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Originally Posted by castaway01
I suppose it's the short careers of modern horses that cause this, but I can't remember too many champions dying where most of the comments here are examining how he really wasn't that good because he "didn't beat anybody" in winning a $10 million race, breaking down the possible outside bias to the track in one of his big wins (!), that his trainer drugs and kills horses, and how the horse was apparently damaging the breed as a stallion.
Arrogate might not have been an immortal talent, but he deserves better than that.
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This thread might not have been best place to try to downplay some of the performances that generated short lived excitement about his emergence as potentially great horse for a few months. I had second thoughts about my own posts after I made them. There was probably a better place for that kind of thing. I think everyone agrees it was quite a run of 4 races (specially the Travers) and a tragic loss. Some of just have an innate contrarian streak in us that reacts to overreaction.