1973 Preakness (UPDATE: Maryland accepts 1:53.0)

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by tector

Artax--I think was IC's second favorite horse, just BARELY behind the four-legged IC.

Just think, IC could have been here as "Artax". What a funny world we live in....

Artax was a freaking beast, and had he not been trained by that incompetent fool, who knows how good he would have been. I still think that horse was at least as good routing as he was sprinting, too.

However, he was not in the same league as IC.

I was a big fan of Old Trieste from that crop too.

I never would have chosen Artax as a screen name here. I'd probably have chosen Rahy or Cees Tizzy.