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The editors have whittled down a lengthy list to what they believe to be the 12 best male runners of the decade (2000-09).
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Here's what they came back with....
Afleet Alex
Barbaro (
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Bernardini
Curlin
Ghostzapper
Invasor
Lost in the Fog (
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Mineshaft
Point Given
Smarty Jones
Street Sense (Are you f'n kidding? At least the other two died & had rabid fan bases.)
Tiznow
What's clearly most amusing though .... is that Curlin is in 1st place - and Mineshaft is in 11th place. Invasor is in 4th place .. and he would have got crushed by Mineshaft. I'm not even sure Invasor could have beat the blah pre-lasix version of Mineshaft.
Best of all...
Lost in The Fog is ahead of Bernardini and Mineshaft.
Lost in the Fog's only lifetime Grade 1 win came in the King's Bishop .. he got 7fs in 1:22.56 ... the same exact day, a 2yo first time starter (Discreet Cat) won a MSW race in 1:09.76 (a better final time & thus earning a better figure)
LITF's only Grade 1 win came at the expense of Social Probation and Better Than Bonds... in time slightly slower than that turned in by a 2yo debuter over the same track ... and he's supposed to be better than Bernardini and Mineshaft?
It would be a wonderful thing if someone could supply the people voting in that poll with huge betting vouchers and force them to bet.