Greats
 

Three horses who never got a chance to show how great they might have been: Danzig, Hoist the Flag, and Roberto. All were pretty good in the breeding shed though....

Great horses that i remember from my early days in racing

Forego - carried the weight. Loved to go to Belmont and see him give 10-15 lbs to Quiet Little Table and others...
Affirmed, Alydar, Seattle Slew come to mind right away of course....

Pearl Necklace would not be a great horse but the Roger Laurin trained filly was my first real love in horse racing in New York.... Always competed against Greentree, Darby Dan and Rokeby horses. The good old days...

Loved when Pebbles came to Aqueduct to win the Breeders Cup race from overseas....

Curlin might become great if he is allowed to race. We shall see....

Ghostzapper was fast real fast, have to call him great....

PSH

That's funny you brought her up. I was a big fan of her's as well and I was recently telling someone about what a wonderful horse Waya was and how she dusted Pearl Necklace in that record setting Diana......which was quite an accomplishment.

We'll just see about that! ;)

Great to hear that
 

Believe she was by Ambernash (spelling) - Another Jane and Jeffrey Fell use to ride her? Whatever happened to Jeff Fell???? Maryland bred.

The last "great" horse.....how about the "Bid" , I recall he was in the last "walk over" in a major race.

Wow! That's impressive. Exactly right.....even the spelling.

She ran 48 times with 21 wins, 11 seconds, 6 thirds and won $737K in the 70s which is quite an accomplishment. She won 9 graded stakes races.

What a horse.

She was certainly a better horse than Jeffrey Fell was a rider. I have absolutely no idea what happened to him.

Easy Goer would be in my top 3 from 1987- present.

Okay, Andy. My OPINION is that he was a great horse. The last time I checked there wasn't a definition in the dictionary categorizing what a 'great' horse is. Perhaps I need to get the edition that you have?

I agree. I still question in my mind if he was the best I saw. the 70s were ridiculous with Secretariat, Forego, Ruffian, Seattle Slew, Affirmed, Alydar then the Bid to close out the decade although his otherworldy year was in 1980. I grew up thinking all time greats were produced one or two a year!! I'm quite positive I'll never, ever see anything like the Bid in 1980 again. Because reality is if we ever do get anything like him, they won't run as much as he did.

In my personal opinion I'm a better basketball player than Michael Jordan, a better baseball player than Alex Rodriguez and a better hockey player than Wayne Gretzky.

Hard to believe? Maybe.....but it's my OPINION.













I just bought your dictionary. It was very enlightening.

john henry ran past when the bid retired, and was a great horse. i also would include personal ensign as a great one, as not only did she retire undefeated, she defeated males(one who received year end honors at that) and did much of her racing after breaking a leg.

but when people start talkiing great, i automatically think of those who transcend time.

is skip away dr fager/damascus/citation great? does he match up with kelso, forego, native dancer?

or does he compare more favorably to sunday silence and cigar?

to me there's great-man o war, war admiral, secretariat, ruffian.

then there's cigar, tiznow. no way i'd try to compare them to affirmed, slew, the bid. i just think there's a definite gap there.

Way back when, Jeffrey Fell won an Arkansas Derby, defeating a colt called linkage.,who was like 2/5, With a horse i cant remember his name.He got me out for the weekend with that horse. He paid about 30.00. I remember that because i was dead broke ! I am pretty sure Jeff is in the Canadian Hall of Fame.

Hostage.

Talk about instant answers...lol
faster than google.

I recently took a course at NYU on the history of the Arkansas Derby.

I signed up to meet girls.....and tell the truth about Smarty Jones.

It doesn't get much better from 1973 to 1980.....unfortunately, I really wasn't into playing the horses until '86, but remember those horses well.

and just WHO would be the other; two

He made two starts as a 4YO.

He was better than Silver Charm.