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SUNDAY SILENCE/ CIGAR (Why he was not included?)

[Holland Hacker]

Originally Posted by luismanzo

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SUNDAY SILENCE/ CIGAR (Why he was not included?)

Which two Triple Crown races did Cigar win? I must have missed those races.


Also I have trouble picking winner with out a jockey. Who would Gary Steven Riding?

I would take Afleet Alex. I think he is the one of the best horse I have seen run in my life. His move in the Belmont was simply breathtaking.

Originally Posted by Holland Hacker

Which two Triple Crown races did Cigar win? I must have missed those races.


Also I have trouble picking winner with out a jockey. Who would Gary Steven Riding?

I would take Afleet Alex. I think he is the one of the best horse I have seen run in my life. His move in the Belmont was simply breathtaking.

Sorry! You are right . I still Keep Sunday Silence

[miraja2]

If the people on this board are any indication, it looks like Thunder Gulch would not be getting much respect. If he was sitting there at 25/1 or something....I would take a shot at him. It doesn't seem like there would be much value in my all-time favorite Sunday Silence.
Somebody that is good at making lines (ones that actually make sense mathematically) should do a line for this race.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

What's funny, is that Cigar probably could have won the Kentucky Derby if he was entered...even though he was still a maiden at the time.

He was from the pathetic 3-year-old crop that ran in '93. Sea Hero, who had no talent and would have been Giacomo's bitch, won the Derby and Travers that year.

Cigar broke his maiden in career start #2, sprinting on the Hollywood Park dirt. He earned just about the same Beyer for that MSW win that Prarie Bayou would earn for his Preakness win a few days later.

After that fast and impressive maiden win sprinting on the dirt---Cigar would spend the next year and a half making a fool out of himself on the turf. It was very shrewd of Bill Mott to finally put him back on the dirt---I mean wow, what a stroke of genius that must have been. The press seemed to think so anyway.

Cigar actually won 17 in a row on dirt--even though his offical win streak is only 16.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

What's funny, is that Cigar probably could have won the Kentucky Derby if he was entered...even though he was still a maiden at the time.

He was from the pathetic 3-year-old crop that ran in '93. Sea Hero, who had no talent and would have been Giacomo's bitch, won the Derby and Travers that year.

Cigar broke his maiden in career start #2, sprinting on the Hollywood Park dirt. He earned just about the same Beyer for that MSW win that Prarie Bayou would earn for his Preakness win a few days later.

After that fast and impressive maiden win sprinting on the dirt---Cigar would spend the next year and a half making a fool out of himself on the turf. It was very shrewd of Bill Mott to finally put him back on the dirt---I mean wow, what a stroke of genius that must have been. The press seemed to think so anyway.

Cigar actually won 17 in a row on dirt--even though his offical win streak is only 16.

That was a bad crop.
How a horse like Sea Hero managed to win 3 races with the tradition and importance of the Champagne, Travers, and Kentucky Derby.....is beyond me.

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Silver Charm

[randallscott35]

Huh, why are people taking Point Given. He failed. He wasn't even in the Super, and now he's supposed to beat this field?...The most overrated horse in history possibly.

I'll take Sunday Silence or Smarty Jones, and frankly I'd lean towards Smarty Jones. Still shocked he lost the Belmont.

[DJK]

This might be an interesting exercise if we have PPs through June of the 3 yr old year for each horse, with no real names. Because I don't see how it is possible to compartmentalize what we know about each horse's future. Which, for me, makes it pretty hard to look past Sunday Silence, with a fondness for Alysheba.

Nope, not volunteering.

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

1st) POINT GIVEN - still don't know where that rash came from
2nd) THUNDER GULCH - still don't know why he lost the Preakness
3rd) AFLEET ALEX - the "dead rail" that day at Churchill cost him

The top two were solid after the triple crown races and Alex would have been if he didn't get hurt.

[pmayjr]

I gotta go Point Given. I just hope to get 9-2 on him and take it to the bank.