If you like Sun King in the Classic...

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Originally Posted by King Glorious

U think Invasor is clearly better than every horse he faced last year. I don't. Invasor has won some nice races this year but he's beaten absolutely nothing at all. I think he's beaten even less than Bernardini and Discreet Cat have. It's going to take more than beating Wanderin Boy and We Can Seek and Andromeda's Hero for me to get on the Invasor wagon. I was trying my best to give him his due but then when he went out and barely could hold off Sun King, the only decent horse he's faced this year, I knew Invasor was a fraud. U say Sun King's got a reasonable chance to get a piece because of how well he ran against Invasor? I say neither one of them gets within sniffing distance of the first four at the wire.

I can't wait for your book " Horse Racing on Acid ".

First of all, I never said he is " clearly better than every horse he faced last year ". Suggesting his competition has been less than that of Discreet Cat's is either flat out wrong and indefensible or some sort of trick comment on your part because of the Dubai race. And, to judge the ability of horses simply by whom they faced is a poor method of handicapping, and one I will assume you are using in some desperate attempt to qualify your previous bad opinions.

The reality is that horses only have to perform better than their competition on a given day to be successful and other than Bernardini the competition in the BC Classic this year does not look substantially better than Sun King...at least on paper. Sun King's biggest possible problem may well be the distance, as it appears his better races are shorter. On the other hand, he is clearly better this year than last, and his rating style seems to have improved his performance.

I do love your posts though. Can't wait for the book!

I like Sun King in the money based on his pedigree and his heart. He has Summer Squall in that bloodline and that is just fine with me. A.P. Indy and Summer Squall are half-siblings.