Watching Niatross gives me goose bumps everytime. Niatross and Somebeachsomewhere the 2 greatest pacers ever!
@hife2thekife
5 жыл бұрын
Gee, can't believe this is nearly 40 years ago! I was 19 and just getting interested in Standardbreds then. Niatross was the first pacing star that I remember; still arguably the best of all time, isn't he?
@lisaachilli8581
2 жыл бұрын
Yes. The greatest.
@hife2thekife
2 жыл бұрын
@@lisaachilli8581 he reached the quarter in :27.3 behind Denali, then Clint said: "that's enough of that!" and let Niatross go...he was the greatest!
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
He beat some very good competition all that year & made it look EASY! 1 of the elite BEST Ever!
@markrocovich2234
7 жыл бұрын
Just like with Pat Crowe and Cam Fella, what is lost is that both of these men had great success before they raced the benchmark horses of their careers...Pat was a great horseman who did quite well on the Chicago-detroit-Windsor circuit and he always had good numbers every year..Same with Clint..he always had solid NYSSstock and befor the Great One, horses like Hue Kash and ABC Freight put him in the headlines...both of these gentlemen were far from one-hit-wonders...
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
Just as Niatross was!
@all66books
16 жыл бұрын
"Bullet" Bob Meyer was a terrific racecaller at Roosevelt & Yonkers Raceway in the 70s. I'd stack his precise and clear calls against anyones.
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
Very talented and Funny!
@gusnationalhockeyleague181
6 жыл бұрын
He was simply THE BEST!
@carlfoggin
14 жыл бұрын
I wish I was old enough to appreciate races like this at the time.
@lisaachilli8581
2 жыл бұрын
Just go watch them!
@markrocovich2234
8 жыл бұрын
This was the final heat of the JUG and even though you couldn't see it, there was $49,000.00+ bet to win on the race, $48,000.00+ of it was bet to win on Niatross....that was the definitive example of a 1/9 shot on the tote board....
@howardm74
14 жыл бұрын
@carlfoggin Well thanks to modern technology you can. I am 36 and love these old races. I had the honor to talk to Clint Galbraith many times as a kid at Vernon downs. I also got to go meet Niatross and touch him when he was standing stud! What an honor to touch this magical horse!
@anthony4149
15 жыл бұрын
I saw Albatross run at Yonkers in the 60s. Harry Harvey took him as wide as necessary to get the lead and never looked back. What a horse!
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
&,Who beat him in the Jug upset? HERVE! In a driving masterpiece!
@comesahorseman
3 жыл бұрын
I always felt Harry had earned the right to keep Albatross in his barn. Don't know what Bert James was thinking.
@smkozlowski
7 ай бұрын
Great call !!!
@PlaYah1979
12 жыл бұрын
@bocajonw I seen him race at Batavia also..And was even happier to see him lead a post parade during his retirement..He was 18 and was deck out all in his purple.. And still looked like a monster... Owner, driver, Trainer, Sam Schillaci had the honor to be his pilot...
@timothyantoine914
4 жыл бұрын
The Little Brown Jug , Delaware , Ohio !
@howardm74
14 жыл бұрын
@carlfoggin I was only 6 years old when Niatross was 3 years old. His Legacy still lives on today. I could not appreciate him or cam fella at the time I watched them but I did when I got older. I actually had the pleasure of training sons of Niatross and Cam Fella. Your rignt about Niatross value of 40 million. He was so special they built a breeding farm just for him.
@brianjschumer
7 жыл бұрын
Jordon Matthews I disagree. .Niatross 1. Bret Hanover /Albatross 2. Clints niece may disagree as good a trainer as Galbraith was..he was not a top driver..take off a few fifths for every race Niatross raced, if Dancer or Houghton drove him..
@LevelHazel27
13 жыл бұрын
So neat to see. Storm Damage is my horse myrna's "grandfather".
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
Saw Jittlin' Joe O'brian win the Adios @ mea5/8 WtoW! 2nd best that yr.Otherwise he'd have earned a lot more in purses without Niatross around! Still had some very nice get to carry on!
@comesahorseman
3 жыл бұрын
If Joe could have carried that horse on his back to win it, he would have. As I recall Stormy wasn't fully sound, but he had a lot of heart.
@brianjschumer
7 жыл бұрын
Niatross best pacer ever !!!.next question please..
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
YES!!
@suatkayatennis
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@johnduncan9253
3 жыл бұрын
That was some crop of three year olds.
@stephenhavenner6954
3 жыл бұрын
BRAVO! Remember it well !
@CravesGreys21
11 жыл бұрын
Niatross' granddaughter, Last Valentine, lived at the barn down the road from me for alot of years. She looked alot like him. :)
@bocajonw
12 жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to watch him race in Batavia. I still remember no show bets allowed and he went off at 1/9 smoking the field.
@patsydickson1962
Жыл бұрын
I love my a trust for a monster he was champion champion champion
@rockers7889
6 жыл бұрын
Big names in this race
@brianmarchant2008
11 жыл бұрын
CLINT LEARNED HIS LESSON WELL FROM HIS FATHER GRANT AND DEVELOPED THE BEST HORSE IN THE WORLD
@kimberlygalbraith8287
7 жыл бұрын
Yes he did
@swanningaround
15 жыл бұрын
Who nows how Popular Alm and Pure Steel would go. They are all great horses. Niatross went under 1:50 for the mile! Albatross, Greyhound, Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay were good ones too. Them were the days!
@rockers7889
Жыл бұрын
Big names in here
@kenwillcox2368
11 жыл бұрын
I AGREE WITH BRIAN CLINT DROVE THE HORSE HAS BEST HAS ANYBODY BACK IN THOSE DAY NIATROSS 154 HIS DAD GRANT WOULD BE LOOKING WITH BIG SMILE
@kimberlygalbraith8287
7 жыл бұрын
Your right Ken Uncle Grant would have a big smile on his face and would be so proud of Clint. My heart rate still races when I see these clips.
@karloomick
12 жыл бұрын
as an australian i look for niatross blood in the sires line
@timothyantoine914
4 жыл бұрын
Beach Towel and Albatross both passed down a good blood as well as Cam .
@suatkayatennis
5 жыл бұрын
Imagine a race with Niatross against Mack Lobell,Muscle Hill,Bret Hanover,Varenne and Somebeachsomewhere at the red mile .
@danearley9494
5 жыл бұрын
Suat Kaya trotters against pacers?
@suatkayatennis
5 жыл бұрын
@@danearley9494 why not ?
@comesahorseman
3 жыл бұрын
Used to happen occasionally at county fairs when I was a kid.
@suatkayatennis
3 жыл бұрын
@@comesahorseman nice,tell me about some of the racing horses you witnessed.
@comesahorseman
3 жыл бұрын
@@suatkayatennis one was a royally bred trotting mare owned by a crotchety old farmer from Vermont. She was good enough to compete at Yonkers or Roosevelt but her owner carved out his own training track on his farm and just raced her at county fairs in N.H. & Vt. This way, he could drive her himself and enjoy that one good horse he said he'd always wanted. She would race against the best pacers on the grounds, and I don't recall her ever losing. It was a treat to watch her but frustrating at the same time because she could whip our butts without having to try too awfully hard. 🤨
@impressstager
11 жыл бұрын
NIATROSS WAS A MIRICLE STAR FOR CLINT IF HE WAS RACING IN 2013 HE WOULD EASY PACE IN 144 CLINT LATE FATHER ALLWAYS DREAM OF HAVING A 200 MINIUTE PACER ITS JUST TO BAD HE WAS NOT HERE TO WITNESS HIS SON GREAT SUCCESS
@kimberlygalbraith8287
7 жыл бұрын
Well said yes wish Uncle Grant could have seen these races.
@gmann67able
10 жыл бұрын
what gets forgotten because he made it look so easy is that niatross was breaking world and track records everytime he raced,only wud put one horse in his catagory and thats the beach ,somebeachsomewhere was scary good
@carlfoggin
14 жыл бұрын
@howardm74 I remember when they retired him to stud - I vaguely recall a parade being televised. I also vaguely recall a long article about him in one of the mainstream magazines (possibly Sports Illustrated). They estimated his value to be over $40 million at the time! I saw Cam Fella win the Confederation Cup back in '82 at Flamboro Downs (I still have the program somewhere). I was a kid at the time, so I didn't appreciate what I was seeing at the time.
@keithowu
16 жыл бұрын
Which track? The Little Brown Jug in Delaware? If so, it's very much still there and pretty much the same as the video shows save for some extra setting and more buildings around the track.
@howardm74
8 жыл бұрын
Niatross was a horse very much ahead of his time. He is still by most considered the Greatest Ever. The only other pacer you can put on his level or a little bit ahead of Niatross is Somebeachsomewhere. Somebeach lost one race every other race he destroyed the competition. The Meadowlands pace he lost by a nose it took everything to go wrong for him to lose and everything right for Art Official to get up by a nose. All the other races Somebeach raced there was never competition that could beat him. Its so hard to wonder what Niatross would have done if he was racing today how fast could he have went and could he be beaten.
@brianmarchant2008
11 жыл бұрын
JUST A MIRACLE HORSE NIATROSS THE KIND WE HORSEMEN ALL DREAM ABOUT JUST LIKE THE GREAT DAN PATCH OF THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 155 USEING THE OLD STYLE WOODEN BIKES BOTH MIRICLE HORSE AND NIATROSS MAKING 200000 IN 1980
@eedgerton769
6 жыл бұрын
I saw Niatross at the Syracuse Mile around this time. Is there any video of this anywhere?
@joewarner546
4 жыл бұрын
Niatross time trialled at Syracuse in 1980 and there is a video of that on KZitem. I was at that time trial. What a pacer!
@suatkayatennis
3 жыл бұрын
@@joewarner546 lucky bastard
@anthonyd6370
4 жыл бұрын
that's not roosevelt
@impressstager
11 жыл бұрын
clint did just has good with him has anyone could of these guys would likely gun him to death
@mritaliano do you have to use heel balm on the italian horses or are they naturally greasy?
@anthonyd6370
4 жыл бұрын
its Delaware ohio
@brianjschumer
6 жыл бұрын
Would have loved to See Niatross and Storm damage vs. Pure Steel and Satinover circa 1980..similar to Cardigan bay vs. Bret Hanover
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
Not really,Storm was a great horse,but Niatross was the BEST horse,Ever! Bad timing "Damaged" his time to shine like the sun! Niatross was just a "Crazy Diamond"! All U "Pink "Floyd"fans will get that reference!
@junehill7072
11 жыл бұрын
has anyone heard of a horse called gale damage
@joewarner546
4 жыл бұрын
Storm Damage yeah Gale Damage no
@comesahorseman
3 жыл бұрын
My parents had a homebred named Gale Barnes. She was born during a near hurricane, believe it or not.
@PlaYah1979
16 жыл бұрын
lol been awhile since iv looked at this didnt notice your ignorant reply..I grew up watching clint drive at buffalo raceway.Where which i am a driver and i say he sucks im entitled to my opinion arent 1?
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
Another opinion!
@bgardiner2000
17 жыл бұрын
I think American race commentators are terrible. Give me Johnny Tapp any day. Great horse though. Would have been good to see how he went against Popular Alm and Pure Steel over a bit of distance.
@markrocovich2234
6 жыл бұрын
bgardiner2000 You never had the chance to hear Jack E. Lee, Robin Burns, or Jim Dolan..they were three of the best callers we had...Im not a Roger Huston fan...
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
I am & he definitely deserves to be in that circle with them in the Hall of Fame,regardless of your personal opinion that you are fully entitled to! Opinions are like assholes,everybody's got one!
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
@>bgardinor,Another Opinion!
@jamsid33
12 жыл бұрын
imagine if Niatross had a driver like Campbell, Brennan or Tetrick?
@louismercantino2751
5 жыл бұрын
Stanley Dancer was probably a better driver than all of them! We both know why you didn't include Herve there! But in this case,yeah,it was all Albatross,except in the Jug!
@comesahorseman
3 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't have mattered.
@jamsid33
3 жыл бұрын
@@comesahorseman of course it would have mattered, Galbreath was a statue driving a horse
@comesahorseman
3 жыл бұрын
@@jamsid33 Niatross was so far above the competition, it wouldn't have mattered.
@jamsid33
3 жыл бұрын
@@comesahorseman i am just talking about how fast Niatross could have paced, with a top catch driver he could have paced in 1;47 and a piece
@PlaYah1979
16 жыл бұрын
indeed a great horse...clint galbraith wasnt that great of a driver average at best..it was all horse niatross was a machine...
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