Rudeboyelvis |
01-19-2015 02:12 PM |
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Originally Posted by Indian Charlie
(Post 1013239)
Bayern traveled much more? They both ran at CD and in the Preakness.
CC ran in the Belmont, Bayern the Haskell. Then they both ran in Pennsylvania.
Did I leave out a race? I think Bayern ran in Arkansas, which would give him one more out of state race, but that doesn't seem like he traveled much more.
Also, Bayern won two of the three meetings, not two of two.
The resumes were pretty comparable if you look at them side by side, though Bayern did have one more race. Two of those ten starts were a MSW and an alw.
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I don't believe it is as static as you are suggesting. The company that CC kept in California vs. what Bayern faced later in the year is telling. How many Kentucky Derby runners even raced again in graded company, much less did anything after the TC?
I maintained all year that it was the weakest TC crop that I have seen in a good while.
Bayern beat CC on the square in Pennsylvania. You can (and many have) make a case against Bayern for the break in the BC, but you then have to equally make the same case that Ring Weekend took away any possible chance Bayern may have had in the Preakness.
CC never showed up again after faltering in the Belmont. Oh, unless, with a straight face, you are going to make the case that the Hollywood Derby was a true Grade 1 test of chanpions :zz: Then yes, after being soundly schooled in the BC, he DID manage to hold off the world beater Lexie Lou by diminishing lengths in the Hollywood Derby.
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