Mt Rushmore of horse racing

[Stillriledup]

Adding to my Mt Rushmore of sports thread, with an assist to poster Reckless who mentioned this in another thread.

We have Jockeys, Trainers, Owners and horses who can comprise "Rushmore". I think its going to be hard to just pick 4, so here's a beginners list of "Rushmore" for horse racing.

1) Secretariat

2) Man O War

3) The Bald Eagle

4) Woody

5) The Shoe

6) The Pirate




I'm sure you can add quite a few more jocks, trainers and horses....as well as a few owners who belong there.

You can even add announcers, media members and other people involved in horse racing. Remember, its Mt Rushmore, so its the best of the best.

[EMD4ME]

I will only submit one for now as he is missed dearly.....

Ramon Dominguez

[Stillriledup]

Originally Posted by EMD4ME

I will only submit one for now as he is missed dearly.....

Ramon Dominguez

Ramon's last lifetime ride was exactly 13 months ago, you're right, he's missed in this game for sure and if you want to put him on Rushmore, there's no way i would argue with it.

[thaskalos]

1.) Man O' War

2.) Secretariat

3.) Citation

4.) Spectacular Bid

The horses are the real stars in this game...IMO.

[menifee]

Originally Posted by thaskalos

1.) Man O' War

2.) Secretariat

3.) Citation

4.) Spectacular Bid

The horses are the real stars in this game...IMO.

You nailed it. However I would remove bid and add Sea Biscuit. I think the horse needed to capture the American public to be on the Rushmore and that horse did.

[reckless]

A shout out thanks to SRU for mentioning me; sometimes my best ideas happen when I don't even know I have them.

I'll construct separate Mount Rushmore's each for horses, trainers, and jockeys, plus honorable mentions. Hell, if Lebron James could try to weasel in on the Mount Rushmore of NBA greats, why can't we?

This could be fun.

Horses:

1--Secretariat

2--Man 'o War

3--Dr. Fager

4--Damascus

Honorable mention: Swaps, Citation, Spectacular Bid, Ruffian

Trainers:

1--Woody Stephens

2--Charlie Whittingham

3--Jack Van Berg

4--D. Wayne Lukas

Honorable mention: Todd Pletcher, Richard Mandella, Bobby Frankel, John Campo

Jockeys:

1--Willie Shoemaker

2--Eddie Arcaro

3--Ramon Dominguez

4--Pat Day

Honorable mention: John Velasquez, Gary Stevens, Mike Smith, Angel Cordero

[Thebigguy]

So Ill just do 2000 to now. I know racing before then, but not that well.
Trainers-
1. Baffert
2. Pletcher
3. Lukas
4. Mott

Jockeys-
1. Bailey
2. Stevens
3. JV
4. Ramon

Horse-
1. Ghostzapper
2. Point Given
3. Zenyatta
4. Curlin/Bernardini/Mineshaft tie

[jk3521]

Thank you,guys for "remembering Woody Stephens. One of the great "Class Acts"in any sport! The guys on the 2000 plus years list are delegated to be his stable hands!

[tanner12oz]

Zenyattas face 4 times..lol

[jk3521]

How about Sarah Jessica Parker . She has a "horse face"

(Don't mind me, it's 5 a.m. and I couldn't sleep last night.)

[aaron]

Horse Trainers

Secretariat Woody Stephens
Forego Mac Miller
Affirmed Pletcher
Kelso Lukas


Jockeys
Cordero
Bailey
Pincay
Dominguez

[TheEdge07]

Trainer

Aidan Obrien

Jockey

Shoe

Handicapper

Beyer

Horse

Secreatriat

Ramon on Mt.Rushmore

[rastajenk]

Originally Posted by TheEdge07

Ramon on Mt.Rushmore

Yeah, that's a real recency bias.

[RacingFan1992]

Owners/Breeders
Penny Chenery
Warren/Lucile Wright
Gladys Phipps
Bull Hancock

Trainer
Ben Jones
Jim Fitzsimmons
Charlie Whittingham
Frank Whitley

Jockeys
Eddie Arcaro
Bill Shoemaker
Ron Turcotte
John Longden

Horses
Secretariat
Ruffian
Dr. Fager
Man O' War

[TheEdge07]

Originally Posted by rastajenk

Yeah, that's a real recency bias.

Chris Mccarron
Gary Stevens
Baeza
Acaro
Johnny Velasquez
Gary Stevens
Sandy Hawley
Jorge Velasquez

Ramon picked over these..