Boom Towner

[SuperPickle]

http://live.drf.com/nuggets/29656

I'm going to say 20 triple digit beyers might be a record.

[classhandicapper]

I forgot all about him. Thanks for reminding me.

[cj]

http://live.drf.com/nuggets/29656

I'm going to say 20 triple digit beyers might be a record.

I'd guess it isn't a record. Cigar probably ran more off the top of my head. Boom Towner was a cool horse. What about King's Swan? He probably ran a ton too. Remember watching him win the inaugural Maryland Million Sprint.

[the little guy]

Affirmed Success had an incredible record and in 40 something lifetime starts he ran triple digit Beyer figs in all but about five of his races.

Boom Towner is a super cool horse. That's a really nice story Grening wrote.

[SuperPickle]

Was this Diane Nelson's big mount for a time?

[FantasticDan]

Great video talking about Boom Towner back in the day :ThmbUp:

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[the little guy]

That's great. Thanks so much for posting it.

[johnhannibalsmith]

No kidding. What a blast from the past watching that. Thanks Dan.

[castaway01]

I'd guess it isn't a record. Cigar probably ran more off the top of my head. Boom Towner was a cool horse. What about King's Swan? He probably ran a ton too. Remember watching him win the inaugural Maryland Million Sprint.

You made me curious enough to look it up---Cigar ran 19.

Skip Away ran 29 (22 of 110 or more), but I don't know if that is the record.

Skip Away PPs (http://www1.drf.com/newsletter/skipaway0514.pdf)

[the little guy]

You made me curious enough to look it up---Cigar ran 19.

Skip Away ran 29 (22 of 110 or more), but I don't know if that is the record.

Skip Away PPs (http://www1.drf.com/newsletter/skipaway0514.pdf)

Not that I would blame people, but I am starting to think everyone has me on ignore. :)

I already said in this thread the Affirmed Success had well over 30.

[cj]

Not that I would blame people, but I am starting to think everyone has me on ignore. :)

I already said in this thread the Affirmed Success had well over 30.

You think King's Swan might have that many? Gulch? I can't find my Champions book or I'd look a few up.

King's Swan may have been before Beyer figures were private. Same for Gulch.

[fiveouttasix]

Loved that Boom Towner video...Thanks for posting...5,000 Maiden Claimer won by 10!!

[the little guy]

You think King's Swan might have that many? Gulch? I can't find my Champions book or I'd look a few up.

King's Swan may have been before Beyer figures were private. Same for Gulch.

It's possible with the Swan. I don't know if Gulch ran that many times but possibly close.

[Ocala Mike]

Please don't remind me about Gulch! He was a superior mudder, and I needed him just for third in his Travers, and I think that was the only time he ever ran out of the money on an off track.

[reckless]

You made me curious enough to look it up---Cigar ran 19.

Skip Away ran 29 (22 of 110 or more), but I don't know if that is the record.

Skip Away PPs (http://www1.drf.com/newsletter/skipaway0514.pdf)

Thanks for linking Skip Away's lifetime pp's castaway. Appreciate it as he was an old favorite of mine.

[castaway01]

Not that I would blame people, but I am starting to think everyone has me on ignore. :)

I already said in this thread the Affirmed Success had well over 30.

Sorry---you did say that, but I was trying to find the exact numbers and couldn't find Affirmed Success PPs. Hard when I'm supposed to be working and also looking up horse racing stats. ;)

[cj]

Sorry---you did say that, but I was trying to find the exact numbers and couldn't find Affirmed Success PPs. Hard when I'm supposed to be working and also looking up horse racing stats. ;)

Kind of frustrating we can't look up RETIRED race horse PPs. I can look up Hank Aaron or Wilt Chamberlain right away for nothing.

[PhantomOnTour]

Speaking of Affirmed Success...
I went to the Kentucky Horse Park in 2006 and he was there.
Not in their Hall of Champions or a nice paddock somewhere, but in a small stall in their "Display of Different Horse Breeds" (or something like that) area.
It was depressing to see him there.

I understand he later moved to Old Friends :ThmbUp:

[djm1959]

boom towner was a great nyra horse..... there was a harness horse in ny with same name at same time was cool stuff, i won alot betting both

[castaway01]

Speaking of Affirmed Success...
I went to the Kentucky Horse Park in 2006 and he was there.
Not in their Hall of Champions or a nice paddock somewhere, but in a small stall in their "Display of Different Horse Breeds" (or something like that) area.
It was depressing to see him there.

I understand he later moved to Old Friends :ThmbUp:

Here's his page on their site.

Affirmed Success (http://www.oldfriendsequine.org/horses/affirmed-success-12.html)

[Broad Brush]

I am always so happy when I read stories like this.
Just not enough of them. Good on Barry S. for taking care of him.
I like routing for owners like this.


Nobody has mentioned Boom Towner's strange habit:

When they turned for home at the top of the stretch,
Towner assumed the rail was ALL HIS. He would duck over
sharply--if anyone was there they got crunched.
I think he got DQed a few times for this.
My best cash with him was when I bet him in the Defrances
Dash; he placed 2nd to Cherokee Run at 35-1.
The exacta paid good.

Keep going old boy.....

[PaceAdvantage]

Absolutely love threads about the time period when I first seriously got into this game...what a special time that was, at least for me. I remember Boom Towner well, and always loved to see his name in the PPs as I poured over the DRF the night before...ahhh, my salad days in racing... :jump:

Now I'm just a cynical old coot... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Very happy to read he's still around and doing well.