All-time favorite Preakness?

[cmorioles]

Silver Charm, it was just a fabulous race.

[somerfrost]

I was at Pimlico to see the Silver Charm race, amazing finish! But my all time favorite has to be the 73 race when Secretariat suddenly decided to take over on the clubhouse turn, railbirds at Pimlico still talk about that move!

[GenuineRisk]

I have such memories of screaming at the tv in '89- Sunday Silence was my pick for the Derby, too, so I was really rooting for him. But that moment when Afleet Alex picked himself back up, pinned his ears and flew past Scrappy T was pretty amazing, too.

Eh, it's a dead heat.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

I was at Pimlico to see the Silver Charm race, amazing finish! But my all time favorite has to be the 73 race when Secretariat suddenly decided to take over on the clubhouse turn, railbirds at Pimlico still talk about that move!

Good call, I think that move was the craziest damn thing I have ever seen.
Making a last to first move on the FIRST turn of a 9.5f, G1 race.....is just nuts. I don't think any other horse in the history of the sport could have accelerated like that, and had enough left in the tank to pull away from a horse of Sham's caliber in the stretch.
The '89 race is my all time favorite race, but the '73 race is my all-time favorite performance by one horse.
I better include that video in this thread as well: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...1973+Preakness

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I better include that video in this thread as well: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...1973+Preakness

Oh my goodness, you have to watch the one entitled "Superhorse in the Preakness" or something like that- the whole race is set to the music from "Superman." Hilarious, and that's not taking anything away from what a great race it is to watch. The editor even made sure it was a big swell in the music when he makes the move at the first turn.

Thanks for posting the link!

[MLC]

The 73 Preakness is my favorite. If you want to go way back, the 62 running was featured in Sports Illustrated. The jockey on Ridan was Manny Ycaza (considered the dirtiest rider at that time). Greek Money was inside of him and ridden by Johnny Rotz. The featured picture showed Ycaza's elbow in Rotz's chest. Greek Money won.

[2Hot4TV]

Snow Cheif

Originally Posted by MLC

The 73 Preakness is my favorite. If you want to go way back, the 62 running was featured in Sports Illustrated. The jockey on Ridan was Manny Ycaza (considered the dirtiest rider at that time). Greek Money was inside of him and ridden by Johnny Rotz. The featured picture showed Ycaza's elbow in Rotz's chest. Greek Money won.

You left out the punch line: Ridan claimed foul!

[MLC]

That's a major senior moment for me. I'm really embarrassed.