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Originally Posted by Cardus
Arazi clearly wasn't great; he was, however, precocious. And, following his Derby prep win, a grossly overbet horse.
Look at his three-year-old races: he did nothing, save a Group II win.
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I don't think he was ever the same after the surgery and the stupid Derby attempt. But I thought his Derby run was as good as his BC run was. He just didn't have the foundation under him to finish it off. It proved to me though that the BC was not a fluke.
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