12/15-16 (LRC): Soviet Problem; King Glorious

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

As one of the best horses this country has seen in the past 40 years, King Glorious deserves a better race than this....and also the correct name in the thread title.

The best horse King Glorious ever beat was Hawkster, and he did that when he was a 2yo. Hawkster was about 10 lengths better on the grass than he was on the dirt, too, by the way.

At 3 King Glorious was the best of the second tier 3yos, pummeling sprinter Musci Merci, Finger Lakes terror Mercedes Won, turf marathoners Shy Tom and Charlie Barley, and Meadowlands loiterers Rampart Road and Roi Danzig in paceless 9 furlong races on speed-favoring surfaces.

If he had run in the Travers against Easy Goer, he probably would have kept Clever Trevor from finishing second by running himself and the great Oklahoma-bred into the ground.

If he had run in the Swaps against Sunday Silence, he probably would have enabled the black colt to win the race by giving him a distance-limited target to track rather than trying to make all only to get caught while dawdling in the stretch by the sharp Prized.

If King Glorious deserves a better race than a late season Cal-bred juvenile stakes race then Lost Code and Richman deserve to have the Arc de Triomphe and the Melbourne Cup re-named in their honor respectively...