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12-18-2006, 01:25 AM
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Best Comeback by a horse in 2006
my vote goes to the lovely filly Round Pond for winning the BC Distaff after a less than stellar campaign filled with so much promise and anticipation. Well deserved for Prado and Matz after what they went through with Barbaro
Maybe not with Stewie and Servis, but Round Pound I love ya girl. Glad you showed you still got it 
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12-18-2006, 01:30 AM
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Half ours!
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12-18-2006, 05:14 AM
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for a racing comeback, you'd be hard pressed to find a better story than round pond.
there's also lava man, who was almost retired last year. yeah, he didn't win the bcc, but only one horse CAN win it. won everything else this year.
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12-18-2006, 08:08 AM
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Badge of Silver for me. Who would have thought that horse would come back at all. Not to mention a third in the Breeders Cup Mile and a 2nd in the Cigar. Not too bad all.
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12-18-2006, 08:46 AM
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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12-18-2006, 08:54 AM
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I completely discredit 2nd place finishes in 5 horse fields, regardless of who you run 2nd to
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12-18-2006, 01:33 PM
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My vote for "Best Comeback" would have to be Lawyer Ron! Having raced ten times last year and winning only two races (which happened to be on 12-9-05 & 12-31-05) and being offered up in a maiden tag race at turway speaks for itself. Yes he is not a "super horse" but he deserves much attention as my comeback horse of the year!!
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12-18-2006, 01:39 PM
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The best 'come back' on the race track I saw this year was by Spooky Mulder! Check out his win at Aqueduct on 11/19/06
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12-18-2006, 10:15 PM
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12-19-2006, 12:57 AM
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I hate to point out the obvious,
but the best comeback of 2006 was Go Deputy. this is a 6YO who I dont remember doing anything in 2005. yet he won a Grade 1 this year and ran 2nd in 3 others. had a really impressive campaign and was just a notch below the best turf runners in this country(EC and Cacique) throughout the course of the year. Repent
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12-19-2006, 02:20 AM
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I see the point you are making though... The horse hadn't won in over 16 months coming into the Breeders Cup, he was defeated soundly in 3 ungraded stakes this year, of his three lifetime wins coming into the BC---two came against Cal Bred company, the other was at Sunland Park....and with a pair of November Grade 1 wins...he's a lead-pipe cinch for champion sprinter honors. What's funny, is that he only ran in the Ancient Title because an allowance race didn't fill. Had that allowance race filled, no matter how impressive the victory...it is VERY unlikely he would have even started in the BC Sprint. Shows you how great our sprinters were this year....that Thor's Echo is a DESERVING eclipse award winner in that division.
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12-19-2006, 04:31 AM
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12-18-2006, 03:00 PM
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Miesque's Approval for me.
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