Rare footage, Nasrullah arrives at Claiborne Farm July 1950

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Known to be a holy terror, you can almost feel the anticipation of the workers as they "dare" unload him.   What a bad boy!

I loved the trailers and photos of the old timey vehicles and that wonderful orange horse trailer.  The part at the end with Nas running around in the pasture was priceless. 

(My laptop bit the dust last week so in re-building a new one with my backups, I'm running across loads of wonderful stuff I had in my archives and have literally entertained myself almost non-stop, in a week where we've had 107-111 heat indexes, just going thru my backups as I reload them onto my new laptop. Reading thru my archived emails, too, has been a blast, remembering what I thought about certain races and horses and trainers).  This was in a folder I had marked The Bad Boys of Racing.     (He wasn't the worst customer.  DRONE was. )

One for the ages:

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Then there was Danzig. Notice the "double fence" between him and any viewers. He was ultra dangerous. A friend went to see him and he was giving them the "evil eye"......and at this point, Danzig only HAD one eye.

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Black Minnaloushe was so mean, he was known to attack his handlers at Ashford, often and w/out warning. Everyone there knew this, and he had a rap sheet that extended all the way from Kentucky to New Zealand and South Africa. Wherever he went, they probably had to draw straws to see who was going to risk their lives handling him LOL They called him a "hired assassin" because he would mercilessly stalk his competition, then ..... BIG POUNCE!

Son of Storm Cat, I believe at one time he commanded the highest stud fee of any horse in the world. Murtagh did a good job riding him

I stil see him in some of the pedigrees of horses who enter the Melbourne Cup.

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The guys opening the doors for Nasrullah reminded me of the guy opening the door for the raptor at the beginning of Jurassic Park.