I only had time for a rough count, but it's definitely up around 10 G1 wins. And most of the non-G1 winners were repeat G2 performers. That really was a top field.

There are a few races I loved in 2014, but the New Zealand Derby has to be at the top of the list.

Puccini had won all the major prep races by going wire to wire, but everything was thrown up in the air when he was slow out of the gates and ended up stuck near the back of a big and strung-out field.

He made a crazy mid-race move and the rest is history. Runner-up Rising Romance ended up being an okay horse...

http://www.nzracing.co.nz/RaceInfo/4...ce-Detail.aspx


Honourable mentions:
Irish Champion Stakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KMUOqlg0Z0
Treve's Prix de l'Arc repeat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqRZFdJxyTc
BC Turf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxTWGiU1hrg

The Turf was special for me because I saw Main Sequence run in the 2012 Derby when I was over in the UK.

Yeah I thought maybe 9 or 10 G1 winners but then couldn't even count how many G1 wins between them.

GREAT field. MY favorite of the year by far and especially seeing Soriano finally do what we knew she could do. :)

Puccini's Derby... great choice!

Can't wait to see who wins this year... so many really nice 3YOs. :)