What are some of your favorite songs about horses and/or horseracing? (Perhaps this thread should be in misc?) While I’d rather be on two wheels than four legs, I’ve always been rather fond of:

Bill Staines, Just for Love

Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

Robert Earl Keen Jr.‘s take on Stewball

Garnet Rogers, Denbrae

hmm, strikes me that there’s something by Archie Fisher I might be missing…

From one of the all time great albums, Will The Circle Be Unbroken: the classic equine love song Tennessee Stud!

There is a song I heard in Doolin, Ireland, in a bar that Mel recommended for not ever knowing who might drop in. The song was about a horse that was so many hands high and the singer was….the older brother of a younger man who doesn’t use his given name… can you =think of who it was?

It was Christy Moore who was also a part of the Irish group Planxty that included very talented artists such as Paul Brady, Andy Irvine, Liam O’ Flynn and Donal Lunny. The little brother is Luka Bloom (a/k/a Barry Moore).

Oh and the song is called Ride On from a 1984 album of the same name. There’s actually a lot of Irish songs about their horses. If you’ve ever been to Galway and the races there you know they are crazy about horses in Ireland.

A favorite from high-school is Long Grey Mare, by Peter Green. But crazy enough: its not really about a horse, but rather it’s a blues song that uses a metaphor to talk about a woman! (A man writing a song about a woman? How delightfully absurd.)

The Race is on….George Jones
My Old Kentucky Home/Longfield Avenue…..Mike McGuire

Stewball.  Leadbelly not Peter Paul and Mary.

My favorite is Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Rogers “Happy Trails” from The Roy Rogers Show

Tim O’Brien - Hoss Race from Howdy Skies CD

My favorite is Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Rogers “Happy Trails” from The Roy Rogers Show

I also love that song..So good.

Regards

Zainen

We also love the Preakness—even the name is cool. The last three years have brought us horse names like Big Brown, Curlin, and Bernardini; all of these super horses won this race. Also a Grade One race for three-year old thoroughbreds held in Baltimore, Maryland at the Pimlico Race Course, this race has been called “The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans.” We cheer here watching those horses run this 1-3/16 mile race and can’t wait for that old black-eyed Susan to be hung around the winner’s neck. Mostly, we like betting on this race and being forced to sing Maryland, My Maryland, even if we’re not from there.

john stewart sings a song called ‘let the big horse run,’ in which the singer more or less speaks to penny chenery, secretariat’s owner. i love secretariat and consider him the finest athlete ever.

‘tennessee stud’ is a great song and so is peter, paul and mary’s ‘stewball.’ i used to change the lyrics to that song and sing it to a pretty bay i used to ride.

OH it just has to be Wildfire by Michael Murphy! NOT!

Wild Horses as covered by Gram Parsons w/ the Burrito Brothers,  Robin Williamson or the Stones themselves from Stripped is a purdy good song as well.

Anyway a horse walks into a tavern and sits down at the bar. The bartender sees the horse and says, ” So. why the long face?”

Irish singer Christy Moore’s “Ride On.”

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Regards

bossy31

I really like Bill Staines songs!

I’m a fan of Bill Staines too.  Next time I host the show,  I’ll pick something to broadcast.  The only issue I have with him is that to my taste a lot of the recorded songs are a bit over-produced.  Any suggestions for a straightforward acoustic song from Bill ?