Flat Racing's Greatest Perfomances

Gringo180

What's yours lads? The most impressive ones I have ever witnessed was the 2 below.

How easily did Montjeu canter all over a top quality field there, what a champion he was.

andyman

bellybuster12

Harbinger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo7pEsp2WKc

bellybuster12

sea the stars,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PXg8nUK3Rs

Gringo180

bellybuster12 wrote: »

Harbinger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo7pEsp2WKc

Awesome. No middle distance horse would of ever got near him that day.

dougal

Arazi in the Breeders Cup Juvenile!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNZn919v6BU

Slattsy

Hawk Wing in the Lockinge


(in work so cant put up fancy clips)

But i nearly creamed myself watching it.

Gringo180

Slattsy wrote: »

Hawk Wing in the Lockinge


(in work so cant put up fancy clips)

But i nearly creamed myself watching it.

I have that clip up in my opening post what a performance.

Slattsy

Sorry, your op is just a load of broken lines to me here.

Good job then

Warper

Arazi in the Juvenile was the most electrifying performance i have ever seen. My hair still stands up when i see it. It is mind-blowing the way he cruised through the entire field with ease and then burst clear. I remember listening to the race on the radio as couldn't see it anywhere and it was incredible. I was only 15 at the time.

Buddy97mm

Warper wrote: »

Arazi in the Juvenile was the most electrifying performance i have ever seen. My hair still stands up when i see it. It is mind-blowing the way he cruised through the entire field with ease and then burst clear. I remember listening to the race on the radio as couldn't see it anywhere and it was incredible. I was only 15 at the time.

Couldn't agree more, I remember watching it not long after getting married and arguing with my wife who was convinced that it was from one of those unrealistic horse movies, where the winner comes from an impossible position, never to be replicated in real life.
Unbelievable performance - as far as I recall, they were able to use some anti-bleeding drug (Lasix?) for the race that couldn't be used in Europe, which may or not have played a part. The horse had a subsequent operation I think, but never quite repeated the heroics of the Juvenile.

nuckeythompson

Johannesburg 2001 breeders cup juvenile

just sticks out for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4iFDVT2isk

Harry Angstrom

Despite not winning, this proved Dayjur to be one of the greatest sprinters of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xgZV9ADl9s

Happier times at York:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gjSz4xaUak

Bangor Billy

Still think you will struggle to better this. Sea Bird wining the Derby on the bridle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bar1ssbSmeI

Ken.

Mine that bird. Kentucky derby 2009. 29 lengths down at half way and won by 7 going away. I'm getting goosebumps even thinking about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jAM7vBJY4

Morgans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V18ui3Rtjz4

califano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XftWWwwSJec

UrbanFret

The benchmark on which all the rest should be judged.

sdoc13

nuckeythompson wrote: »

Johannesburg 2001 breeders cup juvenile

just sticks out for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4iFDVT2isk

Agree pity never carried that form forward.

the groutch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpessb3m-nA

Gringo180

Morgans wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V18ui3Rtjz4

Wow. What a freak. Sham finished stone last there after going the early pace with Secretariat. Got goosebumps watching that cheers.

Ken.

Gringo180 wrote: »

Wow. What a freak. Sham finished stone last there after going the early pace with Secretariat. Got goosebumps watching that cheers.

You really have to watch the first 2 legs of the triple crown to see that Secretariat ran Sham into the ground before they stepped out at Belmont.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Usj3K4oZ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIH1cJqlVKU

Johner

King Frankel, loved these two performances from the freak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-t_gbpGZ2k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr_ChX6Jv4s

shmeee

Went to go to bed an hour ago but this thread has got me stuck on youtube. Great picks lads.

tryfix

Dancing Brave won the 1986 Craven Stakes then.

Finishing up with a fourth in the Breeders Cup in the states.

The greatest season of any modern European horse. He'd have had Frankel for Breakfast. Feel the quality of the horses he left for dead in a long long hard season racing against the very best without shirking any challenge, stars kicked around the place.

newuser89

Frankel was breathtaking but I can't help feeling for excelabration.
If you take frankel away from all those races he would have been a excellent winner of some races in his own right

Bateman

Sea the Stars at the Arc my choice, I'm sure it's been mentioned already

jimjamcos

Frankel's Juddmonte will always stick in the memory from a visual perspective, just for that moment alone when he looms up alongside the great St Nic on the snaff. Him and the beast Farhh, two supremely talented animals, were made look awfully average that day. Frankel's greatest performance imo.

Treve's Arc has to be up there too given the way she pulled in the early parts, got a rough enough passage yet still won going away. Will be a long time before we see a Arc won as easily.

unitedrover

Overdose, the great Hungarian sprinter winning the voided Prix De l' Abbaye in 2008. Came close to breaking the track record here. Pity he never got credit for that win. Plagued with injury after, he made it to the Kings Stand in 2011 finishing 4th. Would have been interesting to see what he could have achieved on the World stage at his peak.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QiLvi58gyBc

tryfix

Shergar was famous for more than being kidnapped.

Itziger

I've been lucky enough to see both Sea The Stars and Treve in their Arc wins. Both top performances. Next time you visit YouTube, type in Nijinsky Dewhurst. Grainy colour but great (celebrity) voice over and super performance - especially by Lester!

abarkie

Gringo180 wrote: »

What's yours lads? The most impressive ones I have ever witnessed was the 2 below.

How easily did Montjeu canter all over a top quality field there, what a champion he was.

I was there that day, upper tier Ascot members - happy days

abarkie

UrbanFret wrote: »

The benchmark on which all the rest should be judged.

I can remember about 15 years ago that the Racing Post had a poll of racehorses and Ladbrokes opened a fun book with Sea Bird 3/1 - I think from memory

An older friend of mine ( circa 20 years older) said this was giving money away, so we went about 15 bookies ( as I was "known" in a few independent bookies around town, so we spent 3 hours on a Saturday visiting as many shops as we could placing £20 a shop - by the end of the day it was 1/4)

The next day the post printed this and then a week later I went to collect and most smiled and said well done but a couple moaned as ever!

Those were the days - wouldnt happen today sadly

ComplyOrDie

longshotvalue

Gringo180 wrote: »

Wow. What a freak. Sham finished stone last there after going the early pace with Secretariat. Got goosebumps watching that cheers.

The Clock and everything else puts him well clear of anything else before or since... Astonishing ... The distance back to the 3rd in the first 2 races also puts Sham down as a top class horse..

Nulty

aidankkk wrote: »

The Clock and everything else puts him well clear of anything else before or since... Astonishing ... The distance back to the 3rd in the first 2 races also puts Sham down as a top class horse..

He's moving like a tremendous machine!

Morgans

Maybe the greatest moment in horse racing commentary.

"The mare is beginning to get up" the other one that springs to mind.

Nulty

Morgans wrote: »

Maybe the greatest moment in horse racing commentary.

"The mare is beginning to get up" the other one that springs to mind.

I love the Secretariat quote.

Is that Dawn Run?

Both were before my time so my favourite is

"... and he accelerates!!"