08-25-2020, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Spalding No!
Ironically, American Pharoah is probably the only recent horse that was poised to emulate the horses of the past.
None of those horses on the all-time list outside of uber-horse Easy Goer (a 120+ Beyer regular) and his nemesis Sunday Silence were 3yos, so I think it's likely that maturity is another requirement in order to produce 120+ BSF performances.
American Pharoah's BC Classic was a anti-climatic merry-go-round, but it did serve notice that he might have achieved Spectacular Bid-like heights if he came out as a 4yo. Certainly had the class, consistency, and constitution to be an all-timer.
Maybe if he had been owned by someone who was actually solvent we would have been able to witness something truly remarkable...
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100% agree.
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