Most Underrated Performances

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Let me take the covers off the couch and see what I can muster...Do you take C.O.D?

haha.. his name is Bugatti Reef Danzig out of Watch Out (Mr Prospector). watch out is full to Gold Beauty and half to Prime Minister.

Direct line of Stick to Beauty, Dajur, Maplejinski, Sky Beauty

Progeny has earned over 1 mil on the track. Nobody wants him

[KirisClown]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Drugs what about Honour and Glory's Met Mile. That was some kind of effort battling back.

Good call, that's one you don't see mentioned all that often.. he beat a solid field of older horses that day.

Honour and Glory's King's Bishop was a good one too...

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Drugs what about Honour and Glory's Met Mile. That was some kind of effort battling back.

A race he was the favorite in two starts later just missed the list. Coming out of a 9 furlong race, H&G made the early lead in the A Pheonomian at Saratoga...a half sibling to Caller One named Prospect Bay ran him down late, and just missed the track record. Lite The Fuse was a well beaten 3rd, followed by defending sprint champ Not Surprising and Our Emblem.

Prospect Bay never ran again

[randallscott35]

A Left Bank race or two could make this list. As could some by Swept Overboard.

[miraja2]

Impressive list. The only one I might question is Discreet Cat. I am not questioning that it was impressive......but underrated? It seems like a lot of people are really rating Discreet Cat VERY highly based primarily on that race and his Dubai victory over Invasor etc. Based on that......I wouldn't call it underrated.

[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.

[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.

I automatically have to like it. Congaree. Man I loved this horse and those Miles.

[blackthroatedwind]

Honour and Glory was a really nice horse ( he also won the Met Mile ).

I remember being on the Oklahoma one morning with a friend of mine who's a sucker for info, and we ran into Mike Smith who he was a bit friendly with, and Mike said you can bet my horse in whatever race on Saturday. My friend was far less excited when I told him the 58 work might draw a little attention.

To be honest, considering he won by 10 and was a serious horse, the $4 was a pretty good price.