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Classic New York Racing Part Two featuring Tarport Hap and Silk Stockings
The Thorn:
NYSS Roosevelt 1974 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Afet9Sfyc&t=28s
NYSS Roosevelt 1975 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgTSml4_4Zc
Monticello OTB Classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lkcg9oqezM
1976 US Pacing Championship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIie9ac0b58
1976 Sportsman's Grand Prix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw7I5aGXJK0
This race not NY has all the 70s stars of the day inc mares Hap and HWC
Meadow Ford:
In the Sp Park race it looked like all the drivers were sitting up close to their horse. Unlike today it looked like all the drivers could reach up and touch their horse's butt.
The winner Tarport Hap was at the rail and last just before the half. If the horses were all hooked way out like today, and the drivers leaning way back, could she still have circled and won?
She would have been farther back at the half.
The race would have been faster, but could she have made up the added distance?
Don't know.
Just food for thought.
Meadow Ford:
Tarport Hap
Three Drivers
Three Wins
How could she soon die on the track?
The Thorn:
I hated the Meadowlands for years after that happened, between that and Billy H going down at Yonkers put me off harness a bit.
Here's a question that people that view this section might have an answer to. I don't even know any. What PACING mares have beaten colts in big races (or even any ) since Tarport Hap won those two races ? I can't even remember any mares racing against males since then but I did take quite a few years off so my knowledge between 1993 and 2013 is limited. Did any super mares like a Rainbow Blue ever compete against males?
Generation XYZ:
Not sure about Pacing mares but a trotting mare CR Kay Suzie beat colst 6 out of 8 times, in 1995.
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