Gun Runner
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Gun Runner, Steve Asmussen and a precious moment of rare understanding'

https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/arti ... rstanding/In the narrow confines of a paddock saddling stall, the most personal kind of quiet conversation began to unfold between trainer Steve Asmussen and his sleek chestnut charge, Gun Runner. In those precious seconds, when horse and man communicated in ways that might forever be a mystery to most, they existed in a world of their own.
Asmussen reached to straighten the purple cooler emblazoned with gold draped over Gun Runner’s muscled shoulders, and the colt leaned into him with a comfortable familiarity, his eyes keen, his demeanor one of contained electricity.
Belying his own imposing physical frame, Asmussen gently embraced the horse’s neck and pressed his face into a soft shock of shimmering mane. While other horses, trainers and grooms shuffled around the paddock during the schooling session, Asmussen and Gun Runner quietly steeled themselves for what would be the race of their lives — a race that secured the gold Eclipse Award as America’s Horse of the Year.
“It was pretty overwhelming to me, that Thursday of Breeders’ Cup week when we schooled him after all the pressure we had put on him because of the way we felt the race would unfold,” Asmussen recalled. “But he just accepted it, and he had that look that said ‘I’ve got this’. That was the feeling that I got then; it was possibly premature, but then it proved correct.”
He had an outstanding year and both of those awards should have been unanimous, in my humble opinion.
Hoping he can go out in style, but most importantly hope he can go out safe and sound to begin his new life. Something tells me he's going to light the breeding world on fire.
Hoping he can go out in style, but most importantly hope he can go out safe and sound to begin his new life. Something tells me he's going to light the breeding world on fire.
A filly named Ruffian...
Eine Stute namens Danedream...
Une pouliche se nommant Trêve...
Kincsem nevű kanca...
And a Queen named Beholder
Eine Stute namens Danedream...
Une pouliche se nommant Trêve...
Kincsem nevű kanca...
And a Queen named Beholder

Barbara Livingston
@DRFLivingston
Steve Asmussen trainee GUN RUNNER eyes the world, including his longtime hotwalker Juan Gonzalez, yesterday morning at @GulfstreamPark . Other horses' eyes who've reflected Juan include Curlin and Rachel Alexandra's.
I've found it easier to tear up tickets at 8/1 instead of 8/5.
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Any guesses on what his stud fee will be?
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W. C. Fields
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W. C. Fields
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There's a Stallion Register page up for Gun Runner already, and it has his fee as $70,000 S&N.
Gun Runner farewell brings out the best of emotions
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Good golly he is magnificent. I've always known he's an attractive horse but that really shows off how stunning he is.Ballerina wrote:Gun Runner's first moments at 3Chimneys
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Not a wholesome trottin' race, no, but a race where they sit down right on the horse!
Like to see some stuck-up jockey boy sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil? Well, I should say!
Like to see some stuck-up jockey boy sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil? Well, I should say!