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Originally Posted by miraja2
Saying that he wouldn't have had any chance in the '89 TC races isn't really a knock on KG at all. While I remain highly skeptical of his ability to ever get 10f effectively, the bigger issue is the fact that the crop that year produced two of the best true 10f horses of the last 25 years....and he wasn't one of them.
Do horses like War Emblem sometimes win the Derby as the lone speed? Of course, but it is one thing to do it with Proud Citizen chasing you home, and an altogether different proposition when the two horses trying to get by you are Sunday Silence and Easy Goer.
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What you say here is absolutely correct. There's almost no question that they would have turned out to be better and more natural 10f runners than KG was. I just feel like KG would have opened up 6-8 on them coming around the turn and that might have been just enough to hold them off.
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