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Horse racing oddity: incredible stretch run
Donnaguska, a first time starter owned by Billy Hays and trained by Joe Woodard, makes a remarkable stretch run to win her debut by two and a quarter lengths at Hawthorne Race Course on October 23, 2008. As track announcer Peter Galassi noted, Donnaguska was "far, far, far, far back" early under jockey Israel Ocampo. The three-year-old daughter of Yonaguska was sent off at 17-1, the second longest shot in the field of nine. She is number three, but for most of the video that doesn't matter because you won't see her. According to the official chart she was about 23 1/2 lengths behind at the top of the stretch, meaning she ran her final quarter-mile in roughly :21 1/5.
March 13th, 2010 - 09:45
Anything moving that fast….Should have a pilot not a jockey!!!
March 13th, 2010 - 10:08
@fastazzu2222
Hi Donna, how is she nowdays? I’m not sad if she didn’t run, I’m just curious to know how is she doing.
best wishes for both of you
ILDI
March 13th, 2010 - 10:27
Wow amazing horse
March 13th, 2010 - 10:34
Too bad she was vanned off 2 years ago, but it’s still an incredible and unbelievable video capturing her making a historical comeback! Sure gave me goose bumps just watching this, esp near the end! lol. And watching how the jockey running her up between the horses and how fast and effortlessly she responded was quite amazing!
Anyways,Thanks for sharing this video!
March 13th, 2010 - 10:54
What about “chonk”, “cjonqq”, or “cjawnkh!”
March 13th, 2010 - 11:00
4 length a sec, sound more better!
March 13th, 2010 - 11:47
@SamiThePsycho
Count off the seconds between when the leader turns the corner and Donaguska. It’s only three seconds, or 15 lengths. These were maidens, not that impressive.
Silky Sullivan did better against much stronger. All this one did was come home in 22 and change when the leaders came home in 26.
No Nukes did even more impressive in the meadolands pace when he BROKE STRIDE and spotted the filed 25 lengths, only to finisyh third or fourth, beaten 1.5 lengths.
March 13th, 2010 - 12:15
she like changed her leads i meant when she picked her head up and moved. still amazed and i watched this vid like 50 times
March 13th, 2010 - 13:12
in the stretch she was picking them off and then when she picked her head up and moved over it was like she just came out of the gate! a lighting finish
amazing horse
March 13th, 2010 - 13:49
She started closing but you can see where she ducked out a bit changing leads and then really started accelerating after that. That is an unbelieveable stretch run but 2 year olds can be like that. I don’t think the jock on the lead horse even saw her coming. How could he? It was like a sudden gust of wind. Great video!
March 13th, 2010 - 14:03
Wow that was awsome! Hahaha
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March 13th, 2010 - 14:40
Happy New Year Donna and Donnaguska!
March 13th, 2010 - 15:29
Great place to stop in for enlightened commentary.
March 13th, 2010 - 16:16
A. No, I am not a closerted faggot, throwing insutls at a crush who didn’t return my affection. (as I could give TWO shiats less about you)
B. Im not hiding behind any monitor. This being THE ONLY communication I would have with you, I say it when and where I can. If you were in front of me right now, id LAUGH at your pathetic and argumentative arse.
C. You have no clue as to what the term “defamation” means. Or oddity or rarity for that matter.
March 13th, 2010 - 16:40
You’d shit your pants before you could ever say that to someone’s face.
March 13th, 2010 - 16:43
Now you sound like a closerted faggot, throwing insutls at a crush who didn’t return your affection. Sorry Toots.
Maybe the IRS jackpot forms on my website might get you to stop DEFAMING me by LYING about my PROVEN record. Love how you think your opinion of me is portable to the world.
Delete your comment, or get an attorney. Of, if you want, say “bring it on.”
You started the hostility, asshole. Guess behind a monitor is as close as you’ll ever get to bravery.
March 13th, 2010 - 16:49
P.S. To say youve seen MANY races where horses have been FIFTEEN lengths behind the second to last placed horse, who was a good TEN lengths off the lead, YOURE A LIAR, and obviously INABLE to be intelligent enough to admit youre wrong.
Horses close all the time, however they dont close from 25 lengths back at the top of the stretch often at all.
Suck a dick you old INTENSSSSSSSSSSSSE fag. lol
March 13th, 2010 - 16:54
LMAO! Who would want to be your friend with your attitude?
YOUVE BEEN GOING FOR 37 YEARS WITH MORE INTENSITY! Lol. What a fucking loser! You have NO clue what I or anyone else on here does, so save your “INTENSITYYYYYYY” comment you “semi pro” faggot.
I highly doubt whatever you do is profitable, seeing how bitter and argumentative you are.
Get a life loser, and a job if you dont have one.
March 13th, 2010 - 17:23
Dude,
I’m not your friend.
I’ve been going to the track for thirty-seven years, with a lot more intensity than you, I’m sure. m a “semi-pro” handicapper, profitable, and have seen MANY closes like this. Ghostzapper did the same thing a few years back.
Rarity means rare, not odd. A broken pace is not rare. If she had come home in 20.2, that would be odd.
March 13th, 2010 - 17:49
Sure, the horses were dying in front of him, but its still an unbelievable race.
March 13th, 2010 - 18:16
I think youre splitting hairs here with the word oddity vs rarity, as both are very similar in definition if you look them up. Maybe youre just the argumentative type……….
Ive been to the horse races for over 20 years my friend, and I dont know that ive ever seen a horse make that kind of move. Sure, you see horses far back, but 15 lengths back of the 2nd to last horse at the top of the stretch?
PULEEZE. Whatever you want to call it, its an oddity OR a rarity.
March 13th, 2010 - 18:49
The race was not that fast.. 1:12 is not fast.. It was just a bad field. Give props to the jockey for steering her through the horses…
March 13th, 2010 - 19:27
The rest of the field was backpedaling. That allowed her to run her magic in the final quarter, having reserved her energy for that late push.
She got lucky with the pace. Not to say that she didn’t deserve the “W”, but, sometimes in order to win, you need everything to go in your favor. This is one of those situations where it went in her favor.
March 13th, 2010 - 20:09
It’s a rarity, not an oddity. It happens when a horse turns in a :22 last quarter against a field that runs :26 or slower, regardless of class. It’s a “pace oddity.” Any horseplayer who bets a lot has seen worse, and remembers it well, due to the reversal of fortune.
An ODDITY is a triple-dead-heat.
March 13th, 2010 - 20:59
Couldnt come in a better order for you.
Im not saying this horse is Secretariat or anything, and yeah, it was a DECENT, not spectacular pace, but still, how many times do you get a trip like that and win?
Its definately still an oddity, and an incredible race to watch.