it's very hard to quantify ability without accomplishments. we've all seen our share of amazing performances-but without accomplishments, how well can you really judge talent?
tiz wonderful might have just been a very precocious but ultimately unsound horse. danzig was mentioned-he seems to have had ability, but three races really isn't enough to give a true measure of how good he was. there's no real record to go on. and there's plenty of others out there like that, who showed a lot of promise, who might have been the top member of their crop-but there's no way really to know for sure. and it's part of being a really good horse being able to prove it?
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