Giant's Causeway- 2000 Eclipse Stakes

The Iron Horse and 53 year old George Duffield edges another titanic dual with Kalanisi with an allstar field including Sakhee, Shiva and Fantastic Light well beaten.

Disclaimer- this video is not mine, I have uploaded it purely for the education and enjoyment values of the horse racing fans on Youtube.

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Giant's
• Causeway
• 2000
• Eclipse
• Stakes
• Kalanisi
• Fantastic
• Light
• Sakhee
• Shiva
• George
• Duffield

[Arazi12]

Giant's Causeway is the toughest, most consistent & genuine top class racehorse that I've seen. What a treat the 2000 flat season was having the likes of Giant's Causeway, Dubai Millennium, Montjeu, Kalanisi & Sinndar around.

[Briano696969]

All of them great horses and classic races were what got me into horse racing. You cant beat the flat for that action. It was a terrible shame that Duffield and Eddery were both suspended for overuse of the whip in this race.

[HighChapparral]

just as the Giant came upside Tiznow Mick drops the reins,ah prob didnt cost him the race but he looked like he was gonna go by him , not taking anything away from Tiznow cos he was a monster

[whitey5489]

@milesdavisblackmx5 In fact Kalanisi never beat Giants Causeway.The Iron Horse came out on top by a whisker again in the International at York.After that Kalanisi proved himself a great horse by winning the Champion Stakes and Breeders Cup Turf with Johnny Murtagh on board.Two great horses!

[HeavenlyToys]

@Arazi12 The Iron Horse :-) I went to see Giants Causway at Coolmore stud ( the people there were soo nice they let me see saddlers wells , monju ) as well as following his racing carrer he is a superstar, I was sooooooo gutted Tiznow beat him :-(

[Nautilus1972]

The interesting thing about Giant's is that only his daughters can carry the gene that is responsible for the over-sized heart, the 'secret' of his amazing battling abilities.

[vidsee]

@kezanator100

Well his pacemaker blocking him in didn't help. Having to barge his way through and a stop start race probably pissed him off.

I love Giant's Causeway though and he would have won anyway. I couldn't believe it when Tiznow beat him in the Breeder's Cup.

I love Tiznow though LOL!

[azertyuiop32]

@frankschlanker

fair point. i didnt realise that.

[frankschlanker]

Its some testament to Aidan O'Brien's training ability that he could turn out this horse Group 1 after Group 1 after Group 1 and yet they still say they never got to the bottom of him!!! Amazing

[frankschlanker]

@Arazi12 What about Kings Best who murdered The Giant by 3 lengths in the Guineas!!

[frankschlanker]

@azertyuiop32 Kalanisi is starting to hang into Giants Causeway so he has to straighten him up.You can only see it on the head on.

[frankschlanker]

@kezanator100 He was injured and never raced again that year.

[GBeret83]

So many talented European horses during this era. Unbelievable that Tiznow was able to beat Giant's Causeway in 2000, and both Sakhee and Galileo in 2001 in the Breeders Cup Classic. But that's a testament to how good the European horses were. Tiznow was America's HOY, and had raced his entire career on conventional dirt. Both Giant's Causeway and Sakhee came within inches of beating Tiznow in both of their first, and only lifetime starts on conventional dirt. Sinndar was great in that era, too.