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Originally Posted by Andy Asaro
He's as good as any horse that ever lived.
Having an opinion is one thing but I get the feeling like some of you think you have an obligation to protect racing history by diminishing Flightline.
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Ironically, the people keeping their feet on the ground and looking at the horse objectively are charged with bias while the person doing the charging can only offer throw-away hyperbole to describe the horse in question. Good stuff.
Same thing happened in the Zenyatta threads on here.
Someone else just described Flightline as "dusting very good horses in very fast times" which is a good synopsis to launch a discussion of the horse. Personally, I would argue about the caliber of horse he's been beating.
One question that ought to be answered is how come when horses like Dr. Fager, Swaps, Spectacular Bid, and Secretariat won their races, they didn't just run "very fast times", they actually broke stakes/track/course/world records?
Flightline came close to tying the stakes (and track) record for 10f in the Pacific Classic...a race that is barely 30 years old and carded at a distance rarely run at the track (i.e., conditions ripe for an all-timer to shatter a record).
