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Originally Posted by Cardus
Any horse who can win Grade/Group Ones on multiple continents -- and beat the males while she is at it -- is the best horse on the planet to me. Pride? Did I miss her in the Breeders' Cup? Is she travelling to Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai... anywhere?
And I'll repeat: whilst she has won only one race in North America, she should win the Eclipse Award for best Turf Female.
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Woah there, are you suggesting that a horse can only be considered the best in the world if they go to the Breeders' Cup or compete on more than one continent...cos if you are, as you are well aware, that's just being fatuous. Only reason Pride didn't turn up at Churchill Downs was because she needed supplementing...they considered doing so for the Turf, but went for the Champion Stakes at Newmarket instead, where she won readily. Pride has run against only her sex in just two of her last 15 races, she won both readily.
Pride also ran in Hong Kong last year, but went for the more competitive HK Cup rather than the Vase, and ran to a better level than Ouija Board in finishing second. However and more importantly, she has run in races sidestepped by connections of Ouija Board, notably the Arc, where she was the best horse at the weights, and as I've mentioned above the Champion.
Its just a great shame that the two look destined not to meet in Hong Kong, as I'd be buying my plane tickets right now to get over there and watch!
For the sake of interest Pride is rated 128, Ouija Board 125.