Biggest Racehorse Dissapointment
 

I know we go on about our fav horses but watched a mare today that ive followed since a 2 year old"well breed "cape cross" ( won its trial by 13 lengths) come second in a bush meeting for fillies & mares.
So Cape Belle (NZ) you get my BIGGEST you suck as a racehorse award !!!:cool:

Is the GREEN MONKEY a "disapointment" yet or is there still time for an accounting worthy of the ransom.......I mean price!!!!

Every time I get my virtual stable notification for Defer, the word disappointment comes to mind.

Mine is Private Vow. I loved this racehorse and I thought he would be a derby/bc classic winner. But he has turned out to be a little below avg.

If this is counting all time. Then mine would be Dollar Bill. Love that horse going into the Derby and has nothing but crap luck ever since. Of most recent memory that would have to be Flower Ally. I don't think I need to go into the reasons why.

Accelerator...

Master David... my derby pick. :o

It's a tossup between Johannesjoke and Kafwain the Cow.

how about Declan's Moon and Bellemy Road.

It doesn't get any better than that. Especially since we got to watch DM look like a bored show pony just a couple of weeks ago.

dont say anything about the Green Monkey yet until he races and is awful or he is retired....anything could happen

It's the Monkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am usually more disappointed in people than I am horses.

My biggest disappointment was when Vision & Verse just could NOT get by the mighty Lemon Drop Kid in the Belmont

but I would have to say the $16 mil Green Monkey is up there

Buckpasser's retirement.

Hmmm.... I'd have to say Fusaichi Samurai would definitely be one of the most disappointing racehorses. He sold for 4.5 million bucks, broke his maiden on the first try, was laid off for several months, came back and finished last in his second race, and hasn't been sighted again. What a waste.

This might seem crazy, but in 2003 it seemed like everyone thought that Empire Maker was a lock to win the Triple Crown. He was so royaly bred that he was supposed to cruise to the triple crown, like the way he cruised in the Florida Derby and the Wood. We all know what happened there. I know people are going to think I am crazy to think that a horse who won 3 grade 1 races including a triple crown race in 8 lifetime starts and also hit the board in every start he made was a dissapointment. But for me he was. I bought into the fact he was that he was going to cruise to the crown that year. I do realize that it wasn't the strongest 3 year old crop that year. Even more the reason why he was going to cruise. He was supposed to the next superhorse. The next thing I knew he was retired at the ripe old age of 3. Never made the Travers or the Breeders cup. Never knew the story about the foot injury, was it fact or fiction? It just seemed that they couldn't wait to get this horse into the shed. For me, it was very dissapointing.

When Tontine Too ran his dull race,I'd say that I was as disappointed with a horse as I have ever been.I had thought he was such as tough-minded little horse,and he was just flat as can be (in that November race.)He showed his true ability today though.That horse that showed up today is a tough,tough individual to beat.

Rockport Harbor. Say what you want about the fact that his biggest win came against Galloping Grocer in the Remsen, but that horse had all the makings of a really good one. He won the Remsen on virtually 3 hooves and was never the same. I remember looking at that injury that day and thinking it was a nasty gash. I had no idea at the time, that it was a career ender. It can be a cruel business sometimes, can't it.

Snaafi Dancer

In 1983(I believe) Sheikh Mohammed paid 10.2 for the yearling Snaafi Dancer. He made 0 starts and had 0 fertility. Talk about a disappointment.

More currently it's disappointing to me to see Declan's Moon in an allowance at Golden Gate.

At the time, the world's most expensive yearling...
Houston ('89) D.Wayne Lukas