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Originally Posted by Spalding No!
Golden Act & Lot o'Gold were multiple stakes winners both before & after facing Spectacular Bid; both were stakes winners at age 2 & 3 and both beat older horses in major stakes when they were 3 (the Canadian International & Clark respectively).
Flying Paster was 13 for 21 away from Spectacular Bid.
General Assembly was 7 for 14 away from Spectacular Bid.
Coastal was 8 for 12 away from Spectacular Bid (and obviously beat him in the Belmont).
More importantly, Spectacular set or tied multiple track, stakes, & world records during his career over multiple distances. Sure enough, even his vanquished foes were capable of beating the clock.
Flying Paster set multiple stakes records. Coastal set 2 stakes records in the Peter Pan & Dwyer to flank his Belmont win. General Assembly set a stakes record sprinting as a 2yo and famously set the track record for 10 furlongs at Saratoga (eventually bettered by Arrogate) when romping in the Travers.
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life is Good won for grade 1's in 11 races and was 9 for 11. Olympiad was 8 for 12. Epicenter won the Travers and came 2nd in the Derby and Preakness. It's hard to judge different eras but I don't think you can say Bid faced better horses. The horses Bid faced raced more times but also lost more races by percentage than the top ones Flightline raced in the classic
