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Originally Posted by horseofcourse
All excellent points. For some reason, I think that horses who face the "inferior" or crap opposition (alledgedly!) get a bad rap as the old argument goes...the horse can't control who goes into the starting gate against him/her. And any horse that goes undefeated for a somewhat extended period be it Seattle Slew, Smarty Jones, Favorite Trick, Barbaro, will face that same argument of whom did they beat. And there is certainly legitimacy to it without question.
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True...but measuring "who did they beat" with 2 year olds is even harder since so much changes between 2-3 (case in point of course was Favorite Trick). Anytime I print my list of "greatest ever" I get arguments on both my #1's...Secretariat because he did lose races, Kincsem cause she won 54 in a row but at a time when judging her competion is hard. Secretariat gets the ranking because I saw with my own eyes something I've never seen close to equaled, Kincsem cause...well, lots of reasons...54-54 lifetime, traveled all over Europe at a time when travel was extremely difficult, gave huge weight to the "best" male horses in Europe at the time, carried as much as 168 pounds over a distance...still, arguments can always be made! MOW's 100 length win in the Lawrence Realization was against one horse...a cheap horse named Hoodwink who was probably claiming level and entered as a favor to avoid the walkover so how can anyone even consider that win?