My annual rehashing....

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Kasept

What's the core point here?

Just how incredible fluky something like that is.

A pair of Delaware Park debut winners took 3yo championships back to back in Afleet Alex and Barbaro - while Hard Spun was a finalist last year.

There has been a very impressive collection of very good horses win debuts at the big resort meets...it's pretty mind-boggling to think not a single one has managed to come back and take a division title the following year.

[blackthroatedwind]

Barbaro won 3YO Champion over Bernardini?

[philcski]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Barbaro won 3YO Champion over Bernardini?

His argument holds... for '04/'05 instead of '05/'06.

His editor at the Erie Sun Times would have caught that.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by philcski

His argument holds... for '04/'05 instead of '05/'06.

His editor at the Erie Sun Times would have caught that.

Smarty Jones won his debut at Philly Park and not Delaware Park....

But yeah, "Seperate but equal" as they say.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Smarty Jones won his debut at Philly Park and not Delaware Park....

But yeah, "Seperate but equal" as they say.

I know where he won his debut, "seperate but equal" is what I was shooting for, yes