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Originally Posted by Riot
"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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I think it's a matter of perspective. If you compare them to what we were used to seeing over the past two decades, it's very hard for today's horses to be something. Very few come up to the levels of some of the best we got a chance to see over the years. And the few times we do get one, it's extremely rare to get more than one in a given division so it's hard for anyone to beat anything else we'd call "something".
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