Most Underrated Performances

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Swept Overboard's giant win in the Met Mile came with a perfect trip---I bet him that day---but it was a very impressive race. His 3rd place finish to KG and Caller One at DMR would be a race that would widely appear on a lot of peoples top 5 sprint races over the last 10 years.

Left Bank--ran two monster races before he died--and won a older male championship. The problem I have, is that the horse he beat in both races, never ran again---and some of the horses behind him didn't run back to their form. Left Bank was off-the-charts when he was right---I'm just not so sure his races were all that underrated.

Perfect trip or not, Swept Overboard was sickeningly good that day.

[miraja2]

What about Pleasant Home's victory in the '05 BC Distaff? I think that is the one I would put in place of Discreet Cat. She demolished a field of 12 others (including Ashado) by over 9 lengths and yet - even though it was just a little over a year ago - you seem to hear very little about it. It wasn't as impressive as Inside Information's Distaff in '95....but you hear a lot about that one.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by miraja2

What about Pleasant Home's victory in the '05 BC Distaff?

I actually thought that was one of the weaker Distaff fields---PH ran BY FAR the best race of her life that day---but, I just can't see that race fitting. I tried to avoid Breeders Cup races---and though Inside Information's BC win is much more hyped...I would absolutely use that race before Pleasent Home's race.

II beat, what might have been the toughest Distaff field ever, by a record margin, and ran a faster figure than Cigar did winning the BC Classic that same day.

Banshee Breeze ran a pair of monster races at age 3---she won the Spinister by 12, from off-the-pace at speed friendly KEE, and equaled Bayakoa's stakes record....and she took the monster California filly Manistique apart in the Alabama at Saratoga. Both of those races flirted with making the list.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Banshee Breeze ran a pair of monster races at age 3---she won the Spinister by 12, from off-the-pace at speed friendly KEE, and equaled Bayakoa's stakes record....and she took the monster California filly Manistique apart in the Alabama at Saratoga. Both of those races flirted with making the list.

It's too bad her 3 year old sister is so slow.