthanized - Aqueduct training
Doyouseeme - 10/9  - suffered fx LF leg while breezing-euthanized on track - Belmont training
King Wando - 10/9 - fx RH leg while galloping-euthanized - Belmont training
Roih Jones - 10/9 - severe LF hoof infection-euthanized - Belmont non-racing
Congaree King - 10/15 - appeared lame after race-x-rays next day revealed Fx LF leg - Finger Lakes racing
Poppo - 10/26 - Poppo suffered a fracture to his right front leg while breezing on the main track. Poppo was euthanized on the track - Belmont training

Thank you and may they RIP. 

Geritol Jocks my ass! Okay maybe Mike Smith but I gotta say - Gary Stevens is doggone hot for his age! I'd do him! 
Maybe I should start a Hot Jocks thread 

aka mares bred in 2013

Abergeldie
Abtasaamah
Afaaf
Afleeting Lady
Anna Wi'yaak (dam of unnamed '13)
Arcadiana
Arch's Gal Edith
Ash Zee
Atayeb
Atlantic Voyage
Autobahn Girl (dam of unnamed '13)
Awesome Feather

Barad
Basaata
Bellasimo
Belle of Perintown
Belva (dam of unnamed '12)
Bernardette
Blue Duster (dam of unnamed '13)
Blue Petrel
Boat's Ghost
Brilliant Disguise
Bsharpsonata (dam of Estidraaj)

Cambiocorsa
Campionessa
Cassis
Cast Call (dam of unnamed '12)
Caterette
Cat Moves
Catstar (dam of Catlanta, unnamed '13)
Changeisgonnacome (dam of Changewilldoyagood)
Charity Belle
Cheery
Classicism
Countess Lemonade
Crimson Maple (dam of unnamed '11)
Crystal Current (dam of unnamed '12)
Cuaba

Dance Quietly
Dancing Flame
Dancinginherdreams
Dream Supreme (dam of Gold Shield)
Dreaming of Anna (dam of Fast Anna)
Dyna's Dynamo

Easter Bunnette (dam of unnamed '13)
Eliza's Gold
Ellie's Moment
Emtyazat
Eye of the Sphynx

Fanfire
Forty Marchanta (dam of D' Orsay, unnamed '12, unnamed '13)
Fortyniner Fever
Foxy Danseur
Fun Crowd
Funny Feeling (dam of unnamed '12)

Gabriellina Giof (dam of Gabby's Golden Gal)
Gentle Gale
Getaway Girl
Glacken's Gal (dam of Live Lively, Glacken's Gift)

Hafifah (dam of Devious d'Oro)
Hi Dubai
Hystericalady (dam of Sublime, unnamed '12)

Ideal Image
Indian Vale
In Secure
Inspired
Issaqueena
It's Tricky
Izarra

Jealous Again
Juanita

Kentucky Whisper
Kid Kate
Kid Majic
Kokadrie

Lahan
Laughing Lashes
Lemons Forever (dam of unnamed '13)
Le Relais
Liszy (dam of Plum Pretty)
Lu Ravi

Malvinia
Meerkat Miss
Memories of Silver
Missdealomodeal
Miss Halory (dam of Tea Leaf)
Miss Illusion
Modesty Blaise
Morrow
Mystic Melody (dam of unnamed '13)

New Dice
November
Nuqoosh (dam of Mubashera)

Perceive
Poof Too
Precious Kitten
Promising Lead
Proposal (dam of unnamed '12)
Provence
Pulsating

Quiet Down

Raffle Ticket
Rendition
Rosby Waves
Rum Charger (dam of Golden Rum)

Sacristy
Salty Strike
Sara Louise
Say You Will
Search Party
Season's Greetings
Secret File
Secret Heart
Seeking an Angel
Serena's Song
Seventh Street (dam of Maine Avenue)
Shadow Cast
Smart Penny
Smart Sting
Smart Woman
Snow Top Mountain
Soaring Softly
So Far
Sortita
Starinthemeadow
Stephanie Got Even
Street Dancer
Summer Soirée
Superhalf
Surf Club (dam of unnamed '13)

Taegu (dam of unnamed '12)
Takeabreak
Takesmybreathaway
Trepidation (dam of unnamed '12)
Truant (dam of Homeschooling, unnamed '13)
Twisted Tale

User History (dam of Lookslikeit, Golden History, unnamed '12)

Verdana Bold
Violent Beauty (dam of Violence)
Visit

War Echo
Weekend Whim (dam of Golden Monday, unnamed '13)
Willa B Awesome
Wynning Ride
Wyomia

X Star

OMG I wish I was! Please tell me you're taking your camera and you'll have lots of photos!

Does anyone remember that Breeders Cup from several years ago - the first one Rajiv Maragh rode at? I think it was maybe 2010 at Churchill. What made it so funny was I was watching the NBC broadcast and they were talking about Rajiv as a young jockey and Jerry Bailey spoke up and said "he's a camel jockey." And then there was this BIG pause. The politically correct police at NBC were freaking out then Jerry started talking again. Turns out young Rajiv really HAD ridden camels at the start of his career. The relief was almost palpable. It was so funny I can still remember that moment. Talk about almost getting in trouble for stating the truth! 

One of the originals - Nijinsky with a heart on his brow!

Yukichan (JPN) 2005 Kurofune x Shirayukihime by Sunday Silence 17 starts 5-2-2


Yukichan (right) and her Harbinger filly

A gorgeous girl!

Here's Hoping 1947 (f) Eight Thirty x Saran by St. Germans (GB) 27 starts 11-2-4

Smiling Tiger. Thanks to mariasmon at TBC for this photo. Wish I could join in the discussion there. 



Gorgeous isn't he?

All the Jeanette's are old! No new horses named after me! Looking at Pedigree Query we have 7 Jeanette's - one Irish, one British, one French, one Polish, one Australian, one Italian and one America. Nothing since 1947. Guess I'm not a popular one. Dreaming of Jeanette, maybe?  Jeanette's Kitten?  LMAO

Quote from: Zenyatta on October 26, 2013, 10:07:02 AM
My name has an unusual spelling, but there are a few horses with my name in them. 

If someone names a horse "Dreaming of Christina" I will bang my head against a wall. Aren't there enough "Dreaming of ..." horses yet? One just won the first @ Calder - Dreaming of Bella! Ack!

The coolest instance for me of "horses named after people I know" came when, in a stakes race @ Gulfstream, My Pal Chrisy and Appealing Stella made up the exacta. My mom's name was Stella (and the race was run just after she passed away 2 months ago). I was rooting for the horse with my mom's name to take that race, but she faded in the stretch.

As for my buddy Dave in TJ Mex, he's got a slew of horses with his name, the funniest of which is Poker Dave (chuckle!).

How about Krystyna Kitten? 

I love the story of Your Host - a will so indomitable that it overcame all obstacles. But then I think about Your Host and what would happen if he was alive today. First off the politically correct police would gasp in horror if we called him The Magnificent Cripple. Then I wonder if he would even be allowed to run. Would PETA throw a hissy about running a horse in his condition? Would Lloyds of London even be allowed to experiment with keeping him alive? Would there be room for a Your Host in modern times? I would hope so because his courage was an inspiration to us all. And without him, of course, we would never have had Kelso.

Your Host

Born in California in 1947, Your Host was a physical disaster as thoroughbred race horses go. By the imported British stallion Alibhai out of the Irish mare Boudoir II by the French stallion Mahmoud, this funny little chestnut horse had a right eye and ear set a  good one inch higher than his left eye and ear, his neck was crooked, his withers too low, and his flanks seemed light, a little weak ... meaning not enough muscle. Most said the twisted neck was because of a youthful injury but his groom swore he carried his head in such an odd way to make up for the mismatched eyes. When he was young, he was difficult: nervous, headstrong and often uncontrollable. With four white socks (another disaster as four white socks were considered 'unlucky'), a nervous disposition, unratable, and racing with a titled head, no one had any idea he would become a great racehorse. What's more, when his racing days were done, Your Host sired Kelso, five times Horse Of The Year and one of the best runners America ever produced. (Kelso was also runty and difficult, difficult enough to get himself gelded ... but he had twice the stamina of his sire.)


Kelso, son of Your Host

Add to all this, Your Host became seriously ill  at age 2. Only the skill of the veterinarians and his own indomitable will to live saved him.
Bred in the stables of the movie mogul, Louis B. Mayer, then head of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Your Host was owned by Mayer's son-in-law, the Hollywood film producer William Goetz, and trained by H.L. Daniels.
Sometimes called "The Twister," sometimes called "Old Sidewinder," and a few times called "The Freak" by the press, Your Host was the poster horse for what Hall of Fame trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons once said, "It's what you CAN'T see that matters." That was never truer than in the case of Your Host.
At two he won the California Breeders Champion Stakes, the Del Mar Futurity Stakes and came in second in the Salinas Handicap and the Homebred Stakes.
At three he won the San Felipe and the Santa Anita Derby. He also took a race at Keeneland by six and a half lengths in a new track record, beating Flamingo Stakes winner, Oil Capital, and the winner of the Blue Grass Stakes, Mr. Trouble. It was obvious that The Magnificent Cripple was Kentucky Derby worthy. Not only worthy, but favored to win the 76th Kentucky Derby in the year of 1950.
Your Host arrived in Kentucky to great fanfare; the sign on his Hollywood connections railroad car said flat out, "1950 Kentucky Derby Winner." But something went wrong in the Derby for the skinny horse from California. Though ridden by the great Johnny Longdon, and valiantly dueling for a mile with Mr. Trouble --- and leading, Your Host began fading badly. In the second fastest Derby yet run, timed at 2:01 3/5, he lost to Middleground, coming home ninth and exhausted. Like the idea of his crooked neck being caused by a youthful accident, some said he didn't have the stamina for the Derby distance. But others said that a hypodermic needle was later found in his body, broken off and left to fester. Whatever the reason, Your Host returned to California and shorter races. For the rest of the season he was a terror on the track. He won the Thanksgiving Day Handicap, the Golden State Breeders Handicap, the Kent Stakes, the Dick Welles Stakes and the Sheridan Handicap. He placed in the Premiere Handicap and came third in the American Derby and the Arlington Classic. In this third year, he beat the eventual horse of the year, Hill Prince, who had beaten him by coming in second in the Derby. He also beat Ponder, the son of Pensive, both Kentucky Derby winners.

Your Host (#4) winning the Santa Catalina Handicap in track record time at Santa Anita

In 1951, Your Host's 4 year old season, he looked to shine brighter than ever. Still skinny, still running awkwardly, he could also still run. He was second to Bolero while conceding 5 pounds in the San Carlos Handicap and then won the Santa Catalina under 130 pounds. During the race, Your Host's saddle slipped, almost unseating his jockey. The jockey certainly lost the reins and clung to Your Host's mane for dear life. Then Your Host did something remarkable; he made sure the jockey kept his balance by weaving all over the track, at the same time setting a new track record of 1:48 1/5 for the 1 1/8 mile.
Then came the moment all horsemen and horsewomen dread, a moment barely averted in the 2006 Preakness Stakes of Afleet Alex. On January 13th, entered in the San Pasquale Handicap, Your Host clipped heels with Reknown and fell. His jockey, Eric Guerin, who was having a hard time rating him, rolled clear but Your Host came down heavily on his right shoulder.
The crowd went absolutely silent as the horse struggled to get up. The ulna bone of his right foreleg was fractured in four places, his right shoulder and upper leg were also fractured. Tuffy Morgan, his exercise rider, was the first to get there. "There he stood, broken and in horrible pain, but his funny cock-eyed head was up and he whinnied at me, a faint, desperate sound. It was the first time he had ever asked me for help. I knew he needed me then and I could do nothing but take him by the head and weep. I don't think I ever felt so empty and so lost as at that moment."
Everyone thought that Your Host was dead, that they had surely been witness to the sad end of a gallant and courageous little horse. Taken off the track, the vets said his injury was too severe, that he could not be saved, that there was no point in prolonging his suffering. But Your Host continued to stand, refusing to go down even though the prognosis was more than dire. Lloyds of London insured Your Host and they paid off but instead of destroying him, they did everything they could to save him. They sent him to the Circle S Ranch of George Stratton where he was tended by Dr. John Walker. Like Barbaro, there were no guarantees that he would survive, his recovery being slow and difficult. Dr. Walker tried everything to immobilize the injury. In the end, he packed the horse in sand to keep him steady while his bones knit. Like Barbaro, Your Host did not panic or thrash around, nor did he lose his will to live. It was his own courage that saved him, although ever afterward his right foreleg was shorter than the left and twisted, like his neck.
Lloyds, who now owned the horse, sent him to stud and he became an immensely successful stallion. In his first California crops he sired stakes winners Miss Todd, Social Climber and Blen Host. He also produced Windy Sands who in turn sired Crystal Water. Eventually he was sent to stand at Meadowview Farms in New Jersey and it was there that he "met" Maid of Flight, daughter of Count Fleet, granddaughter of Man O'War. Their meeting produced Kelso, eventual 5 time horse of the year, a record that has never been equaled.
Your Host ran in 23 races, with a record of 13-5-2. He won $385,000 in 1950's dollars. He died in 1961, only 15 years old. God speed you, Your Host. It is truly what can't be seen that is most important.








Your Host recovers


My "colorized" tribute to Your Host

Pletcher says Graydar will definitely go in the Mile instead of the Classic.

Big Blue Sky 2010 Colt English Channel x Ting A Folie 16 starts 2-0-1 (Photo credit: Marcie Heacox)

Collided with another horse training at Golden Gate.

Heart's Music 2005  Mare Majesterian x Music To My Heart 90 starts 9-18-19
Fractured left hind leg training at Pleasanton.
90 starts? 8 yrs old? She hadn't earned a rest?

One Game Dude 2011 Gelding Game Plan x Lady Thatcher 1 start 0-0-0
Fractured sesamoids training at Golden Gate.

Stormin' Idiot 2011 Colt Idiot Proof x Stormy Racer 4 starts 0-0-1
Fractured right knee at Golden Gate.

RIP and condolences to their fans and connections. 

RIP Points Offthebench. This has been a bad year.