The Greatest Race ever in my opinion has to be Life Sign in the Little
Brown Jug....against the entry mates of Presidential Ball and
Rhiyad.....first he set the record in his first division.....then in
the final Rhiyad had the lead and his entry in his back.....Life Sign
was parked the the 3/8 was on the rail for only about 50 yards if that
then right back out on a half mile track being parked like that was
enough .........but he was nose and nose w/rhyiad and then he came off
the rail and Presidential Ball had a clear shot in the lane but
unbelievably Life Sign refused to Lose....it was Unbelievable....heck
if it wasn't the Jug it would of been one of the great races ever so
the fact that it was the greatest of all the harness races and the
absolute best stage that has to be the greatest.........




--- In cnyharnessracingenthusiasts@yahoogroups.com, acs_joel
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I have many fond memories from Vernon Downs when times were better.
> They include Neville Pride winning the Gold Cup Trot...Harry Harvey
> with Albatross as a two year old...Cory, son of the great Bret
> Hanover bowing his head in the winner's circle, like his sire and
> Staedy Star pacing 2:00 in the mud.
>
> The greatest race I ever saw was won by a French trotter named
> Sophora. He had won 9 races in a row and was going off at short odds
> for his tenth try. He banged his head on the gate and made a bad
> break in the chute. At the quarter pole his was 25 lengths behind.
> Once he got flat, all he did was trot like the wind. He won in 2:00
> flat, but considering how far behind he was, it was more like a 1:55,
> which at the time would have been the world trotting record.