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The #56 NAPA Toyota Camry of Martin Truex, Jr. coming off of turn 2 at Bristol Motor Speedway. One of the two Michael Waltrip Teams that competes in the Sprint Cup NASCAR series. While it's tough to imagine, these cars are coming at us somewhere around 80MPH with top speeds on the backstretch of 125MPH on a 1/2 mile track!
Greenville, SC – Hattori Racing Enterprises driver, Brett Moffitt overcame odds to finish 4th and Sergio Pena experienced engine failure to finish 29th in the Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150 at Greenville, SC on Saturday March, 31, 2012.
Both cars were fast in practice. Pena topped the charts for both practices of the afternoon. Moffitt was 2nd quick in the first practice and 14th quick in the second practice though they did not do a mock qualifying run.
“The car was real good in race trim,” explained Grimes, IA native, Brett Moffitt. “We just fine tuned it and worked on our race set up during practice.” “We drew the first qualifying position so we are a little worried about that, but the car is good so we will be fine.”
Pena was real happy after practice as well, “My car is fast. I am real happy with the balance and the forward bite. We have a great shot at the pole and winning the race tonight.”
Moffitt was the first car out to qualify and proved he was a car to beat, earning the provisional pole and being the first car to break into the 20 second bracket with a time of 20.980. However, after only six cars, the rain came and qualifying was subsequently cancelled due to weather.
Hattori Racing is a new team so they did not have owner points from 2011. Therefore Moffitt and Pena were relegated to 21st and 22nd starting positions. They earned their starting spots by race wins in 2011. Both had three series wins, Moffitt finished 3rd in the driver point standings, Pena was 5th.
“I’m excited,” Moffitt said. “We have a good car, I can be patient when needed and I know we can work our way through the field.”
Pena, a Winchester, VA native, wasn’t too worried either, “It is what it is. We are starting better than I thought we would, but we have a great car and will be fine.”
When the green flag dropped, the cars paced themselves and waited for the field to spread out. Unfortunately, Pena was the first caution flag of the night when his #1 JMS Toyota Camry lost a motor early in the race.
“It started losing power down the backstretch,” confirmed Pena. “Then just quit all together. It is so disappointing as I had a fast car all weekend long. We had such a good car and I am proud of my team.”
Moffitt started 21st and was mired in traffic the first part of the race. He cracked the top-10 at lap 64 and began to steadily pass car after car until he raced into 2nd position, where he rode for over 60 laps.
“I was trying really hard to save my tires,” Moffitt stated. “I just rode in second hoping to save enough for the end of the race.”
With a restart at lap 127, Moffitt had his chance. He got his nose underneath leader and eventual race winner, Darrell Wallace, Jr. and led lap 128 but Wallace, Jr. got his nose back under Moffitt and put him in the outside lane where two more cars managed to get underneath. Moffitt finished the race in the 4th position.
My (#11) Kobe Toyopet Camry was real fast,” Moffitt confirmed. “But I ran out of tires at the end. I just used up too much coming through the field. If we had started up front where I know we would have qualified, it might have been a different ending. But from where we started, 4th isn’t too bad.”
“I think we are moving in the right direction,” team owner, Shigeaki Hattori said. “We were the best cars in practice and would have started up front had we qualified. The cars performed well as did the teams.”
Hattori Racing Enterprises next heads to Richmond International Raceway on April 26, 2012 for their next event.
Another view of the Lafreniere Park lake. The circular building is located near the middle of the backstretch / infield.
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The first Jefferson Downs site originally opened as a 5-furlong harness track known as Magnolia Park, in 1954. The track switched to running thoroughbreds in 1957, & changed its name to Jefferson Downs in 1959. It had a 2,500 seat grandstand and stabling for 600 horses.
Ann Elliott became the first female race caller in the US, working for Jefferson Downs for 4 years in the early 1960s. She was the wife of a radio personality who had moonlighted as the track announcer. The well-dressed "vivacious blonde" even appeared on the TV show, "What's My Line?" in 1962. However, her race calling career got off to a bumpy start, as she was "booed lustily," & a drunken owner even burst into the announcer's booth to root for his horse during her first call. After her race calling career ended, she returned to a media career that spanned movies, TV hosting, & print reporting.
The track was destroyed by Hurricane Betsy in 1965 & burned down 2 years later. Today it is the site of Lafreniere Park, near Kenner.
The backstretch of the track sat just behind the levee, where you see those houses ahead. Lake Pontchartrain is on the right.
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The second Jefferson Downs track was a 3/4 mile oval in Kenner with a 7,500 seat grandstand & stables for 1,150 horses that operated from 1971-1992. It closed due to the poor economy and stiff competition with a casino only a mile away. In 1974, jockey James Sibille was shot to death after winning a race here, amid rumors that he had been warned not to win. John Henry broke his maiden here in 1977. Also in 1977, the lights went out during a night race, causing 5 of 10 horses to collide & lose their riders. The last jockey to win a race here was Corey Lanerie, in 1992.
Today, the pricy Gabriel gated community sits on the site, but there is a lakefront jogging and biking trail that runs behind where the backstretch used to be, that is open to the public.
The track started out as a rodeo arena called Baker Ranch Stadium in 1927. Its construction was announced in December 1926. It was owned by Roy Baker, brother of shoe businessman C. H. Baker. The stadium held 18,000 spectators. During the Great Depression, it was sold in 1930 to Cowboy actor Hoot Gibson. He used the stadium for movie sets. The stadium was sold to Paul Hill in 1934. The valley that the stadium was in got flooded in 1937. Debris from the flood was too much for Hill to deal with, so the bank got the property.[4]
William Bonelli purchased it and renamed Bonelli Stadium. In 1939, Bonelli started hosting open wheel racing on the flat dirt surface. Crowds of 10,000 to 12,000 watched drivers such as Walt Faulkner, Mel Hansen, Allen Heath, Johnny McDowell, Jack McGrath, Danny Oakes, Troy Ruttman, and Bill Vukovich.[4] The track was part of the United Racing Association in 1940 and 1941. The last race before World War II was held on June 30, 1942. The track was unused in 1943 and 1944, like all racetracks in the United States. The track was the first circuit on the West Coast of the United States to host a post-war race when it reopened on September 9, 1945.[4] Bill Vukovich won the race. Nine races were held that season, and Vukovich was crowned the champion.[4]
The track was paved in 1946, but the pavement was removed and the track returned to dirt. Midget car racing was the national sensation in 1946, drawing large crowds to the track. Roadsters were the main class raced at the track from 1947 until 1950, until midget cars came back.[4] The grandstands in the backstretch needed repairs, so the grandstands from Gilmore Stadium were installed after the track closed in 1950.[4] From 1951 to 1955, the roadsters and midget cars shared the track equally, with occasional rodeos and circuses.[4] The track was paved for a second time in 1956.[4] The first stock car racing event on the track happened in 1957. It was promoted by Tony Coldeway, who later formed the Pacific Racing Association. 23 cars and 523 spectators came to the event.[4] The track became mainly used for stock car events after that event. It featured USAC stock cars, NASCAR Winston West Series, and the NASCAR Southwest Tour.[5] It also hosted the third race in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series history during the series' first year on April 15, 1995. Ken Schrader beat Geoffrey Bodine by 1.7 seconds.[6] The race had the slowest speed in Craftsman Truck Series history with an average speed of 43.526 miles per hour (70.048 kilometers per hour).[7] The track closed unexpectedly on July 19, 1995 in the middle of the season after the grandstands had been red-tagged and condemned by the County of Los Angeles.
SUFFOLK DOWNS - August 6, 2016 - Race 6
CLAIMING - Thoroughbred
FOR THREE YEAR OLDS AND UPWARD WHICH HAVE NOT WON A RACE IN 2016 OR WHICH HAVE NEVER WON FOUR RACES. Three Year Olds, 120 lbs.; Older, 124 lbs. Non-winners of a race since July 6 Allowed 3 lbs. Claiming Price $5,000. ( C) Claiming Price: $5,000
Six Furlongs On The Dirt Track Record: (Canal - 1:08.20 - May 14, 1966)
Purse: $25,000
Weather:Cloudy Track:Fast
Off at: 3:12 Start: Good for all
5 - Buckleberry Grey (Davis, Dylan)
4 - Daggett (Piermarini, Tammi)
3 - Serdynski (Centeno, Daniel)
Patrick Sheltra (#60), Joey Coulter (#16) and Chris Buescher (#17) race down the backstretch at Salem Speedway, during the 2010 Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200
Just a snap of the wreckage from Michael McDowell's Friday cup qualifying head-on wreck. The rookie slammed nearly head-on into the safer barrier, then spun upside down for several hundred yards before the car began a series of at least eight barrel rolls, coming to rest right-side up on the backstretch right in front of where I generally watch the race. Unfortunately I missed the wreck as it happened.
The track started out as a rodeo arena called Baker Ranch Stadium in 1927. Its construction was announced in December 1926. It was owned by Roy Baker, brother of shoe businessman C. H. Baker. The stadium held 18,000 spectators. During the Great Depression, it was sold in 1930 to Cowboy actor Hoot Gibson. He used the stadium for movie sets. The stadium was sold to Paul Hill in 1934. The valley that the stadium was in got flooded in 1937. Debris from the flood was too much for Hill to deal with, so the bank got the property.[4]
William Bonelli purchased it and renamed Bonelli Stadium. In 1939, Bonelli started hosting open wheel racing on the flat dirt surface. Crowds of 10,000 to 12,000 watched drivers such as Walt Faulkner, Mel Hansen, Allen Heath, Johnny McDowell, Jack McGrath, Danny Oakes, Troy Ruttman, and Bill Vukovich.[4] The track was part of the United Racing Association in 1940 and 1941. The last race before World War II was held on June 30, 1942. The track was unused in 1943 and 1944, like all racetracks in the United States. The track was the first circuit on the West Coast of the United States to host a post-war race when it reopened on September 9, 1945.[4] Bill Vukovich won the race. Nine races were held that season, and Vukovich was crowned the champion.[4]
The track was paved in 1946, but the pavement was removed and the track returned to dirt. Midget car racing was the national sensation in 1946, drawing large crowds to the track. Roadsters were the main class raced at the track from 1947 until 1950, until midget cars came back.[4] The grandstands in the backstretch needed repairs, so the grandstands from Gilmore Stadium were installed after the track closed in 1950.[4] From 1951 to 1955, the roadsters and midget cars shared the track equally, with occasional rodeos and circuses.[4] The track was paved for a second time in 1956.[4] The first stock car racing event on the track happened in 1957. It was promoted by Tony Coldeway, who later formed the Pacific Racing Association. 23 cars and 523 spectators came to the event.[4] The track became mainly used for stock car events after that event. It featured USAC stock cars, NASCAR Winston West Series, and the NASCAR Southwest Tour.[5] It also hosted the third race in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series history during the series' first year on April 15, 1995. Ken Schrader beat Geoffrey Bodine by 1.7 seconds.[6] The race had the slowest speed in Craftsman Truck Series history with an average speed of 43.526 miles per hour (70.048 kilometers per hour).[7] The track closed unexpectedly on July 19, 1995 in the middle of the season after the grandstands had been red-tagged and condemned by the County of Los Angeles.
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Headed down the backstretch at the Spa.
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Upstart takes in his surroundings on the back side of Churchill Downs during Kentucky Derby week in Louisville, KY. 4.30.2015
April 21, 2012
According to "Images of America: Maryland Thoroughbred Racing" (by Gunning & Horine, 2005), race meets had been held in this area as early as 1745. In 1768, the imported racehorse Figure defeated the American-bred Selim in a match race at Marlboro. However, the site of the original track is unknown. The Colin's Ghost website lists 1914 as the opening date for this particular iteration of the track at Marlboro.
Gunning & Horine state that Marlboro was the 2nd of 3 tracks in the 1/2-mile Maryland fair racing circuit. (Other sources indicate that the track is 5/8 mile.) Fair racing began at Timonium, moved to Marlboro, and then moved on to Cumberland.
The track closed in 1971. It remains largely intact, though badly deteriorated, at the site of Prince George's Equestrian Center.
View a satellite Mapquest image of the site here: mapq.st/GOtOZj
Home page for Prince George's Equestrian Center: www.showplacearena.com/
Greenville, SC – Hattori Racing Enterprises driver, Brett Moffitt overcame odds to finish 4th and Sergio Pena experienced engine failure to finish 29th in the Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150 at Greenville, SC on Saturday March, 31, 2012.
Both cars were fast in practice. Pena topped the charts for both practices of the afternoon. Moffitt was 2nd quick in the first practice and 14th quick in the second practice though they did not do a mock qualifying run.
“The car was real good in race trim,” explained Grimes, IA native, Brett Moffitt. “We just fine tuned it and worked on our race set up during practice.” “We drew the first qualifying position so we are a little worried about that, but the car is good so we will be fine.”
Pena was real happy after practice as well, “My car is fast. I am real happy with the balance and the forward bite. We have a great shot at the pole and winning the race tonight.”
Moffitt was the first car out to qualify and proved he was a car to beat, earning the provisional pole and being the first car to break into the 20 second bracket with a time of 20.980. However, after only six cars, the rain came and qualifying was subsequently cancelled due to weather.
Hattori Racing is a new team so they did not have owner points from 2011. Therefore Moffitt and Pena were relegated to 21st and 22nd starting positions. They earned their starting spots by race wins in 2011. Both had three series wins, Moffitt finished 3rd in the driver point standings, Pena was 5th.
“I’m excited,” Moffitt said. “We have a good car, I can be patient when needed and I know we can work our way through the field.”
Pena, a Winchester, VA native, wasn’t too worried either, “It is what it is. We are starting better than I thought we would, but we have a great car and will be fine.”
When the green flag dropped, the cars paced themselves and waited for the field to spread out. Unfortunately, Pena was the first caution flag of the night when his #1 JMS Toyota Camry lost a motor early in the race.
“It started losing power down the backstretch,” confirmed Pena. “Then just quit all together. It is so disappointing as I had a fast car all weekend long. We had such a good car and I am proud of my team.”
Moffitt started 21st and was mired in traffic the first part of the race. He cracked the top-10 at lap 64 and began to steadily pass car after car until he raced into 2nd position, where he rode for over 60 laps.
“I was trying really hard to save my tires,” Moffitt stated. “I just rode in second hoping to save enough for the end of the race.”
With a restart at lap 127, Moffitt had his chance. He got his nose underneath leader and eventual race winner, Darrell Wallace, Jr. and led lap 128 but Wallace, Jr. got his nose back under Moffitt and put him in the outside lane where two more cars managed to get underneath. Moffitt finished the race in the 4th position.
My (#11) Kobe Toyopet Camry was real fast,” Moffitt confirmed. “But I ran out of tires at the end. I just used up too much coming through the field. If we had started up front where I know we would have qualified, it might have been a different ending. But from where we started, 4th isn’t too bad.”
“I think we are moving in the right direction,” team owner, Shigeaki Hattori said. “We were the best cars in practice and would have started up front had we qualified. The cars performed well as did the teams.”
Hattori Racing Enterprises next heads to Richmond International Raceway on April 26, 2012 for their next event.
Another view of the Lafreniere Park lake. The circular building on the left is located near the middle of the backstretch / infield.
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The first Jefferson Downs site originally opened as a 5-furlong harness track known as Magnolia Park, in 1954. The track switched to running thoroughbreds in 1957, & changed its name to Jefferson Downs in 1959. It had a 2,500 seat grandstand and stabling for 600 horses.
Ann Elliott became the first female race caller in the US, working for Jefferson Downs for 4 years in the early 1960s. She was the wife of a radio personality who had moonlighted as the track announcer. The well-dressed "vivacious blonde" even appeared on the TV show, "What's My Line?" in 1962. However, her race calling career got off to a bumpy start, as she was "booed lustily," & a drunken owner even burst into the announcer's booth to root for his horse during her first call. After her race calling career ended, she returned to a media career that spanned movies, TV hosting, & print reporting.
The track was destroyed by Hurricane Betsy in 1965 & burned down 2 years later. Today it is the site of Lafreniere Park, near Kenner.
Rounding the final turn toward the backstretch. The road I am driving on roughly follows the shape of the original track, with the fenced apartment complex inside the original track oval.
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Benning Race Track opened in 1890, on the east side of Washington, DC, across the Anacostia River and slightly to the northeast of what is now RFK Stadium. Approximately 2,000 people came out to the races that day.
Legalized gambling ended in 1908, and the grandstand was burned to the ground in 1915. However, horse training and car racing continued here for another couple of decades. Attempts to bring horse racing back to Benning in the mid to late 1930s were a failure.
150 acres of the race track property were sold in 1928 to develop Eastland Gardens. A Howard University architecture professor bought the land on which the track sat in 1942, to build the Mayfair Mansions garden apartment complex. Mayfair Mansions opened in 1946, providing housing options for working and middle class African Amrerican families. The site was listed with the Mational Register of Historic Places in 1989.
For a good article on the history of the track: greatergreaterwashington.org/post/4702/lost-washington-be...
To view a satellite image of the site as it looks today: mapq.st/GPmr4F
To view a map of the original track location: www.flickr.com/photos/dckaleidoscope/4300704617/
Porsche 550 Spyder, driving on the backstretch of the BeaverRun Motorsports as part of a Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix event.
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A conductor stands on a ledge of a car on the Disneyland Railroad train Holiday Red as it curves its way through the Frontierland backstretch on its way to Toontown Station.
GTP side by side with Camaro on backstretch during Rolex 24. GTP car pulls far away in next two frames of sequence btw. D200 with a 70-210 Nikkor zoom lens at f4
Down the Backstretch
From left to right:
Raisin Gin (#7)
Dr: Kody Massey
Tr: Jerry Seekman
Atomic Rei (#4)
Dr: Eric Carlson
Tr: Al Tomlinson
Dastardly Dick (#3)
Dr: Mark Headworth
Tr: Randy McConnell
Chatty Katty (#9)
Dr: Lindsay Moen
Tr: Tricia Shepard
Waco Shark (#8)
Dr: David Lake
Tr: Gerald Mijal
Virtual Sarah (#5)
Dr: R J Williams III
Tr: Krista Williams
Mocha Magic (#6)
Dr: Larry Lake
Tr: Kenneth Phillips
On June 6, 2012, Hofstra University’s Axinn Library hosted the exhibit,“PRIDE - Celebrating the Art of the Backstretch Workers of Belmont Park and Aqueduct Racetrack,” a joint effort between the Library’s Special Collections department and the Backstretch Employee Service Team (B.E.S.T.), a non-profit dedicated to meeting the health and social needs of the almost 3,000 workers of the major horse racing tracks in New York State.
The room was packed as the event kicked off with opening remarks from Geri Solomon, Assistant Dean of Special Collections and Hofstra University Archivist, and Bronwyn Hannon, Acquisitions Curator. The administrators spoke about the diverse collection of Hispanic and Latino materials at Hofstra and the advantages of the partnership between B.E.S.T and the university.
Paul Ruchames, Executive Director of B.E.S.T., and Stella Cardenas, Community Outreach Director, then highlighted the work of B.E.S.T., the workers it represents and the art they created. An award and tribute ceremony recognizing all the artists, including the budding artists of Anna’s House, the daycare facility for racetrack workers’ families, ended the opening ceremony.
The three-hour event, which featured music from Grammy-nominated flautist Jay Rodriguez, welcomed more than 90 guests. The evening was enjoyed by all, and organizers hope that their exciting partnership will bring an annual exhibit to Hofstra.
Greenville, SC – Hattori Racing Enterprises driver, Brett Moffitt overcame odds to finish 4th and Sergio Pena experienced engine failure to finish 29th in the Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150 at Greenville, SC on Saturday March, 31, 2012.
Both cars were fast in practice. Pena topped the charts for both practices of the afternoon. Moffitt was 2nd quick in the first practice and 14th quick in the second practice though they did not do a mock qualifying run.
“The car was real good in race trim,” explained Grimes, IA native, Brett Moffitt. “We just fine tuned it and worked on our race set up during practice.” “We drew the first qualifying position so we are a little worried about that, but the car is good so we will be fine.”
Pena was real happy after practice as well, “My car is fast. I am real happy with the balance and the forward bite. We have a great shot at the pole and winning the race tonight.”
Moffitt was the first car out to qualify and proved he was a car to beat, earning the provisional pole and being the first car to break into the 20 second bracket with a time of 20.980. However, after only six cars, the rain came and qualifying was subsequently cancelled due to weather.
Hattori Racing is a new team so they did not have owner points from 2011. Therefore Moffitt and Pena were relegated to 21st and 22nd starting positions. They earned their starting spots by race wins in 2011. Both had three series wins, Moffitt finished 3rd in the driver point standings, Pena was 5th.
“I’m excited,” Moffitt said. “We have a good car, I can be patient when needed and I know we can work our way through the field.”
Pena, a Winchester, VA native, wasn’t too worried either, “It is what it is. We are starting better than I thought we would, but we have a great car and will be fine.”
When the green flag dropped, the cars paced themselves and waited for the field to spread out. Unfortunately, Pena was the first caution flag of the night when his #1 JMS Toyota Camry lost a motor early in the race.
“It started losing power down the backstretch,” confirmed Pena. “Then just quit all together. It is so disappointing as I had a fast car all weekend long. We had such a good car and I am proud of my team.”
Moffitt started 21st and was mired in traffic the first part of the race. He cracked the top-10 at lap 64 and began to steadily pass car after car until he raced into 2nd position, where he rode for over 60 laps.
“I was trying really hard to save my tires,” Moffitt stated. “I just rode in second hoping to save enough for the end of the race.”
With a restart at lap 127, Moffitt had his chance. He got his nose underneath leader and eventual race winner, Darrell Wallace, Jr. and led lap 128 but Wallace, Jr. got his nose back under Moffitt and put him in the outside lane where two more cars managed to get underneath. Moffitt finished the race in the 4th position.
My (#11) Kobe Toyopet Camry was real fast,” Moffitt confirmed. “But I ran out of tires at the end. I just used up too much coming through the field. If we had started up front where I know we would have qualified, it might have been a different ending. But from where we started, 4th isn’t too bad.”
“I think we are moving in the right direction,” team owner, Shigeaki Hattori said. “We were the best cars in practice and would have started up front had we qualified. The cars performed well as did the teams.”
Hattori Racing Enterprises next heads to Richmond International Raceway on April 26, 2012 for their next event.
Fairgoers already have their chairs chained up on the backstretch awaiting the 66th running of The Little Brown Jug.
USTA Photo / Mark Hall
Cpl. Rahsjay Murray with the 438th Military Police Company secures a gate along the backstretch of Churchill Downs prior to the running of the 144th Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Ky., May 5, 2018. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Scott Raymond)
A lot of equipment is need to put on a Nascar race. One of the Sprint hauler parted outside the backstretch.
I liked the look along with the flag.
4-6-2-13
Riverside International Raceway . . .
AKA: RIR, Riverside Raceway, Riverside International Motor Raceway.
The track was built to accommodate several different races.
By closing off certain sections of the track, the route drivers had to follow could be altered.
The three options on the Riverside Raceway were the long course (3.27 miles or 5.25 km), the short course (2.5 miles or 4.16 km), and the NASCAR (2.5 Mi. or 4.16 km) course.
The original racetrack had a 1.1 mile backstretch from 1957 to 1968.
When the track was redesigned in 1969, turn 9 (bottom) was made wide and a dogleg was added because of safety concerns.
Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Year: 1989
Place: Riverside, California
Doing a little "countdown to 2010" on my facebook, thought i'd toss this up
#6 -- Giving props to extreme bursts of athleticism that seldom get noticed.
(from left to right Monmouth Park 8.1.10, Pimlico (Diva Delight) 5.15.10, Saratoga 8.18.10)
Ever wonder what happens to that loose horse? He doesnt just stop on his own! You always see the outriders both leading and coming up the rear of the post parade (you can tell by their red vests) They are also stationed directly after the break and on the backstretch incase something where to happen. More often than not, when a horse gets loose, you never see the extreme bits of balance these stoic guardians can muster.
Lets face it, I am not a rider. When I get on my friends OTTB, I feel as if I am going about 8,000 miles an hour -- and hes just walking. I cannot imagine both the adrenaline rush and sheer terror that goes through both horse and riders head as their ponies go from standing to a full blown sprint in about three strides. The fact that you are dangling over your own mount, trying to grab the reins of a horse who you have no idea what or where he is going.. I cannot imagine.
These three photos are those of those moments of sheer uncertainty. There are many of these moments in our sport and because of the sheer bravery (or lunacy) of these under appreciated riders, the outcome of a bad situation is often made safe again.
I do remember the one at Pimlico quite vividly, the crowd cheered Clark and Larry as he wrangled Calvin's mount in the Black Eyed Susan. These three made it look easy.
So the next time you see an outrider, give them thanks for all they do, because who knows the mayhem they have averted. (and give their pony a nose noogie, they love that.)