Worth a Thought?

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

But Big Brown can be considered even though he ran worse in the Belmont? Interesting.

I think that it was more like that was the type of race that he needed to win in order for this conversation to be even slightly legitimate.

Beating some turfers (and "look, he beat Thorn Song" probably isn't the best place to start when trying to make a case for HOY) and Commentator while failing to win even a single big name race all year doesn't hold a candle to a horse who wins the Derby and Preakness the way Big Brown did -- or the accomplishment of winning the Dubai World Cup and Jockey Club Gold Cup while running second to a BC Turf champion in his first start on the green stuff in the Man O War and then beating home more than a couple Grade I winners in the BC Classic on a surface which was a question mark for him, but the surface over which some of those Grade I winners were already proven commodities.

Yes, he's underappreciated, but this is apples to oranges.