Your top 5 favourite races

5 from past festivals for me

Viking Flagship 1st QM
The Fellow's Gold Cup
Kauto's second Gold Cup
Edredon Bleu QM
Big Buck's 1st WH


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Flat

1989 Derby - Nashwan
1989 QEII - Zilzal
1990 Irish Derby - Salsabil
1990 Nunthorpe - Dayjur
1991 Irish Derby - Generous vs Suave Dancer
1991 Breeders Cup Juvenile - Arazi
1992 Sussex Stakes - Marling vs Selkirk
1993 2,000 Guineas - Zafonic
2001 Breeders Cup Classic - Tiznow vs Sahkee
2001 Irish Champion Stakes - Galileo vs Fantastic Light

Jumps

1990 Champion Hurdle - Kribensis
1990 King George - Desert Orchid's 4th
1992 Champion Chase - Remittance Man
1995 Melling Chase - Viking Flagship
2000 Racing Post Chase - Gloria Victis
2004 Tingle Creek - Moscow Flyer vs Azertyuiop vs Well Chief
2005 Victor Chandler - Well Chief
2007 Game Spirit Chase - Well Chief
2009 Hennessy - Denman
2011 King George - Kauto Star's 5th
 
Queen Anne - Canford Cliffs/Goldikova
Nassau - Ouija Board edging out Alexandra Goldrun
Gold Cup - Kauto Star 2007
Sussex - Toronado/Dawn Approach
Breeders Cup - Zenyatta winning
 
2004 Tingle Creek
kauto 2011 KG
sizings arkle
hurricane champ hurdle 2013
Denman Hennessy 2011
sizing Europe 2008 AIG
Forida pearl Kempton 2001
vautour Cheltenham 2015
last instalment irish Hennessy 2014
beefy beating best mate
flemenstars irish arkle
nicanor beating Denman 2005
Strong flow Hennessy 2003
 
5...seems to be a lot more now
Desert Orchid (Every Win)
Carvills Hill (Welsh National)
Make A Stand (Every Win)
Bonanza Boy(Welsh Nationals)
Istabraq(Every Win)
Moscow (As above)
One Man (Champion Chase)
Florida (Sun Alliance...Dunwoody wouldn't stop kissing him)
 
1. Zenyatta winning the Breeders

2. Don't Push It winning the Grand National

3. Kauto Star bouncing back in and winning the Betfair Chase

4. Binocular Winning the Champion Hurdle

5 Zarkava winning the Arc
 
The three breathtaking moments for me in 30 (nearly) years of watching racing

Dayjur's nunthorpe
Frankel's 2000 G
Arazi Breeders Cup
Honorable mention: Moonlight Cloud in the Foret

Tiznow vs Giant's Causeway for me beats Tiznow vs Sakhee

2004 Tingle Creek best chase
 
Fantastic Light vs Galileo in the Irish Champion also should in the mix. As a pure one on one race, that took some beating.
 
Thought it might be interesting to compile the results....

and the winners are

Flat

1. 1986 Arc De Triomphe
2= 1990 Nunthorpe
2001 Irish champion Stakes
1991 Breeders Cup Juvenile
2012 International Stakes
2012 Queen Anne
2009 Arc De Triomphe

Jumps

1. 2004 tingle Creek
2. 2011 King George Chase
3. 1989 Gold Cup
4= 1977 Templegate Hurdle
2011 Betfair Chase
 
talking about Frankel's 2000 guineas win..and all this daft 130..comparison..insinuation by headline.. hinting that GH is as good as Frankel...

as much as i love watching a horse be so far clear in a guineas mid race..if at that point in his career they could have ridden him more conservatively...he would have won by 15-20 lengths...which would have given a slightly better than 130 rating post guineas....a figure more in line with what we saw later when he conserved early energy rather than running sprinter speed early/mid race.

a race that finished like that..we would never have forgot..a guineas won by 15-20 lengths,,and it was possible..would have been up there with the Shergar winning Derby image
 
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Viking Flagship's 1995 Melling Chase

The Well Chief/Azertyuiop/Moscow Tingle Creek

Lammtarra's Derby

Frankel's Guineas

Kauto's second GC

Denman's second Hennessy

Kauto's final KG

Ouija Board and Alexander Goldrun 2006 Nassau

Persian Punch's second Goodwood Cup

Space Age, King George V 2015 (two other forum members know why)

Difficult to pick 10 though.
 
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