Welcome tonight's Travers Vault! I'll be reviewing Unshaded the 2000 winner and Chief's Crown the 1985 winner. Unfortanlly both of the videos the embeding is disabled, so you will have to click on the links in order to see the videos.
Chief's Crown 1985 Winner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UhwdaOxzd4
Chief's Crown was the 1984 2yo champion male, who became the first horse to lose all three Triple Crown races while being the favorite betting choice in all of them. He did bounce back and win the Travers defeating Turkoman who would become a Horse of Year contender in 1986. Chief's Crown had an okay stud career, before passing away in 1997. Turkoman would go on to be the broodmare sire of 2001 Preakness and Belmont winner Point Given, plus 2007 KY Derby and Breeder's Cup Classic runner-up Hard Spun.
Unshaded 2000 Winner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWtls_wTNLc
With Belmont winner Commendable in the field, the gelding Unshaded was able to upset him. The second place finisher was Albert the Great who would go on to sire 2007 Wood Memorial winner, Nobiz Like Shobiz. Also in the race would be Dixie Union who would become the sire of stakes winners such as Justwhistledixie and Milawaukee Brew who has sired the past two Woodbine Oaks winners.
Tomorrow: Street Sense (2007), Ten Most Wanted (2003) and Thunder Gulch (1995). Plus the King's Bishops of Lost in the Fog (2004), Hard Spun (2007) and Visionaire (2008).
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