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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Perrault was certainly a very good horse - and he was excllent on both surfaces for a stretch over 6 months time in '82.
What's crazy about the 80's is that foal crops were absolutely gigantic in volume, the largest of any decade - that combined with the fact that horses seemed a lot more durable - seemed to make competition so solid in the major races in relation to what it is today.
There was a horse I looked at named Peat Moss - who was a close 2nd to John Henry in a 500K Grade 1 on dirt at 50/1 odds - this horse made 29 starts in a span of just over 15 months time .. ran at distances as far as 2.25 miles on two seperate occasions .. and carried as much weight as 145lbs.
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Peat was the king of the Aquedirt inner dirt marathon handicaps. He ran with 6 screws in one leg. He sure gave John all he could handle in the '81 JCGC, the race that won John his first HOY