Galloping Grocer

[Robert Fischer]

Originally Posted by FantasticDan

For some reason I thought about GG today, and wondered "whatever happened to..". So I googled, and as crazy coincidence would have it, this story which was just published this morning came up..

GG retirement

good update


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And i just spent like 10mins looking at this guy's female line in the pedigree before I checked if this was a new thread or indeed good old Galloping Grocer the NY bred

[MickJ26]

Beautiful story. Good luck to those fine people in animal rescue. I remember Galloping Grocer the top New York bred two year old, lost a heartbreaker to Rockport Harbor in the Remsen and was never the same after that. I hope he lives long and prospers.

[nijinski]

Any sightings of "Connie and Michael" , i believe she was in Schettino's barn ?

[toetoe]

Good points by TLG in this thread. The average trainer can't take a horse all over the country on the Derby Trail. I believe Schettino even admitted that he couldn't.

That same year, I was in love with Naughty New Yorker. Only two possibilities that he would even get close to the Derby with Patrick Kelly and Jean Luc Samyn --- slim and none; and slim scratched.

[samyn on the green]

Originally Posted by toetoe

Good points by TLG in this thread. The average trainer can't take a horse all over the country on the Derby Trail. I believe Schettino even admitted that he couldn't.

That same year, I was in love with Naughty New Yorker. Only two possibilities that he would even get close to the Derby with Patrick Kelly and Jean Luc Samyn --- slim and none; and slim scratched.

Giacomo won the derby that year. Naughty New York was as arguably as good a colt as Giacomo. The Naughty one -he still is in training and should start soon- could have won that race on his best day.