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01-01-2015, 05:42 PM
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Your favorite race of 2014 (?)
What was your favorite race of 2014 and why?
Please include as much (or little) info as you like and a replay if possible! Mine was the 2014 Zabeel Classic at Ellerslie on the 26th of December. A G1 race with a stellar field, Soriano (6-5-10 from 38), a 4 year old mare who has been a bridesmaid SO many times, won it beating home an all-star cast of so many G1 winners it was dizzying. Embarrassingly for me I'd have to run it by ed and ask the combined total of G1 wins and horses in that field... it is probably a staggering number. Anyway, this is the race...  http://www.nzracing.co.nz/RaceInfo/4...ce-Detail.aspx Who wants to go next? 
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01-01-2015, 07:59 PM
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BC Sprint. Have been a Work All Week fan since I saw him romp in an allowance race at Arlington Park in May 2013.
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01-01-2015, 08:51 PM
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I have two.....one that I saw live and the other on simulcast at Santa Anita.
Game On Dude's 2014 Santa Anita Handicap was just a thing of beauty for me. It was probably the best race he ever ran, and he became the first 3-time winner of the Big Cap......and he did it at 7 years of age! The other one was California Chrome's Derby win. It wasn't just the fact that he won the Derby, but what happened at Santa Anita when he did. The place felt like it was coming down from the roar of the crowd....just about anywhere you were standing. Zenyatta's win in the BC Classic is the only thing that I can equate to it, but that happened live. 'Chrome's Derby win happened 2500 miles away and was watched on a bunch of TV screens. I'm not sure that you can ever experience anything like that anywhere else in sports.
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01-01-2015, 11:16 PM
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01-02-2015, 05:53 AM
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My vote goes to the G1 Santa Anita Sprint Handicap. A Hong Kong horse with a French jockey comes to Arcadia and beats Goldencents and Secret Circle in a thriller.
Quite possibly also the best ride of 2014. Watch Deleuze recognize the 4-wide speed duel develop in the first quarter and he wisely pulls Rich Tapestry back along the rail. He sees Goldencents is 4-wide and accelerating. Waits to top of the stretch and just follows behind him and out sprints him to the wire with a fresher horse. http://youtu.be/OJ8-HypIBj0 Cheers! Otis
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#12
01-02-2015, 07:34 PM
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Shadwell turf was pretty good
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01-07-2015, 02:55 PM
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There are a few races I loved in 2014, but the New Zealand Derby has to be at the top of the list. Puccini had won all the major prep races by going wire to wire, but everything was thrown up in the air when he was slow out of the gates and ended up stuck near the back of a big and strung-out field. He made a crazy mid-race move and the rest is history. Runner-up Rising Romance ended up being an okay horse... http://www.nzracing.co.nz/RaceInfo/4...ce-Detail.aspx Honourable mentions: Irish Champion Stakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KMUOqlg0Z0 Treve's Prix de l'Arc repeat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqRZFdJxyTc BC Turf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxTWGiU1hrg The Turf was special for me because I saw Main Sequence run in the 2012 Derby when I was over in the UK.
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#14
01-08-2015, 11:00 AM
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GREAT field. MY favorite of the year by far and especially seeing Soriano finally do what we knew she could do. Puccini's Derby... great choice! Can't wait to see who wins this year... so many really nice 3YOs.
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