Defining a "GREAT" horse

Originally Posted by oracle80

Thats a very hard thing to describe. In the Smarty case its hard to say that he wasnt great because he never had the chance to face older, we don't know.

A great horse to me runs very fast numbers on the sheets, he wins more stretch battles than he loses, he wins at different tracks in different places, and he beats the best of his contemporaries. To me thats what makes a great horse.

Correct ... same concept I outlined in different words ... except ...

... it isn't hard to describe ... you and I both did it very succinctly.