2011 Breeders Cup Mile - Court Vision

Goldikova nearly claimed her fourth consecutive Breeders' Cup Mile victory but was overtaken late by longshot winner Court Vision and runner-up Turallure at Churchill Downs on Saturday.

At 64-1, Court Vision ($131.60) won a photo finish over Turallure ($10). The French legend Goldikova ($2.40) faltered to third and was in danger being disqualified from that spot after she was angled out for racing room by jockey Olivier Peslier near the top of the stretch. Courageous Cat, under Patrick Valenzuela, was forced to take up. An objection was lodged but no change to the order of finish was made.

http://www.drf.com/news/court-vision-denies-goldikova-her-fourth-breeders-cup...

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[GBeret83]

@Venckman, Oh, I know. I thought about that several times that day, too. I was at a local Off Track Betting parlor close to where I live that day, and several different guys were hooting and hollering that day about her even getting to keep 3rd place in the race. Which also would've been justified if she would've knocked down further than 3rd, IMO. But she's done so much for the Breeders Cup that the stewards rightly gave her the benefit of the doubt. Tough call if she'd won, though?

[Venckman]

@GBeret83 I think they would have had to if she had won the thing. Can you imagine how ugly that would have been? There would have been multiple claims of foul, all justified, and that might have been difficult for the stewards to ignore, as much as they might have wanted to.

[GBeret83]

horses of spoiling the party for the Europeans, and he very nearly did just that. I've been a big fan of Goldikova throughout her career. But I really believe that if she wasn't so wildly popular in the States, and if she hadn't accomplished what she did at 3 different Breeders Cup Mile's prior to this one, that she would've taken down for 3rd place in this race. Because Peslier definitely created all of the interference. But no way they were going to D.Q. her in in the final race of her career.

[GBeret83]

Since he had won the G1 Woodbine Mile in 2010, Court Vision had finished no better than 4th in 6 races since before he won the BC Mile. I know he's a multiple G1 winner in America on turf. But Court Vision's always been difficult for me to back because he's so quirky. You never know which Court Vision will show up? This one, or the one who settles for finishing 4th or 5th? I thought Turallure, if he ran back to the level of his 2011 G1 Woodbine Mile win had the best chance among the American>>>

[81Calvarez]

@rcschumann Turalure, today is so much horse that drosselmeyer man sorry...

[81Calvarez]

I'm sorry but since "Goldikova" is not the same horse as before, was his majesty for many years, but has lost the last race and clearly, a time of 1.37.05, it is not no champion, "Goldikova "has given far better entertainment than witnessed by all in the last breeder's. For me it was always the favorite turallure on this evidence further, it leads the world the best jockey Julien Leparoux, so, say nothing more, which fell with honor was TURALLURE not Goldikova.

[felled]

Turallure BEST HORSE in the race....BAR NONE. 

[rcschumann]

@Race62hud I agree about Court Vision. His sire, Gulch, was a tremendous sprinter who won the Met Mile and BC Sprint in 1988. The only reason CV was at such long odds was because he hadn't won a race in a while, but if you look back to his last three seasons, he won some major G1s, including an impressive Woodbine Mile last year. A smart bettor looking at the fact that this horse had recently switched to a different trainer, and to CV's previous record, would have made a ton of money.

[rcschumann]

@d9y8l7a6n5 For a legal example of a horse "bulling through", check out Secretariat in the Sanford Stakes, when he muscles his way through a tiny gap between horses in the stretch, and runs down Frankel-trained Linda's Chief. LC's jockey was awestruck afterwards, and analyst Charles Hatton likened that move to a "fox scattering a barnyard of chickens"! But then again, Secretariat was the equine equivalent of a Sherman Tank!

[rcschumann]

@GBeret83 To continue: Why did I state that SYT "would be lucky to finish 4th" in the Classic? Because he's a non-US bred (unlike Giant's Causeway, Sakhee, Henrythenavigator and Raven's Pass), and I thought back to the Classic of 01, when Frankel's Irish bred sire Galileo ran a good race until the stretch (like SYT), but just couldn't accelerate when asked (like SYT).