Top 5 best two-surface horses of the last 20 years

[Gander]

You guys are nuts with the Candy Rides and Ghostzapper comparisons.
If Formal Gold and Skip Away were treated like glass figurines like them and given 3 months in between races, they would have run even better.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Gander

You guys are nuts with the Candy Rides and Ghostzapper comparisons.
If Formal Gold and Skip Away were treated like glass figurines like them and given 3 months in between races, they would have run even better.

Formal Gold was very feast or famine ... though the famine version of FG was still good enough to wipe the floor with horses like Macho Again and Bullsbay.

The feast version of FG could thump Cigar or Skip Away on an avg day.

[RockHardTen1985]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Formal Gold was very feast or famine ... though the famine version of FG was still good enough to wipe the floor with horses like Macho Again and Bullsbay.

The feast version of FG could thump Cigar or Skip Away on an avg day.

So in your opinion, who was better Formal Gold or Candy Ride?

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

So in your opinion, who was better Formal Gold or Candy Ride?

One had a single giant race on dirt ... the other had four or five.

One had stretches where he wasn't a monster scattered in between sheer brilliance... the other never was beaten.

It's a tough question to answer because it really boils down to what you value in a horse.

Some people probably don't know that Formal Gold won his debut by 19 lengths with a record debut Beyer of 112.

Some people probably don't know that FG was only a pace factor in that Dubai World Cup race won by the globetrotting turf horse Singspeil off of a layoff.

There was a great FG and an ordinary FG.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

One had a single giant race on dirt ... the other had four or five.

One had stretches where he wasn't a monster scattered in between sheer brilliance... the other never was beaten.

It's a tough question to answer because it really boils down to what you value in a horse.

Some people probably don't know that Formal Gold won his debut by 19 lengths with a record debut Beyer of 112.

Some people probably don't know that FG was only a pace factor in that Dubai World Cup race won by the globetrotting turf horse Singspeil off of a layoff.

There was a great FG and an ordinary FG.

Has anyone found this race online?

When is the last time you've seen a horse run a 126 and lose?! Apparently this was all before the bounce theory too..