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[Blenheim]

It would have been interesting to see how Justify responded to a real test of his class.

The horse, he is a fine horse, won the California, the Kentucky, the Maryland and the New York - seized the Triple Crown and did it in fine fashion, but how good is he really? And how does he compare to those that came before him?

Class is measured by how fast the horse ran, whom the horse beat and how he or she beat the opposition particularly in the deep stretch when the true measures of class are displayed - stamina, endurance, courage, determination and late drive - true grit. Best I can tell, this horse won all of his races, less the Maryland, on the front end uncontested, won the Kentucky and the Maryland on the ease and breeze of the slop and the fractional times in the New York unremarkable. In the Maryland when contested by Good Magic, in deep stretch he didn't display any of those true measures of class described above - he couldn't put the opposition away and grind em' into the dirt. If the finish was just a few more yards he loses to lowly Bravazo and Tenfold.

How do his times compare to those Triple Crown winners that came before him? How would you rank him when compared to those Triple Crown winners that came before him? How would you rank him when compared to those Triple Crown winners that came before him?

He is the horse of our time - late developing, lightly raced talented swifty; they get out front and run as fast and as far as their talent and breeding allow. Once they get out front on the fast they're hard to catch, particularly in the Classics because the competition isn't bred with enough stamina to overcome the speed late stretch. If these types go easy uncontested they're hard to beat. We'll never know good they really are because their greed value is found at stud.

Ironically, so few go on to become great sires.