Sam should have yelled at Paul to get that whip working... drawing out. The Beach crushes Art Official but someone forgot he was carrying a whip coming to the tape.
This is Sam McKee's Greatest Ever Race Call. I worked with him in the 90's at the old Detroit Racecourse and we had quite a lot of fun back in those days. He suffered a massive stroke a month ago and has had some issues trying to recover.
And contrary to the negative narrative, the drive was perfect. Art Official looked to be giving up the lead down the backside, and the Beach would have slingshot by and opened up by 10, as Art Official got backed through the field. Just a fluke that Art Official was drugged up, and was basically push button the whole race. Art Official stopped and started on command, and looked nothing like a normal horse, when looking at his gate and how he carried his speed. If Art Official had quit like he would have without the gas, then the Beach wins by daylight and it is remembered as a dominating performance. The loss actually helped the legacy, in an odd way.
Macdonell forgot to use the whip coming to the tape or he might have won by a nose instead of lost by a nose. They always say if a horse isn't whipped add five full lengths to what the horse could have run or subtract one full second from his time. Macdonell fell asleep as usual coming to the tape and didn't whip the horse.
Bulldog was parked the entire mile and won by 6 lengths not too long ago and why? Because that took that bum Jody Jamieson off him and put Dexter Dunn on him. The same would have been true with Somebeachsomehwere even parking 3 wide in a 51:4 half he would have won by ten lengths with Ron Waples senior aboard instead of that bum Paul MacDonell.
I don't know enough about current harness racing to know why Meadowlands is not prestigious anymore but am curious to understand? I'm hoping someone will have something to say about this. Thanks
Art Official had to break a world record to defeat SomeBeachSomewhere. It was the only way he loses this race. Sam McKee called a great race. If you had to pick a harness race to show someone for the very first time, this would be it.
Im pretty sure Macdonell would of took a different approach that race if he could, but instead we got to enjoy one of the greatest races this decade. Somebeachsomewhere definitely a beast that was brought down on a tough trip.
Sam McKee did the races in Toledo , Ohio at Raceway Park . There was a cheap Pacer there by the name of Suzy's Quack . When he called the race he would Quack instead of calling the name . Then he went to DRC , then the Meadowlands . Light-years away from Toledo .
Greatest win of the career for Art Official , Somebeachsomewhere used very hard and just beat by a narrow margin , Ron Pierce is a great driver ,Kudos to you my friend , but you were very lucky to win this race > Somebeachsomewhere is one of the top 3 pacers of all time...... Niatross and Nihilator being the other horses to round out the top 3 . Race of the decade.....perhaps....... The Beach is still my number one harness horse of all time....... been betting at the Meadowlands since 1980..... so there's that .
@@pugskins I saw most of Cam Fellas races at the Meadowlands , was not really impressed with him , trainer driver Pat Crowe did a great job with Cam , and he did win a lot of races in a row , but he was not winning against top notch competition .
Paul Macdonnell drove somebeachsomewhere every start of his career and only had one loss and it took a horrible trip to beat the beach! Paul Macdonnell did a masterful job driving the beach!
Like hell he did. Macdonnell got better at driving as the years went on but at the time he would have been ranked an average driver at both Greenwood and Mohawk.
@XxSodano We call it a lugging pole. Only a small proportion of ANZ horses use them. I've never used one. I notice that Mr Feelgood normally wears one on the big tracks but not on the 1/2m tracks.
@XxSodano On another matter... I tried to buy a yearling colt last month by Somebeachsomewhere. He ended up the sales topper. I had guarentee for $60K & he went for 90. I didn't think he was that nice. Are there any of his progeny racing yet in the US?
@XxSodano If you knew the track like I do you would know why it was so impressive. They ran the back straight in 28.2 & the half in 56.5. I've timed him to run his past half mile in 55.4 seconds... 4-5 wide. The apex on the corner at Gloucester park is surprisingly sharp. The camber is perfect but once you get out in the car-park you either need to be on something very quick or the leaders need to be very tired. The horse that ran 2nd is a G1 winner & had a nice run off the pace.
@XxSodano Have you seen the Interdominion final from last night? Try comparing them... from an entertainment POV. Especially when you have a couple of grand riding on the winner ;)
@bgardiner2000 Yes i did, an australian version of the harmer advantEDGE race bike, we've almost outdated those, we now almost primarily use UFOs and SPYDER bikes.
People who say that SBSW should've gunned to the top just don't know horse racing. The most damaging 1/4 in racing is the first mile if one is gunned out and parked. Very few horses could sustain effort after that. One I could think of was Cam Fella. So I think Macdonell was trying to get a middling first 1/4 before he gunned to the top but he was what Pierce and Gingras were up to and went for the lead right away.
Art Official got hung to a 26 quarter, then hung 2 horses to a 51:4 half, yields after the half, then comes back to win, and you call that a perfect trip? Really??!!
@@mitchellbaker9434 Driver Ron Pierce drove him against the way the trainer wanted him to run. Instead of laying back as he normally did, he took a shot at running with him, taking a page out of the playbook the French used when Une de Mai ran Nevele Pride down by pressing the pace the whole trip. Not trying to take anything away from any horse but if a horse hasn't got at least 3 moves they don't belong in FFA company and that's exactly how many moves Art Official used. The minimum for that class!
Aileen , it was a legitimate question ! Was he disqualified or not ? He set some pretty tough fractions and Mac didn't need to go three wide , he could of sat with cover and used that burst in the lane .
@@timothyantoine5321 Sorry. I was actually responding to the several people who were trying SO hard to trash Paul MacDonnell. With him, The Beach won 20 of 21 starts, broke track records and made 3+ million dollars.
Why is the European way of racing better than the American? 1. The drivers in general have a vision of a long career for the horse they drive. The whip is a tool, not a thing they go crazy with in every race to try to take out everything the horse can give. 2. They use cover when they are racing on the outside (2nd wide) and try to avoid being first on the outside (death position we call it). 3. If they get packed in on the outside, its likely they can get an opening anyway (especially on a mile track). If the opening doesnt come, they know they have a horse that is ready for a new hard race the next time. 4. They drive fast the opening 500m, slower the next 1000m, and then faster the last 600m. This gives the horses in the backpack of the field a chance to make a move to the front and take place in the death position/challenge for the lead, and the one that has this position can choose to defend or not defend. This is also a big factor in betting, if you are able to read the tactical aspect of the race. In the US they race almost on full speed the whole race, and there is minimal tactical aspect. This has a negative impact on how willing people are to bet on the races. Which by the way is going to increase if there is more interesting racing. Maybe Jeff Gural is the man, atleast he has a very good vision for US racings future. But when it comes to Somebeachsomewhere. Undoubtly one of the biggest talent in harness racing of all time. The problem is that when you become a sire after the three year old season, the sport loses a superstar. This is dramatic for the interest of the sport. Horses like Somebeachsomewhere, Muscle Hill, Donato Hanover and Chapter Seven (just to take the last 6-7 years) had potential to bring the sport some big names. Names that are famous outside of the harness racing. If you take a look at some European horses that is common to know the name of in Europe, Sweden has a couple that most people know. Victory Tilly and Maharajah. Legends, that raced till they were 9-10 years. Italy has a landmark in Varenne. They are actually planning to make a big budget movie about this horse in the next year, which will be in worldwide cinema. This is what american harness racing lacks. And what the supertalents Muscle Hill and Somebeachsomewhere never got to be. The superstars they were ment to be. Recordbreakers!
@XxSodano Remember, that last half was run at the end of 2506m. The lead time was run in 1:06.4...for 906m. That is very fast. Saying that though neither Mr Feelgood or Auckland Reactor had difficult runs, but both were showing the effects of their heat performances (3 races in 14 days - 1700, 2100, 2500). ITMQ beats them both by about 15m... after getting a 9m head start. There's no horse in world who could have done what he did.
Another couple of points: one, why did Gingras go by the 3 hole? He could've had a good trip. If the trainer wasn't in on the gaff, Gingras would never drive for him again. And second, watch Gingras at the 1/2 as he's backing up...he looks over to Pierce and says something to him. No, it was all cooked up...
IF DON PIERCE WAS STILL A LIVE HE BE SO PROUD OF HIS SON RON WINNING THE HAMBO AND THE MEADOWLANDPACE HAS WELL HAS RON FIRST BOSS WHEN HE LEFT HOME IN ERNIE SPRUCE
Are you kidding Howard? ANYONE could have driven The Beach. He is one of the greatest horses ever, probably the greatest. It took a absolutely horrendous drive to get him beat.
+redbowtiej You've got that right. While there were worst drivers at Greenwood Racetrack Macdonell was one of the worst. I remember Randy Waples when he first started driving he was horseshit. Everyone always told him to take notes when his old man Ronny drove and everyone said you're a Waples aren't you? Eventually the Waples bloodlines came through and the fucker was the top driver.
+parkerbohnn Waples Jr. is topnotch now. Poppa was great, too; but he always had Strauss ride shotgun for him...much like Brownie and Wall. The best driver I ever saw was Ron Feagan.
@@peterstark9484 Old Strauss the louse. That's about all Tom was good for. I was only a teenager when Feagan drove. I didn't understand the sport that well at the time as I was always drunk everyday. I use to play pinball and drink all day at the Orchard Park Tavern across the street from Greenwood then go to the races and then come back and drive at the bar. The racetrack also had pinball machines.
@@parkerbohnn again. Such a hater, resorting to repeated insults, vulgar language. Here you even describe yourself as " would drink all day" and became pinball champion. Such grand accomplishments! Rage and envy blast out of every comment you made. I doubt that you ever touched a racehorse. Paul MacDonnell driving The Beach won 20 out of 21 starts. Why/how then, does anyone keep calling him an "inferior" driver???
@@aileen694 I was 6 time world pinball champion. All I did for 40 years was play pinball 12 yours a day and drink all day and play pinball at Greenwood racetrack and play pinball and drink across the street at the Orchard Park Tavern. Macdonell was a below average driver at Greenwood at the time and should have never been allowed to drive a horse the caliber of Somebeachsomewhere. It was the same story with Bulldog Hanover who I touted as the next great horse after only two races as a two year old. Jamieson was almost as bad as his old man when it came to driving horses. Then when Jack put Dexter Dunn in the sulky the horse broke the all time record for the fastest mile ever. I also told everyone about Sylvia Hanover being a world champion after her very first lifetime race. It's all on Woodbine Replays in the comments section.
What you've got to know is that the frenchman, Gingras, had boasted that he would get 'the big horse beat', so if Macdonnel had taken back, Gingras would've just sat on the outside while Art Official goes a soft 3/4. Macdonell had no choice but to try to circle him, but if I were the owners I would've decked Gingras after the race. Macdonell did nothing wrong: they just ganged up on the horse to get him beat by 1/2 a head.
saveus228 Obviously, you don't really know much about driving horses. You never 'wind' a horse in the first 1/4; and anyway, if he had left in 25, Pierce would've ground around him and then let Gingras go and re-pulled leaving Macdonell sitting 3rd and at the mercy of the pace. As it was, Gingras force the 119 three quarters and then promptly just hung out there to send Beach 3 wide. The whole thing was cooked up by Gingras + Pierce and the trainers. Shameful.
Peter Stark Once again You really don't seem to understand the racing concept here. If MacDonell was tucked in and they could get him boxed in then yes back the whole mile off and keep SBSW boxed in. That is not at all anywhere close to what went on here. SBSW was sitting second over and no other horse was close to being 3rd over (who could potentially swing 3 wide and box him in on the outside). He was getting a perfect trip. It would be a dumb move to back the pace off with SBSW sitting perfectly with cover! Why you might ask? Well simply put, in every race he ever raced in SBSW had/has an incredible burst of speed that none of the other horses could match so if they had backed off the race either 1. Bullville Powerful doesn't back off and goes to front (that's assuming he is not trying to "set up" the race as you claim) and then after he clears SBSW just goes by and wins. Senerio 2. Pierce backs off and for some crazy reason (let's once again BP sits just on outside, fixing race). MacDonell (well ok a top notch driver) smiles all the way around the track, sits covered up, and waits until they hit the top of the long Meadowlands stretch, then tips him 3 wide and not only does he win but he pulls away with his burst of speed. If at any time in the race they backed it off too much and horses from the back started coming, then MacDonell could have pulled 3 wide, but giving that situation they were backing off and his burst would have allowed him to quickly clear and he definitely still wins and probably still pulls away. Reality. MacDonell pulls the horse 3 wide when they are going to a half in 51.4. Watch the race, how fast did SBSW come his second quarter, he gained several lengths, was 3 wide still cleared. He used his top speed and kicker burst and the worst possible spot in the race and for no reason. You need to really start viewing the race accurately and seeing that MacDonell gave the horse a terrible drive (like I said before worst drive of century). To further aid about how bad this drive was, I will point out, if you have a horse that can leave like SBSW could and for some unknown reason you are going to go the half in 51 and change and you have the 2 hold starting out you would burst of the gate not sit back and then come 3 wide. The problem was MacDonell is not in their caliber of drivers, he had no idea what to really do, decided to float off the gate and then decide his gameplan. Stupid. Great drivers don't do that, or to correct myself, great drivers don't do that when they have the best horse in the race (and in this case probably ever), THEY MAKE OTHERS ADJUST TO THEIR GAMEPLAN!
+Peter Stark Fact is if a real driver had of been on him even with the 3 wide move The Beach would have been drawing out in the stretch at least one second or 5 lengths faster.
+Peter Stark The Beach needed "Dirty" Dougy Brown. Brown would brown your underwear by stiffing anything especially when he used to drive up in Orangeville. He stiffed every 1 to 9 shot that I can remember in Orangeville. But he'd always go with the moose in the big races.
Sam McKee was the voice of Raceway Park when cutting his teeth , I still remember his call of Suzie's Quack . Iam guessing almost 40 years ago . Anyone remember ?
Gingras had said before that he 'was gonna get the big horse beat'. He certainly did that. He left the gate with that longshot and could've dropped in 3rd and probably gotten 3rd place money which was probably still worth about $100,000. Instead, he ran on the outside to force Somebeachsomewhere 3 wide. In forty years of watching races, that was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen...
redbowtiej You are wrong. Watch the race. Gingras drives past the 3 hole. Then he makes as if to go around Art Official; goes halfway around; and stops driving the horse. Now Macdonnel had a choice to let Gingras back into him or to go 3 wide. He did what he had to. As it was, with the two top drivers conspiring against him, the Beach only got beat by a head. But like I said, the owner or trainer of the Beach should've gotten his baseball bat...
+redbowtiej That was commonplace for the fuckin' Macdonell. I always ribbed the fucker his entire racing career. Didn't always make it to Mohawk but always gave him shit at Greenwood.
@XxSodano There's a really good Australian harness racing web-site... Search Australian Harness Racing... it's a ".org" site. go to Racing --> video replays. The race you are looking for is race 7 at Gloucester Park. Be interested to hear what you think of the spectacle. If you look carefully you'll see me celebrating near the winning post after a very good pick up.
@@byrd5163 I watched Macdonell drive at Greenwood from his very first race. Later on a few years later his friends from the paddock use to bet a lot of money and Paul would just shit his pants whilst bringing out the horse. Macdonell could never drive worth a shit until about a decade later when he got better. He did take a shot at Venerable in the Mohawk Million last year with Duly Resolved.
Perhaps Macdonnell could have gotten The Beach out faster off the gate to avoid going 3-wide down the backstretch. But you can't take anything away from Art Official who turned in the race of a lifetime at 1:47 flat and beat just this once the unbeatable horse.
+21hotshot If you've seen some of the greats, you'd know that some of them just did not have great gate speed. Cam's Fella, Justin Passing, SBSW and others didn't have great gate speed, or, they performed less well if they were parked the 1st quarter in 26. They could all grind a great 3/4 from the 1/4 on, though.
Wrong. It took a fluke to beat him. THe other worse was inches away from clearing to the front and Beach would have slingshotted past and opened up 10 while Art Official backed through the field. Macdonnel drove correctly.
ART OFFICIAL 147 BEACH ONLY LOSS IN IS CAREAR GOOD FOR J0E SEEKMAN AND RON PIERCE RON IS HARD MAN TO BEAT IN THE BIG MONEY RACE UNCLE ERNIIE SPRUCE WILL BE SO PROUD AND DAD DON UP IN HEAVEN WILL HAVE BIG SMILE ON HIS FACE
Parker-turkey....Go back and watch the $50.000 race at the Meadowlands--I don't know the date but it's on utube. Art is from the rail. SBSW grinds to the lead in a first 1/4 of 26.4. From the 1/2, Art Official pulled to go at him. He collapsed in the stretch to lose by 6 lengths. Art was never in the same class. In the Meadowlands, they ganged up on the Beach and, as I said before, the Art must've been drugged to the gills.
Somebeachsomewhere was the best racehorse of all time. Macdonell is a great driver. Has sure hands. He drifted out in that race as he was supposed to. What starts to look bad to me right away was that Gingras went past the 2-hole for no reason. At that point, Macdonell was way behind and he didn't know if he was coming or not so that he just gave up a 2-hole trip to challenge for the lead. Suspicious, no?
+Peter Stark Macdonnell couldn't drive a shit wagon. He was only a marginally better driver than Pat Crowe who drove Cam Fella. I knew all the sulky drivers I used to drink across the street at the bar with many of them. Randy Waples used to drink across the street at the Orchard Park tavern. I was the reigning world pinball champion for many of those years. I played anyone in Toronto for beers drinks or the cash one ball against 3 on any machine. One ball against 5 on the older machines.
@@aileen694 My grandfather owned prized thoroughbreds at Old Woodbine in Toronto Canada during the Great Depression. He made sure the top jockeys rode them. No bums aboard.
Not a bad drive by any means....and not even close to being the best horse in the history of the sport. I’m a major fan of the Beach, (and a fan of Big Mac), but he’s probably the most OVERRATED horse of all time. He was a super star.....but by no stretch of the imagination the best horse in history. That title would go to Niatross.
+Peter Stark MacDonell is an average driver at best. He only drove the horse as he is friends with Brent. I can't think of any top driver that would have made the dumbass move to send a horse 3 wide when they hit the half in 51 and 4. It's one of the fastest half miles in history and he tips 3 wide. Experienced drivers would have had their watch on and realized how fast they were going and would know that Bullville Powerful would fade and then he could go 3 wide or clear and then he just goers on by. There was no need to go 3 wide with the fractions or worrying about getting boxed in as no one else was near. You make a valid point that the race was screwed up by Bullville Powerful. His owners dumped 100K to get him in and they probably send send him at all costs. Pierce did it perfect (unlike MacDonell) in that he was not letting the other horse get the lead and was going to keep him hung out for as long as he could. Pierce admitted that they needed to have things go wrong and get a break to beat SBSW. Never in a million years do I think he thought MacDonell would tip 3 wide going in 51.4 but he was sure going to take advantage of his stupidity. (if you didn't know the relationship between MacDonell and Brent McGrath you would be able to make a better argument that maybe MacDonell set the race up and had a ton of money on Art Official to win and exotic bets as well - not the case but better argument than the one you are making with people). This has been called the race of the decade (and deservedly so) but it more appropriately should be called "The dumbest drive of the century!!" It is a real shame that the horse has to have his record tarnished because of human error.
+Trevor Otterson Wrong. Watch the race carefully. Gingras stopped pushing the horse before the 1/2 and was backing into SBSW. Macdonell had no choice, he had to move when he did. I still say that Art Official never managed to equal that race, hence, in my opinion, he was drugged up to the ears.
The horse didn't lose the fuckin' McDonnell lost the race just like all the shit drives back at Greenwood and Mohawk. McDonnell couldn't drive a shitwagon at the time. The horse would have easily gone right around 1:45 flat in a time trail at the red mile with a real driver aboard.
He made the right move. If he waits, the outside horse would have backed right into him. Art Official was inches away from giving it up and the outside horse would have then backed Art Official through the field as Beach opened up by 10. Paul Macdonnel drove perfectly. Nobody on the planet who watched the race in real time thought that Art Official was hanging that horse out. The outside horse was pretty much clear....99 out of 100 he clears and Macdonnel would be hailed as a genius when he blew by.
As it was, Pierce was life and death to barely beat that horse. But it was an outrage that that great horse, with all the heart he showed, should be humbled by a bunch of cheaters who ganged up on him.
bigjoetube What you know about racing would fit on the head of a pin...Gingras had a whole to sit 3rd at the quarter. Instead he drove up beside Pierce. He also stopped whipping his horse when he was 2/3 around Pierce and just sat on the outside forcing Macdonell 3 wide. That's what beat Somebeachsomewhere...a setup by Pierce and Gingras.
No cheating in this race whatsoever. Paul Macdonell got the Beach beat. 3 wide at the half in :51.4 cost him the race. If he cut the mile with him like he should have he would have crushed.
It was never the fastest half. The fastest half was set a few years earlier by Devonshire Hanover in 51:2. Fastest 3/4 was set roughly 4 years later by Hurricane Kingcole in 1:18:2.
I maintain to this day that the drive cost him this race. When he went three wide he was actually hung out there. He absolutely should have waited and stayed behind the cover for a bit longer. Pierce was hanging that horse out and there was definitely more time. I think Macdonal just moved two quick.
Pierce rope a doped him into it. Macdonnel drove perfectly. 99 out of 100 times Art Official gives up the lead and Beach slingshots past and opens up 10, while Art Official gets backed through the field by the horse that was inches away from clearing.
@@jowinewbandz7056 I maintain that Art Official was used harder in this race than Beach. Art deserved to win. Art was three wide in the turn, Beach was 3 wide in a straight away. Beach cleared and could rest, when Art cleared the 7 was right on him. On that day, Art was the better horse.
@@michaelcolfin8464 Macdonnell didn't think there was anyway he could lose or he would have put in a slower third quarter. A slower third quarter and Art Official never would have caught him in the stretch forcing Art Official to pull before the three quarter pole.
The horse lost once in his life in just a cluster fuck of race...im not to going to claim it was a conspiracy...but there was definitely something very shifty in the race...Art Official wasnt in the same league as The Beach..he had one incredible race..most likely aided by something not exactly legal...he did nothing after that...Paul drove the Beach every start..so that makes him unfit to drive a great horse how exactly?
dont know a helluva lot about harness racing but just wonder why I hear so much about so many drivers being "crooked bastards"? beginning to wonder if this "sport" is really legit or not.
When they put slot machines in the race tracks in Canada the races magically became legit or unfixed. The favourite ran in the money 13 percent of the time higher when slot machines were put in the race tracks.
@@stevenweisman3636 I was a lifer at Greenwood racetrack and every race that had Doug Brown and Dave Wall in them all the races were fixed even some of the stakes races. Ron Waples only went every other week with his horses if you call that fixed. Drivers at Greenwood got fined dozens of times for fixing triactor races. Things only changed when they put the slot machines in at the racetracks and the drivers got everything they asked for in return. I caught some big triactors up at Orangeville raceway knowing full well Brown would stiff all his 1:9 shots and run dead last. Unfortunately not much money was ever bet at that racetrack so I'd try to catch a one dollar triactor as many times there was never a 2 dollar triactor ticket depending on what came in with the 1:9 shot dead last driven by Doug Brown. At Greenwood when the fix was in they tried to set the race up for a horse to win and give him a perfect trip if the horse looked like he had a shot to win in the stretch they grabbed the reigns or make it look like they were whipping the horse but they weren't. If the horse it was setup for didn't close in the stretch they didn't grab the reigns on the other horses.
Ron Waples senior and Doug Brown were always the two best drivers at the time at Greenwood and Mohawk. The fuckin' Macdonell couldn't drive a shit wagon at the time. He did get better with time but it took nearly a decade or ten years later before he finally learned how to drive a horse.
They are not hitting the horse. Hitting the saddle pad or the racebike shaft to make a loud noise. So nothing like that.....I have seen horses come back with welts on them after a race, but that was years ago, and those driver/trainers were looked down at by others, and must never amounted to shit. '
Art Official was a good horse but not a great horse...a horse of his caliber doesnt go to the half in 51 and change and then still have any horse left to outduel SBSW in the stretch without some kind of wonder sauce in his system...look at the elim and then look at this race and tell me that horse wasnt juiced to the hill..all the great drive by Pierce..horrible drive by Paul comments make me wanna puke almost as much as Pierces arrogance in the interviews after the race...excuse the rant but i get more pissed off about this race as the years go by lol
@@pablovelazquez5666 Sam McKee' should have yelled at Macdonell to get that whip working coming to the tape. Macdonell fell asleep coming to the tape and forgot what the whip was for. In all the books on harness racing that I've read it says add 5 full lengths if the horse isn't whipped.
Karloo Mick Do some research. Beach was a monster. Art Official, while he couldn't handle the turns at Delaware, he still paced in 1:47. And Shadow Play was a fabulous race horse. You're entitled to your opinion, but name me a crop of 3 yr, olds with 3 great horses such as these. Guess what, you WON'T be able to.
I still get goose bumps with the stretch call.
Sam should have yelled at Paul to get that whip working... drawing out. The Beach crushes Art Official but someone forgot he was carrying a whip coming to the tape.
@@parkerbohnn I agree. I thought it was his worse drive on the best horse he was ever on . Right from the start
Still one of the best races and calls of all time !
Wait until you see Bulldog Hanover
I’ve seen all of his races. He is the new G.O.A.T. !
... and Somebeachsomehwere has been used very hard getting the lead, what is that imbecile Paul MacDonell thinking?
This is Sam McKee's Greatest Ever Race Call. I worked with him in the 90's at the old Detroit Racecourse and we had quite a lot of fun back in those days. He suffered a massive stroke a month ago and has had some issues trying to recover.
Shane ?
Jack E lee was the goat
Sams not even In The top 5
You shoulda call the great Brian Sears to drive the big horse he never would have lost
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@@johnyvico yes he is you are lost
the beach goes three wide and hits the half in 51 and just tires two steps before the line what an absoulute monster the beach was
And contrary to the negative narrative, the drive was perfect. Art Official looked to be giving up the lead down the backside, and the Beach would have slingshot by and opened up by 10, as Art Official got backed through the field. Just a fluke that Art Official was drugged up, and was basically push button the whole race. Art Official stopped and started on command, and looked nothing like a normal horse, when looking at his gate and how he carried his speed. If Art Official had quit like he would have without the gas, then the Beach wins by daylight and it is remembered as a dominating performance. The loss actually helped the legacy, in an odd way.
@@jowinewbandz7056 what do u know about it
@@jowinewbandz7056 as a fan of the sport only I enjoy these stories
@@jowinewbandz7056 They all got something in them bud.
true enuff…BUT, Art O set the early fractions, bro.!
Incredible to move into that 3/4 time and barely lose the race. Somebeachsomewhere was a special horse.
Macdonell forgot to use the whip coming to the tape or he might have won by a nose instead of lost by a nose. They always say if a horse isn't whipped add five full lengths to what the horse could have run or subtract one full second from his time. Macdonell fell asleep as usual coming to the tape and didn't whip the horse.
Bulldog was parked the entire mile and won by 6 lengths not too long ago and why? Because that took that bum Jody Jamieson off him and put Dexter Dunn on him. The same would have been true with Somebeachsomehwere even parking 3 wide in a 51:4 half he would have won by ten lengths with Ron Waples senior aboard instead of that bum Paul MacDonell.
Art was the one who set the pace…& went by The Beach!
Note also how Ron wasn’t sitting up STRAIGHT in the bike (like Paul)…in the stretch!
@@parkerbohnn spot on
Meadowlands used to be so prestigious. Legendary call by Sam McKee
I don't know enough about current harness racing to know why Meadowlands is not prestigious anymore but am curious to understand? I'm hoping someone will have something to say about this. Thanks
Quite possibly the greatest harness race ever. This loss takes nothing away from the big horse.
Macdonnell lost the race the horse didn't.
It was Yanik he said the he was going to get the horse to loose
He park is own horse out and did speed dual
Yanik did a dirty drive
Art Official had to break a world record to defeat SomeBeachSomewhere. It was the only way he loses this race. Sam McKee called a great race. If you had to pick a harness race to show someone for the very first time, this would be it.
I miss when Big M was great .
Absolute mastery on every level by Ron Pierce
Im pretty sure Macdonell would of took a different approach that race if he could, but instead we got to enjoy one of the greatest races this decade. Somebeachsomewhere definitely a beast that was brought down on a tough trip.
Ron Waples senior or John Campbell should have taken him to the Red Mile for a time trial.
RIP sam mckee !!! you will be missed by many.
What a.loss rip sam
Sam McKee did the races in Toledo , Ohio at Raceway Park . There was a cheap Pacer there by the name of Suzy's Quack . When he called the race he would Quack instead of calling the name . Then he went to DRC , then the Meadowlands . Light-years away from Toledo .
RIP Somebebeachsomewhere
Greatest win of the career for Art Official , Somebeachsomewhere used very hard and just beat by a narrow margin , Ron Pierce is a great driver ,Kudos to you my friend , but you were very lucky to win this race > Somebeachsomewhere is one of the top 3 pacers of all time...... Niatross and Nihilator being the other horses to round out the top 3 . Race of the decade.....perhaps....... The Beach is still my number one harness horse of all time....... been betting at the Meadowlands since 1980..... so there's that .
Cam fella ?
@@pugskins I saw most of Cam Fellas races at the Meadowlands , was not really impressed with him , trainer driver Pat Crowe did a great job with Cam , and he did win a lot of races in a row , but he was not winning against top notch competition .
@@zebrabike9
He beat all comers.
Really
@ZZCossack ZZ I think you're absolutely right ZZ , some horses are just never the same , after being pushed too hard.
Love the beat❤
Paul Macdonnell drove somebeachsomewhere every start of his career and only had one loss and it took a horrible trip to beat the beach! Paul Macdonnell did a masterful job driving the beach!
Like hell he did. Macdonnell got better at driving as the years went on but at the time he would have been ranked an average driver at both Greenwood and Mohawk.
@XxSodano We call it a lugging pole. Only a small proportion of ANZ horses use them. I've never used one. I notice that Mr Feelgood normally wears one on the big tracks but not on the 1/2m tracks.
Damn 51 sec first half.
@XxSodano On another matter... I tried to buy a yearling colt last month by Somebeachsomewhere. He ended up the sales topper. I had guarentee for $60K & he went for 90. I didn't think he was that nice. Are there any of his progeny racing yet in the US?
@XxSodano There's also an article you might be interested in called "The American Influence."
@XxSodano If you knew the track like I do you would know why it was so impressive. They ran the back straight in 28.2 & the half in 56.5. I've timed him to run his past half mile in 55.4 seconds... 4-5 wide. The apex on the corner at Gloucester park is surprisingly sharp. The camber is perfect but once you get out in the car-park you either need to be on something very quick or the leaders need to be very tired. The horse that ran 2nd is a G1 winner & had a nice run off the pace.
He should have stayed second over. Let the top 2 kill each other and come three wide at the top of the stretch. Beautiful drive by pierce. 😎
He probably didn’t wanna risk an accident, or something…plus, Paul figured that Pierce was letting him clear?!
@XxSodano Did you also notice that Smoken Up used a US-style sulky in the Interdominion Final?
Yikes. That whip was in a hard use... Definitely would've been disqualified here in the north...
@bgardiner2000 I didn't get to see the Interdominion, who won? I tried that SKY racing network thing but i didn't know what track or time it was.
I remember I ended up missing the pick 4 because I had the 2 singled and got beat at the wire as usual lol
What a call what a race rip sam
Lived in Secaucus New Jersey was at that race didn’t bet time of race incredible
@XxSodano Have you seen the Interdominion final from last night? Try comparing them... from an entertainment POV. Especially when you have a couple of grand riding on the winner ;)
@XxSodano I've just uploaded it to youtube if you can't find it.
When your only loss is by a nose that's some horse! 20-1 lifetime record.
@bgardiner2000 Yes i did, an australian version of the harmer advantEDGE race bike, we've almost outdated those, we now almost primarily use UFOs and SPYDER bikes.
That was one hell of a good race
That is why they call it a horse race. The only way SBSW could be beaten was by a trip like that.
Sam and beach RIP ❤
Is it compulsory for US horses to wear a lugging pole? I didn;t see all of them but all of the first 5 were wearing one.
People who say that SBSW should've gunned to the top just don't know horse racing. The most damaging 1/4 in racing is the first mile if one is gunned out and parked. Very few horses could sustain effort after that. One I could think of was Cam Fella.
So I think Macdonell was trying to get a middling first 1/4 before he gunned to the top but he was what Pierce and Gingras were up to and went for the lead right away.
Macdonnell lost the race a top notch driver even with the same trip would have won the race by 6 or 7 lengths.
For those saying how bad MacDonell drove, I challenge you to post YOUR driving stats.... I'll wait....
You post yours first everybody wants to see them SMH
In this race Ron pierce drove the race of his life.
@@pugskins 😂
Revisited this post , Jeff James from the Northville , DRC , Hazel Park , Windsor Raceway Circuit ?
Still the worst drive in history
Mucho Sleazy: "Screw all this nonsense. You can have this race."
Sometimes, you need a perfect trip to beat a great horse, and he got it. Would have like to see a big horse like Bret on this track.
Art Official got hung to a 26 quarter, then hung 2 horses to a 51:4 half, yields after the half, then comes back to win, and you call that a perfect trip? Really??!!
@@mitchellbaker9434 Driver Ron Pierce drove him against the way the trainer wanted him to run. Instead of laying back as he normally did, he took a shot at running with him, taking a page out of the playbook the French used when Une de Mai ran Nevele Pride down by pressing the pace the whole trip. Not trying to take anything away from any horse but if a horse hasn't got at least 3 moves they don't belong in FFA company and that's exactly how many moves Art Official used. The minimum for that class!
Ya, and Art Official gets caught for being drugged up, the reason harness racing at times can be so frustrating, Some beach was never beaton fairly.
Was he disqualified for a positive test or is that because of your last name and a bad steer .
@@timothyantoine5321 Stupid.
@@aileen694 Why ?
Aileen , it was a legitimate question ! Was he disqualified or not ? He set some pretty tough fractions and Mac didn't need to go three wide , he could of sat with cover and used that burst in the lane .
@@timothyantoine5321 Sorry. I was actually responding to the several people who were trying SO hard to trash Paul MacDonnell. With him, The Beach won 20 of 21 starts, broke track records and made 3+ million dollars.
Why is the European way of racing better than the American?
1. The drivers in general have a vision of a long career for the horse they drive. The whip is a tool, not a thing they go crazy with in every race to try to take out everything the horse can give.
2. They use cover when they are racing on the outside (2nd wide) and try to avoid being first on the outside (death position we call it).
3. If they get packed in on the outside, its likely they can get an opening anyway (especially on a mile track). If the opening doesnt come, they know they have a horse that is ready for a new hard race the next time.
4. They drive fast the opening 500m, slower the next 1000m, and then faster the last 600m. This gives the horses in the backpack of the field a chance to make a move to the front and take place in the death position/challenge for the lead, and the one that has this position can choose to defend or not defend. This is also a big factor in betting, if you are able to read the tactical aspect of the race. In the US they race almost on full speed the whole race, and there is minimal tactical aspect. This has a negative impact on how willing people are to bet on the races. Which by the way is going to increase if there is more interesting racing. Maybe Jeff Gural is the man, atleast he has a very good vision for US racings future.
But when it comes to Somebeachsomewhere. Undoubtly one of the biggest talent in harness racing of all time. The problem is that when you become a sire after the three year old season, the sport loses a superstar. This is dramatic for the interest of the sport. Horses like Somebeachsomewhere, Muscle Hill, Donato Hanover and Chapter Seven (just to take the last 6-7 years) had potential to bring the sport some big names. Names that are famous outside of the harness racing. If you take a look at some European horses that is common to know the name of in Europe, Sweden has a couple that most people know. Victory Tilly and Maharajah. Legends, that raced till they were 9-10 years. Italy has a landmark in Varenne. They are actually planning to make a big budget movie about this horse in the next year, which will be in worldwide cinema. This is what american harness racing lacks. And what the supertalents Muscle Hill and Somebeachsomewhere never got to be. The superstars they were ment to be. Recordbreakers!
@XxSodano Remember, that last half was run at the end of 2506m. The lead time was run in 1:06.4...for 906m. That is very fast. Saying that though neither Mr Feelgood or Auckland Reactor had difficult runs, but both were showing the effects of their heat performances (3 races in 14 days - 1700, 2100, 2500). ITMQ beats them both by about 15m... after getting a 9m head start. There's no horse in world who could have done what he did.
The "freak of nature" Mission Brief had much more raw speed especially at age two.
Another couple of points: one, why did Gingras go by the 3 hole? He could've had a good trip. If the trainer wasn't in on the gaff, Gingras would never drive for him again.
And second, watch Gingras at the 1/2 as he's backing up...he looks over to Pierce and says something to him. No, it was all cooked up...
IF DON PIERCE WAS STILL A LIVE HE BE SO PROUD OF HIS SON RON WINNING THE HAMBO AND THE MEADOWLANDPACE HAS WELL HAS RON FIRST BOSS WHEN HE LEFT HOME IN ERNIE SPRUCE
RIP SAM! WE WILL MISS YOU!
Are you kidding Howard? ANYONE could have driven The Beach. He is one of the greatest horses ever, probably the greatest. It took a absolutely horrendous drive to get him beat.
+redbowtiej You've got that right. While there were worst drivers at Greenwood Racetrack Macdonell was one of the worst. I remember Randy Waples when he first started driving he was horseshit. Everyone always told him to take notes when his old man Ronny drove and everyone said you're a Waples aren't you? Eventually the Waples bloodlines came through and the fucker was the top driver.
+parkerbohnn
Waples Jr. is topnotch now. Poppa was great, too; but he always had Strauss ride shotgun for him...much like Brownie and Wall. The best driver I ever saw was Ron Feagan.
@@peterstark9484 Old Strauss the louse. That's about all Tom was good for. I was only a teenager when Feagan drove. I didn't understand the sport that well at the time as I was always drunk everyday. I use to play pinball and drink all day at the Orchard Park Tavern across the street from Greenwood then go to the races and then come back and drive at the bar. The racetrack also had pinball machines.
@@parkerbohnn again. Such a hater, resorting to repeated insults, vulgar language. Here you even describe yourself as " would drink all day" and became pinball champion. Such grand accomplishments! Rage and envy blast out of every comment you made. I doubt that you ever touched a racehorse. Paul MacDonnell driving The Beach won 20 out of 21 starts.
Why/how then, does anyone keep calling him an "inferior" driver???
@@aileen694 I was 6 time world pinball champion. All I did for 40 years was play pinball 12 yours a day and drink all day and play pinball at Greenwood racetrack and play pinball and drink across the street at the Orchard Park Tavern. Macdonell was a below average driver at Greenwood at the time and should have never been allowed to drive a horse the caliber of Somebeachsomewhere. It was the same story with Bulldog Hanover who I touted as the next great horse after only two races as a two year old. Jamieson was almost as bad as his old man when it came to driving horses. Then when Jack put Dexter Dunn in the sulky the horse broke the all time record for the fastest mile ever. I also told everyone about Sylvia Hanover being a world champion after her very first lifetime race. It's all on Woodbine Replays in the comments section.
Ronnied-he got them up
What you've got to know is that the frenchman, Gingras, had boasted that he would get
'the big horse beat', so if Macdonnel had taken back, Gingras would've just sat on the outside while Art Official goes a soft 3/4. Macdonell had no choice but to try to circle him, but if I were the owners I would've decked Gingras after the race. Macdonell did nothing wrong: they just ganged up on the horse to get him beat by 1/2 a head.
He should have sent harder early. He had the 2 post, would have easily cleared
saveus228 Obviously, you don't really know much about driving horses. You never 'wind' a horse in the first 1/4; and anyway, if he had left in 25, Pierce would've ground around him and then let
Gingras go and re-pulled leaving Macdonell sitting 3rd and at the mercy of the pace. As it was, Gingras force the 119 three quarters and then promptly just hung out there to send Beach 3 wide.
The whole thing was cooked up by Gingras + Pierce and the trainers. Shameful.
Peter Stark
Once again You really don't seem to understand the racing concept here. If MacDonell was tucked in and they could get him boxed in then yes back the whole mile off and keep SBSW boxed in. That is not at all anywhere close to what went on here. SBSW was sitting second over and no other horse was close to being 3rd over (who could potentially swing 3 wide and box him in on the outside). He was getting a perfect trip. It would be a dumb move to back the pace off with SBSW sitting perfectly with cover! Why you might ask? Well simply put, in every race he ever raced in SBSW had/has an incredible burst of speed that none of the other horses could match so if they had backed off the race either 1. Bullville Powerful doesn't back off and goes to front (that's assuming he is not trying to "set up" the race as you claim) and then after he clears SBSW just goes by and wins. Senerio 2. Pierce backs off and for some crazy reason (let's once again BP sits just on outside, fixing race). MacDonell (well ok a top notch driver) smiles all the way around the track, sits covered up, and waits until they hit the top of the long Meadowlands stretch, then tips him 3 wide and not only does he win but he pulls away with his burst of speed. If at any time in the race they backed it off too much and horses from the back started coming, then MacDonell could have pulled 3 wide, but giving that situation they were backing off and his burst would have allowed him to quickly clear and he definitely still wins and probably still pulls away. Reality. MacDonell pulls the horse 3 wide when they are going to a half in 51.4. Watch the race, how fast did SBSW come his second quarter, he gained several lengths, was 3 wide still cleared. He used his top speed and kicker burst and the worst possible spot in the race and for no reason. You need to really start viewing the race accurately and seeing that MacDonell gave the horse a terrible drive (like I said before worst drive of century). To further aid about how bad this drive was, I will point out, if you have a horse that can leave like SBSW could and for some unknown reason you are going to go the half in 51 and change and you have the 2 hold starting out you would burst of the gate not sit back and then come 3 wide. The problem was MacDonell is not in their caliber of drivers, he had no idea what to really do, decided to float off the gate and then decide his gameplan. Stupid. Great drivers don't do that, or to correct myself, great drivers don't do that when they have the best horse in the race (and in this case probably ever), THEY MAKE OTHERS ADJUST TO THEIR GAMEPLAN!
+Peter Stark Fact is if a real driver had of been on him even with the 3 wide move The Beach would have been drawing out in the stretch at least one second or 5 lengths faster.
+Peter Stark The Beach needed "Dirty" Dougy Brown. Brown would brown your underwear by stiffing anything especially when he used to drive up in Orangeville. He stiffed every 1 to 9 shot that I can remember in Orangeville. But he'd always go with the moose in the big races.
Sam McKee was the voice of Raceway Park when cutting his teeth , I still remember his call of Suzie's Quack . Iam guessing almost 40 years ago . Anyone remember ?
I worked with Sam at saginaw valley downs.....check out the videos of Sam calling there...especially 2 can profit
Gingras had said before that he 'was gonna get the big horse beat'. He certainly did that. He left the gate with that longshot and could've dropped in 3rd and probably gotten 3rd place money which was probably still worth about $100,000. Instead, he ran on the outside to force Somebeachsomewhere 3 wide. In forty years of watching races, that was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen...
Agree but also MacDonnell gave one of if not the worst drives I've ever seen.
redbowtiej You are wrong. Watch the race. Gingras drives past the 3 hole. Then he makes as if to go around Art Official; goes halfway around; and stops driving the horse. Now Macdonnel had a choice to let Gingras back into him or to go 3 wide. He did what he had to. As it was, with the two top drivers conspiring against him, the Beach only got beat by a head.
But like I said, the owner or trainer of the Beach should've gotten his baseball bat...
+redbowtiej That was commonplace for the fuckin' Macdonell. I always ribbed the fucker his entire racing career. Didn't always make it to Mohawk but always gave him shit at Greenwood.
I’ve seen worse
Ever watch Hervé Filion drive
That guy was a crook
Hitting the horse wile holding him back
amazin how this horse some beach somewhere lost his only race in world record time
@XxSodano There's a really good Australian harness racing web-site... Search Australian Harness Racing... it's a ".org" site. go to Racing --> video replays. The race you are looking for is race 7 at Gloucester Park. Be interested to hear what you think of the spectacle. If you look carefully you'll see me celebrating near the winning post after a very good pick up.
Ron Pierce.
Yeah Mucho Sleazy was a speed ball loved the front end...Usally didnt win bout usally got a check
MacDonnell was out driven by Ron Pierce-all day, all night
Macdonell is garbage
@@byrd5163 I watched Macdonell drive at Greenwood from his very first race. Later on a few years later his friends from the paddock use to bet a lot of money and Paul would just shit his pants whilst bringing out the horse. Macdonell could never drive worth a shit until about a decade later when he got better. He did take a shot at Venerable in the Mohawk Million last year with Duly Resolved.
@@parkerbohnn Again, hate. Shut Up.
Cooking up a witches brew!!!!
Perhaps Macdonnell could have gotten The Beach out faster off the gate to avoid going 3-wide down the backstretch. But you can't take anything away from Art Official who turned in the race of a lifetime at 1:47 flat and beat just this once the unbeatable horse.
+21hotshot
How often did he do that?
+Peter Stark This was the one and only time the Beach was beaten. He was put out to stud after his 3-year-old season.
+21hotshot
If you've seen some of the greats, you'd know that some of them just did not have great gate speed. Cam's Fella, Justin Passing, SBSW and others didn't have great gate speed, or, they performed less well if they were parked the 1st quarter in 26. They could all grind a great 3/4 from the 1/4 on, though.
How hard was it to drive one of the greatest horses of all time??
he should have sat second over about 8 seconds longer, then pulled him 3 wide...
Or he could've just dropped in 4th and waited probably another 1/4 mile. Horrible drive.
Wrong. It took a fluke to beat him. THe other worse was inches away from clearing to the front and Beach would have slingshotted past and opened up 10 while Art Official backed through the field. Macdonnel drove correctly.
@@jowinewbandz7056 😂🤦
As an Australian this bloke and the bloke who calls Yonkers trots are good but the rest are hopeless
ART OFFICIAL 147 BEACH ONLY LOSS IN IS CAREAR GOOD FOR J0E SEEKMAN AND RON PIERCE RON IS HARD MAN TO BEAT IN THE BIG MONEY RACE UNCLE ERNIIE SPRUCE WILL BE SO PROUD AND DAD DON UP IN HEAVEN WILL HAVE BIG SMILE ON HIS FACE
Art official só perderia para o spy hard..
Parker-turkey....Go back and watch the $50.000 race at the Meadowlands--I don't know the date but it's on utube. Art is from the rail. SBSW grinds to the lead in a first 1/4 of 26.4. From the 1/2, Art Official pulled to go at him. He collapsed in the stretch to lose by 6 lengths. Art was never in the same class. In the Meadowlands, they ganged up on the Beach and, as I said before, the Art must've been drugged to the gills.
STOP HATING! THE BEACH WASN'T UNBEATABLE!!!!
Still a great drive by Paul!!!
Are you kidding me? I nearly punched the motherfucker's lights out at the Orchard Park Tavern across the street from Greenwood race track.
Lol ...
Ive been trying to explain that to these knuckleheads.
Somebeachsomewhere was the best racehorse of all time. Macdonell is a great driver. Has sure hands. He drifted out in that race as he was supposed to. What starts to look bad to me right away was that Gingras went past the 2-hole for no reason. At that point, Macdonell was way behind and he didn't know if he was coming or not so that he just gave up a 2-hole trip to challenge for the lead. Suspicious, no?
+Peter Stark Macdonnell couldn't drive a shit wagon. He was only a marginally better driver than Pat Crowe who drove Cam Fella. I knew all the sulky drivers I used to drink across the street at the bar with many of them. Randy Waples used to drink across the street at the Orchard Park tavern. I was the reigning world pinball champion for many of those years. I played anyone in Toronto for beers drinks or the cash one ball against 3 on any machine. One ball against 5 on the older machines.
No he wasn’t
Jenna’s beach boy was better
Riyadh
Niotros
@@parkerbohnn Good Grief! So much hate from you. A pinball and booze champ, but never touched a racehorse. I see lots of green here.
@@aileen694 My grandfather owned prized thoroughbreds at Old Woodbine in Toronto Canada during the Great Depression. He made sure the top jockeys rode them. No bums aboard.
Worst drive on the best horse in the history of the sport.
Not a bad drive by any means....and not even close to being the best horse in the history of the sport. I’m a major fan of the Beach, (and a fan of Big Mac), but he’s probably the most OVERRATED horse of all time. He was a super star.....but by no stretch of the imagination the best horse in history. That title would go to Niatross.
Hardly, I think he should have left for the top , wtf do I know
@@Montel1002 I bet on Niatross..... I bet on Nihilator , just my opinion , Somebeachsomewhere is the Greatest pacer that ever raced .
@@zebrabike9 The freak of nature Mission Brief was head and shoulders above any of those horses but was a trotter.
Jenna’s beach boy was also a better horse
Ran a WR 1:47
When normal horse we’re still running average 1:51 1:52
Races
+Peter Stark MacDonell is an average driver at best. He only drove the horse as he is friends with Brent. I can't think of any top driver that would have made the dumbass move to send a horse 3 wide when they hit the half in 51 and 4. It's one of the fastest half miles in history and he tips 3 wide. Experienced drivers would have had their watch on and realized how fast they were going and would know that Bullville Powerful would fade and then he could go 3 wide or clear and then he just goers on by. There was no need to go 3 wide with the fractions or worrying about getting boxed in as no one else was near. You make a valid point that the race was screwed up by Bullville Powerful. His owners dumped 100K to get him in and they probably send send him at all costs. Pierce did it perfect (unlike MacDonell) in that he was not letting the other horse get the lead and was going to keep him hung out for as long as he could. Pierce admitted that they needed to have things go wrong and get a break to beat SBSW. Never in a million years do I think he thought MacDonell would tip 3 wide going in 51.4 but he was sure going to take advantage of his stupidity. (if you didn't know the relationship between MacDonell and Brent McGrath you would be able to make a better argument that maybe MacDonell set the race up and had a ton of money on Art Official to win and exotic bets as well - not the case but better argument than the one you are making with people). This has been called the race of the decade (and deservedly so) but it more appropriately should be called "The dumbest drive of the century!!" It is a real shame that the horse has to have his record tarnished because of human error.
Absolutely correct.
+Trevor Otterson
Wrong. Watch the race carefully. Gingras stopped pushing the horse before the 1/2 and was backing into SBSW. Macdonell had no choice, he had to move when he did. I still say that Art Official never managed to equal that race, hence, in my opinion, he was drugged up to the ears.
All good Drivers and Jockey's have a clock in their head .
@@peterstark9484 Macdonell moved too soon that's why Art Official stretched him out. He didn't wait long enough for the horse to fade.
ONLY DEFEAT FOR THE SUPPER SOMEBEACHSOME WHERE MAC DID NOTGIVE HIS BEST DRIVE ART OFFICAL JUST GOT HIM AT THE WIRE 147 WORLD RECORD
The horse didn't lose the fuckin' McDonnell lost the race just like all the shit drives back at Greenwood and Mohawk. McDonnell couldn't drive a shitwagon at the time. The horse would have easily gone right around 1:45 flat in a time trail at the red mile with a real driver aboard.
@@parkerbohnn Hateful. So extreme. Jealous much?
ALL RONNIE
Artificial
2 mares 1 dropped a filly by the beach and the oher dropped a colt by the official
Karloo Mick Just wondering if either did anything on the track?
No one wanted to sit behind the 5 😂
Bred in Ontario...
I love Canadian racing
what would have poppy run if he just had a sit on them just last crack on then
He made the right move. If he waits, the outside horse would have backed right into him. Art Official was inches away from giving it up and the outside horse would have then backed Art Official through the field as Beach opened up by 10. Paul Macdonnel drove perfectly. Nobody on the planet who watched the race in real time thought that Art Official was hanging that horse out. The outside horse was pretty much clear....99 out of 100 he clears and Macdonnel would be hailed as a genius when he blew by.
crazy race, it was all Ron Pierce
As it was, Pierce was life and death to barely beat that horse. But it was an outrage that that great horse, with all the heart he showed, should be humbled by a bunch of cheaters who ganged up on him.
Your statement is ridiculous. You know why SBSW lost? His sub-par driver. If Pierce was on him he would have won.
bigjoetube What you know about racing would fit on the head of a pin...Gingras had a whole to sit 3rd at the quarter. Instead he drove up beside Pierce. He also stopped whipping his horse when he was 2/3 around Pierce and just sat on the outside forcing Macdonell 3 wide. That's what beat Somebeachsomewhere...a setup by Pierce and Gingras.
No cheating in this race whatsoever. Paul Macdonell got the Beach beat. 3 wide at the half in :51.4 cost him the race. If he cut the mile with him like he should have he would have crushed.
Peter Stark
The reason ha nick sat out there was because he had a 50-1 shot. It was a long shot move. You don't now these people do you?
R .... U .. kidding with that half? Is that half still the fastest ever?
It was never the fastest half. The fastest half was set a few years earlier by Devonshire Hanover in 51:2. Fastest 3/4 was set roughly 4 years later by Hurricane Kingcole in 1:18:2.
I maintain to this day that the drive cost him this race. When he went three wide he was actually hung out there. He absolutely should have waited and stayed behind the cover for a bit longer. Pierce was hanging that horse out and there was definitely more time. I think Macdonal just moved two quick.
Pierce rope a doped him into it. Macdonnel drove perfectly. 99 out of 100 times Art Official gives up the lead and Beach slingshots past and opens up 10, while Art Official gets backed through the field by the horse that was inches away from clearing.
@@jowinewbandz7056 I maintain that Art Official was used harder in this race than Beach. Art deserved to win. Art was three wide in the turn, Beach was 3 wide in a straight away. Beach cleared and could rest, when Art cleared the 7 was right on him. On that day, Art was the better horse.
@@michaelcolfin8464 Macdonnell didn't think there was anyway he could lose or he would have put in a slower third quarter. A slower third quarter and Art Official never would have caught him in the stretch forcing Art Official to pull before the three quarter pole.
Sad it’s allowd to whip the horses
And that is why you don’t have Paul macdonel drive the nice race horses.
The horse lost once in his life in just a cluster fuck of race...im not to going to claim it was a conspiracy...but there was definitely something very shifty in the race...Art Official wasnt in the same league as The Beach..he had one incredible race..most likely aided by something not exactly legal...he did nothing after that...Paul drove the Beach every start..so that makes him unfit to drive a great horse how exactly?
Scott Trotter great reply my friend. See you at the track 😉. 👍🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇
Some good races all over the place today and tonight..good luck if you do any betting
dont know a helluva lot about harness racing but just wonder why I hear so much about so many drivers being "crooked bastards"? beginning to wonder if this "sport" is really legit or not.
When they put slot machines in the race tracks in Canada the races magically became legit or unfixed. The favourite ran in the money 13 percent of the time higher when slot machines were put in the race tracks.
Bitter gamblers.
Not enough money in the handle to fix a race
@@stevenweisman3636 I was a lifer at Greenwood racetrack and every race that had Doug Brown and Dave Wall in them all the races were fixed even some of the stakes races. Ron Waples only went every other week with his horses if you call that fixed. Drivers at Greenwood got fined dozens of times for fixing triactor races. Things only changed when they put the slot machines in at the racetracks and the drivers got everything they asked for in return. I caught some big triactors up at Orangeville raceway knowing full well Brown would stiff all his 1:9 shots and run dead last. Unfortunately not much money was ever bet at that racetrack so I'd try to catch a one dollar triactor as many times there was never a 2 dollar triactor ticket depending on what came in with the 1:9 shot dead last driven by Doug Brown. At Greenwood when the fix was in they tried to set the race up for a horse to win and give him a perfect trip if the horse looked like he had a shot to win in the stretch they grabbed the reigns or make it look like they were whipping the horse but they weren't. If the horse it was setup for didn't close in the stretch they didn't grab the reigns on the other horses.
Beach is nothing the bulldog is the horse
Super stars!!!!Moskau
For all you anti-Macdonell crowd...Doug Brown at his height never won a race at the Meadowlands....Paul won several.
+parkerbohnn
Listen, turkey, I was a regular at both Greenwood and Mohawk for more than 40 years.
Peter Stark
I was also a regular of the Orchard Park Tavern across the street.
+parkerbohnn
Not me. I'm not a drinker.
Ron Waples senior and Doug Brown were always the two best drivers at the time at Greenwood and Mohawk. The fuckin' Macdonell couldn't drive a shit wagon at the time. He did get better with time but it took nearly a decade or ten years later before he finally learned how to drive a horse.
Brown did drive Town Pro and also drove the dam of Town Pro Programmed. Programmed held the track record at Greenwood for a long time.
What was your hurray Paul? One of the worst drives ever.
Mcdonnell regretted this trip....as he should
Whipped the daylights out of that horse to win! I hate that! If the horse can't make it without a beating, leave him be!
They are not hitting the horse. Hitting the saddle pad or the racebike shaft to make a loud noise. So nothing like that.....I have seen horses come back with welts on them after a race, but that was years ago, and those driver/trainers were looked down at by others, and must never amounted to shit. '
GenKatQltr oh fuck.
Great race but the use of whips has to end in our sport and the thoroughbreds as this will and is driving people away.
It only bothers non fans and tree huggers.
cruelty on animals, so much beating and stress
Art Official was a good horse but not a great horse...a horse of his caliber doesnt go to the half in 51 and change and then still have any horse left to outduel SBSW in the stretch without some kind of wonder sauce in his system...look at the elim and then look at this race and tell me that horse wasnt juiced to the hill..all the great drive by Pierce..horrible drive by Paul comments make me wanna puke almost as much as Pierces arrogance in the interviews after the race...excuse the rant but i get more pissed off about this race as the years go by lol
Only at the Big M can you run a 147.1 and LOSE.
A loss by a nose would still be a time of 1:47.
@@parkerbohnn of course you missed the entire point of the comment, think about it, maybe one day you'll figure it out
@@pablovelazquez5666 At 32 miles per hour a nose at the tape would be about 1:47.01 not 1:47.1
@@pablovelazquez5666 You must have missed math classes. At 32 miles per hour a nose at the tape would be closer to 1:47.01 not 1:47.1.
@@pablovelazquez5666 Sam McKee' should have yelled at Macdonell to get that whip working coming to the tape. Macdonell fell asleep coming to the tape and forgot what the whip was for. In all the books on harness racing that I've read it says add 5 full lengths if the horse isn't whipped.
all usa horse raced
Somebeachsomewhere raced against a pretty ordinary crop
You, sir, are an idiot if you think Shadow Play and Art Official were "Ordinary."
John Onda thank you but you know its true
Karloo Mick Do some research. Beach was a monster. Art Official, while he couldn't handle the turns at Delaware, he still paced in 1:47. And Shadow Play was a fabulous race horse. You're entitled to your opinion, but name me a crop of 3 yr, olds with 3 great horses such as these. Guess what, you WON'T be able to.
Ordinary!!??!! Wow, open your eyes!!
The worst drive I've ever seen in a big race.
Big Mac drove him like a amateur
VERY BAD DRIVE-The worst ever-let's not say otherwise
horses don't get hurt by the whip
You put David Miller on Somebeachsomewhere he never loses!
Sorry, but it would take drugs to beat this horse, it is pathetic...Everyone know this but no...