#unracer

[spectrav10]

The Peugeot 305 Rallye V6!

One of the unraced Group B cars, the Rallye V6 has 250 bhp, and it is lighter and smaller than the 504 Coupé V6. The car was originally going to be used, but Peugeot would later switch to the 205 T16 as a Group B monster.

[horseracingweekly]

Unraced since an off-the-board finish in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, WHITE ABARRIO is set to make his return to the races in an allowance optional claiming race at Gulfstream Park on November 22nd for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr.

📸 @/jasonm921 on IG

[olreid]

[ID 1: The connection between childhood and innocence is not essential but is instead historically located. During the colonial period, Calvinists did not believe that children were innocent; to the contrary, they lived with the terrifying idea that children, who were born with original sin, could die before they experienced Christian salvation, in which case they would endure eternal damnation. According to this “doctrine of infant depravity,” children were inherently sinful and sexual — even more so, potentially, than adults, who had learned, through rationality and self-discipline, how to control their damnable impulses. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, however, a competing doctrine entered popular consciousness. In this emergent view, children were innocent: that is, sinless, absent of sexual feelings, and oblivious to worldly concerns. This view of the innocent child assumed a variety of complex and ever-shifting forms, including the Lockean tabula rasa and the Rousseauian youth who was at essence an uncorrupted element of nature. American sermons and child-rearing manuals widely quoted and thus circulated William Wordsworth’s representations of children as innocent, holy, and able to redeem adults. By the mid-nineteenth century, prevailing beliefs about childhood inverted the doctrine of infant depravity: children were not sinful but innocent, not depraved souls risking hellfire but holy angels leading adults to heaven. By the mid-nineteenth century, sentimental culture had woven childhood and innocence together wholly. Childhood was then understood not as innocent but as innocence itself; not as a symbol of innocence but as its embodiment. The doctrine of original sin receded, replaced by a doctrine of original innocence. 

ID 2: To be innocent was to be innocent of something, to achieve obliviousness. This obliviousness was not merely an absence of knowledge, but an active state of repelling knowledge — the child’s “holy ignorance,” in the phrase of an 1822 article in Blackwood’s Magazine. James Kincaid echoes that idea in his characterization of Victorian childhood as a “wonderfully hollow category” in which “purity” is “figured as negation,” a “ruthless distribution of eviction notices.” Individual nineteenth-century children, like all people, forgot and remembered, but to be legibly childlike — to perform “childhood innocence” — was to manifest a state of holy ignorance. However, not just any obliviousness constituted innocence: to be childlike was not to forget one’s name or one’s manners, and was certainly not to forget hymns or Him. Rather, sentimental childlike innocence manifested through the performed transcendence of social categories of class, gender, and, most importantly for this book, race. Of course, no nineteenth century children existed outside race (or gender or class), nor were any children perceived as unraced. Innocence was not a literal state of being unraced but was, rather, the performance of not-noticing, a performed claim of slipping beyond social categories. 

ID 3: Childhood innocence — itself raced white, itself characterized by the ability to retain racial meanings but hide them under claims of holy obliviousness — secured the unmarked status of whiteness, and the power derived from that status, in the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries. Childhood innocence provided a perfect alibi: not only the ability to remember while appearing to forget, but even more powerfully, the production of racial memory through the performance of forgetting. What childhood innocence help Americans to assert by forgetting, to think about by performing obliviousness, was not only whiteness but also racial difference constructed against whiteness. Racial binarism — understanding race in terms of white and nonwhite, or a “black and white” polarization that erases nonblack people of color — gained legibility through nineteenth-century childhood. end ID]

robin bernstein, from racial innocence: performing american childhood from slavery to civil rights

[gradling]

For reasons that should not need explanation here, until very recently, and regardless of the race of the author, the readers of virtually all of American fiction have been positioned as white. I am interested to know what that assumption has meant to the literary imagination. When does racial "unconsciousness" or awareness of race enrich interpretive language, and when does it impoverish it? What does positing one's writerly self, in the wholly racialized society that is the United States, as unraced and all others as raced entail? What happens to the writerly imagination of a black author who is at some level always conscious of representing one's own race to, or in spite of, a race of readers that understands itself to be "universal" or race-free? In other words, how is "literary whiteness" and "literary blackness" made, and what is the consequence of that construction? How do embedded assumptions of racial (not racist) language work in the literary enterprise that hopes and sometimes claims to be "humanistic"? When, in a race-conscious culture, is that lofty goal actually approximated? When not and why? Living in a nation of people who decided that their world view would combine agendas for individual freedom and mechanisms for devastating racial oppression presents a singular landscape for a writer. When this world view is taken seriously as agency, the literature produced within and without it offers and unprecedented opportunity to comprehend the resilience and gravity, the inadequacy and the force of the imaginative act.

- Toni Morrison, "Preface" to Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

[horsesarecreatures]

“This is an original 1960 photo of Bald Eagle and Sam the Flamingo at Hialeah Race Track. Bald Eagle was owned and bred by Captain Harry F. Guggenheim and his Cain Hoy Stable. He was by Nasrullah out of Siama, who was the 1960 Broodmare of the Year, by Tiger, a stakes winning son of Bull Dog. Bald Eagle was a full brother to One-Eyed King, the winner of the 1959 and the 1960 Donn Handicap; and a half brother to: Dead Ahead, the winner of the 1962 Roamer Handicap; and to the unraced Whistle a Tune who produced Batucada, the Mexican Champion Two Year Old Filly; the Mexican Champion Three Year Old Filly and the Two-Time Mexican Horse of the Year. Bald Eagle made 29 starts with 12 wins 5 seconds 4 thirds earning $689,556. At two in 1957 in England, he won the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes. At three in 1958 in England, Bald Eagle won: the Dante Stakes; the Craven Stakes over Nagami, the winner of the 1959 Coronation Cup, and Pinched, the winner of the 1957 Royal Lodge Stakes. He finished third in the St. James's Palace Stakes behind Major Portion and Guersillus. At four in 1959 in the United States, Bald Eagle won: the Suburban Handicap over Talent Show, the winner of the 1959 Boardwalk Handicap, and Plion, the winner of the 1959 Whitney Stakes; the Washington D. C. International Stakes over Midnight Sun, the winner of the 1959 Prix Lupin; and Tudor Era, the winner of the 1959 Hialeah Turf Cup; the Gallant Fox Handicap, while setting a new track record, over Whodunit, the winner of the 1959 Sunset Handicap, and Whitley, the winner of the 1959 Excelsior Handicap; and the Saratoga Handicap over Grey Monarch, the winner of the 1959 Eclipse Handicap, and Amerigo, the winner of the 1957 Coventry Stakes. He finished second: in the Aqueduct Handicap to Hillsdale and ahead of Tick Tock, the winner of the 1957 Sport Page Handicap; and in the Manhattan Handicap to Round Table and ahead of Coloneast, the winner of the 1958 King Philip Handicap. Bald Eagle was third in the Massachusetts Handicap behind Air Pilot and Day Court, the winner of the 1959 Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap. At five in 1960, he won: the Washington D. C. International Stakes over Harmonizing, the winner of the 1960 Man O’ War Stakes, and Zabeg, the winner of the Russian Derby; the Gulfstream Park Handicap over Amerigo and On-and-On, the winner of the 1959 Ohio Derby, with Sword Dancer finishing fourth; the Metropolitan Handicap, while setting a new track record, over First Landing and Talent Show; the Widener Handicap, while setting a new new track record, over On-and-On and Talent Show with Sword Dancer finishing seventh; the Aqueduct Handicap, while setting a new stakes record, over Intentionally, the 1959 Champion Sprinter, and Warhead. Bald Eagle was second: in the Man o' War Stakes to Harmonizing and ahead of Sword Dancer; and in the McLennan Handicap to On-and-On and ahead of Tudor Era. He was third: in the Jockey Club Gold Cup behind Kelso and Don Poggio, the winner of the 1960 Gallant Fox Handicap; and in the Woodward Stakes behind Sword Dancer and Dotted Swiss, the winner of the 1960 Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap. Bald Eagle was named the 1960 Champion Handicap Horse. He began his stud career in Kentucky and then stood stud in France from 1971 until his death in 1977. At stud his best were: San San: the 1972 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Too Bald: the winner of the 1986 Bed O’ Roses Handicap and who was the 1986 Broodmare of the Year and the dam of Exceller and top sire Capote. Barely Once: the winner of the 1969 St. Louis Derby”

- Horse racing Legends

[hippography]

This is an original 1964 photo showing Carry Back’s first foal. She was named VIP and her dam was Stefanne by Eight Thirty. Stefan it’s the 1943 Champion Three Year Old Filly was her second dam. VIP and her dam Stefanne are shown with Jon S. Bolan in Ocala. She was unraced with her best foal being Dust Wave by Dust Commander who won the 1979 Harvest Handicap. 

Horse racing Legends

[track2hack]

18.03.2023

Two new schoolers have arrived! 💪

The top is a 7yo trotting mare called Sandy, she’s a solid chunk of meat 😍 She’s been spelled for 6 months after retiring off the track, 31 starts for 0 placings - best she ever came was 5th!

Bottom is Rocket, he’s a 4yo gelding by Pet Rock(USA) who I’ve never heard of before but the sire is by A Rocknroll Dance so he should be fun 🤷‍♀️ He’s unraced and untrialled so very much greener than the usual standardbred!

Both are plain bays (good thing it’s my favourite colour 🙈) but Rock is very much taller and slimmer! 😂

They’ll be quarantined for the month before I do anything with them as Rock looks like he has a bit of a skin condition on his shoulder, then I’ll get cracking!

[silly-fox-in-sox]

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The G2 Wood Memorial looked like it might be a chaotic finish and it sure was with Lord Miles scoring at 59-1.

Arctic Arrogance and Uncle Jake battled early with Dreamlike,Lord Miles and Hit Show sitting right behind that group. When Uncle Jake dropped anchor and Arctic Arrogance started to weaken, the maiden Dreamlike was the first to take over, but Hit Show and Lord Miles just a step behind and the three colts battled to the wire with Lord Miles getting his nose down first and Hit Show holding onto second by a head. It was a long way back to Arctic Arrogance in 4th.

This was Lord Miles 2nd win from 5 races – his first since breaking his maiden on debut back in November. Before this, he was 6th in the Holy Bull, a troubled 5th in the Tampa Bay Derby and third in the Mucho Macho Man.

Lord Miles is by the great, classic sire Curlin and out of the Majestic Warrior mare, Lady Esme. Lady Esme is an unraced daughter of Come a Callin, making her a half-sister champion 2yo filly Caledonia Road and multiple graded stakes winner Officiating. Lord Miles is definitely bred to be a good one.

[immanuelwhowillready]

Like states and Russia we believe backgrounds from ethics anywhere in the world I live in one spot. I'm not friends from Ireland, Iceland- Romania and two other locations I believe that these places even believe in ethical gatherings of All sorts in and allowed to live together. Israel is likely to have the same beliefs if you can get Palestinians to agree with these terms except just like Israelis to accept the fact of different beliefs and still live in the same land. Putin just like the United States president speaks of unracism in these terms of these beliefs of people gathering. I think you can get these people to agree with these same things. Find a common belief of peace. We all would see a difference in the land not war.

[blankblyke]

Omg they all unracismed

[clbphotography3]

Alleged

Unraced Alleged worked 5F in 1:00.20.

[f0xd13-blog]

We are the UNRACEABLE AHAHAHAHAH it be like the untouchables but nobody can touch our race I guess

[therehavebeenstranger]

Singularity

by Marissa Davis

after Marie Howe

              in the wordless beginning

iguana & myrrh

magma & reef          ghost moth

& the cordyceps tickling its nerves

& cedar & archipelago & anemone

dodo bird & cardinal waiting for its red

ocean salt & crude oil         now black

muck now most naïve fumbling plankton

every egg clutched in the copycat soft

of me unwomaned unraced

unsexed          as the ecstatic prokaryote

that would rage my uncle’s blood

or the bacterium that will widow

your eldest daughter’s eldest son

my uncle, her son           our mammoth sun

& her uncountable siblings         & dust mite & peat

apatosaurus & nile river

& maple green & nude & chill-blushed &

yeasty keratined bug-gutted i & you

spleen & femur seven-year refreshed

seven-year shedding & taking & being this dust

& my children & your children

& their children & the children

of the black bears & gladiolus & pink florida grapefruit

here not allied but the same        perpetual breath

held fast to each other as each other’s own skin

cold-dormant & rotting & birthing & being born

in the olympus           of the smallest

possible once before once

(via poets.org)

[barrylewis]

#deadend #gravelbike #gravelride #allcitycycles #spacehorsedisc #justride #unracer https://www.instagram.com/p/B_bnEelD29V/?igshid=1epiiwisygv5r

[ofrosessusansandcarnations]

You know I’ll give credit to the My Racehorse people whoever is advising them . Is advising them to horses who at the very least look the part.

They sent out an email about an unraced 3 year old prospect by the name of Carrothers. Including a sale photo of him along with a bunch.

And yeah that’s one good looking horse

I probably won’t buy into it just because I’m trying to limit what I do. And if I buy into an unraced it will be someone who is CA based

But damn if he doesn’t look good

[track2hack]

is he a retired racehorse or an unraced horse?

Ziggy is unraced but because he’s been on the track and trained as a racehorse he’s still considered a retired racehorse, just wasn’t fast enough to actually get to the races!