The most exciting horse race in the history of horse races

Look what I found.

The place: Aquaduct.
The date: 1/31/08
The competitors: E Z Dollar, #4 (and a bunch of less important horses).

Here comes EEEEEEEE Z Dollar for the challenge!

 E Z Dollar is neck and neck!  (Please notice the discrepancy in size between the delicate and dainty Mr Dollar and the favorite to win--dude is built!)

E Z Dollar pulls ahead of Mr Muscles!

E Z Dollar streaks toward the finish line!
No one can catch him now!  (Check out those ears)

 It's E Z DOLLAR!!!!


Let's get a close up of that stunning horse. 

The winning horse!

 Cutest winning horse in the history of winning horses!

 Here's his nice easy cool down canter.  Looks more familiar.

 Cutest winning horse with his cutest little face!

 Everyone is so happy.

Bye E Z Dollar, you done good.



To date, I have watched this video approximately 259 times.  It made me cry.  He tries so hard!  It makes my heart burst.

If I am near you and a computer, you can be sure you will be seeing this video, from calracing. com.  And, you better believe I tried numerous questionable ways to try to get the video itself posted here, but I'm not quite tech savvy enough/I think it's illegal.  Sure these screenshots are totally fine though...

When I was finding out about EZ's racing past, a friend at school asked me what it meant, how the news changed anything.  I tried to explain that it doesn't change anything really, other than make me more proud of him, knowing more about how different his previous lives have been and how good he is in this one.  On one hand, I just love the lil guy, and so finding out anything, particularly video evidence, of his little face before I knew him is exciting.   Then add to that fact that it's horse racing we're talking about, which is pretty inherently exciting, and the lil guy actually wins, well you've just gotta be proud of the bugger.

Mind=Blown

I discovered EZ's lip tattoo last week.  The vet was here poking around, she asked if he had raced, I replied that I was told he hadn't, then when feeling his teeth she found his tattoo, remarking that he must have at least gotten close to the racetrack then.  Him not racing had made sense to me--he is so low-strung, never jittery, so supple and responsive.  He also though is pretty unflappable, like he's seen it all before, which would fit with life in the races.

So I did a little bit of searching, found an E Z Dollar born in 2005 with 15 starts, with 1 win, winning about $35,000.  I put Kathleen on the task because solving thoroughbred mysteries is her favorite game. Check out the results:

E Z DOLLAR (USA) blk/br. G, 2005 DP = 6-4-8-0-0 (18) DI = 3.50   CD = 0.89

(CLOSE)

PETIONVILLE (USA) dkb/br. 1992		SEEKING THE GOLD (USA) b. 1985		MR. PROSPECTOR (USA) b. 1970 [BC]		RAISE A NATIVE (USA) ch. 1961 [B]		NATIVE DANCER (USA)		gr. 1950 [IC]
								RAISE YOU (USA)		ch. 1946 *
						GOLD DIGGER (USA) b. 1962		NASHUA (USA)		b. 1952 [IC]
								SEQUENCE (USA)		b. 1946
				CON GAME (USA) dkb/br. 1974		BUCKPASSER (USA) b. 1963 [C]		TOM FOOL (USA)		b. 1949 [IC]
								BUSANDA (USA)		blk. 1947 *
						BROADWAY (USA) b. 1959		HASTY ROAD (USA)		dkb/br. 1951
								FLITABOUT (USA)		b. 1945
		VANA TURNS (USA) dkb/br. 1985		WAVERING MONARCH (USA) b. 1979		MAJESTIC LIGHT (USA) b. 1973		MAJESTIC PRINCE (USA)		ch. 1966
								IRRADIATE (USA)		gr. 1966
						UNCOMMITTED (USA)* b. 1974		BUCKPASSER (USA)		b. 1963 [C]
								LADY BE GOOD (USA)		b. 1956 *
				THE WHEEL TURNS (USA) ch. 1977		BIG BURN (USA) dkb/br. 1970		NEVER BEND (USA)		b. 1960 [BI]
								BOWL OF FLOWERS (USA)		ch. 1958
						MANINA (USA) ch. 1967		MANGAYTE (ARG)		b. 1959
								INANAME (USA)		b. 1948
SONG OF DIXIE (USA) b. 1994		DIXIELAND BAND (USA) b. 1980		NORTHERN DANCER (CAN) b. 1961 [BC]		NEARCTIC (CAN) br. 1954		NEARCO (ITY)		br. 1935 [BC]
								LADY ANGELA (GB)		ch. 1944
						NATALMA (USA)* b. 1957		NATIVE DANCER (USA)		gr. 1950 [IC]
								ALMAHMOUD (USA)		ch. 1947 *
				MISSISSIPPI MUD (USA) b. 1973		DELTA JUDGE (USA) dkb/br. 1960		TRAFFIC JUDGE (USA)		ch. 1952
								BEAUTILLION (USA)		blk. 1953
						SAND BUGGY (USA) dkb/br. 1963		WARFARE (USA)		gr. 1957
								EGYPTIAN (USA)		br. 1953
		SONG OF SYRIA (USA) b. 1985		DAMASCUS (USA) b. 1964 [IC]		SWORD DANCER (USA) ch. 1956		SUNGLOW (USA)		ch. 1947
								HIGHLAND FLING (USA)		br. 1950
						KERALA (USA)* b. 1958		MY BABU (FR)		b. 1945 [B]
								BLADE OF TIME (USA)		br. 1938
				PASSERINE (USA) ch. 1977		DR. FAGER (USA) b. 1964 [I]		ROUGH'N TUMBLE (USA)		b. 1948 [BC]
								ASPIDISTRA (USA)		b. 1954 *
						PASHAMIN (USA) b. 1966		MY BABU (FR)		b. 1945 [B]
								TIR AN OIR (IRE)		ch. 1949

Looks impressive enough to me.

His papa:

It's jacked up EZ Dollar!


More details of his stats:

Date	Conditions			Race Result		Jockey	OR
13Jun09	Bel	8AF	3y+ F(15K)	8-2[15/1]	10th of 13 27.75L behind Tenacious Greg (IRE)	Maylan Studart
25May09	Bel	8	3y+ F(18K)	8-9	unplaced in race won by Manitowish Waters (USA)	K Desormeaux
29Apr09	Bel	6	3y+ F(17K)	8-1[14/1]	7th of 15 9.38L behind Golden Weekend (USA)	Amanda Casey

Kath was all psyched up because fancy pants Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux sat on my horse.

Fancy Pants Jockey.  But not E Z Dollar.  Sadly.

Kathleen, intrepid researcher, also found evidence of his post-racing, pre-Indian Pond Farm life.  Trainer KC trains OTTBs at Akindale and has a blog of her own, and wrote an entry about how fine Mr EZ is, and plans for him for a client of hers: http://thundermoonfarm.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html .  Obviously a very knowledgeable trainer, as she loves him--smart lady.

EZ's potential being recognized at Akindale!

Unfortunately he didn't work out for KC's client, or for another adopter that Akindale tried placing him with http://thundermoonfarm.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html .  Well, fortunately for me.  I recognized myself in the post as being the new trial owner who would be lucky to have and love him (Yeah, I am!).

So.

He was a little race horse.  The little pushover that he is I am surprised and impressed that he had it in him.  I also am even more impressed and appreciative of his mad skillz and that he is as good as he is at this other life I am asking of him.

**OR I'm wrong, and E Z Dollar racehorse is different from my little EZ Dollar (the space between the E and the Z being the question).    I need to verify by his tattoo number to know for sure...