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Originally Posted by King Glorious
Justify didn’t have to face horses the quality of Winning Colors and Forty Niner. Can’t be proven of course but my bet is that if you could switch the years and have Justify facing what Risen Star faced and vice versa, we’d have a different TC winner.
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Forget trading places, it is a foregone conclusion that Risen Star would have won the 2018 Preakness if he could have somehow been added to the field with Justify left in there.
He would have enjoyed a nearly identical repeat of the perfect setup that he received in the 1988 Preakness. Even the rail would have been left wide open for him...
Not sure he would have got to run in the Belmont with a hole in his suspensory, though...