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Originally Posted by miraja2
This is exactly right. It is basically impossible to compare the two horses' overall careers because the Bid ran at 4 and Big Red did not. They are both so great that any comparison of their 2 and 3 year old campaigns ends up splitting hairs to some degree (as this thread demonstrates) but I am in 100%agreement with Bold Brooklynite on this one.
In my opinion, along with the points that BB has already made, is the fact that in the three biggest races in the sport, Big Red's performance was better than the Bid's in all three, and Sec was running against Sham who was, in my opinion, better than ANY of the 3yo that the Bid competed against.
Don't get me wrong the Bid was one of the all time bests. I would definitely have him in the top 5 horses of the last 50 years, but he was simply not better than Big Red.
If you want to compare a horse favorably to Secretariat based on their 2yo and 3yo campaigns you would have better luck with Citation than with the Bid.
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I agree, Citation should never be left out of any discussion of top horses, while I rank him 4th, it was pretty much a coin flip between him and Ribot (#3) for me.