Pval returns with a million dollar race win

Originally Posted by eurobounce

Could be, but I dont know anyone who needs to spend 30 days in a hospital for a back problem. I like how his head was shaved. Say what you want about him, but that man can freaking ride.

Can you even begin to imagine what status and wealth he would have had he stayed clean?
People forget that he was Sunday Silences rider that year before he went nuts and lost the end of the year mount to McCarron in the Classic. That was 18 years ago.
I'd say had he stayed clean he'd hold every record in earnings that there ever was and there might not have been Jerry Bailey to the extent that there was Jerry Bailey. He would have had a rival to all those big mounts.
Pval is certainly the bigest tragedy in the game. I'd dare say he is the most talented rider to ever sit in a saddle. Too bad he wasted 90% of it.