1997 Kentucky Derby - Silver Charm

[@kevinsbestsubscribe7599]

Silver Charm is still awesome. He is retired and currently residing at the great "Old Friends" farm in Georgetown, Kentucky. You can actually go meet him and many other great racers of the past there. It's a phenomenal place to visit.

[@Pax217rock]

Last i heard He was in Japan for stud. But that was a few yrs ago. I miss my boy Save 2002, a Silver Charm colt.

[@kevinsbestsubscribe7599]

Jess Alfano You have one of Silver Charm's colts? Does he look like him?

[@dylanunderpar]

Our family just visited Silver Charm @Old Friends!

[@alexcarapia2946]

😎

[@lespangen]

Doing great and white now adored by M. Blowen,principal of Old Friends fortunately returned alive from Japan to retire after his breeding days were done unlike poor Ferdinand

[@MarkS1356]

Free House ran his heart out every time. Silver Charm a great Champion.

[@lespangen]

Quite white now in retirement at the wonderful KY Old Friends farm

[@462joejoe]

And here comes the captain AND DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME Great call !!!

[@mdaniele5]

The best call of all time!

[@mikef9126]

@@mdaniele5 not even close

[@mikef9126]

@@mdaniele5 as in not even in the top 20 calls

[@moosicles11]

First Derby I ever watched and I picked Silver Charm. Great race!

[@jeffmejia111]

I've seen many many thoroughbreds in person during my time but Silver Charm remains my personal favorite. Anybody running against him knew they were in for a fight to the wire. That's why McCarron ran Touch Gold nearly on the grand stand side of the track in the Belmont that year--didn't want to get into a fight with Silver Charm. McCarron knew he couldn't beat him eyeball to eyeball.

[@RealJackHQ]

This was no doubt the best Kentucky Derby ever. The scene was perfect too. Overcast but a fast track. It was pretty cool.

[@jds1vette]

"And here comes the Captain!".....lov it.

[@josephhale9198]

Top 5 race of all time 👏

[@josephhale9198]

None better than Dave Johnson calling a horse race

[@josephhale9198]

1988 Risen Star. Belmont.

[@frankcarbone9420]

Tom Durkin was miles better than Johnson

[@paulveneziano4082]

No doubt 🧐 about it 🙂 ! ! !

[@LorenzoVonMAtterHorN838]

His 99 Derby stretch drive is great! The 94 Derby stretch drive was salvaged by Dave. The 96 Belmont stretch drive! Hell even his last ABC Derby in 2000 Fusaichi Pegasus gives me goosebumps!

[@christinaford1801]

Silver Charm was the very first horse that I bet on and won. Bless his 💜 he is almost 29 years old and stands at a retirement farm for thoroughbreds near Lexington. He is the oldest living Kentucky Derby winner 2:26 . I have visited him in the last year or so. He has four teeth and his coat is white as snow-still sweet as can be. What a fabulous horse he is. If you get a chance you should go visit him at Old Friends retirement farm in Georgetown, Kentucky.

[@jackwoods9604]

Silver Charm Was Tough as Nails!!! and Faced a Lot of VERY Good Competition During His Career...All Heart & Guts

[@tater.thot.8863]

I got to see that horse when we visited Old Friends. He's really cool lol

[@howard2031]

To me this year was maybe the best field of horses all time. Silver Charm, Captain Bodgit, Free House, Pulpit, Touch Gold... All the races were great.

[@bnegs521]

Touch Gold was not in the Derby here but he made himself known in the Belmont.

[@Psyfi85]

Shammy Davis also, obviously his sire is a legend.

[@jeffmejia3556]

@@bnegs521Good horse but McCarron admitted he kept Gold away from Charm by nearly running in the grandstand section. I outta know, I was at that Belmont hoping and expecting to see a Triple Crown champion. I was on the rail that day. Thought I was going to get stampeded

[@bnegs521]

@@jeffmejia3556 Touch Gold won! No Triple Crown. Swallow deep!

[@jeffmejia3556]

@@bnegs521 as a jockey I wouldn’t have admitted ‘avoiding’ going head to head with a champion. If McCarron thought Gold was worth his salt he would’ve gone up against Charm. Instead people and I on the rail had to take two steps back to avoid getting kickback. After McCarron’s interview that’s when I knew Gold wasn’t as good as people thought he was. Yeah Charm got beat but Charm got the Derby, Preakness, Dubai World Cup and Gold got what? What? What? The Belmont and someone’s beer and program?

[@Caroni100]

"The Kentucky Derby? There is no an adjective able to describe its greatness" Jose Gregorio Guillot, venezuelan horse racing analyst and radio producer.

[@Susannah2k]

Free House was a great campaigner and died too young.

[@ryanburns2465]

God bless Silver Charm, always made it a race for the ages! Lol

[@guardiaguardia3017]

The Kentucky Derby could be considering the greatest even on Earth.

[@mrgoodbytes4709]

silver charm should have won, out of all the horses who won 2/3 he was the best

[@bnegs521]

Nah

[@jeffmejia3556]

I remember Andy Beyer writing in the Washington Post following this race how this 3 year old crop was ‘weak’. Then I realized Beyer wrote every year after the Derby on how the 3 year old crop was weak AFTER his publicly touted Derby pick would lose.

[@monikaranee]

Get it, Silver Charm! I met and took pictures with him on my birthday last year😍

[@connorduke4619]

haha, Silver Charm looks like the reincarnation of Buckpasser - doing just enough to win and only pushing himself when he had a challenger.

[@nbafanatic23]

Connor Duke Buckpasser was Silver Charm's grandsire

[@jenine9]

Sucks that he was watching Swain and didn’t feel Awesome Again about to part the sea!

[@lisanadile4688]

Turn 30 years old this year.

[@lookatvedman9993]

its amazing because every other horse that ran in this race is probably gone by now

[@fuchsiaswing8545]

Free House (affectionately known as “Freebie”) always gave it 110%. He might have been the most playful and mischievous horse I've ever met. First saw him at Santa Anita (G1) and San Felipe (G1), where he won both races and bested Silver Charm. He was California horse of the year in 1997 and 1998. Sadly, he died in 2004 after falling over and striking his head during a routine bath-just a devastating way to lose a beloved champion.

[@petercorbett733]

always thought silver charm came out and cost captain bodgit the race.

[@roberthales2579]

Thirty peice silver charm

[@bengermanbrowne4378]

best race

[@roseballard6307]

Great race, Silver Charm!

[@bnegs521]

Alex Solis was a second rate jock and he cost Captain Bodgit the race by whipping him right handed in the stretch causing Bodgit to steer right into Silver Charm and costing Captain the race. Solis NEVER won a Triple Crown race and there is a good reason for that.

[@judithdemers3608]

Gorgeous

[@David.L291]

great race but who the hell puts this up in 240p ffs

[@Hestermoffit]

Alex Solis ran right into Stevens and Silver Charm,SILVER CHARM DID NOTTTTT VEER INTO HIS PATH,WATCH IT CLOSELY

[@mikef9126]

You are blind. Charm was all over the track in the stretch. He ducked in at top of lane. He went out late. Stevens did all he could to keep him straight. Would captain have gone by. We’ll never know but charm definitely interfered with captain

[@mikef9126]

@Floyd Gibson Hey jackwagon. I have been around it my whole life and currently own a few horses. He completely stopped his momentum. And bodgit had to re rally. You say i should learn horse racing yet you didn’t comment. All you did was make a dumb comment to me.

[@Designalily]

What are those two brown horses for? The ones who finished the race first before Silver Charm. Is it to encourage faster running?

[@joggyjames]

the grey horse was free house not silver charm.

[@KEIHKALB091]

No sound?

[@cjbunker8889]

captain would have won that if he didnt get to tight to silver charm and basically bump him....cost him

[@Hestermoffit]

I will never forgive Solis for that ride.He blew the race.If kept him away from Silver Charm he appears he would have won.

[@bnegs521]

Sure did. Solis should have never been on that mount.

[@paulpatane2439]

"He's 5th in the red cap".......

[@rexmuntz387]

Number 20 number 6

[@ramairluvr]

The Captain had him until Silver Charm veered into his path.

[@vambo13257]

wrong

[@joeshmoe781]

See what a difference clenbuterol does when Baffert juices all his horses. Reason be, he can't train.

[@JoeKoOhNo]

That's funny. He's the greatest trainer in the past 30 years.

[@That_Metal_Dude]

Horse racing should be illegal... poor things.

[@bconigliaro]

Dave Johnson ruins yet another call.

[@paulveneziano4082]

The greatest race track announcer in the history of north American thouroghbred horse 🐴🐎🧲 racing 🐎🧲 ! ! !

[@CellarDoorx06]

In school, (I live in Lexington btw) my Teacher put all of the Horse's names in a bucket and whoever chose the Derby winner would end up getting $50 dollars to spend at the Book Fair. Well...needless to say...SILVER CHARM!!! 🥈 I still have my Garfield books that I was able to get from the Book Fair! Man...He was SO CLOSE to being a Triple Crown winner...Touch Gold finally got him in the Belmont though sadly...My Family and I were rooting for him so hard! 🏇🥲

[@jerryeyler4181]

Great Ride by Stevens$$$$