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... even Bodemeister only had enough for runner-up honors after putting-away the champion sprinter early in the Derby.
And the difference between Justify and Accelerate remains glaringly obvious:
Justify has never lost, and Count Fleet before him was named HOY with a 6-for-6 three-year-old campaign during which he never raced again after the Belmont Stakes back when the competition was probably more durable.
Justify is now the sole T.C. winner to have done so without racing as a 2yo just as another is the only T.C. winner to have won the Derby off of an 8-month layoff.
Some keep trying to compare Accelerate of November to Justify of June and before, when a more apt comparison would be Justify of May-June as a 3yo to Accelerate of May-June as a 3yo. It's laughable!
Nobody knows what it would take to beat Justify, and everybody knows that all it takes to beat Accelerate is City of Light, who then returned to finish behind the aforementioned Dr Dorr, a runner who then topped 6 foes in 3 subsequent 2018 starts.
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