Your favorite race of 2014 (?)

[geeker2]

I am partial to the Travers...as I had the winner

[South Beach Luv]

BC Sprint. Have been a Work All Week fan since I saw him romp in an allowance race at Arlington Park in May 2013.

[pweizer]

Breeder's Cup Mile for me.

Paul

[Soaring Softly]

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.

[turf fan]

BC Filly and Mare Turf!!
Perfect ride by Javier Castellano.

[freddymo]

Best Performance was Bayern Belmont day (Stephens)
Best Race "drama" Bobby's Kitten BC day

[Revidere]

Met Mile

[casp0555]

Bernard Baruch Handicap, Wise Dan holding off the 11 lb lighter Optimizer. I thyought it was a game win after coming back from the layoff and colic surgery.

[dellinger63]

Prince of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot with Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Fugue mowing down Magician and easily handling the favorite Treve setting a course record of 2:01.90 for a mile and a 1/4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCMiECmOy_A

[Easy Goer Otis]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Prince of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot with Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Fugue mowing down Magician and easily handling the favorite Treve setting a course record of 2:01.90 for a mile and a 1/4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCMiECmOy_A

Hadn't seen that one. The Fugue tons the best!

Thanks,

O

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by geeker2

I am partial to the Travers...as I had the winner

[Easy Goer Otis]

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