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Originally Posted by King Glorious
The point wasn’t to say that Justify wasn’t an outstanding horse that accomplished great things. But historically, Justify will always be remembered as greater than Risen Star because he won the TC and I think Risen Star was better. He lost his Derby to two champions that were multiple grade one winners. Justify didn’t have to face horses the quality of Winning Colors and Forty Niner. Can’t be proven of course but my bet is that if you could switch the years and have Justify facing what Risen Star faced and vice versa, we’d have a different TC winner.
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Justify will be "remembered" as the better horse by people that know nothing about Risen Star. Pretty much nobody with a clue that knows their respective talents thinks Justify was a better horse. It's a function of recency bias. Risen Star's TC accomplishments were almost 33 years ago. We live in a time where there are actually people that say Songbird was the best 3YO filly ever....and that was less than ten years after Rachel Alexandra's remarkable 3YO season.
Justify isn't overrated....at least by anyone's opinions that are even remotely qualified. He was a damn good horse that did quite a lot over a very short period of time. He earned his place in history.