What is your favorite racehorse?

Question

My favortie is well I have two favorties. John Henry and Man O'War.

Answer 1

I have so many favorites. My favorite of the 1930's was Seabiscuit. My other favorite is Evening Attire. Although he has not won many races lately, he sure has a lot of heart to run at the age of 10. My 2008 favorite Kentucky Derby picks are Gayego, Pyro, and Big Brown.

Answer 2

Ruffian.  She was a big beautiful black filly.  She had amazing speed and put away the comptetition convincingly in every race she ever ran.  She won at every distance from a sprint to a mile and a half... and won all of those races on the lead... no horse was ever in front of her... she wasn't just undefeated... she was perfect.

Answer 3

Sunday Silence and Cigar because I won lots on Sunday Silence and I watch Cigar win the Oaklawn Handicapp I got 8/5 on him I think that was the last time he went off above even money.

Answer 4

I love Storm Cat, but that is more as a stallion than as a race horse. I am a fan of Secretariat,  Man O' War, Sunday Sliace (not sure if I spelled that right), and of course Ruffian. I guess Ruffian would be me favorite if I could only choose one.

Answer 5

Afleet Alex.  When Alex went to his knees turning for home in Preakness, I stopped breathing, and when he stormed down the stretch to win anyway.  I cried.

Alex's Lemonade stands were the best thing that happened to horse racing in my lifetime.

Answer 6

Barbro

Answer 7

I love Alphabet Soup. Not only did he beat Cigar and Louis Quatorze at level weights to win the 1996 Breeder's Cup Classic (setting a track record at Woodbine in the process), but he was a very versatile horse, winning the Pat O'Brien at 7 furlongs in an eye-popping 1:20 and 3, beating future Breeder's Cup Sprint winner Lit de Justice going away; the Del Mar Breeder's Cup at 1 mile in 1:34 and 1; the San Pasqual at 1-1/16 miles, beating Best Pal; the Native Diver at 1-1/8 miles in 1:47 flat; and several more. Not many horses can beat Breeder's Cup winners in both a 7-furlong sprint and the classic 1-1/4 mile. Here is a link to the the 1996 Breeder's Cup Classic with Tom Durkin's great call: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbcF0rz0Q...

Answer 8

Dr Fager

Retired from competition due to prohibitive future handicap weights.

Won Vosburgh Handicap carrying 139 pounds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Fager

Answer 9

Ruffian ************************Greatest Filly That lived

she was not Black

   Affirmed*************************I Loved him and he was very  Intelligent  

Alydar*************************** A real stayer Damasus************** Powerfull

Ancient Title*********** I Galloped him Once

Cougar 11*********************Great on Turf with Toro

Round Table************Good breeder

Count Fleet**************Nice

Majestic Prince***************Just like his name A Prince

Vigors **************************Come from way way behind

Seabiscuit  *************************A real star

Waya *************************Huge Filly They put to much weight on her in Cailf, But she still beat the boys

Secretariat***************************Al... stars have his blood in them

Phar Lapp****************************Every ones Favorite

Candy Spots ************************Good runner

Bedanio  ********************Quarter Horse He was matched raced in Mexico and won  Became a great sire of race and show horses,, Kind horse,, I loved him Much

Reflex Action Qt, Horse  I owned him at one time,, first a cheap claimer to a stakes horse And back to Claimer at the age of 10 yrs I divorced My husband over him I truly Loved No other the same as him

To many to say But after 35 yrs I think these are mine But I hope the ones I left out forgive me !!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

holy bull,won a lot betting on him.

Answer 11

As the above, Dr. Fager is one of my favorites: He was pretty spectacular.

Of the horses I like, not the ones I think were the best, here is a short selection:

Ghostzapper: Partly because he was the only great horse I ever had the chance to see, but also because of his wonderful last-to-first runs (all his wins were scintillating, but some not as spectacular).

Native Dancer: I fell for the horse the same way thousands of people did decades before I was born. I think he deserves to be higher on several lists, but unfortunately the Derby took that away from him.

Kelso: That a horse could be so good, so long, seems amazing, especially in our day and age where dirt horses hardly run after 5. I think he might have had a shot in the triple crown had it not been for his foot trouble (or whatever that was).

Phar Lap: It may just be because he was the first horse I ever read a biography about, but I always though the Australian conquests of Phar Lap were very interesting tales.

Dr. Fager: Possibly the speediest horse we have ever seen on the track.

Spectacular Bid: There is so much about this horse that I think is overlooked by the general public. Like Native Dancer, a lot is taken away from him by his failure to win the triple crown. His four-year-old season was surely one of the greatest campaigns of any horse of all time.

Edit: Looking through my old Top 100 DRF book, I've found some more that are worthy:

How could I forget Ruffian? Not the greatest horse of all time, but certainly the greatest filly, and though she is kind of a cliche, it's hard not to like her.

Also, in the field of fillies, I've met Genuine Risk (she lives in a farm in The Plains, the town where I used to ride and still visit every other weekend or so).

The other horse I forgot to mention is Swaps.

Swaps: How can a single horse break/tie so many world records (SIX!!!)? I personally think that Swaps is a little underrated, giving his massive accomplishments, and he is often regarded (to my utter contempt) as an inferior horse to Nashua, who was a great horse but not Swaps. Not to mention that some of his records are less than 3/5 of a second off what they are now, and some still stand (like his 1 5/8 record, although it was interestingly enough unofficially beaten by Secretariat, who ran out a ~14 second furlong after winning the Belmont).

Why don't I include most of the greats? I don't love them as much. Some horses have more personality than others.

Answer 12

Phar lap: because hes new zealand bread,

and Seabiscuit: because i see alot of my horse in him.

Answer 13

1. SECRETARIAT

2. MAJESTIC PRINCE

3. BIG BROWN

jm

Answer 14

Man O War

Answer 15

I would say skyclassic.  There have been many more noteable horses than skyclassic.  :)