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twogunsid

(1,607 posts) Sat Feb 20, 2016, 08:51 PM Feb 2016

2016 Kentucky Derby Prep - 2016 Risen Star Stakes

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2016 Kentucky Derby Prep - 2016 Risen Star Stakes (Original Post) twogunsid Feb 2016 OP

If not for a crappy trip in the Derby, Risen Star would have broken the TC schneid KamaAina Feb 2016 #1

He was a great horse.... twogunsid Feb 2016 #2

And a couple Cajun guys who owned him. Kingofalldems Feb 2016 #3

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

1. If not for a crappy trip in the Derby, Risen Star would have broken the TC schneid

Reply to twogunsid (Original post)

Sun Feb 21, 2016, 11:29 PM

Feb 2016

decades before Pharoah. He ran the other two races like his daddy (Secretariat, for those of you just joining us ).

twogunsid

(1,607 posts)

2. He was a great horse....

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 04:07 PM

Feb 2016

And he did have a horrible trip in the Derby. He was pushed out at least 7 wide on the turn and made up a helluva a lot of ground to finish, 3rd I believe. Winning Colors got a good trip and etched her name in the history books that day.

It is so fitting that Risen Star has a Derby Prep race named after himself in New Orleans. That city loved him.

http://runroughshod.blogspot.com/2011/02/risen-star-at-heart-of-matter.html

Kingofalldems

(38,454 posts)

3. And a couple Cajun guys who owned him.

Reply to twogunsid (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:16 PM

Feb 2016

1988 Belmont Stakes:

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