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Originally Posted by King Glorious
The problem with this is that Cigar was just as good at the end of 1996 as he was at the end of 1995. His races in the Woodward, JCGC, and BC Classic were every bit as good the seconed time as the first. The difference was the competition. Whereas in 1995, he was facing the likes of Unaccounted For and L'Carriere, the next year it was Skip Away, Louis Quartorze, and Alphabet Soup. Had he had the same comp in 1996 as he did the previous years, he would have won the races again.
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I've heard that before, but that is inconclusive, we can wish for Holy Bull and Skip Away all to have run in the same era also, but that's not going to happen. The only thing I go by is visually watching his races and using an experienced eye to analyze it, I don't subscribe to the beyer comparison's as definitive as many do here, but after the Pacific Classic you can hear it it Bailey's interview afterward as much as he
didn't wanted to say it, I think his quote was " I didn't think there was any scenario in a race that Cigar couldn't overcome" until today. He took the heat for laying down impossible fractions 1:09 and change for 6 furlongs in the Pacific where he may have survived that battle in 95 but not 96, but more importantly he was intimating this was not the same Cigar after the race. In my opinion this was most likely the case also.