In no particular order (although my favorite is at the top):

Easy Goer
Sunday Silence
Silver Charm
Skip Away
Unbridled
Barbaro
Holy Bull
Alysheba
Victory Gallop
Tabasco Cat
Serena's Song
Tiznow
Thunder Gulch
Winning Colors
Xtra Heat
A.P. Indy
Favorite Trick
Forty Niner
Afleet Alex
Curlin
Point Given
Go for Wand
Summer Squall
Real Quiet
Bellamy Road (I know this one will baffle people, but if this horse had been able to stay sound, I believe he could have been a great one.)

no ..ten most wanted /rock hard ten...i remenber you bieng a fan of one of those.......

That was Buffy.

sorry.....

got to give rags to riches a shout..winning the belmont and all

Yeah, I realize he was a better 2 year old, but his gutsy Jim Dandy impressed me because he wasn't a horse that liked the distance at all. Definitely not one of the better choices on there, but more one that I enjoyed watching.

Cajun,
I am not one of Smarty's biggest fans....but not even in the top 25?
I would certainly take him over Summer Squall.

Oh wait....never mind Smarty.....I just noticed that you don't have Risen Star on your list.
He is a must as far as I am concerned.

I will get blasted from here to high kingdom if I post how I felt about Smarty (but here you go anyway)... sure, he was a nice horse, but IMO that crop left a lot to be desired. His 2nd place finish in the Belmont was one of the most hard trying races I've ever seen a colt put himself through, but other than that, I just have a hard time including him.

Forgot him to be honest. :o

funny cide,sea hero ,pleasent tap ,freehouse,captain bodget

You crack me up. :D

You won't get blasted by me about Smarty Jones.
He wouldn't be in my top ten, but I am a little shocked to not see him in a top 25.
Truth be told, I thought about including Birdstone in my list but he was a last minute cut. I think he is one of the most underappreciated horses of the last decade. People act like his win that day was a complete fluke when really, on a dry track going 10f or beyond, he was a pretty good colt.


But, let's not turn this thread into yet another one about that race.

Dinard didn't beat Olympio in the Santa Anita Derby, cuz Olympio wasn't in that race. Dinard did beat Olympio as a 3yo by a mere nose in the since defunct Los Feliz, a restricted one mile stakes run early in the SA winter meet.

Dinard bested an off the bench Best Pal twice leading up to the Derby (in two slowly rated races), but his season was cut short by injury. He returned the following winter at SA to get lit up by Olympio in the Malibu (by 9 lengths or so) and followed that up with a drubbing at the hands of Best Pal (in career form at the time) in the Strub Stakes.

Both Dinard and Olympio never ran again after the Strub. Best Pal ran for about 10 more years.

Saarland

This is funny. :D

This is very tricky because we must weigh TC races heavily, but after that how much weight. Obviously the BC... beating older horses... and then are we counting sprinters. So I stuck with the longer horses. And then the tough part about one or two great races and no more but good progeny, it all gets in the way. The order at the top I like, but after that move em around.

Spectacular Bid
Point Given
Affirmed
Sunday Silence
Skip Away
Tiznow
Smarty Jones
Alysheba
Real Quiet
Silver Charm
Thunder Gulch
Easy Goer
Unbridled
AP Indy
Alydar
Holy Bull
Curlin
Funny Cide
Hansel
Afleet Alex

pound away...

Past 20 years, Pgardn.

The Bid would have been at the top of my list all all time greats. Love that horse!