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Gary Contessa Television
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Gary Contessa, a respected and insightful Trainer of Thoroughbred race horses, shares his insights here on CZcams. Gary sees the need for education--for both long-time race fans, and potential new fans, alike. He's passionate about horses, horse racing and education--and this passion gave life to this CZcams channel, Gary Contessa TeleVision--GCTV.
Come, learn about Thoroughbreds from the inside-out, and about the Sport of Kings from one of the best, and most beloved, Trainers. Welcome!
N.B: MANY thanks to Bill and Georgia Rush of Talk of the Track, for all your hard work and the videos. You two amaze us. Gary thanks you from his heart for all your hard work and dedication. :)
www.talkofthetrack.com
Come, learn about Thoroughbreds from the inside-out, and about the Sport of Kings from one of the best, and most beloved, Trainers. Welcome!
N.B: MANY thanks to Bill and Georgia Rush of Talk of the Track, for all your hard work and the videos. You two amaze us. Gary thanks you from his heart for all your hard work and dedication. :)
www.talkofthetrack.com
Racing Commissioner Needed
Everyone knows horse racing needs a Commissioner. But for some reason racing is paralyzed about the issue. Meanwhile it is blatantly clear horse racing is continuing without any direction and drifting into oblivion. One issue after another. Trainer Gary Contessa address reasons for a commissioner, the type person needed and the benefits. I believe Gary Contessa would make an excellent Commissioner.
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Anatomy and Motion of a Horse
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Trainer Gary Contessa discuss the anatomy and motion of a horse. While a horse may weight anywhere from 1000 to 1200lbs they create a running force of much more all on a fragile leg structure. This is a must see.
Reflections about Suffolk Downs
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Suffolk Downs will shut down soon with the final weekend to be June 29 to 30 2019. Trainer Gary Contessa reflects on the importance of the track and the great horses that have run there.
Gary Contessa on the 2019 Kentucky Derby
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I’m sure you have heard various opinions of the 2019 controversial Kentucky Derby. Nobody explains or says it better than New York trainer Gary Contessa. It makes a difference when you hear it explained by an experienced, knowledgeable horseman.
Gary Contessa speaks about feeding thoroughbred horses
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In this video Gary Contessa speaks about feeding thoroughbred horses and how feed is used to increase the efficiency and health of the horse. The feeding program can remedy various complications that can arise.
Barn Tour 082916
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Gary Contessa gives a thoughtful and in-depth barn tour of his facilities in Saratoga. August 2016
Gary Contessa Asks Fans, How Can We Do it (Horse Racing) Better?
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...and they responded. On August 23rd at the beautiful Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs, New York, Thoroughbred Trainer, Gary Contessa invited fans to give their opinions on how to grow the sport of horse racing, and to invite the world to join us in this venture. We hope you'll enjoy watching this video, and please leave YOUR thoughts, below. Gary wants to know what YOU think ab...
Artic Storm Cat
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Artic Storm is a beautiful, rare white Thoroughbred, a two-year-old son of Bluegrass Cat and Princesspatseattle. His redheaded forelock and inside his ears is called a "medicine hat," so named by the Blackfoot Native Americans because it's reminiscent of the eagle-feather headdresses work by medicine men. White horses who are born with medicine hats are said to have special powers. It certainly...
2016 08 16 Gary Contessa Horse Psychology Clinic
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What's going on inside the head of a Thoroughbred race horse? What motivates them? Obviously, fear is a bad motivator so how can a human learn to listen to a horse, and hear or see what s/he's trying to tell us? Gary Contessa spells it all out here, in this fun and fascinating newest edition of Gary Contessa Television. Learn, and enjoy! :)
To Whom Does Gary Entrust the Health of His Horses? Don Baker, of Course.
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Dr. Don Baker, DVM, is the equine veterinarian with the commanding smile, gentle hands and insightful spirit to whom Gary Contessa entrusts the health and well-being of all the horses in his barn. Enjoy this discussion between client and vet/friend and friend. :)
Gary Contessa Tour: National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
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There's only one (Thoroughbred) National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, and that's in Saratoga Springs, New York. And there's only one Gary Contessa. Put those two unique entities together, and you have a fun, educational, informative tour of the most special Museum and Hall of Fame on Earth. :)
Gary Contessa on Horse Ownership
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All this talk about American Pharoah has inspired more and more people to think about what it must be like to own a Thoroughbred race horse. Or maybe you've just bought a race horse? OR, perhaps you're confused, or curious about how to go about buying a horse, or a percentage of a horse? Fear not Gary Contessa's got it covered for you. In his last Clinic of the 2015 Saratoga meet, Gary fielded ...
Gary Contessa on Medications: Good? Bad? Ugly?
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Gary's not one to shy away from a dialogue, regardless of any controversy that may surround the topic. In fact, he's a pretty opinionated guy so he's happy to share his thoughts with you, regarding Lasix and other medications. The best thing about Gary is that every opinion he forms, whether re. meds or other topics it's All About the Horse. If his horses need it to thrive and to live healthy, ...
Gary Contessa Talks New York-Breds
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Why buy or buy into a New York-Bred Thoroughbred? There are so many reasons to invest in horses created here in the Empire State, that the topic couldn't be covered in an entire television series. Gary Contessa gives an insightful overview, and encourages you, the viewer, to Think New York when you consider Thoroughbred ownership. :)
Gary Contessa "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Horse Racing..." Clinic, 18 August 2015
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Warning: the lighting in the Hall of Fame was lousy for this video shoot. We love the Museum; we love the Hall of Fame; we love everyone involved. In person it looked great. On Video not so much. We'll try to fix this technical problem for the last Clinic in the series, on August 25th. Thank you for understanding. :) NOW: Gary Contessa, brave man that he is, opened the floor to the audience at ...
Gary Contessa Conformation Class, August 4, 2015
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Gary Contessa Conformation Class, August 4, 2015
Gary Contessa Tackles Tack (Equipment)
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Gary Contessa Tackles Tack (Equipment)
Gary Contessa, Interviewing the Legendary Jockey, Jean Cruguet
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Gary Contessa, Interviewing the Legendary Jockey, Jean Cruguet
Gary Contessa, on Training to Become a Trainer
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Gary Contessa, on Training to Become a Trainer
Gary opines: Horses of today v those of yesteryear...
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Gary opines: Horses of today v those of yesteryear...
Gary Contessa Talks Nutrition with Capital OTB's Jeff Carle
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Gary Contessa Talks Nutrition with Capital OTB's Jeff Carle
Gary Contessa Falls in Love with a Broad Brush grandbaby, and...
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Gary Contessa Falls in Love with a Broad Brush grandbaby, and...
I'm going to get my trainer license in Puerto Rico. 1 yr and a half
Your a guy guy!
Great channel and I hope Nutella Fella wins in May of 2024
Good luck in the Champagne
Thank you for the information very informative …
Gary is very affable and honest, and Good Luck with Nutella Fella
The owners of Max Security Gary and Mary West think CD is getting greedy and running too many horses
Great Video very informative. Whatever happened to the white horse- Artic Storm Cat? Was he a winner?
Great video!!
A shadow roll to put the down 😂I trainer with more of 1k win 🤦🏼🤦🏼
GOOD STUFF!!!!!!
They are definitely not happy being locked in a stall for 23 hours.
That horse is NOT WHITE. The color is called Perlino. Rare and Very pretty
*If 80% of race-horses bleed, then breed only the 20% which do not* .Hopefully, with time you will wind up with nothing but non-bleeders.
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Very interesting and complex to keep equine athletes fit. Well done.
Love the calmed horse's, not frustrating
I meet s women whom made mash from Corn shell,. And plenty .they were calm , full
Gary, I've even seen people feeding their performance horses ground fish. I worked at a Saddle Horse stable where the horses were fed a mixture of rye in the oats. Oh, the hay. The hay. I climbed up in the hayloft, and the scent of the hay was GLORIOUS! I was wishing I were a horse at that moment! The hay had a distinctly minty smell. A lot of the hayfields in the upper Midwest are rich in nutrients.
Gary, I'd love to meet you in person. You need to write a book for prospective Thoroughbred race horse owners. I am not planning to own one but you have a lot of knowledge that could help a lot of people. Who do you think will win the Kentucky Derby? This looks to be the most wide open field I've seen in years. BTW, I've been a horse owner, but pleasure horses, not race horses. I did have a job with the Royal Jordanian Stud exercising Arabian race prospects. My string got a handful of feed quality linseed and they had the best coats in the whole barn. It helped them with regularity, and my horses never colicked by the way, for that reason. Another reason is that I was very particular about the hay the horses were getting. The director of the RJS program in the U.S. was taking price shortcuts on hay, and those of us who worked for the stable checked through the entire hay inventory for mold, and did find it. So I used some of my income to buy bales of prairie hay (a nice mixture of dried grass, clover, and lespideza), and my string thrived. One of my favorites in my string, a mare named El Bawaga went from the winter uglies with a starring, dull coat, to a shiny, sleek coat. In fact, the barn veterinarian said "She looks SO right!" He meant for breeding, but I'm not sure who they ended up breeding her to because I accepted a horse job elsewhere. Plus, one thing that was not considered when gathering together breeding stock, mares and stallions... the horses were all too closely related to each other already. I looked over the pedigrees of the stallions vs El Bawaga, and recommended a retired race stallion elsewhere in the stable, Saad Jamil. I don't know if that breeding happened.
If the French blinker is to stop a horse seeing his jockey what's the point . i change my whip hand to guide a horse and you aren't actually supposed to hit a racing horse anyway
HI! I loved the talk.
Extremely enlightening and informative stuff. Thanks ...from Trinidad and Tobago.
You should teach the horse behaver.keep his feet moving .no way chace him or yell .you should hit the guy with the wip
I am not an owner nor trainer of race horses, but I do study and analyze Thoroughbred pedigrees, and I have noticed that a lot of good race and producing mares come from the Broad Brush sire line. So Gary, I'm with you. I just don't have the $$$$ to follow up.
My American Saddlebred had an offset knee on the left and developed a splint I always had to treat. Otherwise, he won a lot of ribbons in English Pleasure and even halter classes as a gelding that could place over stallions due to that nice backline and balance of conformation he inherited from his Rex Peavine sire line. He was a grandson of Society Rex, and had the nice backline that went with it. We did have to keep his neck sweated down, however. Bayberry had a beautiful head.
As for people, no one would ever have thought I could be a good runner since I am only five feet tall, built like a human Quarter Horse, and big-boned, but I was one of the top woman mid-and long-distance road runners in the Mid-West. Only reason for stopping is I needed to go back to school to learn a new job, and lost my husband from a ground airplane accident. I also had a smooth running style and didn't bob up and down like a lot of runners because I studied the martial arts before starting to run, and not bobbing up and down saved me a LOT of energy. STILL, all those miles on concrete roads and sidewalks did a number on my back and knees, so now, I walk.
The cute lil bay with the strip that comes over its nose looks so sweet
Gary how can I get into the business? I'll start cleaning stalls
Gary your a great horsemen I showed hunters and equitation horses most of my life always had beautiful Thoubreds thru my jumping career . Enjoyed your clinic very much . Thank you. Juli Montesano. julijewels17@gmail.com. Thank you very much. Juli Montesano
One problem, in other sports all owners are basically on even footing here they're not, you can have billionaires and hundred millionaires and then a guy or group that works at a regular job. Sounds like a good idea but even now there are owners who stand on the board or run a race track that own and they are the first to go to trainers that are suspected juicers. The days are over with people such as Phipps using a Shug instead of the guy on the top of trainer standings. Look at the videos of the time I got hooked on racing 70"s & 80's, look at the trainers. I guess it started crashing with Shifty Sheik. Also there is too much nepotism.
So what if you've been a foreman and setup feeds and stop there and then got out of the industry and now want to get back to it at a later time in life. Are you saying that I would have to start all over again? I have plenty of experience around horses and race horses I like. I believe I would make a heck of a trainer but your final words are very discouraging. I guess that's the part that someone has to be young because they're going to hit that point in their life where they have to be able to endure the time where they're not even being looked at by an owner. All in all that isn't very motivational. The passion to work with horses especially race horses will have to supersede any pitfalls and negative input
What is the price for a normal horse
Thank you Gary great job from an assistant starter from Maryalmd!
Awsome Videos!
If we were still in the business you wouldn't have bought that colt. I love the way he looks and moves. This was after my father was gone so you could have trained him for me.
You must be younger than I am by a long shot if you were hot walking in the mid 70s.
Awesome video.
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War Of Will ran up on him. He did not "spook" for no reason. Crazy how tha obe race changed so much - potential HOTY, Max running at 4, the GF-1000 controversy, Saudi Cup, etc, We need more videos!
G.C. is a wonderful communicator .... someone who at the top level of his profession, will take the time to explain at detail any and all issues concerning the great sport of horse racing.....he comes across to you as if you were talking to their next door neighbor,
gary is fantastic....he is someone that has reached the top level of his profession who easily relates to the average racefan. even though he doesnot train horses i hope that he stays in the sport in some capacity.someday i would love to run into him at belmont or saratoga. just to talk horses
Wasn't Billy fired because of his alcoholism?
You can say a study says 80% are bleeders, but we know that has not been the case on the track historically. That's why bettors would ask "why is he on lasix?" Bleeding was the exception. Lasix should not be considered until a horse has bled post race on the track. If I'm correct, 30 years ago in Florida horses went on a 30 day vet list where they couldn't run if they had bled. Then the vet could ok lasix. I worked with Standardbreds and have also been a bettor. Currently I'm a small share owner. If the excuse of using lasix is to keep horses from developing pneumonia or lung issues, I'm nearly certain scoping doesn't cost that much to do. Finally, haven't there been studies that show lasix contributes to weakening bone growth? I'm not against Lasix. Btw, didn't "lasix" start off as a brand name? Anyway, I'm not against the use. I just don't agree with giving them to a horse unless they have bled significantly on the racetrack. Gary, if possible, I'd like you to respond to my questions. Thanks
Always love to listen to u Gary 💯👍🇯🇲
Timeless info on the channel.
I like the idea, I would like for you to suggest that the punishment be by percentage rather than a set fine. For example 30% of ur monthly earnings, rather than$3000 because in NY the purses are bigger than say in WV.
Gary you know I av own horses in my country nd I try to do it myself nd I'm not a wealthy person but I just I just wanted to feel that feeling nd be selfish with it. It's easier when ur in a partnership.
Gary ur so like Bob nd Lukas u guys are so good at talking to people. People will learn easily from u people.👍🇯🇲
Good night Mr Contessa I always wager on ur horses nd today I watch almost all ur videos nd I'm impressed. I'm from Jamaica nd any day I come to the states I'm coming to meet you. I learned a lot today.,💯👍