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Sunday Silence
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Sunday Silence

1986 - Horse | Deceased
Owner(s):
Ernest Gaillard  -  Arthur B. Hancock III  -  Charles Whittingham  -  Stone Farm
Trainer:
Charles Whittingham
Bred:
Kentucky (USA) by Oak Cliff Stable
Pedigree:
Halo  -  Wishing Well  by  Understanding
Rating:
 
 
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Sunday Silence holds on to capture the 1989 Breeders' Cup Classic over Easy Goer
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What the Nation is saying about Sunday Silence...

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
  • zatt · So many really good horses that have failed since 1978 ... this article is not helping my confidence. Be patient, Mario ... Be patient. · 12 minutes 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. · 4 days ago ·
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  • icyhotboo · "Velazquez picks up mount on Union Rags" lethal combination. This is a definite threat. · 4 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. · 6 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? · 6 days ago ·
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<3 Sunday Silence
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  • Junebug719 · Mary Z, just wish some one you cared about these horses beyond wanting them to run. · 44 days ago ·
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  • Mary Z. · Junebug719, What? First, your wording is off, but what am I getting out of your meaning? Okay, breathing slowly here. Who are you talking about, me? "just wish some one you cared about these horse beyond wanting them to run." Is that, "I just wish you cared about these horses more than just wanting them to run." ? I'll wait for your reply. · 44 days ago ·
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Sometimes you love a race for an intensely competitive finish. The 1989 Santa Anita Derby would not be such a race. It was the moment where for the first time I would lay eyes on a black beauty who would go on to become one of my favorite horses of all-time. Despite a strong win in his stakes debut ...Read More
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  • Floridaf · What a performance by Sunday Silence! But it sure looked like Music Merci fishtailed coming around the turn. · 51 days ago ·
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  • AndyScoggin · Those were two great horses -- Sunday Silence and Easy Goer. · 51 days ago ·
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Hey, Cocoa2, how about Sunday Silence.. He was not eaten but he was so sick that he was given pain killers to keep him on his feet. His Japanese owner were discussing his pain when he laid down and died in his stall.. Do our great horses deserve such treatment? Shame on the US horse industry!! for seller our heros to those who abuse them... Shame shame. all for greed.
Marc Doche, of SoCal Scoop, previews the Road to the Roses through Southern California... Read More
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  • Cardly Knot · Forgot to mention Fly Lexis Fly...who I believe is headed to SA to Drysdale's Barn??? · 148 days ago ·
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  • broxtone · Hey bloggers why would Baffert run two of his best derby prospects aginst each other so early on the derby trail? · 115 days ago ·
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It has been a long, long time since racing has had a real rivalry, brought to life on the track... Read More
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  • medomoreno · The most obvious was also the most exciting of my lifetime: Affirmed / Alydar. · 165 days ago ·
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  • DeadHeat · medomoreno, I'm hoping we get something close to that, lol. · 165 days ago ·
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The rivalry with Easy Goer was great to watch
Agent Tom Knust confirmed Friday that jockey Patrick Valenzuela, 49, is retiring, ending a career that spans some 33 years.   Valenzuela, 49, rode for the final time Nov. 13 at Hollywood Park, finishing fourth aboard Quality Council in the eighth race, an optional claimer at six furlongs on tu...Read More
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  • ChrisWatchingponies · Thank You Mr. Valenzuela. One Of The Best Ever. Enjoy life, and stay well ! · 169 days ago ·
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  • mdracing69 · Enjoy your retirement PVal. Pleasure meeting you at LAD. · 169 days ago ·
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East Coast Bias … I don’t think I have it, but if I do, how did I catch it??? Truth be told, I am not even sure what it means. Perhaps I should I pack up my bags and move to a residence on the Eastern Seaboard as soon as humanly possible? Do I secretly envy any person lucky enough to live within 100...Read More
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  • Mike in SB · I agree with your choice of Havre de Grace for Horse of the Year and I have been reading your blogs for a year or so and do not believe you have shown an East Coast bias, but as someone who lives on the West Coast I do believe some California horses have sometimes been denied awards they deserved because they did not race in the east. A big part of the problem is that some people have not accepted that racing has changed from the 1970's. In those days the championship races were run in New York in the fall, a horse did need to win in New York to be a champion in those days. But today we are in the Breeders Cup era of racing and unfortunately many of the big championship races in New York have been diminished in importance as a result. Today I don't believe winning the Woodward or Jockey Club Gold Cup necessarily means they are a better horse than the winner of the Goodwood or Pacific Classic, but too often the eastern horse gets extra credit for winning one of the older historic races, even though the fields in New York are not noticeably better than the ones in California. · 170 days ago ·
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  • CauseForConcern · Where have you gone, Albert Pujols, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Albert Pujols has left, and gone away. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey. · 170 days ago ·
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See where Zenyatta ranked in our Top 10 Best ClassicsRead More
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  • shadowno · The level playing field not my comment, but with regard to the surface, geography played a part given the tracks proximity to the San Gabriel mountains. Heavy rains and flooding/runoff from the mountains washed away part of the pro-ride surface in 2009-10 costing them racing days and $$$$$. Also, I don't believe it ever drained as advertised like the cushion track that cost multiple dates in 08.. It was a safer surface for horses, by reported fatilities, signifigantly so, even factoring in the lost days. But here (probably even more here given the state budget and miserable economy), as everywhere $$$$ talks and a closed track can't produce revenue. And with Awesome Gem that 1 win happened to be the Hollywood Gold Cup and he produced clutch efforts in the Pacific Classic, San Antonio and Goodwood in over synthetics so I'll give him credit for his ability to handle prety much anything thrown his way. · 173 days ago ·
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  • footlick · the other problem with the Pro-Ride surface at Santa Anita was that they never cleared out the former surfaces completely when installing and then reinstalling the Pro-Ride, so it was never a pure surface to begin with and that added to it's instability · 173 days ago ·
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In honor of my best friend and my brother in life, Tim Reynolds. I love you my friend.Read More
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  • susie.pascuma · Scott... its perfect... Much love & hugs to you & the Reynolds family.. xoxo · 236 days ago ·
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  • ScottDick · I miss you more every day. · 208 days ago ·
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With something of a pre-Breeders’ Cup World Championships lull in many racing jurisdictions, the star of the most recent weekend, as far as the Northern Hemisphere is concerned was Orfevre, who became only the seventh horse to sweep the Japanese Triple Crown after taking the Kikuka Sho (Jpn-I)—the J...Read More
Today, the legacy of Sunday Silence was strengthened yet again when his grandson Orfevre won the Japanese St. Leger to complete Japan's Triple Crown...Read More
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  • Protagonist · And the beat goes on, Sunday Silence was fantastic back in 1989, beating Easy Goer out of that years Derby,then his offspring were excellent and now his grandchildern, what a wonderful bloodline. · 216 days ago ·
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  • annmatt · Makes one wonder just what his legacy would be had he lived a few more years! His is a record that won't be broken any time soon! Memo to American breeders: you might want to acquire a couple of Sunday's sons and daughters to fill your barns with some winners! It really is fun to read his progeny charts and see all the millionaires. Will need a currency converter to understand the amounts ($1 = 78 JPY Yen!)!! · 215 days ago ·
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It's a time when three-year-olds need to step up against older, and the Jockey Club Gold Cup is a great place... Read More
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  • likin sparks · I know where Mike is coming from, with this years race is kinda weak where half the competion has had a difficult time placing in the money so I wouldn't think the WOW factor will be there. As much as I haven't been sold on Stay Thirsty for him not to win by 7 or 10 lenghts would be a kick in the can. · 243 days ago ·
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  • brooklyn.steve · Stay Thirsty should win the JCGC, which should make him the co fav for Horse of the Year with HDG. He has come along nicely, and while Flat Out will be a tough challenge, Mike Repole will be standing in the winners circle at the end of the day. · 243 days ago ·
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Say what you will about how the pace unfolded in yesterday’s Super Derby, but one thing you cannot deny is that the winner is a horse on a roll … and a Derby roll at that. Undefeated now in four starts in 2011, Prayer For Relief first jumped on the Derby train with a win in Prairie Meadows’ Iowa Der...Read More
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  • BrianZipse · Yes, the amount of useless information I have in my head is indeed boundless ;-) · 259 days ago ·
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  • DeadHeat · He has not overly impressed me. It is easy to rack up wins when the competition you face is so inferior to you. I'm glad he is taking his game to a new level, but I don't see him hitting the board in the Classic. · 256 days ago ·
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I wasn’t sure when Sunday Silence (SS from here on) should come up in this series. First? Last? The tragic story of a prolific SS stallion, Agnes Tachyon, seemed like a good start. But now lets look at arguably THE most important stallion in Japanese racing history.Read More
His impact to the Japanese Breeding industry ws much like Secretariat or A.P. Indy was to ours. Eight years as leading sire there. 16 yrs was too young to pass, however, you can bet on seeing a numerous SS offspring running and winning in JRA top races today.
Racing needs to bring its head out of the sand and into the light. The leaders of this sport need to make sure that it is not being cheapened and stand up and fight for what will improve it, rather than let others make decisions that just lead the sport deeper into oblivion.Read More
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  • cpsoren121 · Right on Laura, seems like racing was most prominent in the 70's and 80's in recent memory. Let's find that magic again!! · 343 days ago ·
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  • icyhotboo · To much competition for the dollar.As far as horses this has been a great decade for some really good ones but if they keep retiring the best 3yos to stud then they have only themselves to blame. · 343 days ago ·
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Sunday Silence - Pedigree

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HaloHail To ReasonTurn-to
Nothirdchance
CosmahCosmic Bomb
Almahmoud
Wishing WellUnderstandingPromised Land
Pretty Ways
Mountain FlowerMontparnasse
Edel Weiss

Sunday Silence - Race Results & Past Performances

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Date(Descending)
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View Details06/24/902ndP ValenzuelaHol81 1/4 mDHollywood Gold Cup-G10 Criminal TypeSunday SilenceOpening Verse1:59.80
View Details06/03/901stP ValenzuelaHol91 1/8 mDCalifornian-G10 Sunday SilenceStylish WinnerCharlatan III1:48.00
View DetailsView Video11/04/891stC McCarronGP101 1/4 mDBreeders' Cup Classic-G103 MSunday SilenceEasy GoerBlushing John2:00.20
View DetailsView Video09/24/891stP ValenzuelaLaD101 1/4 mDSuper Derby-G103 MSunday SilenceBig EarlAwe Inspiring2:03.10
View DetailsView Video07/23/892ndP ValenzuelaHol81 1/4 mDSwaps-G203 MPrizedSunday SilenceEndow0:00.00
View DetailsView Video06/10/892ndP ValenzuelaBel81 1/2mDBelmont Stakes-G103 MEasy GoerSunday SilenceLe Voyageur2:26.00
View DetailsView Video05/20/891stP ValenzuelaPim101 3/16 mDPreakness-G103 MSunday SilenceEasy GoerRock Point 1:53.80
View DetailsView Video05/06/891stP ValenzuelaCD81 1/4 mDKentucky Derby-G103 MSunday SilenceEasy GoerAwe Inspiring2:05.00
View DetailsView Video04/08/891stP ValenzuelaSA51 1/8 mDSanta Anita Derby-G103 MSunday SilenceFlying ContinentalMusic Merci1:47.60
View Details03/19/891stP ValenzuelaSA81 1/16 mDSan Felipe-G20 Sunday SilenceFlying ContinentalMusic Merci1:42.60
View Details03/02/891stP ValenzuelaSA76 1/2 fDAllow0 Sunday SilenceHeroic TypeMight Be Right1:15.40
View Details12/03/882ndA GryderHol36 1/2 fDAllow0 HoustonSunday SilenceThree Times Older1:16.60
View Details11/13/881stP ValenzuelaHol26 fDMSW0 Sunday SilenceMoment Of TimeNorthern Drama1:09.40
View Details10/30/882ndP ValenzuelaSA66 1/2 fDMSW0 Caro LoverSunday SilenceGreen Storm1:17.00

 

 

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