Ghostzapper. Fastest horse the last 10 years.
Mineshaft. The best handicapper season since Cigar.
Curlin. As already stated, to go from a late debut to the Preakness with so little foundation against a good crop. He validated it later on.
Smarty Jones. Ran the 3 fastest spring sheet numbers ever at the time. Before he got to Churchill, he was the fastest they had on record. 3rd in the Belmont was 8 lengths back.
Point Given/Empire Maker. This is subjective. While both accomplished quite a bit- particularly PG's 4 straight million dollar races- I'm not sure we saw the best of them. I think either could have been a monster at 4.
Very difficult to leave off Barbaro, whom many think was better on turf, Rachel Alexandra, the best 3yo filly I ever saw, or Midnight Lute when he was healthy.
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