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Originally Posted by Cunningham Racing
In that case, do believe that Bellamy Road was the seond best 3-year-old in the last 30 years next to Secretariat because of his one good race in the Wood that may have been the best 3-year-old performance since Secrartariat's Belmont score?  |
I think Bellamy Road was a great horse. It's too bad that we'll never know exactly how good he was. They totally mismanged him and now the horse will never run again.
I don't think you can call him the second best 3 year in 30 years, because he only ran one great race(The Wood Memorial). That's really not enough to call him an all-time great. He also ran a very good race in the Travers under adverse conditions.
Nowadays, you can't really expect a horse to run 15 great races. They usually retire pretty quickly. I think Ghostzapper was great even though he only ran about 10 times.
Anyway, BM certainly did not accomplish enough to call him an all-time great.