GoldenJet wrote:
3/5 and then 1/5?
That's some serious chalk right there.
That's some serious chalk right there.
She was the second best horse in her division that year. The best was Worldly Beauty who is considered an all-time great.
The two biggest races of the year for two year old filly pacers are the She's A Great Lady and the Breeders Crown. Both of them go for about $750,000.00. Roaring Good Time beat Worldly Beauty in the Breeders Crown but finished second to Cam Swifty, a horse she had dominated when they got to Kentucky in the fall. Roaring Good Time would have won but she got loose too late. No one was moving faster at the wire.
The first time Roaring Good Time faced Worldly Beauty was in the final of the She's A Great Lady. That first video I linked was her elimination. Worldly Beauty also won her elimination very easily. Going into the final Worldly Beauty only had two career starts. I knew she was good but I didn't know how good.
Before the final I was up in the clubhouse at Woodbine having dinner with my first wife and a bunch of other people. I bet a shitload of money on Roaring Good Time. I brought back a $100 win ticket for my wife and she was out on the veranda smoking and talking to a fat New Yorker who was out there smoking too. He told my wife, "I'm concerned about your husband's bet. My friend owns the five horse and she's the best horse in the world." I just dismissed that. The horse had only made two starts. Shit, maybe I had the best horse in the world. How would this Staten Island motherfucker know?
Worldly Beauty blew the doors off that field. My horse got stuck outside, never made the front, and ended up not even getting a check. Eleven days later the fat guy died in the World Trade Center. Kind of made a horse race seem not so important.
