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Old 07-26-2018, 09:46 AM
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What Justify accomplished in such s short amount of time is nothing short of amazing. But just of the recent Baffert horses I would take Arrogate and American Pharaoh over Justify all day.
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Old 07-26-2018, 09:57 AM
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We never got to see just how great he would have been. I was always hopeful that Travers, Breeeders Cup, Pegasus would be the plan. It was so cool that American Pharaoh kept going for the rest of the year.
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Old 07-26-2018, 10:07 AM
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What Justify accomplished in such s short amount of time is nothing short of amazing. But just of the recent Baffert horses I would take Arrogate and American Pharaoh over Justify all day.
We would all be guessing including Baffert. When I listen to Baffert talk about the trio I get the impression he believes AP was his best ever, maybe it's the fanboy in me, maybe it's the fanboy in Baffert?

Fig guys will tell you Arrogate was the fastest at his best.
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Old 07-26-2018, 10:12 AM
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I think AP would beat both those guys. Watch his first ever workout....magic
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Old 07-26-2018, 10:25 AM
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We would all be guessing including Baffert. When I listen to Baffert talk about the trio I get the impression he believes AP was his best ever, maybe it's the fanboy in me, maybe it's the fanboy in Baffert?

Fig guys will tell you Arrogate was the fastest at his best.
If we are talking 1 race 10f all horses at there best, i want Arrogate. It's not really close.
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Old 07-26-2018, 10:44 AM
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If we are talking 1 race 10f all horses at there best, i want Arrogate. It's not really close.
I would tend to agree given the prerequisite above. Arrogate's Travers is on my Mt Rushmore and is DWC ain't far behind. I also think AP's BCC is dissed way too much.
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Old 07-26-2018, 11:01 AM
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Arrogate BCC is an amazing race. He gunned down Chrome on the money after Chrome had that race handed to him. A beautiful performance.
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Old 07-26-2018, 11:04 AM
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Arrogate steals the show in the BC Classic.
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Old 07-26-2018, 11:33 AM
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Arrogate BCC is an amazing race. He gunned down Chrome on the money after Chrome had that race handed to him. A beautiful performance.
Right or wrong I never rated Chrome and certainly not as high as Gun Runner. It's all pretty subjective at that level.
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Old 07-27-2018, 12:17 PM
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On his best day, Ghostzapper runs them all off their feet between 6 and 10f. Too bad he was such a cripple and needed huge breaks betwens starts to get well enough to even run. Had he been healthy enough to train more regularly, it would have been scary.
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Old 08-12-2018, 10:13 PM
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McKinzie ...thought this was the best horse going into the derby preps.

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Old 08-12-2018, 11:02 PM
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Last I heard, if he had thumbs, he would twiddle them.

But, now I will behave myself and see what I can find out.
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Old 08-13-2018, 04:45 AM
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Pennsylvania Derby seems to be where Baff is thinking of sending him. I still can't get this thing to post a link, I have some setting wrong. I think there is a story this morning in drf.
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