Camarero
 

In August of 1955 - there was a 4-year-old in Puerto Rico who was an undefeated 56-for-56 lifetime - he a winner of Puerto Rico's triple crown the year prior.

He finished his career with 73 wins from 77 lifetime starts - dying days after his final race.

Was he any good? I don't know.

Because I have no charts of his races and pp's for him and his competiton - what's most interesting about him - at least to me - is his pedigree.

His sire Thirteen - a son of a Travers winner - was an ok alw type horse in New York that came up through the claiming ranks.



His dam Flint Maid had a pretty decent pedigree - but was quite the bum while racing at ok tracks like Tropical (Calder) and Pimlico




No luck being able to so much as guess what kind of quality Camarero had - but his pedigree sure couldn't have been more American.

Well, they did name a car after him.

Couldn't have been too bad.

He lost for the first time in his 57th race.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...camarero&hl=en

surely he vies with kincsem as being the best ever!

:tro::D:tro:

Where is he on Somerfrost's best ever list?

He probably didn't make the cut since Somerfrost has a penchant for 19th century horses.

There are a couple of video clips of him anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CML-K...eature=related

Kincsem's one win in England - came as the longest shot in a field of 3 - against two horses who weren't exactly thought of as stars. The strong favorite pointing for that race got sidelined.

An old DRF article I read a while ago from the 1910's talked about how the win 'was considered no big accomplishment by latter-day European turf writers'

He certainly was/is loved in Puerto Rico, understandably.

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/wee...-turns-50.aspx

Imagine if they had the internet and message boards back then.. would we be calling Kincsem's supporters Kin-Tards?

No.

That doesn't flow as nicely as Zenyattard.

How about, instead, Kinscum?

That is, Kin-scum, not the other thing.

There would probably be more message board posters than actual horses who raced during Kincsem's time.

I have no idea how good horses like Camaero or Kincsem were. There are always freaks who can greatly outrun very weak pedigrees - and certainly a good horse can come from anywhere.

People are always going to like undefeated horses with big win streaks. To quote a great old time racing writer ...



Certainly horses like Camaero and Kincsem never came even remotely close to passing that test.

I can't wait for when Pedigee Ann chimes in with her history lesson on South American horses of yester year.

Freddy - you've already jinxed Boys at Tosconova to affliction ... now they're posting videos of Uncle Mo working out on youtube. Whatever was ailing him - and he's certainly got a lot of fragility in his pedigree - it seems like you've jinxed him back to relative soundness.