Big Brown - Overrated?

[justindew]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

For the last five years only, I'd go with:

3yo's only, non-sprinters

1-Smarty Jones
2-Bernardini
3-Curlin
4-Big Brown
5-Lion Heart
6-Afleet Alex
7-Barbaro
8-Street Sense
9-Flower Alley
10-Birdstone

Making this list without Casino Drive is criminal.

If we go back eight years, I would like to see Fusaichi Pegasus and Sunday Break get their props.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Sunday Break probably isn't one of the 1,800 best Japanese bred horses to race in the last eight years... so he was a fairly clever choice.

However, Fu Peg was a KEE July Select sales topper - raced only in America - and his lone connection with Japan was his owner. Poor choice. Fusaichi Samurai might have been better.

Ski Captain being the most underrated dirt horse to race in America in the 90's might have been better played.

[justindew]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Sunday Break probably isn't one of the 1,800 best Japanese bred horses to race in the last eight years... so he was a fairly clever choice.

However, Fu Peg was a KEE July Select sales topper - raced only in America - and his lone connection with Japan was his owner. Poor choice. Fusaichi Samurai might have been better.

Ski Captain being the most underrated dirt horse to race in America in the 90's might have been better played.

Sunday Break placed in the Grade I Wood Menorial and the Grade I Belmont.

Had Drysdale not treated him with kid gloves, he would have been more fit for the Wood, would have made the KY Derby field, and would have run down War Emblem.





Lest anyone think I am serious, I'm not. It's sad that I need to say this.