🏇 REAL QUIET 🏇 @BobBaffert • @GStevens_jockey • @jerrydbailey • @DesormeauxKent - Any memories of Real Quiet to share? 🔹 Champion 3 yo - 1998 🔹 Kentucky Derby & Preakness winner 🔹 Nailed at the wire by Victory Gallop in their historic Belmont Thoughts on Real Quiet?👇
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@HorseRacingPPs @BobBaffert @GStevens_jockey @jerrydbailey @DesormeauxKent I love blood bays anyway but Real Quiet in the paddock and the post parade of the 1999 Pimlico Special was almost too perfect - his blacks were as black as black can be and his shiny, reddish-brown coat just erupted with dapples!
@HorseRacingPPs @BobBaffert @GStevens_jockey @jerrydbailey @DesormeauxKent I was hoping for Kent to win the triple crown! So close
@HorseRacingPPs @BobBaffert @GStevens_jockey @jerrydbailey @DesormeauxKent Victory Gallop was the better horse but man, Kent blew the Belmont gassing him too soon
@HorseRacingPPs @BobBaffert @GStevens_jockey @jerrydbailey @DesormeauxKent I was at that derby. Great race
@HorseRacingPPs @BobBaffert @GStevens_jockey @jerrydbailey @DesormeauxKent the wait on the photo in the Belmont was excruciatingly long.
@HorseRacingPPs @BobBaffert @GStevens_jockey @jerrydbailey @DesormeauxKent I still think he won the Belmont
@HorseRacingPPs @BobBaffert @GStevens_jockey @jerrydbailey @DesormeauxKent At Belmont, with a big Exacta of Victory Gallop on top of RQ, when they passed me at the 1/8 th pole, I didn’t think that G Stevens would get VG up. It was just a tremendous effort by VG & GS to win that race.
@HorseRacingPPs @BobBaffert @GStevens_jockey @jerrydbailey @DesormeauxKent Probably the last horse Baffert had that ran into his 4 year old year who had success.
@HorseRacingPPs @BobBaffert @GStevens_jockey @jerrydbailey @DesormeauxKent To see him at 2 when he ran in Santa Fe and then to see him next at Churchill before the Derby, what a transformation!! 💪💪💪 He was my pick.