{"id":348,"date":"2007-11-25T01:10:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T06:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2007-11-25T01:10:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T06:10:25","slug":"record-15-wins-in-a-row-for-got-country-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Record 15 wins in a row for Got Country Grip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time world champion Paint running horse Got Country Grip broke an all-time record for consecutive wins from starts with his 1 \u00be-length victory Saturday, November 24 in the G1 Olympia Joe Paint & Appaloosa Handicap at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, TX. Quarter racing’s Josie\u2019s Bar, Destiny Drummer and Pies Royal Request each earned 14 wins in a row but lost in their fifteenth start. Thoroughbred champions Citation, Cigar and Hallowed Dreams are tied with the North American record of 16 consecutive wins.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s one helluva horse and I\u2019m awfully proud of him,\u201d said owner Jimmy Maddux of Weatherford, TX, of the 4-year-old solid bay Paint gelding trained by Brandon Parum of Jones, OK. “It\u2019s been a long time since he ran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Got Country Grip’s last previous start was in the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Stakes at Remington Park on May 27, where he scored a 3-length victory.\u00a0 \u201cHe just destroys these Paints,” said rider G.R. Carter. “He\u2019s run some races that it would take one of those champion Quarter Horses to beat him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter, a six-time AQHA champion jockey, marveled at the 15 straight wins.\u00a0 \u201cThe variables are against you,\u201d he said. \u201cIn horse racing, you know something is bound to happen \u2013 that\u2019s just the way it is. I don\u2019t care what the competition is, this streak is one of the greatest things I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d\u00a0
\nSaid Maddux: \u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of good horses and most of the time they\u2019ll beat themselves sooner or later. But \u2018The Grip\u2019 has overcome adversity and still won. Believe it or not, he\u2019s had a bad race or two. In the Speedhorse Derby, a horse stepped on his rear foot and pulled his shoe off and half of his foot with it. It knocked him around sideways and he still won by daylight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nine of Got Country Grip\u2019s 15 victories have come in stakes races and he has earnings of $247,500. \u201cHe does what he\u2019s supposed to do,\u201d said Maddux, who acquired the Country Quick Dash son as a weanling. \u201cI was worried tonight because he\u2019d been sick \u2013 he had a lung infection \u2013 and hadn\u2019t run since May.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to send him to Los Alamitos to race against Quarter Horses, but it got complicated and it wasn\u2019t going to happen. We might have gotten him beat but that\u2019s where the money is. It\u2019s a shame to run a horse like this just three times a year; it\u2019s not good for the horse. I guess we\u2019ll take him back to Remington Park and try to break the big record (of Citation, Cigar and Hallowed Dreams). That\u2019s our goal. We\u2019ve had a lot of people try to buy him and pay a lot of money for him. But if anyone buys him, it\u2019ll be a record price. We think a lot of this horse.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to his unbeaten record, Got Country Grip holds the Paint Horse world record for 350 (:17.23 on June 9, 2006 at Fair Meadows) and 400 (:19.55 on April 30, 2006 at Remington Park) yards.<\/p>\n

Following the Olympia Joe victory, Carter dashed from the winner\u2019s circle to catch a flight from Dallas to Southern California to ride to horses in Saturday night\u2019s Z Wayne Griffin Directors trials at Los Alamitos in Cypress, CA. Both Quarter Horses are contending for berths in the Grade 1, $500,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos on December 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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