Landaluce wins the Hollywood Lassie by 21 lengths

On July 10, 1982, French and Beal's Landaluce, an absolutely brilliant filly trained by D. Wayne Lukas, gallops home in the Hollywood Lassie, a race that eventually would be renamed in her honor. With Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard, Landaluce sets fractions of :21 2/5 and :43 4/5 on her way to six furlongs in 1:08, in just her second start as a two-year-old. After remaining unbeaten in five career starts, Landaluce succumbed to illness and died. She was named the champion two-year-old filly of 1982. Harry Henson narrates this tour de force.

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• Landaluce
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[andtheyreoff]

I am opposed to censorship, and am not weak hearted when it comes to some of the stuff I read from people on the internet. I am also happy when people not only watch horse racing, but are enthusiastic about it. However, for anyone who has visited this video over the past year, you will know there was a debate that turned ridiculous concerning the merits of Landaluce vs. Ruffian.  About 500 comments worth. Go figure.

[andtheyreoff]

I let it continue because it's my nature, and it wasn't causing harm. However, I think that it had gotten to the point where it might be causing problems for people, so I have chosen to delete all of the arguments. I purposely didn't turn off comments, because I really don't like the idea of that. If you want to thank me, great. If you want to call me a douche bag, great. Just do it mentally and don't add the comment.

[partymanners]

Thanks for posting this!

[andtheyreoff]

After enjoying all your videos so much, I'm glad I was able to reciprocate, at least in some small way.

[marysueeasteregg]

Yes, Lukas uses his young horses too hard.

Has he ever trained a older champion? But

I've read that losing Landaluce to an infection

broke his heart, Lukas was cradling her head

when she died. And he promised himself he

wouldn't let himself fall in love with a horse

ever again. Her death is a big part of the

reason he views them as money making

machines vs. fellow creatures.

[dahoss65]

"it was sad that lukas lost grand canyon and landaluce so young"

I actually look at that a different way. To me, it is sad that guys like Lukas get their hands on horses like Grand Canyon and Landaluce, or any horse for that matter.

Lukas was and is an equines worst enemy. Worst nitemare. To guys like Lukas, horses are just a piece of meat, a machine they drill into the ground. Some will make it and others will fall to the wayside and be quickly replaced. That is life living in Lukas land

[rcherasaro]

@johnofohu123 Are you kidding me..Rachel came close to breaking many records under wraps..stop the horse bashing..enjoy the ones we have while they are here as with Landaluce they can be gone in a second..play nice!

[rcherasaro]

Thank you for the video..what a shame we lost her so soon.

[disciple90633]

very sad. She may have been the greatest filly to ever look through a bridle.  Sucks for us and her alike that we'll never know.

[Channin22]

WOW! What a nice horse.

[johnofohu123]

@xxcrystlecityxx I agree RA only beat one record and Ruffian has been in lead all the races she would smoke RA and Z the only horse thats good enough for Ruffian is Secretariat but my picks is for Ruffian but i still love RA and Z why should i hate a beatiful creature

[xxcrystlecityxx]

@queenluciaa if you actually watch her races you would see that she was NEVER whipped, except in the hot n nasty race and she was NEVER pushed, she did what she did on her own accord, because she loved to run, when she broke down in the match race vazquez tried to pull her up, but she wouldnt stop!

i dont base my facts off the film, i havnt even seen the film, because its much better just watching the real ruffian run!

get your facts right before you start mouthing off about stuff you dont no!

[queenluciaa]

@xxcrystlecityxx

Once again you base your facts off some cheesy ESPN film. Ruffian was whipped time to time actually, she was always pushed in her races. If you actually read a BOOK about her instead of watching some Hollywood fairytail movie, you'd know that. But you don't.

[xxcrystlecityxx]

@queenluciaa who cares all of ruffians speed recorda are still faster then RA, if it came to a match race ruffian would bury RA

and also if you knew anything you would know that ruffian was held back, yes she won by heaps of lengths but vasquez eased her up

[xxcrystlecityxx]

@queenluciaa yeah my bad, i think it was 10? im not sure but she has run the fastest 5 1/2, 6 and 7 furlong races ever and they are still untouched

[queenluciaa]

@xxcrystlecityxx

Its physically impossible to run a 12 furlong race in 2:08:10. Because the world record holder Secretariat, ran his in 2:24:00.