Smarty Jones - Triple Crown bid - 2004

In 2004, before Barbaro, a little horse named Smarty Jones tried to win horse racing's triple crown


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[kadir1982]

cranker...once again, everybody took a shot at smarty,they didnt leave him alone,rock hard ten,eddington,purge, smarty couldnt relax or settle...it wasnt really the jockeys fault.after all that,smarty almost still won it...a more relaxed and settled birdstone came and got him in the end...sad

[kopkingstevie]

great horse

[eagles01211]

@kkende112233 but at the same time it would be a disgrace if all the horses just let him win the triple crown....its not an easy thing to do and it has to be earned not given...still love smarty and one of the best to ever run

[ajump08]

way too fast early. 1:35.2 for the mile? c'mon, that's suicidal. Its a wonder he held on as well as he did. I don't think an other horse, besides the big red freak himself, has really come too close to matching that fraction in the race.

[Clipselive]

It's so easy to spot Smarty Jones with his unique 4 white foot and a white rein with blue shirt rider.

[NewarkBrickCity1970]

When Smarty Jones lost that race, I felt like doing a Godfather on that fucking Birdstone!

[TheOnceAround]

I know the ending and it still hurts... Good race by Birdstone though.

[smartyjonesfan]

@kkende112233 I couldn't have put what you wrote into words any better, Smarty Jones should have won that race plain and simple and to lose the way he did is very hard to accept to this day. Horse racing hasn't been the same since, I wonder if things would have turned out different if Lion Heart had ran in the Belmont.

[allprog]

Birdstone got his buck on at the end.. he was lie F this i'm winnin.. i think if smarty new he was coming he would have hit that gear.

[kkende112233]

As a kid, I became a fan of Smarty and was absolutely crushed to see him lose the Belmont Stakes, especially that close. To this day watching this video makes me teary eyed. Bird Stone committed a crime that day. Even the jockey said afterward he felt sorry he had comeback and won. I will never forgot the feeling I got when it became apparent that Bird Stone was going to pass him. My heart dropped, it was like nothing I have ever felt before. It tortures me to watch this video!

[tjjlm444]

@seniyad71 you know i was there in person and ive watched this race countless amounts of times and ive never noticed that until you pointed it out and you are so right. that double pull on the reigns slowed him down totally. great eye to see that and makes me wonder if he doesnt do that does smarty win.all along i blamed elliot for him not winning and after watching that at 8:18 i do even more lol. again thanks for poiting that out

[buckeyesooner82]

F*CK BIRDSTONE AND THAT ILLEGAL MEXICAN THAT RODE HIM.