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Originally Posted by depalma113
What's the big deal? The Europeans do this every year.
Regardless, Arrogate's Travers was one of the greatest performances of all time. He followed that up with there consecutive devastating wins.
For four races, there weren't very many horses who ever walked the earth that could beat him.
There were only three horses on dirt since the turn of the century that could compete with the legends of yesteryear: Arrogate, Rachel Alexandra and Ghostzapper.
All three were greats.
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Rachel only at 3, and the other 2 for only a few month span.
Compared to the greats of yesteryear who showed greatness over a far longer period of time.
At least Rachel and GZ were explicable why their terms were short or limited to a specific year's campaign. I put an asterisk beside every Baffert "great."