Sunday Silence - 1989 Kentucky Derby

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1. gfn02 Says:
   November 23rd, 2006 at 5:38 pm

   Sunday Silence holds ‘em off!

2. cf1970 Says:
   November 23rd, 2006 at 5:59 pm

   Yeah, a great race indeed, gf. Glad you liked it.

3. edgrady Says:
   December 3rd, 2006 at 8:49 am

   Sunday Silence Was All Over The Track, Blocking Other Horses Down The Stretch So They Couldn’t Pass Him…Should Have Been Disqualified!!!

4. diegoms2000 Says:
   January 11th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

   I have this whole triple crown on tape and Sunday Silence is one of those peculiar histories of horse races, that triple crown really shooked me, Easy Goer was brilliant but I wanted so bad Sunday to be triple crown !! Yet Easy Goer was a good sire, Sunday Silence is brilliant…

5. pickoffking Says:
   January 30th, 2007 at 2:45 am

   This race was terrible. SS was all over the place like a big bully. Any other horse would have been DQ’d. That = Special treatment. Valenzuela could have been wielding a shotgun out there and they would have let it go.

6. hotgambler Says:
   January 30th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

   Anyone thinks Easy Goer was better than Sunday Silence, check out the Breeder’s cup. Goer was a strong horse, great endurance, but Silence was faster, pure and simple.

7. ruffchamp1 Says:
   January 30th, 2007 at 9:39 pm

   easy goer ran the 2nd fastest mile in history behind DR.FAGER in 1:32 2/5 and the 2nd fastest mile and a half behind SECRETARIAT in 2:26…absolutely brilliant!!

8. WalkInTheSun10 Says:
   February 11th, 2007 at 6:36 pm

   sunday silence at the end wasnt even racing straight. he kept drifting

9. JFern11 Says:
   March 1st, 2007 at 1:08 pm

   I Agree…

10. bansheezhalo Says:
    March 6th, 2007 at 12:37 pm

    He was shying from the whip and would have won by 10 if he’d have run a straight line.

11. MOSKII58 Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 9:00 am

    it seems SS bumbed several horses, but the question is, would it have changed the winning outcome.. i guess the judges didn’t think so.

12. BE109 Says:
    September 24th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    With all due respect to Ruffchamp1, race times are not always the big factor in a race. A slow pace in the early to middle stages of a race usually end with a average finish time. More importantly, if SS had been in some of those races the results could have been very different. Neither horse had any real competition except each other.

13. BE109 Says:
    September 24th, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    In addition,it is a known fact that horse racing can throw some monkey wrenches in when it comes to times. Example: a horse goes out and runs 8 furlongs in 1:33 1/5! Next week, that same horse goes out and takes on rivals with bit more class,and loses in a final time of 1:36. Horses are complex creatures. My point is there is many factors in a race. With SS,&EG you have 2 dominant horses &No matter how fast the pace is those two are always going to be in the mix.

14. NyquilSmoothie Says:
    September 27th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    That all depends on how fast the OTHER horse is setting the tempo. Secretariat went out so fast in the ‘73 Belmont, and stayed so fast, it would have been completely irrelevant how fast the pace of ANY horse behind him was (including Sunday Silence or Easy Goer). Why would he have cared how fast the pace behind him was?

15. NyquilSmoothie Says:
    September 27th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    You are correct that there are many factors in a race, but unfortunately there really is no way to know how those factors play out unless the horses race head-to-head, which we all know can’t happen. Makes an interesting debate, though.

16. BE109 Says:
    September 28th, 2007 at 11:45 am

    Secretariat was ina word a “freak”!

17. jruck3000 Says:
    November 2nd, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    I have been talking to gfn 02, you both do great work.

18. cf1970 Says:
    November 3rd, 2007 at 9:15 am

    That’s very kind of you…I really appreciate the support. It’s the lifeblood of my existence here on youtube. Comments such as yours, or most any kind of interaction for that matter, really does make all of this worthwhile. =D
    Thank you for watching.

19. lovenagasaki Says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    サンデーサイレンス！！最高です！

20. kadir1982 Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    lol lets not get secretariat in the arguments as an example…he was a freak of nature..,not normal

21. vidEvWill Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    whew…Sunday Silence was throwing his weight around at the start bumping into other horses.

22. Rockandrollalchemist Says:
    August 1st, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    Sunday Silence struts his stuff on the first Saturday in May…beautiful.

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