best horse you've ever seen

[Pharieswheel]

Mine would have to be Kelso, a 5 time horse of the year with earnings of $1.9 million back in the fifties, what would that equate to now.

[unusialsusp5]

kelso was top notch in that era. however buckpasser was shipped from track to track and won something like 16 in a row. competition wasn't up to snuff but buckpasser was ahead of his time. more recently although his career was cut short by injury the wicked north had an unbelievable brush. check his lifetime pp's. victory gallup was another closer who came like a freight train. retired to stud too soon. john henry got it done too in the 80's.

[LT Profits]

In terms of sheer gameness:

Male - Affirmed
Female - Prismatical

[NrmlCurvSurfr]

Mine would have to be Kelso, a 5 time horse of the year with earnings of $1.9 million back in the fifties, what would that equate to now.

It is a little over 15m today. Wow.

[TonyP]

John Henry, Secretariat seen video replays

[Iona]

Not a big horse player, but a horse called Flanders was the best that I ever seen. Very special, she fractured a bone during her Breeder's Cup win and never raced again; she was undefeated.

[UsUschi]

clearly Secreteriat a true legend

[Richkas]

Spectacular Bid

[smitch124]

Cigar (that blank shootin' bastid )

[joeyp1222]

Spectacular Bid

yep saw him a long time ago

[mproud1]

Deeeep Impactttt(JPN)

[mikemca]

I'm still a little young relative to the average horse fan but Smarty Jones for me

[Duff85]

I'm an Australian - so the only horse to win the Melbourne Cup (our Kentucky Derby) three years in a row - Makybe Diva.

[jw]

Desert Orchid takes some beating for sheer determination. Red Rum for being a national hero in the UK (and to this day probably the only horse that 99% of the public can name when asked to give the name of a racehorse) .. and a little known lower-level handicap horse from the uk called Chaplins Club .. who won 9 handicap races in a season not once .. but twice .. the second time he achieved this - he won 7 races from 9 runs in just 17 days ... (with a second and a 5th place thrown in there too for good measure)

[wtf]

saw cigar on the kentucky horse farm , looks like he could still race

they said he makes more money for visitors to the farm then he would have at stud

he was with john henry in the same stable, john henry was the best race horse,hated to be passed by anyone, a true competitor

[Glitch]

i dont know that much about horses but i saw smarty jones run one time and i was really impressed.

[thezbar]

Best horse I've ever seen in person is Spectacular Bid in the 1980 racing season. He marched onto the race track as if he knew he would win. I consider Man O War the best race horse of all time.

[mikemca]

As for Filly well watch this race

[txmagnolia2]

Poco Bueno - a quarter horse

[Villagers4din]

Rachel alexandra

[cecil127]

tbred-smarty jones
pacer-mcardle

[FourLengthsClear]

Sea the Stars
Only raced 9 times but went to stud for the highest value of any horse in history.

To quote the BBC commentator, "Perfection in equine form, the horse of a lifetime".

[davidchong]

no doubt, Goldikova!... annywhere she runs always do a good job, big races europe and usa....

[str]

Spectacular Bid was truly a great horse.I had the pleasure of watching him train every day when he was in Md. and Del..Bud Delp did a masterful job training him.
I learned a great deal watching and competing against Bud . There have been many truly great horses that I was fortunate enough to witness run and or train first hand.
With that said,my greatest horses ever would be:

Male - Secretariat

Female- Ruffian ( but have to admit that Zenyatta was a beast.)

Those 2 were breath taking.

[ttwarrior1]

alysheba if anyone remembers that horse

[Brock Landers]

Cigar

1995/1996 were unreal for that horse

[gafl]

Secretariat. Triple Crown winner, broke the record in both the Derby and Belmont. Beat older horses as a 3 year old and won on the turf. Did it all.

[unusialsusp5]

secretariat lost to onion at saratoga after winning belmont. really didn't race against much in those early 70s. no one remembers buckpasser but try to look up record.

[blackbart]

easy goer

[flyingillini]

The one my family owned, also a winner of the Kentucky Derby. 1960, Venetian WAY.

[pavyracer]

Secretariat was the best ever with Seattle Slew in second place.

[Statman]

Loved the guts of Easy Goer and Sunday Silence dueling down the lane. I also would not put him in best ever category but I did enjoy watching ARAZI also for a short time.

[The Seer]

this guy

[Foosball Champ]

Zenyatta

[pirate]

Niatross
Best of all time Dan Patch