the 2007 Belmont Stakes immediately went into my "top" list along with the victory gallop/behrens whitney, point given belmont, and others.

Yes, I think RTR in the Belmont will be one of my favorites too.

you will probably say this many times in the years to come.

if i had a dollar....

Affirmed beats Alydar again in the Belmont. I had such absolute faith in 'Affirmy', but Alydar made me sweat.

One of my favs is the 2004 Jockey Club Gold Cup with Funny Cide. Might've been his last good race (which is sad). Ghostzapper ended up puttin him in his place a few weeks later, but I love this race-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYwNpWBX0G4

Really good video and audio quality for this one.

My other is Tiznow/Sakhee '01 BC Classic stretch duel.

Even though we all know the outcome, at the top of the stretch when the caller shouts out "Alydar's got his nose out front" my heart skips a beat and I get butterflies. What a race!

I only chose races which were in my lifetime, and while that technically was I was too young to remember it- but I completely agree with you. Incredible series between two incredible horses.

You are so right, he was just coming into his own. He could run at almost any distance and had so much heart. I was absolutley sick when he had to be put down. I thought that he was on the road to being one of the greats in the sport.

04 Derby and Secretariat's Belmont......I've told this story on here before, but one of my favorite memories with my Dad was the day Big Red won the triple crown....I actually didn't see the race because I had a little league game. My Dad was asst coach and dropped me off at the field and then went back home to watch the Belmont. He got to the game just as we were coming to bat in the first inning....I hit lead off and got on, stole 2nd, kid gets a hit and as I'm rounding 3rd, my Dad was coaching 3rd and he hits me on the butt and yells out Secretariat by 30 and I scored standing up....seems like yesterday.....

Secretariat's triple crown races. Big Red will always be "Super Horse" to me!
#2- Afleet Alex's Preakness and Belmont. Alex's Preakness is second to Big Red's Belmont for amazing to watch.

Better Talk Now winning the BC Turf, and Pleasantly Perfect winning the BC Classic...

The race that got me into it as a kid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoSYlvz5Knk

He's probably my favorite horse of all time... :)

This one still brings me chills...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPl407d-xYQ

I apologize to the Sunday Silence fans on here... Sunday was a very nice horse, but I always believed that Easy Goer was the better of the two, and it is because of Easy Goer that I am a fan of racing.

What a great rivalry those two had!

Holy Bull's Woodward

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvixU1BNrMA

The final race for The Cliff's Edge..... it always depresses me.

My Favorite
 

the 2000 or 2001 Sword Dancer Handicap

The one where John's Call won

What a race

my most favorite was my first live race. I bet on.

May 29,2000 a 5 Furlong Turf Sprint I placed a 2 dollar wager on Caro's Royalty. and she nipped Show Me the Stage at the wire to win at 4 to 1.

That race also featured the great sprinter HeckofaRalph.

....UnclyTrust would love you long time.....

Secretariat's Belmont. Perhaps the single most dominating performance of any athlete in any sport.

Easy with handing out the "greats" there...possibly consider the word "good" or "my favorite" in place of "great". Heckofaralph was certainly not great when comparing him to other sprinters.

... At least when comparing him to Caro's Royalty....

Loved Strike the Golds derby win

Sept 17, 1994 - 4th at Calder

for me it would be watching smarty jones approaching the wire i nthe Belmont, looking for all the world to be a new triple crown champion, and seeing Birdstone pass him for glory and the whole crowd deflating. i'll never forget that.

I cried for days.

you're kidding....right? i mean, for days? you cried?! hey, i thought smarty was good, the best that year--but come on.

8th at Arlington next Wednesday!

!!!!

getting excited, can't wait to see her run again. just wish it could be in person!

hope those who are able to go enjoy it, and get THE PIC we all want.

Just one...jeez.

1995 Derby Thunder Gulch takes command at the top of the stretch.. just knew it, somehow I just knew it.

Great, now it's not my favorite race of all time anymore.



Thanks for that, my storm kitty. :(

Safely Kept in the 1989 B.C. Sprint and Hal's Hope beating High Yield in the 2000 Florida Derby.

And you always thought they were animated ink blots.

Been watching live and television horse races since birth.

Since we're voting, I'll pile on the 1973 Belmont.

I'll add the 1977 Belmont, because I was the 2nd person to walk in the general admission that morning, and had the best general admission seat to be had to see Seattle Slew win the Triple Crown.

In the category of what may be obscure now...but wasn't 20 years ago.......the 1979 Florida Derby. Spectacular Bid willing himself to a win, despite his jockey almost falling off twice and getting him stopped at least three times. I was there at the track as the storm clouds were building and the sky darkened as it only does in South Florida in the late afternoon.

The 1990 Kentucky Derby. I can watch that replay with Carl Nafzger giving Ms Ginter the stretch call over and over and over. And do.

The 1986 Kentucky Derby. Where Ferdinand's name is never uttered during the race....until he takes the lead in the stretch.

Any of the races I watched Lost in the Fog run.

And the 1965 (or '66?) Ascot Gold Cup (at the long ago closed Ohio Ascot Park) won by Loyal Son, a great grandson of Man O' War. I was on the fence at the finish line for that one. Holding my $5 to win and $5 to place ticket. Age 8 or 9. The win ticket was black, as I recall. The place ticket was red. Purchased necessarily at two separate betting windows. Those were the days! I never had my Mom or Dad go to the "combine" window for me. I thought that was a stupid wager...

Tiznow over Giant's Causeway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdIKDulp-YE

Two years in a row he is in the sights of an oncoming Euro on the OUTSIDE and Tiznow fights to the death and holds form on the inside.

Gallant.

Any John Henry race....

I visited him at the KHP and had a photo taken with him..he bit me.

He's a cranky old fella, isn't he? I saw him there in the 90's and he was full of himself. :D

And didnt you feel special after he bit you? Like you had a badge of honor that John Henry bit you? I told everyone I knew, and the non-racing friends would say "OMG, werent you mad?"...and I looked dumbfounded at them and said "Man, it was JOHN HENRY,he can do what the hell ever he wants to me". :D Kinda like if your a boxing fan and Tyson knocks you down, you cant wait to tell people.

No need to apologize to us. We can always fall back on that HOY award and the fact that Sunday beat your boy three out of the four times they faced. :D Sunday Silence was a lot more more than just a "very nice horse."
He had all the talent of your boy.......but he also had the heart which Easy Goer never did.
I'm not one of those people that talks about "heart" or a horse's "will-to-win" very often, but Sunday is the exception. He had it all.
Then to top it all off.......he kicked Easy Goer's ass in the breeding shed too.
Sunday Silence was and remains, in my opinion, the best 3yo colt since 1979.

My favorite race that I saw in person was the 1987 Haskell Invitational when Bet Twice beat Alysheba and Lost Code. It was the race that put the Haskell on the map.

Favorite race I saw on TV was the 1988 Breeders Cup Distaff
watching Personal Ensign retire undefeated after she looked beat at the 1/16th pole. I still can't believe that she got there first.