For all owners of OTTB's- I found a great FREE site to watch racing videos (FINALLY)!!
I have been looking for vidoes of my mare racing since I got her in August. I was recently reading a blog from Eventing Nation and I saw this website mentioned: Cal Racing
I went there and I found videos of my mare racing. We thought she may have been injured while on the track because she went from placing in the top 3 to placing last within a month. By looking at these videos, I could pinpoint the moment when something went wrong. Her jockey was hitting her and she slowed down to go from 3rd to 10th. It looks like the jockey just gave up. It may have been an injury or just her time to get out of racing, but either way she still ended up with me (and is now healthy).
Well, I just wanted to share this exciting news that I finally found a site with free videos. Maybe you guys already knew about this... now if only I could find my gelding's videos...
It is very fun to watch your own horse run and win his races, isn't it? I paid $5 for a 24 hour window a few years ago to watch all of my horse's races. It was well worth the $$. Thanks for posting the free link.
We had so much fun watching videos of DD's mare during her racing days - we were fortunate enough that she ran at a track that have free race replay on their website.
Although she never won, she came closer than my other horse with a few seconds and some thirds. I can also tell now what her "style" was. The good races she would stay in the middle of the pack untill the last possible second, then she'd suddenly explode. The bad races- she was in first or second the whole race untill the end when she ran out of gas. So when she pretends like her stride isn't adjustable when we're jumping- I know she's just being stubborn now lol
Oh good. I'm not the only one who realizes my horse is full of BS when he pretends he can't move forward. I have a picture of him galloping with all four legs suspended that I look at whenever he's behind my leg. Silly TBs!
With my mare, somedays it's like if she can't have her way then she won't do it my way. We either run or we go like a snail- there's no inbetween- yet.
My mare raced in New York and they had 16/14 of her races (She must've scratched for 2 of them). I don't know how far these go back because my mare raced only a year ago. Maybe it depends on how popular the track was? My mare raced at Aqueduct, Saratoga and Belmont, which are pretty well know tracks. Sorry you guys couldn't find your horses
No, I used Equibase to help find out where and when she raced. I used Cal Racing to find the videos.
When you are on the home page (of Cal Racing) , scroll down and click on the "Race Replay" button. Then click on the "horse" tab and type in the name of the horse. It gives a list of all horses with that name. You probably want the one that has the (T) next to it because that means thoroughbred. You then pick the race you want to see and it's a camera that follows your horse as it goes in the gate and (if your horse doesn't fall way behind), it follows the horse through the race. At any point in this process, it will probably ask for a username and password, so you have to make an account. It's free and I haven't gotten any spam emails from them.
I just used that site... I looked up a horse I know, the sweetest most loveable horse, always has to check and see if everyone has treats for him lol. I just watched a vid of him getting blocked, then make a tremendous run to catch the leader who had a considerable lead on the rest... He almost caught him too, he came second. And the video I JUST watched was him winning his first race
His name is I'm A Little Fish. I love that horse
Fort Erie, last time I checked, has videos of races from way back as well. I found numerous races that Indie was in, after checking equibase out and finding which race and heat she was in on which day.
Do you have a site? My mare is coming 16 and didn't race at a lot of big tracks. I've been trying to find videos of her racing since I got her with no luck. Her name is Alyrunj if anyone wants to help lol
I guess maybe it could be mostly west coast based, but my mare raced in NY and they had her races... Maybe only certain levels of races show up? My horse was in the Maiden Claming and Maiden Special Weight races if anyone can make sense of that (I know I can't...)
As far as I can tell, Fort Erie only goes back to 2007 and it's only their track. I might have the worng website though.
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