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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Gulch beat a really good field in 89 including Precisionist, Afleet, Very Subtle, Olympic Prospect, Ruhlman and Mining. Call me crazy but i would take him any day of the week over Kona Gold. For him not be in the top 8 is stupid.
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I agree that he should have been one of the 8 drafted.
As for the win - It was in the mud - the time was moderate with a 49 2/5 final half - and Gulch had been defeated in each of his last five.
Kona Gold simply has to rate as a better sprinter. Gulch was 18 out of it in the Derby and 16 out of it in the Belmont. I think he, Dancing Spree, and Precisionist were all horses who would have been much more likely to start in a BC Dirt Mile than a BC Sprint if such a race was around in their day.