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

Galloping Grocer

Bag (won his first start in 1:08 4/5 I believe)

Arazi (most mismanaged horse ever; would have gone down as an all-time great)

Dehere, Event of the Year, King Glorious, Java Gold, Dinard (all horses that I felt would have been Derby winners if not forced to miss the race do to injury or illness)

Dehere went on to be a very good sire down here so im not suprised he was in the mix for the derby.

Flower Alley too -- thought he would really be strong as a 4 year old. Tough time even getting him back to the track and then he did nothing.

by biggest one-day dissapointment was point given's derby.
i had been telling everyone i knew that this was the best horse in the last 20 years and i placed the single largest straight win bet of my life on him in the derby.
it turned out he was a great horse, but for whatever reason, he just didn't have it that day.

Disappointing that Cigar was sterile.

I was terribly disappointed that Point Given was retired with a minor injury instead of giving it a go at 4. There are a lot of them that fall into that category, but I really thought PG was getting better as he matured.

I was in the same boat. It's the only time I thought my Derby horse couldn't lose (Silver Charm was close). To make matters worse, I had PG wheeled solo on top of all my bets including one that had Monarchos and Invisible Ink underneath. Even with chalk on top, Ink on the bottom would have put me at the IRS window.

I still have not gotten over the retirement of Vindication. :(

Smarty's Belmont, Secretariat's Whitney, Carry Back's Belmont, and Lawyer Ron.

Declan's Moon managed to disappoint AGAIN and his "career" continues to fester.

After pressing the pace yesterday in a $40K allowance that was MEANT to give him confidence and somehow catapult him back into stakes races, this fraud managed to come in dead last, losing so badly that the camera didn't even linger long enough to catch him prance across the finish line.

me too, what a horse !! I had chance of visting him in 2005..looked to me he was ready to go two years after his retirement. I hope he makes a great sire !!

although i have many disappointments as far as recent retirements:

Bernardini
Ghostzapper
Mineshaft (should have run BCC'03)
Afleet Alex
Empire Maker
Point Given
Barbaro (I was never a fan, but I know he is a damn good fighter)


my biggest disappointment is that Citation, the greatest champion ever!!! was before my time. And there won’t be another.

your screen named reminded me that my biggest disappointment was not actually point given's derby, but rather a 6-way tie between every race that bernardini won.

Oh Kingie, look!

Your boy!

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/...e-near-Oshkosh

:D

That is awesome!

Tell me the truth...

Can you ever ever ever see the name of that horse and not think of King?

I'll be on my deathbed and someone will say Galloping Grocer and...

Oh wait that won't happen so never mind. :D

Wickedly Perect last year - Wins -Hurt - Sold - Exported to Japan

A.P. Indy scratching out of the Derby... he was the nuts.

The funny part about this is that the article says when the "illustrious" racing career ended. Did they not see this piece of crap race?

My biggest disappointment was Secretariat not running at four, understand the reasons but...oh, what might have been!

Candy Ride retiring after only one race in America. That was one monster performance in PC at Del Mar. Passed Megdalio D'Oro as if he was standing still.