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					Originally Posted by Cannon Shell  I'd like to see him run against something alive | 
	
 Handicaps would help. 
Like you mention, today was a Group 1 race where he faced three other horses and one of the three was his hapless rabbit in to set the pace for him -- and the other was 5th and 20th in his only two prior starts in Graded Stakes. 
If this was the 1930's -- he'd have given those two horses 60lbs each.  But, it was weight-for-age, so he gave them nothing.