Top 5 greatest failures I've seen among racehorses

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Originally Posted by Kasept

I don't know... Why? He delivered one of the great, if not the greatest, Derby prep performances ever in the Wood win, fractured a bone in the Derby and was basically finished.

Doug's premise is more horses that kept running and just never capitalized on their previously displayed talent. The injury aspect in this discussion is paramount because it's the fastest horses, and horses who stress themselves with enormous effort, that typically get hurt...

Steve, the derby was a dissapointment admittidely and the injury is a justifiable reason, I thought the Travers would have been the race where he could redeem himself, he did run a good second to Flower Alley. But perhaps unfairly so he was so hyped after that 120 beyer in the Wood Memorial that he would always run in the shadow of that race and anything less would be a dissapointment to some.