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Originally Posted by dalakhani
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If you are being completely objective, how has Big Brown done anything superior to War Emblem to date?
If anything, War Emblem was superior in terms of figs and in terms of ease of victory.
Furthermore, how has Barbaro done more than Fusaichi pegasus? The pegasus won an extra graded stake in the fall and was second in the preakness. Regardless of how sad his death was, how can that ranking of Barbaro be considered anything but bias or projection when there are horses that are more accomplished?
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and war emblems competition included med d'oro, who was also on the original list.
as for barbaro, people tend to focus solely on his derby-for good reason, it was a damn good effort on his part-but then pay no attention to his races beforehand. yeah, he didn't do anything after the derby, but he did plenty before.
bernie may well have won the preakness that day regardless, but i think that bernardini would not have won out the year til the bcc had barbaro been around to take him on again.