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Title: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 17, 2023, 03:48:20 PM
Mile track at Duquoin   Nevele pride and Stanley Dancer    28.1 pushing the car out of the way from the rail goes wire to wire and nobody pulls ever until the top of the stretch when he is ahead by 9 lengths

28.1  1.00   1.30.4  1.59.2    I understand the era, but a middle half in almost 1.03 and the field lost contact

Just felt like contributing this considering he trotted in a mind boggling 1.56.4 on the relatively "slow" half mile track at Saratoga
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: Harness Stats on August 17, 2023, 04:06:43 PM
Here's a link for both heats for that Hambletonian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmsF1WPXM4I
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: FirstUpFrom8Hole on August 17, 2023, 04:49:36 PM
Here's a link for both heats for that Hambletonian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmsF1WPXM4I

 ngc3 Stanley wins the Hambletonian and doesn't even climb of the bike in the winners circle
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 17, 2023, 05:12:24 PM
ngc3 Stanley wins the Hambletonian and doesn't even climb of the bike in the winners circle
Stanley had severe back pain all his life.
If you look close, he is wearing a back brace.
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 17, 2023, 05:22:29 PM
Here is some Hambo trivia for ya.
What driver won the Hambo with is foot in a cast?
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: FirstUpFrom8Hole on August 17, 2023, 05:37:49 PM
Stanley had severe back pain all his life.
If you look close, he is wearing a back brace.

I remember hearing that a long ago. Gee, now I feel like an asshole. Sorry Stanley, in case you're reading the plop from the great beyond
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: Fuguzzi on August 17, 2023, 05:42:56 PM
Here is some Hambo trivia for ya.
What driver won the Hambo with is foot in a cast?
John Campbell?
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 17, 2023, 07:00:03 PM
John Campbell?
Maybe, but not the one I am thinking of.
Hint,
The one I am thinking of was also in the race with Nevele Pride.
This old man stayed sitting in the bike in the winners circle too.
His crutches were left in the paddock.
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: old guy on August 17, 2023, 08:00:14 PM
Here is some Hambo trivia for ya.
What driver won the Hambo with is foot in a cast?

Sanders Russell…… A C’s Viking
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: Meadow Ford on August 17, 2023, 08:04:13 PM
Sanders Russell…… A C’s Viking
Right you are my friend!
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: Generation XYZ on August 17, 2023, 08:19:26 PM
Sanders Russell…… A C’s Viking

A C's Viking was a WAR HORSE!
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: Balmoral buzz on August 18, 2023, 01:59:31 AM
Mile track at Duquoin   Nevele pride and Stanley Dancer    28.1 pushing the car out of the way from the rail goes wire to wire and nobody pulls ever until the top of the stretch when he is ahead by 9 lengths

28.1  1.00   1.30.4  1.59.2    I understand the era, but a middle half in almost 1.03 and the field lost contact

Just felt like contributing this considering he trotted in a mind boggling 1.56.4 on the relatively "slow" half mile track at Saratoga
Dancer wa a known juicer. He was a chemist ahead of his time
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: SeattleSlew on August 18, 2023, 04:36:27 AM
Right you are my friend!

What many people don't know about Sanders Russell is that he "found" Hal Tryax (spelling may be off), and bought him for around $1500.  Raced him and sold him to New Zealand interests, and that horse became a key part of the "backbone" for Down Under breeding, becoming the sire of Robin Dundee, Cardigan Bay and so on.
Title: Re: 1968 Hambletonian
Post by: Stan durbread on August 18, 2023, 01:16:22 PM
Damn y’all are old. Lol
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