Talk about brilliantly fast. :rolleyes:

She was one game mule.

Anyone have thoughts on Sysonby? He might be one that belongs on the list especially if he was truly drugged in his only loss.

Can't see how anyone could exclude Silver Charm. :p

Because the title is "Which horses were truly great?" Not "Which horses were truly grey?"

By the way, going to the back booth in orlando tonite if you want to go out!

if he was 5 of 10, i could see your point. just remember that no one holds citations losses against him, not with that win streak, and weight carried.

In those 50 wins Exterminator never had a streak longer than 6, and in that streak he only carried more than 126 once.

when i said win streak, it was in reference to citation.

I know, I just think if Exterminator truly belonged in that elite class he would have won more than 6 in a row.

why? you include nashua, he never won more than 6 in a row.

But Nashua won more than 2/3 of his races. Had Exterminator had a nice run in his 50 wins and then racked up a bunch of losses late in his career then he'd have a better excuse for his 50 losses. But he didn't.

Skip Away was the best horse of the 90's. Of course he was great. He faced real brilliant competiton, ran many huge performances, and was around from start to finish.

Ghostzapper was the best horse of this decade so far - because he was so lightly raced it might not be as easy to call him great but he was. I don't think you could call a horse great as lightly raced as he was had he run in a different era.

but he won 50 races. most horses don't even start in 50 races. most horses today don't have 50 starts between themselves, their sire and their dam.

anyway, i think exterminator was a heck of a horse.

ghostzapper was a brilliant horse. incredibly fast-i appreciate his talent far more now than i did when he ran, which sadly was far too infrequent for my taste.

There is no doubt of that, just like Scottie Pippen was a heck of a basketball player. But neither are at that elite level.

I don't think Skip Away measures up to three Hall of Fame horses from that decade: Cigar, Holy Bull or A.P Indy. For that matter, from the year he was selected HOY, I'm not sure that he was better than Formal Gold, who smoked him in the Woodward.

Formal Gold was a monster!

listing horses who ran 130 yrs. ago, with no automated timing and organize
betting coups how can you verify authenticity, of anything except what was written by a few writers of the day. should start list around 1920.

Not to mention Shuvee and Susan's Girl.

I will still make an argument for Equipoise. Horsemen of the 30s insisted he was the best since Man o' War.