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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
It is pretty sad that Man O' War had to duck a horse---when he was running in a day when less than 2K foals were born each year.
His big victory was earned in a match race, run in Canada, against a horse that entered the Kentucky Derby as a hapless maiden, and was only running for the purpose of setting a fast pace for his stablemate.
You could probably find better horses currently stabled on the grounds of Bay Meadows, than those that Man O' War was beating up on.
While he was no doubt the king of his crop, and ran fast times for his day, he never faced anything close to the kind of horse that he would have needed to beat convincingly, in order to make a justified claim to the title 'Greatest horse of the 1900's.'
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just keep in mind that the small crops meant less chances of producing a superior horse. that's one way of looking at it.
also, man o war did NOT duck exterminator, who was invited to, but failed to show, for what turned out to be the match race between sir barton and man o war.
man o war set records that stand to this day, in the age of faster tracks.