Top 5 BC performances ever

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Johanesburg's Juvie went significantly slower than the Juv Fillies. I doubt it would make the top 100 BC performances ever.

Only if you are basing it on speed figures. First, the 1-2 fillies (Tempera and Imperial Gesture) were pretty good horses in their own right. Second, Johannesburg beat a very deep field that year (Siphonic, Came Home, Officer, Repent, Publication, etc.). Third, it was the cap to a brilliant globe-trotting, and unbeaten juvenile campaign.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Only if you are basing it on speed figures. First, the 1-2 fillies (Tempera and Imperial Gesture) were pretty good horses in their own right. Second, Johannesburg beat a very deep field that year (Siphonic, Came Home, Officer, Repent, Publication, etc.). Third, it was the cap to a brilliant globe-trotting, and unbeaten juvenile campaign.

Publication!?

Imperial Gesutre was like 50/1 in that Juv Fillies - what might have been the deepest Juv Fillies race ever - and she ran fast enough to win the Juvenile.

Macho Uno's Juvenile win over Point Given and Street Cry would rate far above Johannesburg.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Only if you are basing it on speed figures. First, the 1-2 fillies (Tempera and Imperial Gesture) were pretty good horses in their own right. Second, Johannesburg beat a very deep field that year (Siphonic, Came Home, Officer, Repent, Publication, etc.). Third, it was the cap to a brilliant globe-trotting, and unbeaten juvenile campaign.

I would put Favorite Trick's juvy performance over Johannesburg's, with both of them well behind Arazi.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I would put Favorite Trick's juvy performance over Johannesburg's, with both of them well behind Arazi.

Fair enough, although the field for the '97 Juvenile left a lot to be desired once Grand Slam got sliced up in the first turn.

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Lure breaking from the outside, getting wiped out on the first turn and still winning with ease tells me just how dominating a miler he was, especially on firm ground.