Smarty had a lot of heart but Afleet Alex is still my favorite coulda, woulda, shoulda Triple Crown near miss. Smarty came very close and ran his heart out in the Belmont.
Easy Goer and Citation are my faves, because of their 3 year old seasons. I still get thrills watching the Gotham, as Pat tries to hold Easy Goer back, and Easy Goer says "No, it's time to go", and drags him to the front, around the turn, and just pours it on. I have never seen a horse run faster than Easy Goer did in the stretch run!!! He broke Secretariat's record by a whole second!! No fractions, but he missed records in sever races by fifths of a second. Citation beat older horses 7 times out of 7, won 19 out of 20 races, but set no records.
@@brucerobbins6528 makes sense? Couldn’t understand? So you didn’t get that this was horse of a decade, much less that it was for the 00s, with 00 horses, not the teens/10s or ‘20s?
@@bkras483 The post was put up 14 years ago, if you do your math, that was in 2009. A decade is 10 years. The post was put up in 2009. 2000-2913 is more than a decade. 2009 is "LESS than a decade. the whole thing is stupid.
@@brucerobbins6528 clearly this was meant for the aughts (00s I.e.), so Flightline doesn’t belong. Your OP was way off of the intention of this film so was a non-sequitur. BTW, 2009 would’ve been perfectly fine to end that decade of the aughts, and was not too soon. (Not that it matters when clips can be updated here.)
I saw most of these races at an OTB or in person depending where I was at the time. Great memories. Hard to choose just one. I saw Afleet Alex mow them down at Belmont three weeks after this Preakness clip. Seeing that in person was pretty impressive. Shame he came up short in the Derby. All great in their own right.
I remember my dad dropping his whole check on a superfecta. I think it came out 800 bucks. It was a 75 dollar super. We ate good for a couple months lol
So many terrific horses. Ghostzapper the best I've ever seen; Smarty COULD have been at GZ's level but too bad he dropped out. Got to see Invasor in his Whitney. (Rachel incredible female - in the running for tops in the decade, period.)
He was the best of all ! Always will be. The way they breed and race Thoroughbreds today is sad. It’s not about competition anymore, it’s about money. Big business found its way into it, instead of pride of the competition. I have lost interest.
The Drug-free Eclipse Award Champion & Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer will always be the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion, and the most coveted honor and prize is being inducted in the Hall of Fame, and Easy Goer did it drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence needed and was administered performance enhancing drugs to barely beat the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer by the narrowest of margins in a few races. When ss was forced to run drug-free without any drugs (and without ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill) in the only state in the entire country at the time which banned all drugs - and as importantly also banned ss's illegal criminal vet Alex Harthill as well - ss was Crushed by the Drug-Free Hall of Fame Champion Easy Goer. The 3-1 means as much or as little as Noor 4, Citation 1; Beau Purple 3, Kelso 1; Big Spruce 2, Forego 1; Cabrini Green 4, John Henry 0; Darby Creek Road 3, John Henry 0; Gallant Bloom 4, Shuvee 1; Damascus 2, Dr Fager 2; Akureyri 3, Pleasant Colony 1; Formal Gold 4, Skip Away 2; and an endless amount of others. The Classic Distance for the whole world is 1 1/2m, but Easy Goer won G1's drug-free at 7f, 8f, 9f, 10f and 12f with much less time and rest between races and ran many more races; while the drug-reliant and illegal criminal veterinarian Alex Harthill-reliant sunday silence only won G1's with drugs at 9f to 10f with much more time and rest between races and ran far less races!
The litmus test of a champion is winning drug-free without any performance enhancing drugs; & during that era New York was the only state in the entire country that banned all drugs. Plus, as importantly, New York banned the illegal criminal veterinarian of sunday silence Alex Harthill [arrested an endless amount of times for illegally drugging an endless amount of horses]. During that era, it was a huge credit to NY [& the rest of the whole world] that the endless amount of their championship G1 races stood as humongous, gigantic obstacles to drug-dependent horses like ss; and these horses, like ss, and many others, got exposed badly when they were forced to run drug-free with no-drugs at all. ONLY no-drugs drug-free races were/are true championship races. Only the drug-free no-drugs races could/can be called championship races. Only No-drug drug-free races kept/keep the outcomes crystal clear. No-drug drug-free races are the only true tests of champions. That is integrity, honesty, fair play & complete fairness for all. And, Alex Harthill confessed to illegally giving illegal performance enhancing drugs (Clenbuterol, etc) to ss; but he couldn't do so in the only state in the whole country at the time which banned all drugs and banned Alex Harthill as well. New York by far ran/runs the most Prestigious, Championship G1 races in the USA with by far the highest purse money in the country; NY was/is by far the best racing circuit in the USA; champions are crowned and championships are won on the Championship Tracks in New York - they are by far the fairest tracks in the USA in New York, with Belmont Park being by far the fairest of them all, because they are all larger tracks with large, sweeping turns where horses run as fast around the bigger turns as they do on straightaways - (although I will note all these larger tracks in and out of NY with circumferences larger than a mile - Saratoga, Arlington, Hollywood, Hialeah, Aqueduct, Laurel, Woodbine, Atlantic City, Keeneland, Ellis, Colonial, Kentucky Downs, and the new Gulfstream); NY was and still is the Center of Racing in the USA; and most importantly, there are over 200 horses in the Hall of Fame and no matter where they were/are/will be based, 99% of them ran/run/will run in NY for the reasons listed above.
