Ghostzapper charts

Originally Posted by philcski

Vosburgh-G1: 6.5F
Tom Fool-G2: 7F
Met Mile-G1: 8F
Iselin-G3: 9F
Woodward-G1: 9F
BC Classic-G1: 10F

Ghostzapper is a horse who easily could have been undefeated.
His two losses had very legitimate and valid excuses.
Back on our old board at ESPN I wrote a post after his debut in which I proclaimed him to be the next coming.
In his 2nd start he was injured, jammed up a foot, which necessitated his layoff.
In his Kings Bishop loss the track bias was a as crazy powerful towards inside speed as any you will ever see. It the was the kinda bias where even real novices were aware of it early in the card.
He rallied so powerfully against it that you just knew what he was gonna do afterwards.
His Vosburgh was something to watch, boy was that some race.
Though his 4 year old campaign was short in terms of number of races, it was even better in hindsight than it was appreciated for at the time. I myself was worried and not convinced he could go a mile and a quarter after his hard fought Woodward. What we didn't know at the time was that St Liam had turned the corner into a special racehorse during his long layoff that preceeded the Woodward. His BCC win over Roses In May was incredible. he missed going in 1:58:4 by a few hundredths of a second, or by the increased wind resistance of Javier standing up and pumping his fist back and forth down the lane.
His Met Mile may have been his best race though, just an incredible display of sheer power and speed off that long layoff, wow.
Its gonna be hard to see another one as special as him anytime soon.

[Sightseek]

Pity that lightning didn't strike twice with Aristocrat.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Ghostzapper is a horse who easily could have been undefeated.
His two losses had very legitimate and valid excuses.
Back on our old board at ESPN I wrote a post after his debut in which I proclaimed him to be the next coming.In his 2nd start he was injured, jammed up a foot, which necessitated his layoff.
In his Kings Bishop loss the track bias was a as crazy powerful towards inside speed as any you will ever see. It the was the kinda bias where even real novices were aware of it early in the card.
He rallied so powerfully against it that you just knew what he was gonna do afterwards.
His Vosburgh was something to watch, boy was that some race.
Though his 4 year old campaign was short in terms of number of races, it was even better in hindsight than it was appreciated for at the time. I myself was worried and not convinced he could go a mile and a quarter after his hard fought Woodward. What we didn't know at the time was that St Liam had turned the corner into a special racehorse during his long layoff that preceeded the Woodward. His BCC win over Roses In May was incredible. he missed going in 1:58:4 by a few hundredths of a second, or by the increased wind resistance of Javier standing up and pumping his fist back and forth down the lane.
His Met Mile may have been his best race though, just an incredible display of sheer power and speed off that long layoff, wow.
Its gonna be hard to see another one as special as him anytime soon.

I'll tell ya, i happened to be @ Belmont for his comeback race at 3, and it was beyond jaw-dropping. I wish i could find a video of it. He was beaten at least 8 lengths at the top of the stretch in a 6F sprint, and went by them all in a pole without Javier even touching him to win by open lengths. It was truly stunning.

[kenny p]

Originally Posted by philcski

I'll tell ya, i happened to be @ Belmont for his comeback race at 3, and it was beyond jaw-dropping. I wish i could find a video of it. He was beaten at least 8 lengths at the top of the stretch in a 6F sprint, and went by them all in a pole without Javier even touching him to win by open lengths. It was truly stunning.

I too was at that race. My friend owned a pretty fast horse named Uncle Camie. GZ blew him off the track that day. I never bet against him again. KP

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Ghostzapper is a horse who easily could have been undefeated.
His two losses had very legitimate and valid excuses.
Back on our old board at ESPN I wrote a post after his debut in which I proclaimed him to be the next coming.
In his 2nd start he was injured, jammed up a foot, which necessitated his layoff.
In his Kings Bishop loss the track bias was a as crazy powerful towards inside speed as any you will ever see. It the was the kinda bias where even real novices were aware of it early in the card.
He rallied so powerfully against it that you just knew what he was gonna do afterwards.
His Vosburgh was something to watch, boy was that some race.
Though his 4 year old campaign was short in terms of number of races, it was even better in hindsight than it was appreciated for at the time. I myself was worried and not convinced he could go a mile and a quarter after his hard fought Woodward. What we didn't know at the time was that St Liam had turned the corner into a special racehorse during his long layoff that preceeded the Woodward. His BCC win over Roses In May was incredible. he missed going in 1:58:4 by a few hundredths of a second, or by the increased wind resistance of Javier standing up and pumping his fist back and forth down the lane.
His Met Mile may have been his best race though, just an incredible display of sheer power and speed off that long layoff, wow.
Its gonna be hard to see another one as special as him anytime soon.

Very well written. Loved the Javier/wind resistance image.

This is the 2nd recent horse-tribute post of yours that I've enjoyed quite a bit. (Holy Bull was the other)

--Dunbar