Failed Triple Crown Attempts

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

save the fact that just about any of the horses in this list ,would trounce the rest o of this field for fun on 08

War Emblem beaten by Sarava.
Bid beat by Coastal.

Stuff happens.

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

War Emblem beaten by Sarava.
Bid beat by Coastal.

Stuff happens.

true..but war and sarava would beat all these in o8.save bb imo

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

true..but war and sarava would beat all these in o8.save bb imo

I'm not sure I could have found Sarava that year if he was standing right in front of me even using both hands and a flashlight.

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

I'm not sure I could have found Sarava that year if he was standing right in front of me even using both hands and a flashlight.

he didnt wink at you..

[Holland Hacker]

Originally Posted by Cardus

From Amberoid forward, only Birdstone didn't run well in his prior start.

As Nick Zito said he ran eigth not eigthteenth. Throw iin the fact that he threw a shoe in the derby and his race before the belmont wasn't horrific.

[Thunder Gulch]

Originally Posted by Cardus

Yes, I know about the shoe.

I like how Zito has taken that line -- "eighth, not eighteenth" -- and applied it to Anak Nakal.

During the Preakness walkover, one of NBC's reporter (Neumeier?) asked Zito about Anak Nakal, and he mentioned, "seventh, not seventeenth."

I'm not going to claim to have seen it coming, but Birdstone made some sense in retrospect (don't they all). He had horrible luck in catching a sealed track at Turfway and a sloppy one at Churchill when he couldn't run on the mud.