1989 Preakness Stakes - Easy Goer -vs- Sunday Silence

Easy Goer vs Sunday Silence

[@traviswest949]

"Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies & debates about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran.

[@traviswest9388]

cominatcha, Why is your only goal & aim to comment with an endless barrage of trolling comments, THEN Delete & Erase ALL of them, then more endless barrages of comments, then delete & erase all of them, & to continue to do this endless cycle day after day after day? Why not just comment all that you want to & leave all of your endless comments on all of the videos, & not erase & delete all of them?

[@traviswest9388]

Copying and pasting others comments about the True Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer is the GREATEST FORM of Flattery. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, when you imitate what others say, it’s the biggest compliment to those people you are imitating and copying and pasting.

[@traviswest949]

Sigmund sig Bless his heart Easy Goer 14 wins drug-free without any drugs, ss 0 wins drug-free without any drugs. EG 14, ss 0; EG 1, ss 0. And ss was was practically dead when he was forced to run drug-free without any drugs in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs, & as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well.

[@traviswest949]

"Why he lost? Sunday Silence raced without Lasix?" Why would Sunday Silence racing without Lasix be "why he lost" if Sunday Silence didn't race with Lasix before the Belmont in New York (which banned Lasix & all other drugs)?

[@traviswest9388]

Sigscorpion Sigmund, aka cominatcha, aka Travis Bickle West, aka westcoastbound, aka way2gooutwest, aka gamebred, aka srosswest, aka westboundkennels, aka the thousands of your other yt usernames - why do you delete 90% to 95% of your comments?

[@traviswest949]

"Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Sunday Silence had been TREATED WITH DRUGS in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness & Breeders' Cup Classic when edging Easy Goer, but couldn't for the Belmont Stakes in New York, the one state where all drugs are banned. Easy Goer was free from all of the controversies about drugs, for ALL DRUGS are prohibited in New York, as they are in the rest of the racing world outside the US. The key questions that influenced racing all year was: Could Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer without drugs? Could Sunday Silence win without drugs? He gave definitive & assertive replies to the questions: NO. Sunday Silence struggled home edging Le Voyageur but was thoroughly beaten, as the splendid Easy Goer sprinted off with the Belmont Stakes. Racing should be filled with SUPERIOR horses like EASY GOER, who did NOT require ANY drugs to perform at his best, & NOT INFERIOR DRUG-RELIANT horses like SUNDAY SILENCE, so we focus our attention on the sport instead of drugs. Racing wears drugs like festering, self-inflicted wounds on the end of its nose opened by the ax of greed & stamped with the endorsements of every racing commission in the nation except New York's. Racing's drug dependency, like any drug problem, has become a major problem & tarnished the sport. It is to New York's merit & acclaim that their major races stand as giant hurdles to drug-reliant horses. Winning major races on drugs is not what racing is about." Paul Moran of DRF, LA Times & Newsday.

[@traviswest949]

Pat Ron Franklin Esque Day (aka Pat Wait All Day, Pat Start Stop Start Stop Start Day, Pat a Day late, Pat Delay Day, Pat so passive & patient he could watch a faucet drip for days Day) himself said, "I was on the far superior, far better horse in Easy Goer, but we lost a few photos to him by the slimmest of margins totally due to rider errors on my part. I had FAR MORE HORSE than I knew what to do with. It was totally my fault." Shug McGaughey said, "Easy Goer was a Better Horse than Sunday Silence. Pat Day got Easy Goer beat. Day waited when he didn't need to wait. We had ss beat & then Day let ss back in the races. Pat Day & I agree that he made riding mistakes. Easy Goer was the better horse than sunday silence. Easy Goer was by far the best horse I ever trained, Easy Goer was the most talented horse I've ever had. Easy Goer's action was so athletic, so natural, so fluid; he glided over the track; he ran blazingly fast & did it so easily. Easy Goer captured the public; he was a brilliantly fast horse, exciting to watch, & he had a great following. I had always dreamed of having a horse like Easy Goer. Easy Goer is by far the best that I've ever had. What Easy Goer did in all races, you just don't see that anymore. Easy Goer wanted to do a lot, all the time. My job - I had a Porsche in Easy Goer - was to not drive it 200 miles an hour every day. My job was just to keep him level, & keep him reserved. He wanted to go. I was very young, very inexperienced & made many mistakes." Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela himself said, "Easy Goer was a Super Horse. In order for ss to even be close to Easy Goer, I had to do any & everything possible. I had to purposely & deviously force EG out as wide as can be down the backstretch & at every other point I could in races; & I had to purposely & deviously bang & push EG in as tight as can be scraping the dead rail. Arazi was the best horse I ever rode. Arazi could do more & was even a much better horse than sunday silence." Pat Banned 40 times for Drugs Valenzuela. "Bless his heart ss was so exhausted ss was practically dead, almost literally dead, without all of his illegal performance enhancing drugs & without his illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill." Charlie Whittingham himself said, "I am very angered that there is only 1 state in the whole country which bans all performance enhancing drugs, which bans all drugs, & also bans the illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill (Harthill admitted to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs [Clenbuterol, Subliamze, Etorphine, etc] to the drug-reliant sunday silence) despite his criminal record (Harthill was arrested numerous times in many states [Kentucky, NY, Illinois, Ohio, Louisiana, etc] for illegally drugging numerous horses). I think ss maybe can be as good as EG, & maybe can be as Great as Easy Goer, but ONLY IF EVERYTHING goes ss's way." Case closed.

[@traviswest949]

The aspirin bute 6 days? The dosage of the aspirin bute given a minimum of 24 hours to 72 hours before (48 hours was/is the standard) a race was/is a 0.9-gram to 1.8-gram dose. If 0.9 grams of aspirin bute was given 24 hours before a race & a horse's post-race test, or if 1.8 grams of bute were given 48 hours before testing, what is the amount of bute actually remaining in the horse 24 to 48 hours post-administration? The half-life of bute in the horse is about 7.22 hours. This means that every 7.22 hours the amount of bute in the horse (& the horse's bloodstream) decreases by 50%. Dr Tom Tobin of Gluck Equine Research Center, has performed extensive research on the metabolism of aspirin bute, & reports that with a half-life of 7.22 hours, 90% of the bute remaining in the horse will be metabolized (gone from the horse) at the end of each day (24 hrs). In the first 24 hours, the amount of bute in the horse decreases by 90%. After another 24 hours, an additional 90% of the bute remaining in the horse is metabolized (gone from the horse). The horse now has only 1% of the original dose left in the system. This is what is present in the entire horse, including all its tissues, not just the bloodstream. The amount of bute in the bloodstream will be even lower. Easy Goer was never given any medications (including the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory aspirin bute) or drugs (race-day medications/drugs) within a minimum of 24 hours (1 Full Day) of any race in his career. EG was never given any medications (including the aspirin bute) or drugs on race-day (within a minimum of 24 hours or 1 Full Day) of any race in his career. EG also was never given any performance enhancing drugs in his career.

[@Herman47]

Sunday Silence needed to take a drug, Lasix, to barely beat EasyGoer 3 times. Where the Lasix was banned, EasyGoer wins by 6 lengths at Belmont with the 2nd fastest Belmont Stakes ever. Moreover, the overall winning percentage of EasyGoer (this in more Grade 1 races), along with the mile race where EasyGoer came very close to Dr. Fager's world record, leads to the conclusion that EasyGoer was the better racer.

[@joannleichliter4308]

Sunday Silence was the king. He went on to be a foundation sire in Japan. Virtually no achieving thoroughbred there does not carry his genes. Our loss was their gain.

[@jacobben3152]

Wow, this has to be one of the top few races of all time. Easy Goer and Sunday Silence were both as unyielding, willful, tenacious, unwavering, and as fierce as can be. Neither gave way in this absolutely fantabulous battle. The heart of two champions on full display. Spellbinding.

[@carlosstevelevine3003]

"Easy Goer and Sunday Silence were the other's double. The two were as close as the fingers of a fist. Both were the living embodiment of what people said when asked which gunfighter was faster: "I’d hate to have to live on the difference." "In the Preakness and Breeders' Cup Classic, rider Pat Day moved down the backside - and then he Remembered he was Pat Day - and then when Day folded up, Day allowed Sunday Silence back in the race. Day moved, and then he gave it back." "In the Preakness, while picking up another cross on his reins, jockey Pat Day appeared to grab too much right line canting Easy Goer's head to the right, and in the end perhaps costing him the race by the flare of a nostril. A classic classic! Everyone will remember the 1989 Preakness and its remarkable stretch duel as long as they live. Sunday Silence and Easy Goer were generosity personified as they battled. No quality of the Thoroughbred is more admired than courage, and these two outstanding horses gave everything they had in the Preakness. There was a winner, but there was no loser. In a duel for the ages, the two greats joined battle, they bounded cheek by jowl to the wire. The two greats even changed leads in unison at the top of the stretch. They ran side by side, head to head, so close together they were brushing again and again, with Easy Goer also brushing the rail and dangerously close to it. A jewel of a duel by a snout."

[@heartofalion1022]

140 years and we cann't get a better race than this between two truly

[@heartofalion1022]

Without a doubt two of the best horses I ever saw, Easy Goer and Sunday Silence. Spine tingling race and races between them.

[@carlosstevelevine3003]

Great Genetics have definitely moved on to new generations for Easy Goer and Sunday Silence. The influence of Easy Goer and Sunday Silence on the breeding of racehorses worldwide is incredible. Easy Goer's grandson Araafa won the Group 1 St. James's Palace Stakes, Group 1 Irish 2,000 Guineas, et cetera. Easy Goer's other grandson Astronomer Royal won the Group 1 French 2,000 Guineas, et cetera.

[@traviswest949]

More Direct verbatim quotes of what Hovdey wrote in this same article: "Many studies done on Lasix have concluded that it makes horses run faster & enhances performance. Using many different methods to gauge how much faster horses run after being treated with Lasix, the studies found an improvement of about six to nine lengths at distances of a mile or farther. The drug Clenbuterol has a similar effect on the body as Epinephrine & Amphetamines by increasing the production of Epinephrine & Noradrenaline, & thus significantly enhancing performance. Clenbuterol also thins blood & widens the vessels that carry oxygen, so the volume of oxygen in the blood increases, which increases energy & improves performance. Clenbuterol is an extraordinary drug with two completely different effects that dramatically enhance performance, speed, stamina, endurance, lung capacity & energy levels. It greatly aids breathing by significantly expanding the air passages in the lungs letting air flow much more freely, & it dramatically reduces body fat by causing rapid fat burning. Clenbuterol performed miracles for horses who made inexplicable improvements with major enhancements in performance. The drugs Etorphine & Sublimaze are drugs that give horses such a sense of euphoria & well-being that they feel like they don’t have legs."

[@carlosstevelevine3003]

Unreal. These two overwhelmingly sensational champions, Easy Goer and Sunday Silence, each had the lead at about five or six different points in this race. Maybe more. Backstretch, second turn, top of the stretch, then through the home stretch a few times back and forth. It doesn't count, but after the finish line when the race was over, Easy Goer was back in front. That's breathtaking to have that many lead changes. What a race. Eight lengths is a big difference between a nose with each horse having the lead at five or six different points through the race, but a win is a win no matter the margin. It counts just the same. What a race between two sensational horses.

[@srosswest3783]

By far the greatest preakness race of all time

[@traviswest949]

In Jay Hovdey's 2001 DRF article, Hovdey states, "Alex Harthill was BOLD ENOUGH to TELL ME how he illegally gave numerous horses illegal drugs, INCLUDING Clenbuterol, Sublimaze and Etorphine TO SUNDAY SILENCE. Harthill described how he gave Northern Dancer Furosemide in the hours before the Derby in 1964, affirming, 'I got a vet I knew from out of town to come along with me. I told him I was going to turn to the right, and would he go that way and take this little syringe down to barn 24, stall 23, and give this to that horse. There would be a guy there called Will. He'd be waiting. So he did it, while the gendarmes followed me.' " Hovdey also states that he quoted Harthill verbatim. Perhaps Hovdey's writing style is to mix it up using direct quotes, as well as making direct statements himself without quotes, but they are based on verbatim quotes. In this same Hovdey article on Harthill giving horses illegal performance enhancing drugs, Harthill is directly quoted verbatim declaring, "I was used more than any veterinarian in the country for horses pointing for, and running in, MAJOR RACES who NEEDED DRUGS and had INFIRMITIES. I earned the reputation I had. I am very proud of the horses I helped with drugs in their careers. Drugs always go through changing stages of being detected on drug tests. What I focused on was what drugs enhanced performance, together with what drugs could conceal illegal drugs, along with what drugs didn't show up on drug tests. For these reasons, I gave my horses a considerable advantage. Trainers would say, 'Don't get me caught, but keep me worried.' " Hovdey also declares in the article, "Other than Northern Dancer, Harthill confirmed that he gave Furosemide to other notable horses, including Proud Clarion, Kauai King, Lucky Debonair, Majestic Prince, Forward Pass and Master Derby. Harthill declared he regularly used illegal amphetamine and stimulant drugs, and gave illegal amphetamine and stimulant drugs to Decidedly, Iron Liege and Tim Tam. Aside from Sunday Silence, Harthill also asserted that he administered Clenbuterol, Sublimaze and Etorphine, to other top-tier horses Ferdinand, Spend a Buck, Wild Again, Alysheba, Skywalker, Gate Dancer, Sunny's Halo, Gato Del Sol, Deputed Testamony, Winning Colors, Lil E. Tee, Summer Squall and Black Tie Affair. Harthill also proclaimed that he was proud that he inaugurated the use of Clenbuterol, and regularly used Clenbuterol in the 1980's and 1990's. Harthill also affirmed that a common practice of his was to inject illegal long-acting steroid drugs into the injured areas of horses he treated."