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Silver Charm

Owner(s):
Beverly J. Lewis  -  Robert B. Lewis  - 
Trainer:
Bob Baffert
Bred:
Florida (USA) by Mary Lou Wootton  -  [Add Data]
Pedigree:
Silver Buck  -  Bonnie's Poker  by  Poker
Rating:
 
 
Silver Charm
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What the Nation is saying about Silver Charm...

Can you imagine coming so close to achieving your most incredible dream only to have it snatched away from you by the narrowest of margins? The connections of these ten horses certainly can. I hope you enjoy my Top 10 near misses... Read More
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  • zxswordxz · It is comical to see the comment "pin head rider". The jockey is there for the ride and the horse run. Great horses overcome bad ride. - I wonder who made those comments... · 4 days ago ·
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  • travel_vic · The majority of people who work daily with them, i.e. horseman's bookkeeper, correctly gave them that title...These are people who came by their careers the hard way often starting in the lowest rungs of their profession and bypassing most formal education....Horses run, riders are passengers. · 3 days ago ·
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Is Hansen or Creative Cause good enough to be considered one of the best gray thoroughbreds? If so, they would have to be better than some of the greatest horses of all time. Read More
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  • LennyGeorge · Anybody remember Miche ( The Grey Ghost) and Determined ??? · 5 days ago ·
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  • head_heart_hooves · The Tetrarch! · 5 days ago ·
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Anyway else think the horse is underrated?
35 years and counting, Triple Crowns of the past are now just a wonderful, but distant memory.Read More
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  • travel_vic · I saw three of them I am glad to say, many misses too....Thought Swale would have done it. · 21 days ago ·
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  • CauseForConcern · The list is many, but, how about Hansel? · 21 days ago ·
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Once upon a time there was a lightly raced three-year-old trained by Bob Baffert who may have been just a little too keyed up early on for his own good. In between horses heading to the clubhouse turn, the gray stakes winner undoubtedly felt the pressure, and at that point in his young career, did n...Read More
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  • notobsessed · I think Flashback is a little better than Hansen, can get a little more distance · 67 days ago ·
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  • icyhotboo · Flashback got caught in a vicious pace, consideration must be given here. · 67 days ago ·
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Pulpit was bred to be a champion. His bloodlines will continue as part of Claiborne's history. Read More
Silver Charm and Captain Bodgit currently stand in Japan and Canada respectively. Free House passed away way far too young at the age of ten. Now we say goodbye to Pulpit. Losing one like him is a tremendous blow to American racing and breeding. The gorgeous Claiborne bay will be sorely missed, but ...Read More
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  • CauseForConcern · Thanks for a great story. I remember that Captain Bodgit came right up to Silver Charm, but couldn't get past him. When asking David Hofmans about his chances with Touch Gold in the Belmont, he mentioned that he did not want to look Silver Charm in the eye, due to his stretch run in the Derby. When they came into the turn for home in the Belmont, Touch Gold was swung wide, so that there was no run-up beside Silver Charm. Maybe the only way he could beat him? · 161 days ago ·
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  • CauseForConcern · Also, when you talk about the crop from '94, two colts I saw, that took what looked like a disappointing field, to a memorable finish, were Deputy Commander and Behrens. · 161 days ago ·
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Monmouth Park’s biggest day of the year is the Haskell. There is great racing and a really big crowd. A lot of the crowd comes to increase their collection of racing memorabilia with the traditional Haskell Hat giveaway. Monmouth has been giving hats away since at least 1988.Read More
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  • illhaveanothertriplecrown · I have a couple of items from lesser claimer horses and everything else autographed pictures or tshirts from derby winners or other major stakes horses. If anyone has anything from any of this years derby crop i would be very interested. · 235 days ago ·
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  • shannonsaltz.peabody · I have a small collection of stines (John Henry, Ferdinand, Chris McCarron: all limited edition, Oak Tree, Santa Anita)1988-1997 if anyone's interested, e-mail me: shannon_saltz@yahoo.com · 182 days ago ·
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Loving his pedigree too, as you can see I have been "stud surfing" for the Queen.
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  • Buckpasser · Footy. You are totally correct. Quick turnaround = yes; long range plan= nonexistent. · 298 days ago ·
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  • UnionRagsRules · Thank you all for the info. I did not know that. · 298 days ago ·
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Silver Charm, winner of the 1997 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes and the 1998 Dubai World Cup, retired after finishing fourth in the Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs.Read More
As usual, trainer Bob Baffert attracted a crowd everywhere he went on the backstretch Thursday morning, two days before Zayat Stables’ colt Paynter runs in the 144th Belmont Stakes.Read More
Dalton was heartbroken when Real Quiet lost the Triple Crown by a nose...Read More
  • notobsessed · That's really great "we went inside to watch replays in horror for 10 minutes", pretty much sums up the feelings of disappointment wee have all felt from time to time when our favorite loses · 345 days ago ·
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Is I'll Have Another the horse to end an eleven race losing streak in the Belmont Stakes for dual Kentucky Derby/Preakness winners?Read More
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  • notobsessed · The won word that describes my anticipation about watching the Belmont: TREPIDATION · 355 days ago ·
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  • buds · 1997 silver charm, what an awesome horse. You can see the horse notice Touch Gold and kick it into another gear, but too little to late · 355 days ago ·
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Many were not around for the last Triple Crown winner, or did not follow the sport as recently as 2008. For them, I'll Have Another represents their first Triple Crown experience.Read More
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  • Dressage3295 · My grandfather saw eight triple crown winners in his life time. To witness even half that amount would be incredible. · 360 days ago ·
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  • LongLiveBigRed · Great piece, Angela. It brought me back to the spring and summer of 1973 when I wass a 20 year old college dropout, unemployed for much of the year, watching the big chestnut colt from Meadow Stable tear through his first races as a 3yo. Then the unthinkable: defeat at the Wood Memorial, to his stablemate AngleLight, and the SA derby champion, the great Sham. The rumors started swirling: what was wrong with Secretariat? Nothing, as it turned out. I think the Wood was to Big Red what the 1985 Bears' only loss in Miami was; a wakeup cal. The Bears ripped through the rest of the season, and so did Secretariat. Still one of the greatest years any athlete has ever had. And I was hooked on horse racing. · 359 days ago ·
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“No kidding around ... I have not had a case of Triple Crown Fever this bad since 1989.” Read More
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  • icyhotboo · I think IHA is a much better horse than any of the others and the added distance of the Belmont will suit him best of all. · 360 days ago ·
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  • icyhotboo · "Velazquez picks up mount on Union Rags" lethal combination. This is a definite threat. · 360 days ago ·
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I’ll Have Another will try to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978 when he runs in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 9. Since Spectacular Bid in 1979, eleven 3-year-olds have won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness only to fail in their Triple Crown quest at Belmont Park. Spec...Read More
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  • AnnaK · Would love a Triple Crown, mostly because it would pull people in to the races, (already started I like to think), plus IHA is such a strong red engine and Mario is excellent, that it just might be. Can't see Dullahan doing it, 27 in the last q good to know, that fancy inefficient leg work, so IHA and UR and anyone else can duke it out. · 362 days ago ·
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  • cocoa2 · Icy, Dullahan is the best Allowance horse I have ever seen, especially since he has won graded stakes. Or was I not to take you literally? · 362 days ago ·
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Rachel Alexandra became just the fifth filly to win the Preakness Stakes, and the first since Nellie Morse in 1924.Read More
He may not be flashy, he may not be brilliant, but Liaison always gets the job done. Read More
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  • cocoa2 · 1/20 chance. Take it or leave it. · 388 days ago ·
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  • TampaBayDowns Fan · Im one for the longshot, but one of the horses has taken my eye from the others... · 387 days ago ·
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Sorry, but if you say Groundhog Day to me, I think of the 1993 Harold Ramis film titled the same, starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, way before I think of the chubby rodent from somewhere in Pennsylvania. I like movies, what can I say. If you’ve never seen it, by all means rent it and hunker ...Read More
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