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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Easy Goer made 11 starts at age 3....and won 6 Grade 1 races.
I don't think soundness issues had anything to do with SS beating him.
He was a super horse, who wasn't quite able to crack the tactically gifted (and also great) Sunday Silence. I also believe EG was the more impressive of the two horses, it just wasn't apperant when they met up.
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In all fairness, the Derby was a muddy track and the Preakness was a Pat Day horror show of the highest order.