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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
Congaree was pretty slow as a 4yo until his final start that he parlayed into a monster 5yo season.
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Yep.
The Cigar Mile at age 4 was the race where he broke Spectacular Bid's 22+ year record for fastest Ragozin figure and he also crushed the all-time Thoro-Graph record in that race.
The Thoro-Graph record would be broke and re-broke a few more times -- including once in Mineshaft's lone loss at age 4 -- until Ghostzapper and Midnight Lute re-set them.
By the year 2000 -- the scale was starting to get out of hand -- and horses were becoming much faster at all class levels.