Mr. Quiet
(Real Quiet, 1998 Champion Racehorse)
Today my school had a visit from the Sheriff's Posse.
This is a group of Deputies and volunteers that patrol our community on horseback. The entire presentation was done with the Posse riders mounted upon their horses, speaking to a thrilled group of Kindergarten through 2nd Graders.
Though the most impressive-looking horse was a 2,000 pound white Percheron named Samson, undoubtedly the best pedigree belonged to a smaller brown horse, named Mr. Quiet.
Mr. Quiet is the son of Real Quiet, who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in 1998, and missed winning the Belmont Stakes by a nose, which would have made him only the 12th Triple Crown winner in history at that time.
He finished only 4 inches behind the winner, Victory Gallup, in the closest finish ever in the Belmont.
He was voted Best 3-Year-Old Colt that year, winning the Eclipse Award, despite not running again. In his career, Real Quiet earned nearly 3.3 million dollars, and retired at stud for a fee of $25,000 in 2000.
In this business, our "pedigree" is dependent upon the reputation we have earned, and that, in large, is tied to how established we appear to Google and the other search engines.
It's much more a marathon than a sprint, so hold your horses, and take things a step at a time, in order to build a solid following.
...Only twelve horses have won the Triple Crown: Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), Citation (1948), Secretariat (1973), Seattle Slew (1977), Affirmed (1978), and American Pharoah (2015).
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And Count Fleet had four white socks - a sign of potential week hocks. Boy did he show those doubters.
I can't see either the Samson (unless he is grey) nor Mr Quient (unless he doesn't look like dad). Too bad I love heavy work horses!
One was out with Delilah (a fetching Clydesdale) and the other was on the quiet out of sight!
A stately thoroughbred for sure. Horses are magnificent animals and it's great for young children to get acquainted with them.
What a beautiful horse Rick and the best way to show him is with children. I remember the movie made about Secretariat!
Beautiful horse!!! I didn't know ANY communities were patrolled on horses. Interesting.
~Debbi
They aren't the only method of patrol, Deb, but they say it's the one that gets them closest to the people. :)
I'm really not sure, Carol, as I'm not much of a horse expert, but apparently Real Quiet was quite a champion racehorse! :)
That's a beautiful horse! How thrilled should the children have been! .
Yep, it's marathon... We need to be well- prepared to present our "pedigree" to the world....:)))
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Good Morning Rick,
I can imagine the children were excited to see so many horses.
I tried to ride but as I fell off too often I gave up. My grandfather when he was in the army as officers you had your pocket money squeezed between the horse and your knee. If that money fell there would be no drinks on a free day.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Sounds like a sure way to teach you to squeeze in those knees, Taetske! :)