Flashy Maiden Wins?
 

What is the most impressive maiden win you have witnessed?

Historically speaking, I'm sure it wouldn't rank among the most impressive, but Big Brown's was the best I've seen.

Funny cide had an impressive maiden win.

Formal Gold. Beyer 112, I believe.

First one that comes to mind was Bag. I'm sure I'd come up with others.

Formal Gold, Pulpit and Curlin come to mind.

Unbridleds Song, Lakeway

It was one of the all-time slowest Saratoga debut wins ever.

Where is the novel on Discreet Cat I was expecting?

For some reason I remember Forest Camp.

Officer?

Loved Red Ransom's too. And Paradise Creek.

lion heart

beat me to it.

That 64 Beyer he earned really blew me away.

If the Hough horse hadn't had early trouble, Scipion would have been second.

I'm shocked Nicanor hasn't been mentioned

:rolleyes:

I don't know if it's considered flashy, but Artie Schiller came from the clouds to get a horse on the wire.

He was the inspiration behind starting the thread.

Discreet Cat's was strong ... but there are many great ones that are very hard to seperate.

Ghostzapper had a great debut win .. I know I sent Kiri's the tape of it for Youtube.

Artie Schiller's and Riskaverse's were two of my favorite turf ones .. but neither were crazy fast.

Badge Of Silver had the best one I've ever seen in the 4.5f Keeneland races. Chilukki from the early season CD 2yo races.

Formal Gold's 112 Beyer is the fastest ever for a debut.

Many of the ones already mentioned had great ones. Tiz Wonderful had a pretty forgotten recent great one.

As for flops..the Pletcher filly Tugger ran a 111 and only managed to win a Grade 3 ... she was a tremendous flop. Straight Man ran a 109 in his debut .. and though he did win a Grade 2 stake and just missed in a Grade 1 beating a last out Breeders Cup Classic winner ... he was certainly a flop.

Riskaverse?

You have to be kidding. Granted, obviously you bet her at 10:1 ( as did I ), but she had a perfect trip up the fence.

She isn't a big named horse by any means but Donnaguska's at Hawthorne was pretty sweet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6vm7TIvrI

I thought her turn of foot was pretty explosive ... turf sprint debut wins are hard to gauge.

Turn of foot?

Oh shut up.

I don't know how this conversation didn't end when Formal Gold was first mentioned.

Give me a better performance by a filly in a 2yo turf sprint that time of year?

Aquired Cat?

Cure The Blues and Private Terms are the two I remember as the most impressive.
Jameela won her maiden race by a neck over another firster named Alto Pride in a stretch duel that would be memorable in any graded stakes race.It was 9 lengths back to the third horse Dress Ship,a Buddy Delp trained niece of Ruffian who was odds on.
What made that race most memorable for me is that I learned how to box exactas after that race.I held a $2 Alto Pride/Jameela exacta worth nothing.It paid close to $600 the way it came.

Miss Union Avenue.

So as to beat DrugS to it.....Jameela was the dam of Gulch.

Ah, debut races witnessed in person? I can't say I've seen anything memorable, like, ever.

Whomever wins the 2nd at Belmont today will surely eclipse any of the aforementioned stars.. Wow this is some race of champions..

You will always remember the name Quiet Jet after this event.

i don't have the pp's for today, how many times has Western Decision started now? 30? 40? 50?

Another big Sciacca performance in the 1st... Shouldn't they let his stock get a running start about a pole ahead of the others?

I billion times 19k in earnings..

Ever seen or seen live there is no doubt in my mind it was Zippy Chippy in August 2001 at Frontier Field in Rochester. A brilliant performance.

tongue in cheek as far as standout flashy ..... but I made a couple of bucks on Snapshot at Gulfstream this past winter... he's in an Allowance in the 4th this Saturday at Belmont

I am guessing the BSF will come back 42 and 48 that was breathetaking 1.14 and high change just wonderful stuff

More Than Ready did a great 5f.