Spectacular Bid - 1979 Marlboro Cup

The Bid defeats a talented field in 1:46 3/5.

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Sports

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• Thoroughbred
• Horse
• Racing
• 1979
• Marlboro
• Cup
• Spectacular
• Bid
• Belmont
• Park
• Marshall
• Cassidy
• New
• York

[BE109]

I can't say he was the greatest, but I really want to! this horse was a monster from 61/2 to 10 furlongs! man what a horse!!!!!

[cf1970]

Yes indeed. I have The Bid in my top 4 or 5 of all time. An amazing horse, to be sure!

Take care.

[claimboxx]

Last 3/8th in 35 and change middle 1/4 in 23 and chance... showed why he never lost from 6 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/4 miles..

[cf1970]

I absolutely agree.

[Bassman968]

Bid really showed his class....right on the pace and then blowing them away in the stretch.

Bud Delp must still kick himself....like Lucien Laurin did with Secretariat after his first few races, he should have gotten a top rider long before Derby.

[cf1970]

Excellent points, all. I love The Bid. The way the music highlights his run to the wire makes this video one of my all-time favourites.

Thanks for your viewership and comments.

[beast13284]

awesome horse

[thehonzie1]

The Bid is one of my favs along with Easy Goer. Both could run almost any distance.

[Wondermouth1]

NICE!!!

[MrZenyatta]

Regarding the comments about Affirmed beating Bid. I will take a great 4 year old over a great 3 year old straight up any day of the week. Affirmed was 4, Bid was 3. A year earlier a 4 year old named Seattle Slew beat a 3 year old named Affirmed. Affirmed is my all time favorite horse but if you put Affirmed, Slew and Bid in a race when they all were 4 at 1 1/4 miles....I would take the Bid.

[joefederico]

I was thinking the same thing. That was an All-Star field of champions Bid beat in a great time as well. There were no "also rans" or last minute junk entries.

[grizzles03]

But - and I do say but - at certain distances there are horses that are UNBEATABLE. Dr. Fager at a mile; you tell me who beats him, especially if he's carrying 126 pounds. The 4 year old Spectacular Bid - who beats him at most any distance??? Comparing horses is a very difficult thing. I still say - and probably won;'t get anyone to agree with me - that Ruffian never lost a race. She broke down before the finish and never got to complete it,so to me, she remains undefeated. Crazy, but.....

[grizzles03]

I'm 56 and have been lucky enough to see most all of them since Kelso, in person. The best 2 year old I ever saw was Raise a Native. Beyond compare and without peer at 2 (though I never saw Lanadaluce in person). At 3 I have to lean to Secretariat because his string of 3 races culminating in the Belmont are a step above and his Belmont is the greatest single athletic performance in recorded - filmed - sports history.

See next post.....

[jhordanian]

Flying Paster was a very very good horse. However, as a Cali based horse he was, and continues to be, overlooked by the Eastern establishment. at 2 he won the Del Mar Futurity and Norfolk, at 3 won the Santa Anita Derby and Hollywood Derby and went to Kentucky as one of the favorites (I believe he ran 4th). At 4 he ran 2nd to the Bid in 4 straight races (Malibu, San Fernando, Strub, Big Cap) and at 5 he swept the San Carlos, San Pasqual (127 lbs.), and San Antonio Cap'

[jhordanian]

What a great performance by the Bid. Displays such as this are why so many include the Bid among the top 10 ever. The field he beat here was first rate. Coastal (Belmont) and General Assembly (Travers) were top year olds that year, Star de Naskra was the champion sprinter who had just won the Whitney, Text was a hard knocking Gr 1 level handicapper, as was Cox's Ridge (weighted at 130 pounds on the 78'Experimental Free Handicap), but Bid made them look foolish. Must be one of his very best races

[drfager01]

wow! its like the spitting image of holy bulls woodward in 94,but only a tick faster,how magnificent,how spectacular.