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Originally Posted by Linny
There is no consistancy because every season is different. Typically when Euro's come to the US and get an Eclipse, it's in a division where chaos dominated. Juvies are suseptible as there are few G1's and except the BC, the best rarely meet up. Thus Johannesbug and Wilko.
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Wilko didn't win the Eclipse. Declan's Moon did. Ultimately, Giacomo or Sun King would have been better champs if you take into account future performance.
By the way, up until his disastrous BC (and subsequent pack-mule punishment courtesy of Bob Baffert), Officer was far and away the dominant juvenile in the US, having shipped out to win the Champagne comfortably after terrorizing the competition at Del Mar. Johannesburg's cause was probably aided by those late season losses in the Cal Cup and Hollywood Futurity. Worthy of mention was Came Home, who was a very early season stakes winner in CA before lighting up the Hopeful at Saratoga.