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Originally Posted by smuthg
Any thought on how they compare? Curlin, Street Sense, Hard Spun, Any Given Sat, Rags, etc. v. Zarkava, Henry, New Approach, Raven's Pass, Goldikova, Conduit, etc.
For as much talk about how great our 3YO crop was last year, I'm not sure at the top this years' group of Euros isn't better...
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It's not even close. The Euro's were far better. Zarkava was easily the best horse of the bunch. Her and Goldikova both beat older males. The rest of the Euro's all beat older horses too. And not just cheap older horses like Hard Spun and AGS did last year but to level ones. Curlin was the best of ours and as a 4yo, he was gunned down by Raven's Pass and Henry.....and it's very arguable that Goldikova was as good as or better than they were. I don't think it's any comparison at all and I'd say this Euro class of 2008 was one of the best 3yo classes I've seen in my 22 years as a fan.
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