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So Hard to Say Goodbye A special look at the top stories from thoroughbredracing.com. Jan 2018 So hard to say goodbye Also inside: Is Lady Eli beginning to mellow? / Mirco Demuro – the world’s number two jockey / The shocking story of exercise rider Shelly Stone /ThoroughbredRacingCommentary @TRCommentary It’s so hard to say goodbye to Gun Runner the Magnificent Bob Ehalt | January 28, 2018 Cover image: Michele MacDonald Unbeatable: Gun Runner and Florent Geroux power home in splendid isolation in the Pegasus. Photo: Michele MacDonald Saying goodbye can be difficult under most days after being named 2017 Horse of the Year, Gun Runner capped an circumstances. Yet, when it involves a loved one, unforgettable week by registering a resounding 2½-length victory in the a dear friend or someone special in your life, it second edition of the G1 Pegasus can be a profoundly emotional moment with a World Cup at Gulfstream Park that placed an exclamation point as rainbow of feelings. big as the track’s 11-story Pegasus statue at the end of a remarkable splendid career. Which explains why Ron Winchell, This might be a surprising comment “You can’t dream of a better at a moment when he should have after a $16.3 million race, but it was ending, but you don’t want it to been overjoyed by winning the actually understandable. have an ending,” Winchell said. world’s richest horse race, had Winchell spoke less than an hour For Winchell, as much as he is some melancholy thoughts on after watching Gun Runner, the brilliant looking forward to Gun Runner’s Saturday evening. 5-year-old he owns with Three Chimneys new life at stud at Three Chimneys, “It’s bittersweet,” he said. Farm, race for the very last time. Two goodbye stuck in his throat for TRC Jan2018 / Goodbye to Gun Runner the Magnificent / Is Lady Eli beginning to mellow? / Mirco Demuro – the world’s number two jockey / The shocking story of exercise rider Shelly Stone / P2 Bittersweet ending: Gun Runner’s trainer Steve Asmussen with owners Goncalo Torrealba of Three Chimneys (center) and Ron Winchell at the post-race press conference. Photo: Michele MacDonald a while because he knows what the Dubai World Cup’s past 2017 in North America belonged to could have been. status as the world’s richest race, Gun Runner. Gun Runner bowed out at the perhaps with a $20 million purse, After that runner-up finish in very top of his sport and it’s hard he might have won the debate to Dubai, the son of Candy Ride to believe anyone would beat continue racing. won the Stephen Foster, then the him if he continued to race at five. Instead, with Sheikh Whitney, then the Woodward, then Aside from beating West Coast, the Mohammed refusing to go all-in, the Breeders’ Cup Classic, soundly champion 3-year-old male of 2017, Winchell had to say goodbye on beating a soured Arrogate, and by a clear margin, it was another Saturday. “I wanted to continue now the Pegasus for a fifth straight 10½ lengths back to Travers running him, but I got talked out win in his final appearance on the runner-up Gunnevera, who was a of it,” Winchell said. racetrack. It capped a career in very distant and well-beaten third. A more pleasing part of the which he won 12 of 19 starts, six of Put Gun Runner in the next picture involves all of the great them in G1 stakes. His last two starts $10 million Dubai World Cup, the memories that Winchell and had purses with a combined value race where he finished second to anyone associated with Gun of slightly more than $22 million, Arrogate last year, and he would Runner can cherish. and propelled him to the second be a significantly lower price than Go back to early July last year, spot on the North American all-time his 6-5 odds ($4.20 to win) in the and anyone who believed Gun earnings list with $15,988,500, Pegasus. With a breeding farm Runner would emerge as the trailing only Arrogate. as a partner, Winchell knew he Horse of the Year would have In a span of about six months, needed a compelling reason to been cut off by a bartender and he went from playing second get the okay for more go-round stuffed into a yellow cab. But, fiddle to Arrogate, who beat him by with Gun Runner. He said if Sheikh after Arrogate lost all three of his more than 17 lengths in their two Mohammed decided to recapture starts after returning from Dubai, meetings, to a horse that figures TRC Jan2018 / Goodbye to Gun Runner the Magnificent / Is Lady Eli beginning to mellow? / Mirco Demuro – the world’s number two jockey / The shocking story of exercise rider Shelly Stone / P3 to join his old rival one day with a plaque inside the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga. Knowing all that, trainer Steve Asmussen prefers to believe that Gun Runner will never leave him. “We’re not saying goodbye,” he said. “What Gun Runner has given us will live in our memories forever. Now we’ll get to watch his videos in the Hall of Fame for as long as we’re around.” For Asmussen, Gun Runner was hardly his first champion. In the past he trained two-time Horse of the Year Curlin in 2007-08 and 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra. Yet his appreciation for a great horse remains as profound as ever, which could be seen in the tears in his eyes as he stood Presentation time: part owner Ron Winchell and Belinda Stronach display the winner’s gold ring in front of the in the walkway to the track and main Pegasus trophy. Photo: Michele MacDonald hugged family and friends after Gun Runner crossed the finish line for the final time. Stakes that kicked off the start of his path outside the front-running “It’s the cherry on the top, this 3-year-old season. He has partnered Collected on the first turn. one,” Asmussen said. “This race, with the horse for ten wins yet was From there, Geroux was equally the world’s richest horse race, never more valuable than he was on flawless. He tracked Collected after him being named Horse of Saturday when he authored what through fractions of 23.41 and the Year on Thursday night. For was arguably his best ride on Gun 46.61 seconds before putting him him to be able to go out on top Runner. away midway on final turn, then and go back to his next career with Breaking from post ten, the roused Gun Runner to fend off a everybody feeling the way that reigning Horse of the Year could determined bid by West Coast, who we have, I’m just so proud of the have been carried wide on the first drew to within a length of the lead whole team and happy for them. turn, suffering the kind of ground in mid-stretch but could not keep How much love that this team and loss that could have haunted him pace with him in the final furlong. [jockey Florent Geroux] have for against some formidable rivals. “This feeling is hard to describe, this horse is just a beautiful thing.” Instead, Geroux masterfully guided it’s a dream come true,” said Geroux has been aboard Gun Gun Runner out the gate and then Geroux, who became a United Runner since his fourth career smoothly angled inside so that he States citizen on Friday (following start, a win in the G2 Risen Star was safely positioned in the two on from fellow Frenchman Julien February 15th DEADLINE US SIRED 2YOS OF 2018 CAN BE EBF NOMINATED AT ONE OF THESE TWO STAGES: FEBRUARY 15th - $3,000 (or £STG / € equivalent) JUNE 30th - $6,000 (or £STG / € equivalent) For further information contact the EBF: T: +44 1638 667960 F: +44 1638 667270 E: [email protected] W: ebfstallions.com TRC Jan2018 / Goodbye to Gun Runner the Magnificent / Is Lady Eli beginning to mellow? / Mirco Demuro – the world’s number two jockey / The shocking story of exercise rider Shelly Stone / P4 Mutual respect: Steve Asmussen, Florent Geroux and Gun Runner immediately after the race. Photo: Michele MacDonald Leparoux earlier this month). “We through fifth in the Breeders’ Cup with Gun Runner any more. I’m glad wanted the horse to prove that the and only West Coast was closer he’s retired. Now my horse can step Breeders’ Cup and all of last year to him at Gulfstream than Del up a little bit.” was not a fluke and the horse was Mar, leading to a different type of Perhaps West Coast will fill the there. In only one word, the horse goodbye. void created by the retirement of was unbeatable.” “I’m so proud of both West Gun Runner, but there’s one thing Indeed, on his richest and Coast and Gun Runner,” said for sure. For anyone who faced Gun perhaps biggest stage, Gun Runner jockey Javier Castellano, who rode Runner in his last five races, saying was indeed “unbeatable”. He faced Gary and Mary West’s West Coast, goodbye was much easier for them four horses who finished second “but I’m happy I don’t have to deal than it was Ron Winchell. February 15th DEADLINE US SIRED 2YOS OF 2018 CAN BE EBF NOMINATED AT ONE OF THESE TWO STAGES: FEBRUARY 15th - $3,000 (or £STG / € equivalent) JUNE 30th - $6,000 (or £STG / € equivalent) For further information contact the EBF: T: +44 1638 667960 F: +44 1638 667270 E: [email protected] W: ebfstallions.com TRC Jan2018 / Goodbye to Gun Runner the Magnificent / Is Lady Eli beginning to mellow? / Mirco Demuro – the world’s number two jockey / The shocking story of exercise rider Shelly Stone / P5 in 2017 Gr.1 winners in every category MARSHA Sold in 2017 for European Record of 6,000,000 Gns Tattersalls December Mare Sale Foal Yearling 2yo Horse in Training Mare REKINDLING HIGHLAND REEL BRANDO LIBRISA BREEZE LADDIES POKER Melbourne Cup Gr.
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