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02-16-2007, 11:18 PM
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great losing efforts...
Personal Ensign H. 2004 ... i just watched the replay and what a champion azeri was, they go 1:09.4 and she digs in and gives storm flag flying everything she can handle, i know there are prolly alot better performances then this, but watching this replay makes me remember what a champion she was.
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02-16-2007, 11:46 PM
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I am sure i am alone here, bit I think her connections probably dimiinished her legacy by staying on the west coast and not winning a few other races with her. She was talented, not the most but talented, and she had heart. She would've had a better resume if they had not been scared of her streak.
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02-16-2007, 11:48 PM
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agree with that, i am bias though i saw her live twice at saratoga and both times she ran huge, true champion
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02-16-2007, 11:57 PM
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I was very excited by her performance the day she broke her maiden. She was ignored in the betting, and won sensationally at odds of about 18/1 or so.
For whatever reason, I became less and less of a fan of hers as time wore on. A lot of people got carried away with her performances and accomplishments later on in her career....so much so, that I clearly wasn't a fan of hers at the end. It was like the opposite of how I viewed Xtra Heat. I could barely stand her early on in her career, and just past the mid-way point of her 3-year-old season, after a sensational losing effort to Victory Ride in the Test, I had suddenly become one of her biggest fans.
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02-17-2007, 08:13 AM
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In my opinion the greatest losing effort in history was Seattle Slew in the 1978 Jockey Club Gold Cup. How he ran the opening half mile in :45.1 (with some colt named Affirmed pushing him all the way), and still had enough left in the tank to battle a 10-time G1 winner in Exceller down to the wire in a 12f race is beyond me. If you have never seen the race you should definitely watch it, and even if you have seen it 20 times......you should watch it again.
Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...&search=Search Last edited by miraja2 : 02-17-2007 at 11:43 AM.
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02-17-2007, 08:24 AM
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How about the race at Saratoga between You and Carson Hollow. I don't remember which race it was but that was a sensational race. I think even Durkin said neither one of them deserved to lose or at least something to that effect.
I didn't see the race between Slew and Excelsior but I read about it and wish I did see it. I wish I could get into NYRA's library and create a DVD of the greatest races run on NYRA tracks, think about all of the great ones in the "Video Vault"
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02-17-2007, 10:12 AM
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02-17-2007, 10:40 AM
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