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Originally Posted by cj
I certainly wasn't throwing shade at Ruffian, just a more general discussion about using track records as an accomplishment. She was before my time but her record speaks for itself. The track records are just fluff on top.
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Track and world records meant something to us old timers - they were achieved before Beyer figures, let alone more advanced figures
Horses like Ruffian and Dr. Fager, for example, were other-wordly fast back in "the day". We'll hold aside Secretariat's Belmont, because that may have been the single greatest achievement we'll ever see.
I don't know what the "numbers" say re Ruffian, but my visual impression was that she was other-worldly fast. Maybe too fast for her own good, as it turned out.
