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Native Diver

Owner(s):
Louis K. Shapiro  -  Mrs.Louis K. Shapiro  - 
Trainer:
Michael E. Millerick
Bred:
California (USA) by Louis K. Shapiro  -  Mrs.Louis K. Shapiro  -  [Add Data]
Pedigree:
Imbros  -  Fleet Diver  by  Devil Diver
Rating:
 
 
Winning his 1st Hollywood Gold Cup
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What the Nation is saying about Native Diver...

In Saturday’s fourth race at Betfair Hollywood Park, one of America’s best geldings of recent years, Game On Dude will be favored to take his speed wire-to-wire in the $250,000 Native Diver Handicap. If he does so, it will be a fitting outcome for a race named after the legendary runner of the 1960’...Read More
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  • LennyGeorge · I remember he had trouble with 124# or more · 173 days ago ·
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  • KatieErickson · This was the horse that my grandfather introduced me to at the ripe age of 6 years old. And have loved racing ever since. · 168 days ago ·
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A great horse with a big heart.
Many people don't recognize him because he raced in CA and at Arlington, not on East Coast
Native Diver won his third consecutive Hollywood Gold Cup,...Read More
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  • EvanAnouna · actaully ohera won the gold cup but was disquallifide for losing his rider at the gate · 436 days ago ·
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  • travel_vic · How often did he step outsdie the bounds of the Godlen State? · 436 days ago ·
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On Gold Cup Eve, while most fans are busy handicapping the big race, I found myself in a slightly more nostalgic mood, and the Hollywood Gold Cup is an easy race for which to wax poetic. Seabiscuit and Citation, Swaps and Round Table, Native Diver and Ack Ack, Ferdinand and Cigar, Skip Away and Lava...Read More
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  • AndyScoggin · Loved Affirmed especially with Steve Cauthen up. · 684 days ago ·
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  • TiznowReynolds · I've always been a huge fan of the Gold Cup...many many awesome horses have ran/won it. · 684 days ago ·
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1) The Hollywood Gold Cup is a Grade 1 race run over the synthetic surface at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California. The race is run at a distance of 1 1/4 miles and is open to 3-year-olds and up. 2) The race was run for the first time in 1938 and has been run every year since with the exception o...Read More
This was one of the most exciting and fun horses ever! You knew exactly what he was going to do in a race and he did it with exceptional bravery and consistency.
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  • humphrey · Review real studies of animal behavior like Lorenz On Agression and Horse Watching get to the heart of animal interactions and it is NOT based upon the emotions that sports riders superimpose on them. They run out of a conditioned response to fear. plain and simple. · 966 days ago ·
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  • humphrey · Animals should be considered, as Ivan Pavlov wrote in 1927, "without any need to resort to fantastic speculations as to the existence of any possible subjective states." More recently, The Oxford companion to animal behaviour (1987) advises "one is well advised to study the behaviour rather than attempting to get at any underlying emotion." · 966 days ago ·
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Native Diver - Pedigree

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ImbrosPolynesianUnbreakable
Black Polly
Fire FallsBull Dog
Stricken
Fleet DiverDevil DiverSt Germans
Dabchick
Our FleetCount Fleet
Duchess Anita

Native Diver - Race Results & Past Performances

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Race
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Cnd
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2nd
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View Details09/09/671stW ShoemakerBHP11 1/4 mDHollywood Gold Cup-G103+ MNative DiverPretenseBiggs0:00.00
View Details01/21/671stW ShoemakerSA77 fDSan Carlos-G103+ MNative DiverHoist BarPretense0:00.00
View Details09/10/661stW ShoemakerBHP11 1/4 mDHollywood Gold Cup-G103+ MNative Diver  0:00.00
View Details09/11/651stW ShoemakerBHP11 1/4 mDHollywood Gold Cup-G103+ MNative Diver  0:00.00