Comments on: What were the greatest moments in Breeder’s Cup history?

By: Kevin Stafford

Kevin Stafford — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:01:27 +0000

Man I wish I had been into horse racing as a kid and watched Personal Ensign vs. Winning Colors live. What a race!

Don’t worry Val, I had to edit the post after noticing I originally called Personal Ensign “Personal Emblem.”

Alysheba, Miesque, and Arcangues are solid choices as well. I wonder if you can vote twice?

Did anyone else notice that Curlin/Big Brown video posted by anonymous? Made me chuckle a bit. Curlin to Big Brown: “Tom Durkin just called and said you finally crossed the finish line in the Belmont.’

Classic!

By: gerald curry

gerald curry — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:54 +0000

valarie fantastic choices you know your racing. i remember watching personels race and wondering where she was and then she was suddnlly there it was really the best bc race ever. winning colors was at the top of her game and was beat.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:00:23 +0000

Alysheba’s win in the dark was pretty cool.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:14:37 +0000

Oops, Personal Flag was a “he”…I had Personal Ensign on the brain

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:13:58 +0000

I also had Personal Ensign’s victory over Winning Colors as number 1, but number 2 for me was Arazi running away with the Juvenile in 1991—he was bigger than Big Brown in that race, and crashed just as hard in the ’92 Kentucky Derby. But that Juvenile race was a beauty to behold! My number 3 is Ouija Board’s second F&M Turf victory in 2006; that field she beat is surely one of the finest collections of female turfsters in BC history—Film Maker, Honey Ryder, Wait a While, My Typhoon, Mauralakana, Satwa Queen, and Dancing Edie. In fourth place, for me, is Cigar’s ’95 Classic win, completing his undefeated season, and in fifth place is Lady’s Secret winning the 1986 Distaff, and Horse of the Year. She was amazing, with 8 grade 1 victories that year, plus this daughter of Secretariat won the G1 Whitney vs boys, finished second in the G1 Woodward to Hall of Famer Precisionist (another filly Personal Flag came in third), and third in the G1 Metropolitan and G1 Philip Iselin.