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Originally Posted by FairPlay
If you're paranoid and read meanings into my posts, then the issue is with you, not with me. I am the only person who raised the "suck" word to make a sarcastic point about Alex's peformance on the track. Because you associate that phrase with your assessment of Alex's career is your problem and probably a function of your own egocentricity.
And to answer your questions: The Kentucky Derby and BC Juvenile should not be the biggest indicators of a horse's career performance. In my view those are indicators that are easily rebutted. Would any one here take Wilko and Giacomo over Afleet Alex as racehorses during the course of their racing careers? Cigar and John Henry never raced in a juvenile race of meaning or the Triple Crown and yet they're great horses. Holy Bull flopped in the Derby and he was a great horse. People here have short memories about the impact of both Smarty Jones and Afleet Alex: Smarty Jones was the first horse to make the cover of Sports Illustrated in a generation and Alex was a serious candidate for SI's Sportsman of the Year Award. So I will end sarcastically: "Yeah, they were real overrated."
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I never said anything about the Kentucky Derby or BC Juvenile in this thread regarding Smarty Jones or Afleet Alex so I really have no idea what you are talking about. Sorry if when someone disagrees with you it throws you into such a frenzy that you can't even differentiate among posters and are forced to make pathetic character judgements.
And furthermore, I really don't use Sports Illustrated as my guide to whether or not a horse is talented. But, hey, to each his own.