Non-winners of an Eclipse or Championship

[horseofcourse]

With the careers today, you never know...because they stop running. I used to have the detailed discussion with King glorious on another forum comparing the careers of Funny Cide and Smarty Jones through the Belmont Stakes and how speed figure wise they were very similar, both ran similar races in the Preakness and then Belmont Stakes in losing. Since FC was a gelding we actually got to see him continue. He was a very good 4 year old, and even had a decent 6 year old season, but he never came close to running as well as he did in the Wood, Ky Derby, and Preakness in my opinion. Or at least he never improved from then. He certainly never became a superstar. Which is why I discount much speculation on Smarty Jones or Afleet Alex continuing and what they really would have done as older horses. I guess the speculation makes for good conversation on these boards, but little else.