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LOL... but they are so loveable.

chris

--- Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The great thing about watching an Arabian horse race
> at the track is 
> after they start you can go out and get a beer and
> hot dog and be back 
> they finish. You would never be able to do that with
> a TB.
>
> Truman
>
> Magnumsmom@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Chris wrote:
> >
> > "My stallion is a retired Arab racer. He ran from
> 1986 to 1990. He won 
> > quite often and his best races were at the mile.
> His times were about 
> > 1:54 in the mile. I do believe current Tbs run the
> mile faster than 
> > that, but I'm not sure how TBs who raced in the
> same decade as Szybki 
> > stack up. chris"
> >
> > Magnum ran in 1983 and 1984 as a 2 and 3yo.  His
> time for the
> > mile was 1.46 and he was slow.  He ran in one
> stakes race and
> > finished 5th.  He won 5 times at a mile, 1 1/16,
> and I think
> > 1 1/4.  I'd have to look it up.  At 5 len/sec the
> arab would be
> > 40 lengths back at the wire.
> >
> > I loved the Seabiscuit movie, but in their
> depiction of his win at
> > Santa Anita (the last race in the movie) they used
> a white
> > arabian.   You can see him as they pass the horse
> on the far turn.
> > I actually laughed out loud in the theater.  Oops.
>  It's one way to
> > make sure the star TB wins. 
> >
> > :) - Kathy Myers
> > in Santa Fe, NM
>
> -- 
>
>    "It is necessary to be noble, and yet take
> humility as a basis.
>
>     It is necessary to be exalted, and yet take
> modesty as a foundation."
>
>  

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"A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot

Chris and Star

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