dr fager was an amazing, supremely talented horse. he ran his guts out every time, and no horse that tried to go with him early was still gutting it out with him in the end.
his one race on turf was enough to get him top honors in that group, and he hated the surface--but hated getting headed even worse.
altho others have been listed as better than him, it's hard to say really that he was worse than any one.
as to the true test of greatness....
man o war still gets props. as does citation, secretariat, etc. i'd imagine they still will years from now--matter of fact, there aren't many left, if any, who saw the original big red race-but he's still one that is mentioned to this day as defining greatness.
if you see a horse now and think he's great, ask yourself if his name will still even be known 20 years from now, let alone 80? if not, then he isn't great.
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