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Originally Posted by King Glorious
I get that and don't disagree with a lot of it. I actually wasn't all that taken with RHT myself. But I was even less taken with SL. I never thought either of them was that much of a horse. Everyone made a huge deal of St. Liam because of how well he ran against Ghostzapper in the Woodward. Nobody gives any credit to Peace Rules though and PR handled him twice earlier in the year. For me, it was a close decision on which one of them deserved to be the top older male and in a tight vote, I'd give the advantage to the one that beat the other. I've never understood the argument that a horse didn't run enough. Good is good, whether it's three races or 30. If a horse wins the Kentucky Derby, Woodward, and BC Classic in his only three races of the year, is he only held in high regard because of his potential? Hell no. That's a good horse.
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I suppose my point was more of an anti-RHT and the horse who was being compared to him was Saint Liam. I think in the grand scheme of things they were both average handicap horses historically but had the benefit of coming along at the right time.
Peace Rules also beat Saint Liam twice in 2004 which was really before SL got good. He was a better horse in 2005 but was certainly not great horse by historical standards.
Rock Hard Ten to me was just Lava Man light. At least he wasn't quite as craptacular when he left California.
NT