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Originally Posted by TiffaniO
Coupled or uncoupled wouldn’t help in this situation, because we all know who was the horse most well intended...
And yes it didn’t change a thing but just a bad bad bad look.
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Excellent point.
Looked horrible, but I don't think it ever really mattered like you stated.
Justify was a half second faster than the 4YOs and older crowd in the Brooklyn with Hop winning. Heck, Gronk would have been right there at the wire and maybe even won the Brooklyn.
I think the goal posts have moved so far now that many feel Triple Crown contenders need to be extremely tested at every fraction of every race in the series these days to be considered 'great'. 20 horse fields, monsoon weather track conditions, and the grind that is the Triple Crown simply isn't good enough anymore. A Triple Crown winner nowadays needs to face the ghosts of Secretariat, Seattle Slew, and Affirmed before he is ever judged as 'worthy'.
