"He beat nothing"
"Well, but he beat nothing".
That's all I've heard from many handicappers over the past five years, and I've already heard it plenty in regard to the emerging two-year-olds of this season. Mostly from handicappers that are not old enough to have seen horses from the 1960's - 70's - 80's etc. Handicappers who yawned about Barbaro, who yawned and sighed through the horses of the Street Sense Derby year.
So what does it take, nowadays, to be "something"?
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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