Yeah I was at the race track as a kid watching the breeders cup races on tv as you could bet on both at the same time. I was more of a fan of the horses than wanting to bet on them at the time. I was so looking forward to this race. People who weren't around at that time don't understand the magnitude and anticipation of this race. It was the matchup everyone wanted to see. Bayakoa vs Go For Wand then sadly the unbelievable happens making it the saddest day in racing history and it still bothers me to this day along with Holly Bull limping off the track as he was just about to dust and blow by Cigar. After the Holly Bull injury happened I stopped watching horse racing. Seeing these greats get taken off the track and us robbed of what should have been great moments was just too depressing to keep dealing with. Horse racing now isn't a sport really either anymore. They're all now too concerned about money and retire great horses as soon as they possibly can to make money on stud
Hi Erin, I was thinking the very same thing, not to mention both Ruffian and GFW kept going as you said. Do you have the article where you read that about the 11 strides? Ruffian will always be my all time fav. and she still was beating that colt with 3 legs, GFW, poor girl went down, and then the horrible video of her in shock and pain trying to get away from it with a flopping leg. It seems that as soon as Bayakoa got up next to her, GFW jockey started getting into her more and I bet she dug deeper down in the track with her front hooves and those thin legs on those poor horses can only take so much. Never forgotten, beautiful fillies.. Ruffian, Go For Wand, and Eight Belles. EB had such an unusual injury, BOTH ankles having compound fractures. :( I feel so bad for each and every horse this happens to...
+Erin Fisher There's another horse buried there by Ruffian as well. His name is Timely Writer, he broke down less than half a mile from the finish line, another horse named Johnny Dance tripped over him and broke its leg resulting in his death as well. He died 6yrs and 3months after Ruffian & 8yrs before Go For Wand (same month as GFW).
25 years after I watched this race live, I still remember it like the day it happened. The call was great, the race was even better! The second biggest tragedy, that day, was that I didn't get to see who would win that amazing race! Upon review, I would give it to Go for Wand. What a race!!!!
It seems that it was yesterday, Mister Sawsaloo! A spectacular finish between two great mares was owershadowed by tragedy. In another video related to this race, a person wrote that 1990 Breeder´s Cup Distaff was Go for Wand´s 13th start. Believe it or not! Greetings from Venezuela and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016.
This race ruined horse racing for me in a way. I used to loved it and followed it closely in the mid 1980’s when I was in my early 20’s. I remember I was really pumped and confident Go For Wand would win this race. This was so heartbreaking. Sadly, I think this was when I started to lose interest in the sport and eventually almost completely stopped following it.
A few days after this race Sports Illustrate came out with their issue to vote for the athlete of the year.i felt then and feel the same today that the vote should of gone to Go For Wand, she paid the price above all prices. Some may say she was just an animal, that's true but she was also a great athlete.
"To be a jockey is to be an athlete" Virgilio Decan "Aly Khan" (July 13, 1931 - ) Venezuelan retired horse racing caller. "I´m very sick, but I haven´t give up. I know God is going to be with me no matter what. And I know prayers help" Randy Romero (December 22, 1957 - August 29, 2019) Probably those were the last words Randy Paul Romero told to the press last June when he was in a hospice care victim of a cancer. And undoubtedly he proved to us to be an exceptional athlete and a very courageous man. Romero suffered an estimated of 25 fractures in racing accidents, but he returned to the track with the same enthusiasm. Now he is in a place where there is no pain and suffering. God bless him! My condolences to his family and his friends from Venezuela. "Ser jinete es ser atleta" Virgilio Decán "Aly Khan" (13 de Julio 1931 - ) Ex narrador hípico venezolano "Estoy muy enfermo, pero no me he rendido. Se que Dios está conmigo sin importar mi condición. Y se que las oraciones ayudan" Randy Romero (22 Diciembre 1957 - 29 Agosto 2019) Probablemente esas fueron las últimas palabras que Randy Paul Romero dijo a la prensa en Junio pasado cuando estaba hospitalizado víctima de un cáncer. E indudablemente él nos demostró ser un atleta excepcional y un hombre muy valiente. Romero sufrió unas 25 fracturas en accidentes de pista, pero siempre volvió a montar con el mismo entusiasmo ¡Dios lo bendiga! Mis condolencias a su familia y amigos desde Venezuela.
I still get sick after all these years. It was a match race. She literally ran her heart out. For some reason when I see this I flashback to Ruffian.Bayakoa a special horse.
You know Go For Wand was coming back on and was going to win that race until she brokedown...she was younger then Bayakoa and had a heart as big as the racetrack,I will never forget what a great champion she was.
Norm Vance Bayakoa was better the year before, was giving weight and running on go for wands home track. everything was against Bayakoa before the tragedy.
You also have to wonder about running into the shadow cloaked stretch was tough on the equine eyes, compare to another race and another duel where the outside horse leaped over the high contrast shadow. Something to also consider.
@@WaltGekko Go for Wand (April 6, 1987 - October 27, 1990) * Sire: Deputy Minister * Grandsire: Vice Regent * Dam: Obeah * Damsire: Cyane * Breeder: Christiana Stables * Owner: Christiana Stables * Trainer: William Badget Jr. * 13 Starts * 10 Wins * 2 Seconds * 0 Thirds * $ 1,373,338 * 1989 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly * 1990 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly * Number 72 The Blood Horse Magazine "100 Top U.S. Racehorses of the 20th. Century" List * Inducted to The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1996 Rest In Peace, Champion! We´ll always remember you! Regards from Venezuela.
I loved Bayakoa, and did not want to see her lose...but every time I see this race, I cannot see her getting past Go For Wand had she not fell. Billy Badget and Randy Romero had a gutsy gameplan - they knew not to give Bayakoa a lead and then try to run her down in the stretch, so they took the fight to her. Splits of 23:2, 23, and 24, against a champion mare, neither giving an inch. This was a very sad day for racing, with Mr. Nickerson and Go For Wand losing their lives on the track that day.
In another video related to this tragic race, a person wrote that 1990 Breeder´s Cup Distaff was Go For Wand´s 13th start. Believe or not! Greetings from Venezuela and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016
Bassman968 as zenyatta showed with blame, it's hard to beat a champion on their home track. I really doubt Bayakoa would have been challenged at Hollywood Park
Shaker Knit also ended up having to be euthanized in the accident with Mr. Nickerson. The BC, in the beginning years, always had the sprint first and there was always some tragedy, so they switched it up. Would like to see more racing on grass, easier on their bodies, also not run them so young, let the bones have a chance to grow. Go For Wand was run at age 2, and as stated on here, this was already her 13th race.. she could have perhaps already had a problem and the digging down in the stretch was enough to break her leg that bad. :(
@@dariabigblock73 Actually, the first three years the Juvenile and Juvenile Fillies were the first two events. NBC wanted the Juvenile later because of the aspects of the Kentucky Derby.
I wondered if what happened to Go For Wand out on the track had an effect on Bayakoa as she was never the same after this. When she came back she lost all of her races badly and had one second place finish then was retired.
No. Animals don't think like that. Bayakoa was 6. Still a young horse, but she had been racing. It was time for her body to say time's up. Time to go make babies. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 I don't know about that. I've seen horses perform really well but then get beat down finally by someone better and then they never raced the same again after that. Like their confidence got shot like with a boxer retires once he gets beat or a MMA fighter goes on a losing streak once he loses one match.
"Fue como una pelea de perros desde el momento que se abrieron las puertas. Era una carrera bella e increíble hasta que ella (Go for Wand) se lesionó" Billy Badget, entrenador de Go for Wand
Only if Go For Wand had less heart, she would have lived... In an alternate world she gives way in the deep stretch and bounces back the following season to become a champion.
I just can't see this two of racings greatest fillies in a deadly duo Bayakoa won't let go of Go Fo Wand but Go Fo Wand won't let Bayakoa pass her and then GFW breaks down its so sad she is my favorite race horse and such a champion . I really like Bayakoa too but I think Go For Wand would of won in a photo finish or by a nose because Bayakoa didn't quit have it and GFW was pulling away before she went down ! I will always love both of them R.I.P to two of racings greatest fillies !!
Bayakoa later was mated to Broad Brush. which resulted in Arlucea. Arlucea late produced Fort Larned, the 2012 champion of throughbred racing's fourth leg of the Grand Slam (the Breeder's Cup Classic). He produced a wire-to-wire victory at Santa Anita when he won the Classic. Both horses had the same owner. There is a Bayakoa Stakes at Oaklawn and a Bayakoa Handicap at Del Mar. There is also in New York a Go For Wand Handicap and a Go For Wand Stakes in Delaware. Both horses have their names importalised in races.
@@LauraAdams578 Mr. Nickerson was a monster at Philadelphia Park (now Parx), and his trainer, Mark J. Reid, was like an ATM for me when I liked his horses.
Laffit Pincay was probably the best finisher ever, but I don’t think he gets by GFW that day, 2 great jockeys and 2 amazing fillies, such a shame remember it like yesterday......
If you look closely you can see it unfolding 5 seconds before the fatal fall. At 2.45 to 2.46 all hope is lost. The jock is lucky to be alive..and for animal lovers this is a noble way to die. People act like life lives forever...life is a blink. I always wondered why people buy huge grave stones, after 100 years nobody will ever visit it anyways. I guess even in death people like flaunting there money.
This is very hard to watch. Two great horses dueling down the stretch--what more does a race fan want? Very sad it had to end this way. Nice tribute to Go For Wand if you Google "Remembering Wanda by Barbara Livingston".
Bayakoa (October 10, 1984 - June 14, 1997) * Sire: Consultants Bid * Grandsire: Bold Bider * Dam: Arlucea (Arg) * Damsire: Good Manners * Breeder: Haras Principal (Argentina) * Owner: Janis & Frank Whitman * Trainer: Ron McAnally * 39 Starts * 21 Firsts * 9 Seconds * 0 Thirds * $ 2,861,701 earned * 1989 & 1990 American Champion Older Female Horse * Inducted to The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1998 * Number 95 The Blood Horse Magazine "Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th. Century" List Rest In Peace, Champion! We´ll never forget you! Regards from Venezuela. Bayakoa (10 de Octubre, 1984 - 14 de Junio, 1997) * Padre: Consultants Bid * Abuelo paterno: Bold Bider * Madre: Arlucea (Arg) * Abuelo materno: Good Manners * Criador: Haras Principal (Argentina) * Propietario: Janis & Frank Whitman * Entrenador: Ron McAnally * 39 Salidas * 21 Primeros * 9 Segundos * 0 Terceros * $ 2,861,701 earned * Yegua Campeona Madura en Estados Unidos1989 & 1990 * Exaltada al Salón de la Fama y Museo Nacional de las Carreras en 1998 * Número 95 en la lista "Los 100 Caballos de Carrera más Grandes del Siglo XX" ¡Descansa En Paz, Campeona! ¡Nunca te olvidaremos! Saludos desde Venezuela.
Man! The issue with racing is the overuse of drugs on horses that have been previously injured and it should’t happen at all but sadly to this day it keeps happening.
If I owned Go For Wand, she would NEVER have been in that Distaff. She would have been in the Classic against the boys where she would almost certainly have run a completely different race. In the Classic, she would have likely been well off a speed duel, probably 10-15 lengths back and made one run on the turn that would have been far less stressful than what she had to do in the Distaff. Whether or not she would have been able to hold off Unbridled in the Classic is irrelevant, only having to do the "Belmont Balcony" move that many horses back then used to win would not have had her chasing Bayakoa in the Distaff the way she had to. There are a number of horsemen I know who have since passed away that took to their graves the views that Go For Want would NOT have broken down had she been in the Classic. What really hurt Go For Wand was the scratch of Gorgeous. With Gorgeous out, it forced Go For Wand to go after Bayakoa, which she would never have had to do in the Classic.
I would love to think Go for Wand would have won just as much you do. But the more I think about it and the more I watch her run against a champion like bayakoa does it really matter if she wins or loses by a whisker here. Go for Wand shows competitiveness, vallor, and intestinal fortitude RARELY seen. Unfortunately those same qualities may have cost her life. TREMENDOUSLY TRAGIC
In another video related to this tragic race, a person wrote 1990 Breeder´s Cup Distaff was Go For Wand´s 13th start. Believe or not! Greetings from Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
This was the last horse race I ever watched. I did some research after, and learned racehorses are not physically mature when they are started on racing. They don’t achieve full growth until 5, sometimes 7 years of age. Breeding is practically incestuous. This means, recessive, harmful genes, such as for weak joints, are now dominant. Their bodies over the past 200 years have become bred for more muscle-but their legs are still thin, too thin. Since they start training while their bones are still soft, they’re in pain. So, they get NSAIDS, every day, if not stronger drugs. Because they are fed on our schedules, not the schedules of their bodies, they often get these NSAIDS on empty stomachs. Look at a bottle of Advil, a well known NSAID. The instructions say, to take it with food. Why? Because NSAIDS on an empty stomach cause ulcers. Necropsies of racehorses have found 50 or more ulcers. Horses are grazers-and, they move about as they graze. The movement helps their digestive system. Yet, we put them in stalls for up to 23 hours a day, where there is no room to move, and they can’t graze, because they’re fed twice a day only. Is it any wonder so many suffer from colic, which can require serious surgery-or even kill? Horses are social animals-even domestic horses, put into a pasture, will establish a pecking order, will form friendships, will spend time playing and grooming each other, or will simply stand close to each other. Horses kept penned up in stalls all day, have little to no chance to socialize with other horses. When they get on the track, if they try to socialize, they’re punished. As a result, they become neurotic, jumpy, and miserable. They weave black and forth in their stalls, they grab the edge of a door and suck on the wood. They kick the sides of their stalls in frustration. They get mean towards people, other horses, any animal who dares come near them. They become reclusive. If they make it to retirement, and actually get turned out to a pasture, they can show signs of agoraphobia. If they don’t pan out on the race track or breeding shed, they’ll probably end up on a stock truck made for cattle, with 20-50 other horses of all sizes and breeds, being shipped to a slaughterhouse in Mexico or Canada. There will be no stops for feed or water. They’ll arrive, get forced down a chute with a cattle prod, or simply by being hit with whatever long handled thing available, until they are locked into a bloody stall. If they are lucky, the person there, will stun them, loop a chain around a leg, hoist their body up, and slit their throat. If they aren’t lucky, they’ll just be hoisted up, and killed while fully conscious.
You don't fuck with two-time champion Bayakoa. l'll always take an aged mare over a filly. Go For Wand thought she was going to get one of those easy leads (..like she always had). We'll I'm here to tell ya: "she didn't this day and she paid the ultimate price". Bayakoa was absolutely "ruthless" on the lead. She asked no quarters, she gave no quarters.
europeracing And would have been beaten if GFW hadn't have suffered such a tragic injury. Bayakoa was never the same horse afterwards so i guess the tough race GFW gave her took its toll.
Yeah it didn't look broke when she was on the ground, looks like it snapped when she took her first step on it after the fall. It was probably badly fractured from the fall and her putting weight on it broke it. Poor girl. :(
YES, they give their lives for YOUR enjoyment. Really? This is not a sport!!!! This is just killing young horses for NO reason. NO horse should be ridden this hard at this age, when their bones aren't fully formed. This is disgusting and should be banned - I'm so glad to see attendance is down at this sport. Hopefully, eventing is next.
Go for Wand would’ve have been run down. Face it, Go for Wand was the better horse. Why are you laughing at the death of someone? That’s pretty sickening...
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Over 30 years later, and I still cry watching this. And my goodness, what class from the McAnallys.
Yeah I was at the race track as a kid watching the breeders cup races on tv as you could bet on both at the same time. I was more of a fan of the horses than wanting to bet on them at the time. I was so looking forward to this race. People who weren't around at that time don't understand the magnitude and anticipation of this race. It was the matchup everyone wanted to see. Bayakoa vs Go For Wand then sadly the unbelievable happens making it the saddest day in racing history and it still bothers me to this day along with Holly Bull limping off the track as he was just about to dust and blow by Cigar. After the Holly Bull injury happened I stopped watching horse racing. Seeing these greats get taken off the track and us robbed of what should have been great moments was just too depressing to keep dealing with. Horse racing now isn't a sport really either anymore. They're all now too concerned about money and retire great horses as soon as they possibly can to make money on stud
"It was the saddest day in the history of the Breeder´s Cup"
Pat Day (1953- )
Retired jockey
Tragic... Go For Wand was unyielding. What a heart of a champion 😢
Vets said her leg snapped 11 strides before she fell.
Just as she passed Ruffian's gravesite.
...chills
Undefeated, top-ranked thoroughbred, on the last day of her life.
You can see in video exactly where it happened. Momentum carried her until the damage was too great.
Hi Erin, I was thinking the very same thing, not to mention both Ruffian and GFW kept going as you said. Do you have the article where you read that about the 11 strides? Ruffian will always be my all time fav. and she still was beating that colt with 3 legs, GFW, poor girl went down, and then the horrible video of her in shock and pain trying to get away from it with a flopping leg. It seems that as soon as Bayakoa got up next to her, GFW jockey started getting into her more and I bet she dug deeper down in the track with her front hooves and those thin legs on those poor horses can only take so much. Never forgotten, beautiful fillies.. Ruffian, Go For Wand, and Eight Belles. EB had such an unusual injury, BOTH ankles having compound fractures. :( I feel so bad for each and every horse this happens to...
+Erin Fisher There's another horse buried there by Ruffian as well. His name is Timely Writer, he broke down less than half a mile from the finish line, another horse named Johnny Dance tripped over him and broke its leg resulting in his death as well. He died 6yrs and 3months after Ruffian & 8yrs before Go For Wand (same month as GFW).
Buffyjosmom timely writer was such a good horse. Uncle mo won a stakes in honor of him at gulfstream
Im sorry Maple leaf mel that your life had to end the same way as Go for wand RIP both of them
25 years after I watched this race live, I still remember it like the day it happened. The call was great, the race was even better!
The second biggest tragedy, that day, was that I didn't get to see who would win that amazing race!
Upon review, I would give it to Go for Wand.
What a race!!!!
It seems that it was yesterday, Mister Sawsaloo! A spectacular finish between two great mares was owershadowed by tragedy. In another video related to this race, a person wrote that 1990 Breeder´s Cup Distaff was Go for Wand´s 13th start. Believe it or not! Greetings from Venezuela and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016.
This race ruined horse racing for me in a way. I used to loved it and followed it closely in the mid 1980’s when I was in my early 20’s. I remember I was really pumped and confident Go For Wand would win this race. This was so heartbreaking. Sadly, I think this was when I started to lose interest in the sport and eventually almost completely stopped following it.
Thoroughbred racing's darkest day. The courageous filly was the top-ranked horse on Breeder's Cup Day - the last day of her life.
I was in tears 😭 when I 1st saw this..and I am now . I truly love horses. But when I see things like this it breaks my heart 💔
A few days after this race Sports Illustrate came out with their issue to vote for the athlete of the year.i felt then and feel the same today that the vote should of gone to Go For Wand, she paid the price above all prices. Some may say she was just an animal, that's true but she was also a great athlete.
"To be a jockey is to be an athlete"
Virgilio Decan "Aly Khan"
(July 13, 1931 - )
Venezuelan retired horse racing caller.
"I´m very sick, but I haven´t give up. I know God is going to be with me no matter what. And I know prayers help"
Randy Romero
(December 22, 1957 - August 29, 2019)
Probably those were the last words Randy Paul Romero told to the press last June when he was in a hospice care victim of a cancer. And undoubtedly he proved to us to be an exceptional athlete and a very courageous man. Romero suffered an estimated of 25 fractures in racing accidents, but he returned to the track with the same enthusiasm. Now he is in a place where there is no pain and suffering. God bless him! My condolences to his family and his friends from Venezuela.
"Ser jinete es ser atleta"
Virgilio Decán "Aly Khan"
(13 de Julio 1931 - )
Ex narrador hípico venezolano
"Estoy muy enfermo, pero no me he rendido. Se que Dios está conmigo sin importar mi condición. Y se que las oraciones ayudan"
Randy Romero
(22 Diciembre 1957 - 29 Agosto 2019)
Probablemente esas fueron las últimas palabras que Randy Paul Romero dijo a la prensa en Junio pasado cuando estaba hospitalizado víctima de un cáncer. E indudablemente él nos demostró ser un atleta excepcional y un hombre muy valiente. Romero sufrió unas 25 fracturas en accidentes de pista, pero siempre volvió a montar con el mismo entusiasmo ¡Dios lo bendiga! Mis condolencias a su familia y amigos desde Venezuela.
Saddest race I watched live in my lifetime.....RIP Go For Wand and later Randy Romero..........
I still get sick after all these years. It was a match race. She literally ran her heart out. For some reason when I see this I flashback to Ruffian.Bayakoa a special horse.
I was around GO for Wand that winter at Gulfstream...she was a kind, beautiful filly...all class
You know Go For Wand was coming back on and was going to win that race until she brokedown...she was younger then Bayakoa and had a heart as big as the racetrack,I will never forget what a great champion she was.
Norm Vance Bayakoa was better the year before, was giving weight and running on go for wands home track. everything was against Bayakoa before the tragedy.
Norm Vance 5
You also have to wonder about running into the shadow cloaked stretch was tough on the equine eyes, compare to another race and another duel where the outside horse leaped over the high contrast shadow. Something to also consider.
Yes
Ruffian and Go for Wand were two superb fillies gone way to soon.
Landaluce as well,didn't happen on track,thank God.An absolute next generation clone of Seattle Slew in 2yo filly's body
Eight Belles belongs here with Go for Wand and Ruffian. Great horses gone too soon. RIP
Also Landaluce but that wasn't in a race.
And now they're apparently considering burying Maple Leaf Mel alongside this remarkable filly. 💔
"It was a dogfight from the time they left the gate. It was a pretty incredible race until she (Go for Wand) hurt"
Billy Badget, Go for Wand's trainer
GFW should NEVER have been in that Distaff. If I owned her, she would have been in the Classic.
@@WaltGekko
Go for Wand
(April 6, 1987 - October 27, 1990)
* Sire: Deputy Minister
* Grandsire: Vice Regent
* Dam: Obeah
* Damsire: Cyane
* Breeder: Christiana Stables
* Owner: Christiana Stables
* Trainer: William Badget Jr.
* 13 Starts
* 10 Wins
* 2 Seconds
* 0 Thirds
* $ 1,373,338
* 1989 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly
* 1990 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly
* Number 72 The Blood Horse Magazine "100 Top U.S. Racehorses of the 20th. Century" List
* Inducted to The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1996
Rest In Peace, Champion!
We´ll always remember you!
Regards from Venezuela.
I loved Bayakoa, and did not want to see her lose...but every time I see this race, I cannot see her getting past Go For Wand had she not fell. Billy Badget and Randy Romero had a gutsy gameplan - they knew not to give Bayakoa a lead and then try to run her down in the stretch, so they took the fight to her. Splits of 23:2, 23, and 24, against a champion mare, neither giving an inch. This was a very sad day for racing, with Mr. Nickerson and Go For Wand losing their lives on the track that day.
In another video related to this tragic race, a person wrote that 1990 Breeder´s Cup Distaff was Go For Wand´s 13th start. Believe or not! Greetings from Venezuela and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016
Bassman968 as zenyatta showed with blame, it's hard to beat a champion on their home track. I really doubt Bayakoa would have been challenged at Hollywood Park
Shaker Knit also ended up having to be euthanized in the accident with Mr. Nickerson. The BC, in the beginning years, always had the sprint first and there was always some tragedy, so they switched it up. Would like to see more racing on grass, easier on their bodies, also not run them so young, let the bones have a chance to grow. Go For Wand was run at age 2, and as stated on here, this was already her 13th race.. she could have perhaps already had a problem and the digging down in the stretch was enough to break her leg that bad. :(
@@dariabigblock73 Actually, the first three years the Juvenile and Juvenile Fillies were the first two events. NBC wanted the Juvenile later because of the aspects of the Kentucky Derby.
I remember watching at my grandparents house
Ron McAnally, entrenador de Bayakoa dijo, palabras más palabras menos
"No me gusta ganar así. No tengo nada que celebrar"
I wondered if what happened to Go For Wand out on the track had an effect on Bayakoa as she was never the same after this. When she came back she lost all of her races badly and had one second place finish then was retired.
wow
No
No. Animals don't think like that. Bayakoa was 6. Still a young horse, but she had been racing. It was time for her body to say time's up. Time to go make babies. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 I don't know about that. I've seen horses perform really well but then get beat down finally by someone better and then they never raced the same again after that. Like their confidence got shot like with a boxer retires once he gets beat or a MMA fighter goes on a losing streak once he loses one match.
"Fue como una pelea de perros desde el momento que se abrieron las puertas. Era una carrera bella e increíble hasta que ella (Go for Wand) se lesionó"
Billy Badget, entrenador de Go for Wand
Only if Go For Wand had less heart, she would have lived...
In an alternate world she gives way in the deep stretch and bounces back the following season to become a champion.
What do you mean "less heart"?
@@koniczka2000 Basically slowing down mid-stretch instead of going beyond her physical capabilities
@@DanielSong39 I don't really understand
such a sad thing when she broke down reminded me of Ruffian
jennifur sun craziest part is go for wand broke her leg right where ruffian is buried (which is inside Belmont Park if you didn’t know)
@@phxmaster9684 Ruffian has since been moved to Kentucky Horse Park's cemetary. (Jan Griffiths).
So tragic and sad, "Go For Wand" gave everything she had to win!!! She left her life on the track. RIP "Go For Wand". 😢
I just can't see this two of racings greatest fillies in a deadly duo Bayakoa won't let go of Go Fo Wand but Go Fo Wand won't let Bayakoa pass her and then GFW breaks down its so sad she is my favorite race horse and such a champion . I really like Bayakoa too but I think Go For Wand would of won in a photo finish or by a nose because Bayakoa didn't quit have it and GFW was pulling away before she went down ! I will always love both of them R.I.P to two of racings greatest fillies !!
If she had been mine, GFW would have been in the Classic, staying away from Bayakoa at all costs.
Bayakoa translates to Fearless bay. That was one tough mare.
Bayakoa later was mated to Broad Brush. which resulted in Arlucea. Arlucea late produced Fort Larned, the 2012 champion of throughbred racing's fourth leg of the Grand Slam (the Breeder's Cup Classic). He produced a wire-to-wire victory at Santa Anita when he won the Classic. Both horses had the same owner.
There is a Bayakoa Stakes at Oaklawn and a Bayakoa Handicap at Del Mar. There is also in New York a Go For Wand Handicap and a Go For Wand Stakes in Delaware. Both horses have their names importalised in races.
The commercial at the end...
This was a dark day with this and Mr. Nickerson going down earlier along with Shaker Knit in the sprint.
Shaker Knit tripped over Mr Nickerson, who fell due to a heart attack, if I remember correctly
@@LauraAdams578 Yes that is right.
The great sprinter Mr. Nickerson (from Parx) also died that day. I remember it well.
And Shaker Knit, he tripped over the stricken Mr. Nickerson
@@LauraAdams578 Mr. Nickerson was a monster at Philadelphia Park (now Parx), and his trainer, Mark J. Reid, was like an ATM for me when I liked his horses.
Laffit Pincay was probably the best finisher ever, but I don’t think he gets by GFW that day, 2 great jockeys and 2 amazing fillies, such a shame remember it like yesterday......
more post race of 1990 breeders cup distaff please with the trophy presentation?
Just a question. Who was it at the end Crying and hugging that woman?
Wife of Go for Wand’s trainer
His name is Billy Badgett. The woman is Rosemary, his wife of three weeks at the time, who was Go for Wand's exercise rider.
If you look closely you can see it unfolding 5 seconds before the fatal fall. At 2.45 to 2.46 all hope is lost. The jock is lucky to be alive..and for animal lovers this is a noble way to die. People act like life lives forever...life is a blink. I always wondered why people buy huge grave stones, after 100 years nobody will ever visit it anyways. I guess even in death people like flaunting there money.
Now I’m wasn’t expecting that hate to see a champion horse like that break a leg sickening.
Sickening
Go for wand would have won. This is sickening
This is very hard to watch. Two great horses dueling down the stretch--what more does a race fan want? Very sad it had to end this way. Nice tribute to Go For Wand if you Google "Remembering Wanda by Barbara Livingston".
This sport n I s so sickening sometimes.
The Go For Wand Stakes will now be run at one mile and 96.36 yards...
Go for wand never would have been beat. Fillies are so game and don’t allow themselves to get beat
i would have loved to have seen that match up that was one hell of a race until she fell
I was there. Believe me...you are glad you weren't.
Awful! This should have gone down in history as one of the great duels. Thanks for posting it un-edited
Bayakoa
(October 10, 1984 - June 14, 1997)
* Sire: Consultants Bid
* Grandsire: Bold Bider
* Dam: Arlucea (Arg)
* Damsire: Good Manners
* Breeder: Haras Principal (Argentina)
* Owner: Janis & Frank Whitman
* Trainer: Ron McAnally
* 39 Starts
* 21 Firsts
* 9 Seconds
* 0 Thirds
* $ 2,861,701 earned
* 1989 & 1990 American Champion Older Female Horse
* Inducted to The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1998
* Number 95 The Blood Horse Magazine "Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th. Century" List
Rest In Peace, Champion!
We´ll never forget you!
Regards from Venezuela.
Bayakoa
(10 de Octubre, 1984 - 14 de Junio, 1997)
* Padre: Consultants Bid
* Abuelo paterno: Bold Bider
* Madre: Arlucea (Arg)
* Abuelo materno: Good Manners
* Criador: Haras Principal (Argentina)
* Propietario: Janis & Frank Whitman
* Entrenador: Ron McAnally
* 39 Salidas
* 21 Primeros
* 9 Segundos
* 0 Terceros
* $ 2,861,701 earned
* Yegua Campeona Madura en Estados Unidos1989 & 1990
* Exaltada al Salón de la Fama y Museo Nacional de las Carreras en 1998
* Número 95 en la lista "Los 100 Caballos de Carrera más Grandes del Siglo XX"
¡Descansa En Paz, Campeona!
¡Nunca te olvidaremos!
Saludos desde Venezuela.
I just saw something on the headon shot,it looked like GFWcane out just a bit and her leg hit Bayakoa's
2:49 They have both with-OH! And a tragedy! As Go for Wand has fallen at the sixteenth pole!
It still tears me up to watch this
I was there, & I still cringe when I watch this video, almost 30 yrs later. BB just came back from his honeymoon from Jamaica
pmksl tree huggers i'm one of them :)
The saddest day in racing
can you upload the 1990 breeders cup classic 1990 breeders cup juvenile fillies and 1990 breeders cup mile?
Some one eluded tothe reason ruffian brome down was be ause of her pedigree. Go for wand had thesame grandsire as her northern dancer
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She would had won the race. The stress of running against an older champion was too much of a strain.
she was nudging the front at the wire tho..
Man! The issue with racing is the overuse of drugs on horses that have been previously injured and it should’t happen at all but sadly to this day it keeps happening.
Too sad to see this
no surrender in either girl
It was a sad day for racing
"Fue el día más triste en la historia de la Copa de Criadores"
Pat Day (1953 - )
Jinete retirado.
Saludos desde Venezuela.
Very sad...Go For Wand was going to Win this Race
Crazy how both injured jockeys are No longer with us .
Stupid putting a young filly like Go For Wand against a Champion like Bayakoa. Sad for sure.
That change horse racing
Only read the comments. I just can't watch this race
that sucks big time
If I owned Go For Wand, she would NEVER have been in that Distaff. She would have been in the Classic against the boys where she would almost certainly have run a completely different race.
In the Classic, she would have likely been well off a speed duel, probably 10-15 lengths back and made one run on the turn that would have been far less stressful than what she had to do in the Distaff. Whether or not she would have been able to hold off Unbridled in the Classic is irrelevant, only having to do the "Belmont Balcony" move that many horses back then used to win would not have had her chasing Bayakoa in the Distaff the way she had to. There are a number of horsemen I know who have since passed away that took to their graves the views that Go For Want would NOT have broken down had she been in the Classic.
What really hurt Go For Wand was the scratch of Gorgeous. With Gorgeous out, it forced Go For Wand to go after Bayakoa, which she would never have had to do in the Classic.
I hope jockey recover , also wish that horse can live on
she would've won the race too..
The worst thing I've ever seen in 35 years of watching thoroughbred racing. She was the third equine fatality that afternoon.
I would love to think Go for Wand would have won just as much you do. But the more I think about it and the more I watch her run against a champion like bayakoa does it really matter if she wins or loses by a whisker here. Go for Wand shows competitiveness, vallor, and intestinal fortitude RARELY seen. Unfortunately those same qualities may have cost her life. TREMENDOUSLY TRAGIC
In another video related to this tragic race, a person wrote 1990 Breeder´s Cup Distaff was Go For Wand´s 13th start. Believe or not!
Greetings from Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
Cruel sport!
Horrid
This was the last horse race I ever watched. I did some research after, and learned racehorses are not physically mature when they are started on racing. They don’t achieve full growth until 5, sometimes 7 years of age. Breeding is practically incestuous. This means, recessive, harmful genes, such as for weak joints, are now dominant. Their bodies over the past 200 years have become bred for more muscle-but their legs are still thin, too thin. Since they start training while their bones are still soft, they’re in pain. So, they get NSAIDS, every day, if not stronger drugs. Because they are fed on our schedules, not the schedules of their bodies, they often get these NSAIDS on empty stomachs. Look at a bottle of Advil, a well known NSAID. The instructions say, to take it with food. Why? Because NSAIDS on an empty stomach cause ulcers. Necropsies of racehorses have found 50 or more ulcers. Horses are grazers-and, they move about as they graze. The movement helps their digestive system. Yet, we put them in stalls for up to 23 hours a day, where there is no room to move, and they can’t graze, because they’re fed twice a day only. Is it any wonder so many suffer from colic, which can require serious surgery-or even kill? Horses are social animals-even domestic horses, put into a pasture, will establish a pecking order, will form friendships, will spend time playing and grooming each other, or will simply stand close to each other. Horses kept penned up in stalls all day, have little to no chance to socialize with other horses. When they get on the track, if they try to socialize, they’re punished. As a result, they become neurotic, jumpy, and miserable. They weave black and forth in their stalls, they grab the edge of a door and suck on the wood. They kick the sides of their stalls in frustration. They get mean towards people, other horses, any animal who dares come near them. They become reclusive. If they make it to retirement, and actually get turned out to a pasture, they can show signs of agoraphobia.
If they don’t pan out on the race track or breeding shed, they’ll probably end up on a stock truck made for cattle, with 20-50 other horses of all sizes and breeds, being shipped to a slaughterhouse in Mexico or Canada. There will be no stops for feed or water. They’ll arrive, get forced down a chute with a cattle prod, or simply by being hit with whatever long handled thing available, until they are locked into a bloody stall. If they are lucky, the person there, will stun them, loop a chain around a leg, hoist their body up, and slit their throat. If they aren’t lucky, they’ll just be hoisted up, and killed while fully conscious.
You don't fuck with two-time champion Bayakoa. l'll always take an aged mare over a filly. Go For Wand thought she was going to get one of those easy leads (..like she always had). We'll I'm here to tell ya: "she didn't this day and she paid the ultimate price". Bayakoa was absolutely "ruthless" on the lead. She asked no quarters, she gave no quarters.
europeracing And would have been beaten if GFW hadn't have suffered such a tragic injury. Bayakoa was never the same horse afterwards so i guess the tough race GFW gave her took its toll.
Bayakoa didn’t change leads yet, she had more left. She’d have won
The fuck is wrong with you?
she would’ve won
Does she broke her leg after she stood up? Couse it looks like it
Yeah it didn't look broke when she was on the ground, looks like it snapped when she took her first step on it after the fall. It was probably badly fractured from the fall and her putting weight on it broke it. Poor girl. :(
@@OfficialMuffiin Yeah, you're probably right :(
@@OfficialMuffiin By the way, what caused her fall?
@@koniczka2000 she fractured her right front leg.
The fuck you think happened?
@@boswindle9050
1. Date.
2. I haven't asked which leg.
3. Learn to read and understand.
4. There's no place for aggressiveness.
West Coast beats East Coast.
YES, they give their lives for YOUR enjoyment. Really? This is not a sport!!!! This is just killing young horses for NO reason. NO horse should be ridden this hard at this age, when their bones aren't fully formed. This is disgusting and should be banned - I'm so glad to see attendance is down at this sport. Hopefully, eventing is next.
Shut up! 🤡
Terrible quality, unwatchable
Tampaslice it's from 1990 !!
I laugh everytime I see this. Bayakoa buried her (literally).
If you laugh watching this, means that you don't have heart.
You are a sick person. Go for wand was not letting her by
Go for Wand would’ve have been run down. Face it, Go for Wand was the better horse. Why are you laughing at the death of someone? That’s pretty sickening...
@@monomoygirl9562 we disagree on some stuff about horse racing but this isn't one of those time.
Agree totally with qhat you said.
oh, honey, there were less wordy ways for you to announce the world that you are an absolute piece of garbage.