A question on Easy Goer...

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Lots of Kool Aid being drank this year in regards to a few "superhorses".
I think we've talked about some REAL superhorses on this thread, and I hope I get to see some more.
I was younger when these horses ran, and I guess I took for granted that what i was witnessing was always gonna be there in some form.
I wonder how many folks who have read this thread and thought about Formal Gold, Skip Away, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Easy Goer,etc and saw their figs and got red faced about buying the hype on a few horses lately.

Even with all the talk about the youngsters jumping to call any 'now' horse a great horse or a superhorse, I will say in all honesty that even though I was still relatively a kid (edit: after reading what i wrote...i was not relatively a kid...i WAS a kid), I understood that Skip Away was great when I was watching him on TV.

I understood, having followed Cigar's streak, that I was in the presence of greatness when I went to the Arlington-Citation challenge because i made my mom take me even when she didn't want to brave the crowds that day I forced her to.

I honestly think that Skip Away is the best horse I've ever seen in the time I've been interested in this sport -- with Cigar and Ghostzapper close seconds.