The Decades Most Under Appreciated Race

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Cashier's Dream and You ripped through fractions of 21.65, 44.62, 1:08.71 and battle down to the wire for 6.5 furlongs in 1:15 flat.

I forgot to mention ... that very same day at Saratoga ... a 4-year-old male named Left Bank won by 8 and ran six furlongs in 1:08.53

Basically .. a mid-summer 2yo filly (Cashier's Dream) posted a 1:08.71 six furlong fractional clocking in a 6.5f race, the same day a soon to be champion older male needed 1:08.53 to crush in a 6f race.

Two races later, Left Bank beat next out BC Sprint winner Squirtle Squirt with a 118 Beyer going 7fs.

Left Bank's finest moment came in the Whitney at Saratoga the following year. He shed the sprinters label and held off Street Cry in a 121 Beyer victory.

Cashier's Dream might not be remember as anything other than possibly the best Michigan bred of all-time ... but she was a crazy fast sprinter for Assman. I'm 99.9% sure she still holds the CD track record for 5.5f

[Kasept]

Wow Dougie.. I remember Cashier's Dream. There's a horse I haven't thought about or heard mentioned in forever... Cool choice.

[Duvalier]

Great race. I actually got to witness that race in person...definitely one I'll never forget.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Wow Dougie.. I remember Cashier's Dream. There's a horse I haven't thought about or heard mentioned in forever... Cool choice.

I didn't remember that Cashier's Dream died just a month after her comeback race as a 3yo when she won the La Troienne over Indian Blessing's dam.

Found this write up on the Team Valor website about her:

She confirmed her brilliance in her next start, when she failed by a neck to hold off subsequent multiple Grade 1-winning You in the Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes. Final time of 1:15 is the fastest time ever run by a 2-year-old of any sex and the fastest for the distance at Saratoga since Affirmed ran 1:15 2/5 to win the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes in 1977. Cashier’s Dream had to give 7 pounds in weight to the winner, prompting more than one seasoned veteran to remark that on sheer handicapping Cashier’s Dream had run a better race than the winner.

Daily Racing Form columnist Joe Hirsch, who has been covering Saratoga since the 1940s, described the Adirondack as one of the greatest races in the history of The Spa.

Cashier’s Dream next won the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes by 8 lengths. The quality of the race was confirmed when the hopelessly beaten runner-up came back to win 3 of her next 4 outings, including the Tempted and Demoiselle Stakes by several lengths.

At age three, she returned to her home track, Churchill Downs and won the Grade 3 La Troienne S. in her only start of the year. Tragically, Cashier's Dream died of colic a month later, at age 3, at the height of her career.