Race of the Decade

TV Broadcast of the 1989 Breeder's Cup Classic. Called "The Race of the Decade", this 1 1/4 mile race was the fourth and final race between Sunday Silence and Easy Goer.

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Sports

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• Breeders
• Cup
• Sunday
• Silence
• Easy
• Goer

[EASYGOERFLIES]

Anyway, also Edwin Pope and Bill Nack's distinct quotes about this race, "After a slow break, Day decided to do nothing after it,letting him settle and drop 12 lengths back.Then Day cost EG a full head of steam on the backstretch. Day put out the fire of a champion in full flame(Day said he gave him a breather when SS went around the far turn,just as Day said he did in the Preakness as well). If Day&McCarron had switched mounts, EG never loses by a desperate neck." I agree.

[flylion132]

Immensely agree. Like many of the racing experts stated from both coasts(Christine, Crist,Nack,Pope,etc.) and even stated by trainers Wayne Lukas and Woody Stephens, but stated the most correct by Paul Moran of espn, "Easy Goer was the better, more phenomenal,extraordinary horse, but was defeated by a whisker and desperate neck in two races due to Pat Day riding him "like the exposed end of a live wire". I agree, Day also calls his riding "total jock errors." They were both greats though.

[EASYGOER4LIFE]

Fantastic point. Pat Day would enhance, amplify, heighten and intensify that by stating himself that "he have Easy Goer "breathers" on the far turns in both the Preakness and Classic." That is why Day called him own riding "absolutely rider error". It's called repeated start and stop, start and stop,stop and start,stop and start riding by Day on Easy Goer and cost him by a nostril and desperate neck in two outs in the Preakness and Classic against an also great in SS.

[DELMARCLUB1]

Citation,Kelso,Easy Goer,Dr Fager,Forego,John Henry,Skip Away all the right horses behind on head to head scoreboards, though none of the others had Patsy Day on board.....Noor,Beau Purple,SS,Big Spruce,Formal Gold,Interco,Akureyri all right time.

[DELMARCLUB1]

Head to head matchups? Yes, SS proved his greatness, proved his metal in head to head and on the scoreboard, exactly like Noor,Beau Purple,Formal Gold,Big Spruce,Interco all did also. Yes, Kelso,Citation,Easy Goer,Forego,John Henry,Skip Away,Dr Fager,etc were all behind or tied on the head to head matchups scoreboard, no matter what the reasons for their losses were

[DELMARCLUB1]

No one must remember Dr Fager,Buckpasser,Kelso,Forego,­John Henry,Seabiscuit,Cigar,Holy Bull,Ruffian,etc according to your totally wrong logic

[DELMARCLUB1]

LOL!To casual fans like you,there are only 4 big days in racing.But to any&all true racing fans, historians,trainers,jockeys,we all know that isn't true.The Hollywood Gold Cup,Pacific Classic,Big Cap,Jockey Club Gold Cup,Woodward,Whitney,Travers,e­tc carry as much, if not more weight, and have as rich,if not more of a history of crowning champions.If it went by only 4 big days, then Dr. Fager,Kelso,Forego,Tom Fool,Buckpasser,Cigar,Holy Bull,John Henry,Seabiscuit,Ruffian,etc wouldnt be all timers

[DELMARCLUB1]

But the fact remains, Noor beat Citation in 4 of 5 races. Beau Purple beat Kelso in 3 of 4 races. Damascus beat Fager 2 of 4 races. Interco beat John Henry in 2 of 3. Big Spruce beat Forego 2 of 3 races. Formal Gold beat Skip Away in 4 of 6 races. Akureyri beat Pleasant Colony 3 of 4 races.