March 28, 2020
To be honest, I feel as though I’m living in a movie these days. When I turn on the TV and see car commercials with families piling up their things in their SUV to go on holiday, or MacDonald’s and Burger King ads with friends standing close together to sample a Big Mac or a fish burger, I think, “What world is this?”
Montreal, my city, has over 1,000 cases of this miserable virus and, like your community, our streets are empty. I’m well but going into my third week of self-imposed isolation and each day can be a challenge in terms of trying to forget that I can’t go out and live my life. I haven’t seen my family since this started, even though I speak to them every day.
One thing that preoccupies me is what I can do to reach out and bring folks some comfort. This is one of the things that I hope will help in some small way.
THE VAULT has been going for almost 10 years now and there are LOTS of posts on here. On this page, you’ll see a search box. If you tap in some of the following names, all articles on that individual will come up.
So here are some names you can call up in the SEARCH box. Several articles will come up for some of the names listed below, giving you a greater selection than a single article. Just click on the one you feel like reading/rereading. Most of the articles on THE VAULT contain video footage as well as photographs, making them a fun way to distract yourself while soaking up a little thoroughbred history from then and now.
NOTE: Where something is in quotation marks, like “My Coal Black Lady,” please use the title to call up the article. (Several articles will come up for some of these, giving you a greater selection than a single article. Just click on the one you feel like reading/rereading.
BATEAU, Man O’ War’s accomplished daughter, as depicted by C.W. Anderson
A) NORTH AMERICAN THOROUGHBREDS
** The very first post on THE VAULT: “A Response to ‘I Lied’ “ : https://thevaulthorseracing.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/16/
Others (in no particular order:
Your Host
Genuine Risk
War Admiral
Man O War
Secretariat
Terlingua (daughter of Secretariat & dam of Storm Cat)
Dan Patch
Greyhound & Rosalind
Black Tie Affair
Pretty Polly & Rachel Alexandra
Damascus
“Off The Radar: Sometimes Forever” (about a son of Man O War & a daughter of Terlingua)
Ruffian
American Pharoah
Northern Dancer
Dance Smartly — the only filly in North America to ever win a Triple Crown, this one in Canada
“My Coal Black Lady” (about Imp — a racing star of the early 20th century)
Pensive, Ponder and Needles (one article)
Giacomo
Animal Kingdom
Barbaro
Equipoise
Gallant Fox
“A Kentucky Derby Gazette”
“A Preakness To Remember” (Rachel, Smarty Jones, Afleet Alex & others)
“2011 Horse of the Year Wears A Halo” (Havre de Grace)
“Molasses Bill & Jimmie” ( 2 “ordinary” horses out of the past)
Exterminator
Saratoga
Battleship
“A Train, A Boat, A Bicycle” — (Count Fleet & Johnny Longden)
Triple Crown 1935 (about the mayhem that accompanied Omaha’s Triple Crown)
“Horses Are Possibilities” (a personal story about C.W. Anderson)
Breeders Cup (several)
Holy Bull
Mr. W. J. Gray (photographer of champions)
Roman Soldier
Take Charge Lady
The Queen’s Plate
Dark Mirage — the tiny filly who was the first in NA to win the Fillies Triple Crown
Cigar
California Chrome
Blockade (Man O War’s other jumping son)
“A Legend, A Winner and A Gold Cup” (Man O War’s last race — against Sir Barton)
Bateau (daughter of Man O’ War)
Mother Goose & Alcibiades
Johannesburg & Scat Daddy
Steve Donoghue and “The Spotted Wonder,” aka THE TETRARCH.
B) INTERNATIONAL THOROUGHBREDS
Istabraq
Igugu
Treve
Nijinsky
Sea-Bird II
Nelly (or Black Caviar)
Winx
Enable
Frankel
Royal Ascot
Kauto Star
Hurricane Fly
Giant’s Causeway
Phar Lap
Caravaggio
Mahmoud
The Tetrarch
Sprinter Sacre
Kincsem — maybe the absolute best ever????
(English) St. Leger
Urban Sea
Treve
Chanticleer
Bernborough
Coolmore
Snow Fairy
Danedream
Soul Stirring (daughter of Frankel)
“And this is the wonder…” (hommage to Lammtarra)
Giant’s Causeway
“Down Under ” (Early history of racing in Australia, in 3 parts)
Tiggy Wiggy
Secretariat & Rose of Kingston (about Kingston Town)
Johannesburg & Scat Daddy
The Palio (Italy’s most famous horse race)
“Woman On Horse” by Picasso.
STAY SAFE EVERYONE!!!!
Love,
Abigail