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Originally Posted by cmorioles

No doubt about it. I think a similar situation, though not exactly the same, arose with Frankel having Empire Maker, Peace Rules, and Ghostzapper. Ghostzapper had issues, but he was kind of forgotten and probably didn't achieve near what he could have as a 3 year old.

Yep. And for the opposite situation, look no further than this year in Bob Baffert's stable. Bodemeister, and to a lesser extent, Fed Biz, would be horses that ideally would get all the time in the world to reach their peak for the summer and fall races.

Instead, they'll be running for $750k purses in the next few weeks and might not be around come July, never mind as 4yos.