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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
He was a lot faster than Afleet Alex but not as fast as the real greats of the past. To me he was pretty much as good as Cigar...though Cigar was a little faster on his best days.
Here's the problem as I see it, to many people who haven't followed the game for that long, and don't know the history, these horses are special....because relative to what they've seen they are, in fact, special. Now, in the short term there's nothing specifically wrong with that, but in relation to the true greats these horses are also rans. That doesn't mean they aren't very good horses, but it also doesn't put them in the rarified air of the true greats, and if you are going to attach the word " great " to a horse it is competing with history....and not just the personal history of the judger.
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Sucks that Invasor's legacy will always be lessened because his fastest race was a race in which no Beyer was published and everyone is always going to use the lack of a 120+ Beyer against him. He was a very good horse, too bad we didn't get to see him finish the year and possibly duplicate that World Cup performance.