Whose was/is the best?

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

Hmmm ... how do you manage to compare horses which ran 4-mile heats on turf in 18th-century England ... to horses which ran on turf in central Europe in the 19th century ... to horses which ran on dirt in the United States in the 20th century?

Neat trick ... please tell us all how you did it.

I think I used words such as "arbitrary" and "subjective" in my original post. It is a neat trick and, in the end, it's one guy's opinion. I look at the entire picture, especially to what extent they dominated other horses...add to that how history has treated them and, with more recent ones, what I saw when I watched them run. Kincsem gave huge weight to males, traveled all over Europe and never lost a race...I mean 168 pounds, come now!! Her reputation is the stuff of legends...grazing unconcerned while the field broke to start the race, galloping to victory, traveling all over Europe at a time when you didn't simply hop a jet...how great was she???