Your favorite race of 2014 (?)

[Soaring Softly]

I have two.....one that I saw live and the other on simulcast at Santa Anita.

Game On Dude's 2014 Santa Anita Handicap was just a thing of beauty for me. It was probably the best race he ever ran, and he became the first 3-time winner of the Big Cap......and he did it at 7 years of age!

The other one was California Chrome's Derby win. It wasn't just the fact that he won the Derby, but what happened at Santa Anita when he did. The place felt like it was coming down from the roar of the crowd....just about anywhere you were standing. Zenyatta's win in the BC Classic is the only thing that I can equate to it, but that happened live. 'Chrome's Derby win happened 2500 miles away and was watched on a bunch of TV screens. I'm not sure that you can ever experience anything like that anywhere else in sports.