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Originally Posted by miraja2
Are you:
a) joking
b) intentionally trying to piss me off
c) stoned
or
d) out of your mind?
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Why should one person's opinion piss you off? Yours doesn't bother me in the least bit and mine shouldn't bother you. I don't think any of the choices fit. I'm not one that believes that horses should be rated only by what they do at the classic distances. Since something like 75-80% of the races run in this country are sprints and miles, those are important races too. Chris McCarron rode Sunday Silence and he rode against Easy Goer and he was quoted as saying that up to a mile, they wouldn't catch KG. That's not insignificant in my mind. Even so, don't be pissed off. It's only one person's opinion.
My ranking of the five Sightseek asked about would be:
1. Smarty Jones (I thought his best race was the Belmont)
2. Bernardini (showed what people believed was brilliance all year; confirmed it in the BC Classic)
3. Curlin (much the same as Bernardini but I think he needs to be asked more to do things that the others did more naturally, if that makes any sense)
4. Afleet Alex (versatile enough to run 1:09 and change and also win at 12f just three months later)
5. Barbaro (dominated the Derby but his other dirt races weren't anywhere near what the rest of these did on multiple occassions)
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The real horses of the year (1986-2020)
Manila, Java Gold, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Go for Wand, In Excess, Paseana, Kotashaan, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alphabet Soup, Formal Gold, Skip Away, Artax, Tiznow, Point Given, Azeri, Candy Ride, Smarty Jones, Ghostzapper, Invasor, Curlin, Zenyatta, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Havre de Grace, Wise Dan, Wise Dan, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Arrogate, Gun Runner, Accelerate, Maximum Security, Gamine
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