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Originally Posted by Kasept
Fair enough.. Fact is I never warmed to Artax at any point, and find the main track winners of the '99 GP Cup particularly difficult to assign bona fides.
Plus, once he came east in '99, I remember him being unable to beat a bunch of good sprinters all year.. Intidab in the A Phenomenon I think. Several including Affirmed Success in the Forego.. I think Kelly Kip beat him at Belmont in the spring (or maybe AQU in April? etc.. (I suppose he wins the Maryland BC Sprint H. on Preakness Day if not for the nutbar that took the swing at him..  ) |
...and that's only about the 10th most bizarre thing I've seen at Pimlico on Preakness Day
By the way, he DESTROYED the fields in the Vosburgh and Forest Hills at Belmont prepping for the BC...