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Originally Posted by Tom
Perfect criteria for greatness!
That is why so many people were big Zenyatta fans. They didn't know speed figs, they had no idea what class was, no idea about artificial surfaces, but they did understand this big freight train hopelessly beaten and then just getting up in time.
Arogate in the Dubai race, he took the lemon he got and made lemonade and poured it ober Baffert's head. Afleet Alex at the top of the stretch......
All more impressive than just goin out and winning wire to wire.
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I want to see more from Flightline (I'm in that "You may be brilliant/talented/etc. - I still won't be calling you GREAT until your starts are in double digits" camp), but isn't that Met Mile win the kind of less than perfect trip (slow start, early check after catching up) that the greats overcome? Not a horrible trip by any means - but he certainly didn't have it all his own way.
