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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
I'm tickled to death. This was a west coast horse ( I live three blocks from Santa Anita). Bob Baffert is a great guy. The Belmont saboteurs did not win. The only triple crown winner to beat his time was Secratariat. Baffert wanted the jockey to take the horse to the front. The 2 and 4 furlong times were rather slow, meaning this horse had a lot of gas left in the tank when he hit the stretch and he pulled away from the field. Text book race with a very high quality horse.
Interesting piece of trivia about Santa Anita. The Wally World parking lot scene at the end of the movie Vacation was actually the parking lot of SA, the amusement park in the background was just an artist's rendering. Also, that was the original end of the movie( Clark and Rusty racing up to the front gate), they didn't film anything further and that didn't go over with the preview audiences at all, so they had to write up some kind of ending. That's where John Candy was brought in( for a million bucks), and they shot all the inside the park stuff. One small problem, Rusty had taken a major growth spurt in that short time so in that last segment you'll notice he's all of a sudden a full head taller than Beverley D'Angelo.
Nuttin' important, just trivia.
