Sea The Stars, sea the pics

[uncle goober]

Some pics of a would-be St Leger winner taking the first two legs of The Triple Crown.

 

[trackside528]

Fantastic - and that applies to both horse and photographer.

 

[uncle goober]

onto Epsom

 

[Arkwright]

Very much appreciated as always.

 

[uncle goober]

 

[Harbinger]

Phwoar, etc.

 

[Guest_]

Superb!

What a stunning horse.

 

[Euronymous]

If i'd backed him in both races i'd be getting one framed and hung up.

 

[krizon]

Thanks v. much, Uncle G, for those images, which just confirm what a superb-looking beast STS is. As John Oxx said, he's a masculine fellow - you wouldn't mistake him for a 'big filly', and he just looks the biz all round.

Strangely enough, Christie, one of the barmen in the Os & Ts Bar at Brighton, told me that (as a County Kildare man himself) he used to serve John Oxx (and the Prendergasts) when he worked as a younger fellow in Oxx's local. He said JO was an absolute gent then (but was not quite so keen on the Prendergasts) - and he quite clearly remains one now. I get the feeling that man and horse complement each other very nicely in temperament.

 

[EC1]

usual high standard UG

if they want to sell this game - what a horse to use

 

[Colin Phillips]

Don't know a lot about such things but there is very little metal-work around the horse's mouth, does this testify to him being very straightforward?

 

[PRICEWISE2008]

Superb pics UG..An absolute pleasure to see them first thing thing this morning. A beautiful beautiful horse, with the perfect temperment:<3:

 

[Sheikh]

What a magnificent beast he is. I fell in love with him when I saw him win his maiden at Leop. He is my ideal thoroughbred. Well done on the pics.

 

[bloodnok]

Great photos, thanks very much for sharing them.

 

[chroniclandlord]

Really great photos, well done and thanks for posting them.

 

[mrussell]

Thanks for the photos -- what a good-looking, powerful individual he is.

 

[Rosefinch]

Thank you for the lovely photos. I too fell in love with him last year. He is the most gorgeous Thoroughbred with a real presence about him. Also seemed very apt that the winning trophy was of 2 previous Derby winning half brothers.

 

[Shadow Leader]

Did you use auto-focus?

 

[uncle goober]

ohhhhhh!
There's a light in the sky that hangs on the edge of illuuuusioonnn,
something very fine but it's something you knooow is therrre.
Mystery of time, hidden by a man of confuuusiooon
but the hand is quicker than the eyye
only the stranger knows why-iyy-uh iii eye
'cos it's magic
you know it's magic thatchoool fiind
you see it's magic....

 

[SteveM]

They sound good... I'll have to wait until later, to get to a machine where I can see them.

 

[KingKillone]

Thank you very much for sharing this exceptional pix with us.
I think Sea the Stars is very aware of himself & this quite rightly.
Hopefully he will make it to Longchamp, conquer the Bois de Boulogne ...

 

[krizon]

Colin - he's just wearing a plain jointed snaffle, but if you look at the other runners behind him, none of them is wearing anything too much different, and there's a notable absence of off-cuts of sheep, crossed nosebands and tongue-ties! The horse in the Coolmore colours appears to be wearing the ubiquitous Dexter ring bit, which provides a little more control over headstrong animals, but otherwise, they're all in plain snaffles, which is what you'd hope to see at this top-rank level, although BLACK BEAR ISLAND wore a Grakle noseband with his.

 

[ItalianStallion]

I've tried doing a small gif of STS and i'll make a better one tomorow, this is only 5.2mb so it should be acceptable.

 

[Colin Phillips]

Thanks, Kri.

 

[suerunner]

Thanks for sharing UG, great pics as always.