Definition of Great Horse

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Originally Posted by Revolution

Horses today run 6-7x a year. That is enough to be great. Slew ran 7x/yr as a 3yr old and 4yr old. That is all it takes. Averaging 2.7 races a year over a career is laughable though. Is 6 or 7 races a year too much to ask. I think not.

So maybe you think he didn't accomplish enough to be great. But if you ever saw him run and didn't at least see FLASHES of greatness, you shouldn't be allowed to watch racing.

And flashes of greatness are pretty much all you're gonna get these days. You say it's the 2.7 races per year that makes him not great, but if Bernardini had won the Classic, would you have called him great? I doubt it, because he only ran eight times. My point is that there's a cap on how many times a special horse runs these days, and it's at about fifteen races tops. If Ghostzapper ran all eleven of his races in one year, would he have been great to you?

I also love how Ghostzapper gets so much grief for his light schedule, but I see people annointing CANDY RIDE as great. The horse ran SIX TIMES. Granted, they were unbelievable races, but there's no way Candy Ride is great if Ghostzapper wasn't.