If honesty is to rule, it wasn't simply saying she was a bad bet at a short price. That would be a rational way of thinking that probably shouldn't be argued against. But the ridicule was towards anyone daring to believe she was good enough. We were told that she didn't have a race as fast as theirs. That it was ridiculous to believe she could do better if asked to. That she was lengths slower. The fact is that if she had lost by 10 and wasn't a factor, we would have heard it from them. But with her acquitting herself the way she did, you're seeing a bunch of hurt feelings and reluctant praise and revisionist accounts of what people said before.
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The real horses of the year (1986-2020)
Manila, Java Gold, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Go for Wand, In Excess, Paseana, Kotashaan, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alphabet Soup, Formal Gold, Skip Away, Artax, Tiznow, Point Given, Azeri, Candy Ride, Smarty Jones, Ghostzapper, Invasor, Curlin, Zenyatta, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Havre de Grace, Wise Dan, Wise Dan, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Arrogate, Gun Runner, Accelerate, Maximum Security, Gamine
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