horse racing

Horse racing oddity: incredible stretch run

Category: Sports
Author: andtheyreoff
Published (on YouTube): 2008-10-27
Published (here): 2012-04-18
Rating: 4.942029; Votes:276

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Description:
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.

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Comments on «Horse racing oddity: incredible stretch run»:

menchaca72 on 2012-03-29
observe that he let ...
observe that he let the horse do her thing not once did he whip her!

bayridge0329 on 2012-03-28
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eamber729 on 2012-03-27
The Kentucky Derby ...
The Kentucky Derby winner was Ferdinand also Horse of the year, another horse who was sent to slaughter for meat was champion Exceller who even won over Seattle Slew and Affirmed on the same race!, what a barbaric act to send those 2 horses to slaughter, RIP champs.

bulllea on 2012-03-21
that caller must ...
that caller must be blind ! here came Donnaguska ! came where ? the race is over , man !

libertyeconomics on 2012-02-26
Hockey, soccer, ...
Hockey, soccer, baseball, volleyball and horse racing are my favorite sports.

libertyeconomics on 2012-02-26
What's everybody's ...
What's everybody's favorite track? I like the quarterhorses. The QH's have a special place in my heart, so I would say Los Alamitos.

hugatag on 2012-02-24
LMAO wow that was ...
LMAO wow that was great! Thanks for posting this video

MrFinsforlife on 2012-02-11
Nice come from ...
Nice come from behind win. I am tired of all these trolls that get off the point and talk this and that. If you don't like racing then shut the fuck up

ColumbiaPerna on 2012-02-10
I disagree with ...
I disagree with your opinion on DamienZone's comment because if you look at each individual 1/4 times and especially the final 8th, she came home a little quick but the rest of the field was walking. Pull up the chart. By the time they got to the 1/16th pole, the field was walking and she was still going at a 23 second clip. Very nice but hardly the race of a lifetime. Also, the way he posed his comment makes me think that he does indeed have a clue about horse racing.

LopeForestLope on 2012-01-24
Omg she came out ...
Omg she came out of nowhere! Amazing!

shammiedog on 2012-01-24
OK, here's the ...
OK, here's the scoop. At 2:20 Donna is dead last. At 2:22 her jock starts to whip her. Notice she is on the LEFT lead and hasn't changed for the home stretch. At 2:27 the jock gives her a couple more swipes. At 2:30 the jock pulls hard on the right rein, forcing her to finally switch to the right FRESH lead. THEN she has the kick to the wire. Racehorses are trained to switch leads to the new fresh lead for extra kick down the home stretch. She looks reluctant to switch, finally does, and zoom!

johnsoncm65 on 2012-01-17
No matter what you ...
No matter what you may think of horse racing, THAT was an exciting turn of events. And I note, I did not see the jockey using the whip on the winning horse. But everyone else seemed to be flailing away at their horses like mad. Maybe that says something about how you REALLY ask a horse to give you everything.  It's not a demand. A really good horse doesn't need the whip,

tjjlm444 on 2012-01-13
i am a huge horse ...
i am a huge horse racing fan but i agree with you totally when money and human element is involved there is always corruption in every aspect of life. now when you are talking gambling even more so it cracks me up when people say pro games arent fixed they make too much money but we are only outsiders looking in we dont know people situations.remember martha stuart a billionaire went to prison for insider trading which netted her 440k she didnt need the money but still cheated.

OTTTB on 2012-01-09
Thats the kinda ...
Thats the kinda spped my horse had. ;) Little known secret.

alonzoc522 on 2012-01-09
Fuck u amazing ...
Fuck u amazing journey you must of lost money in a race or sumthing pussy this shit is better then any other sport

evenstar7139 on 2012-01-03
you go horsie!
you go horsie!

twilightingX on 2012-01-01
The slow motion ...
The slow motion close up was so funny. That first lead horse was being beaten the hell out of by the shit jockey and Donnaguska came tearing past and his jockey wasn't touching him with a whip! :D

DartsRme312 on 2011-12-13
CATTLE PROD!
CATTLE PROD!

toygarcana on 2011-12-08
watch "broad ...
watch "broad appeal"

jimw350 on 2011-11-26
At Damien Z you are ...
At Damien Z you are an idiot, She ran the race of her lifetime, I have seen thousands and thousands of races, I have never seen a filly come from 15 back of the the next to last horse win off like she did, She was left at the gate and must have been 30 from the leader, That is 6 seconds in horse racing terms, They ran 112 and change, average for this track, I can see by your comments you have no clue about Horse Races?

Queenk101andfriends on 2011-11-25
you should search ...
you should search secretariat if you want to see a hoarse come from the back!

rcorde3 on 2011-11-18
woooooow
woooooow

papichulo3850 on 2011-11-16
Yeah this mare went ...
Yeah this mare went won was a filly but if you see that race that mother fucker use something to make her fly it's unusual

TheDamienZone on 2011-11-14
This is the great ...
This is the great illusion of a horse who comes out of nowhere to win -- this mare was not going very fast and actually the final time of the race was just average for that distance. the thing that makes it look like she is flying is the fact that all the other horses are coming to a complete crawl -- it's hard for the eye to realize that but thats what happened and there is nothing miraculous about this horse -- it's just unusual. Anybody who bets on cruise ship horses racing has seen this.