RACEHORSES (22) - SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE Traditional Cache
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RACEHORSES (22) - SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE
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Welcome to the Poirier Office Road Series, dedicated to legendary Thoroughbred racehorses. In this extention of the series, we look at legendary Standardbred racehorses, those horses race driven with driver and sulky, pacers and trotters.
Where does Somebeachsomewhere rank among the best standardbreds to ever look through a bridle? A berth in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame a mere nine months after he finished his racing career speaks volumes. Now he's the selection as harness racing's racehorse of the decade.
'The Beach' compiled over $3.2 million in 21 races, winning 20 of them for earnings of $156,655 per start. Somebeachsomewhere banked $2,448,003 in 2008 during his three-year-old campaign, a new record for single-season earnings. Along the way, he set four world records, including the fastest mile in the history of the sport (1:46.4) and recorded sub-1:50 miles in exactly half of his 20 wins.
By the end of Somebeachsomewhere’s perfect (six-for-six) freshman season, the mainstream media had already came to court 'Beach'. In 2008, Somebeachsomewhere was one of the biggest news and sports stories of the year in Canada. He was considered for the Lou Marsh Award honouring Canada's athlete of the year. He was featured on CBC’s The National news program and he was named the Newsmaker of the Year for Nova Scotia by the CBC. He was profiled in the nation’s biggest newspapers and on national radio. He and his connections made the cover of industry trade publications 18 times.
Trainer and co-owner Brent MacGrath perhaps said it best when he said that Somebeachsomewhere “is the horse of a lifetime. Simple.”
And he is owned by the Schooner Stable of Truro, Nova Scotia!
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