Canonero II heads to the winner's circle after his shocking win in the 1971 Kentucky Derby

From:	Emotion from my country	(Fri 06 Oct 2006 06:59:43 PM PDT)
Canonero II ran with venezuelan clothes and venezuelan Jockey Gustavo Avila. Canonero was the proud of all venezuelan people

From:	Big Red 101	(Fri 06 Oct 2006 08:44:54 PM PDT)
Viva Canonero!!! The II lol this poor horse was so over run, but he sure gave America quite a story.

From:	Limehousefan	(Fri 06 Oct 2006 09:44:26 PM PDT)
Mr.Campbell almost bought him! To think he missed out on such a horse. He wrote about it,too.

From:	April Renee	(Mon 13 Nov 2006 06:41:27 PM PST)
Oh, how I loved him! He was my first 'star' lol. My dad gave me his SI centerfold poster to hang on my wall, I was ten that year, with Riva and Secretariat's posters to follow! My dad (still!) rocks! Wasn't this the year Hoist The Flag was the Derby hopeful before he was injured? We had followed that story, I still have yellowed clippings from my dad.. any pics of that guy available? He was brought up afew times this year, inspired by Barbaro.

From:	Crimson Saint	(Sat 18 Nov 2006 09:56:00 PM PST)
Yup. 1971 was supposed to by Hoist the Flag's year. There's a picture of him, pre-accident at http://RanchoSanAntonio.com/pic_database/HoisttheFlag.jpg. I'm looking at a picture of him in his paddock in retirement (in an old Thoroughbred Times stallion directory) and can honestly say that both of his hind fetlocks look huge and scary. The right one is at least half again as big as the left. Doesn't take much more than a casual look to tell he survived some serious trauma.