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Originally Posted by Linny
Too bad they were between his 3yo season and his 5yo season. My question is this: Did you or anyone else think, when he debuted at 4 in the Tom Fool that he was a HOY candidate? Or was it the stellar win over 3 allowance horses in the Iselin slop that sealed the greatness?
His "great races" were intermittant. When he was good he was very good.
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Actually I and many others thought he was a HOY candidate for 2004 after he destroyed that field in the Vosburgh in 2003 with one of the greatest moves you will ever see.
His Tom Fool was excellent, and his Iselin fit the spacing of what he was trying to do and certainly was never claimed by anyone to be one of his career highlights.
His Woodward against next year's HOY St Liam was an incredible display of courage and speed and fight, and his BCC was just mindblowing.
His Met Mile was extraordinary, and since it was off a long layoff with no prep, it was just an incredible display of sheer raw talent.
He lost two races in his life, one when he hurt his foot and had to be layed off, and one where he flew home to be narrowly beaten agaisnt one of the most powerful inside speed biases you will ever see at the racetrack.
He won at 2,3,4, and 5, many different distances, and many different tracks.
I really didn't need to see him run another ten races to know how good he was, none of his contemporarues were gonna beat him anyway.
He had true class, the ability to fly home from dead last or stalk or go straight to lead or rip out their hearts with a turn move. There wasn't anything he couldn't do.