Quoted from Jay Hovdey's piece in Sunday's DRF:
"Big Brown is as good a 3-year-old champion as we've seen in the last decade."
Well at least he didn't say "the best".
Both Tiznow(2000) and Point Given(2001) would have eaten Big Brown for lunch! Bernardini(2006) would embarrass the 2008 Derby field, and Smarty Jones(2004) was brilliance that Big Brown didn't begin to see in his short career. And, though he wasn't named Champion, there was Barbaro(2006). Big Brown might stand on his tip-toes and punch Barbaro in the knee!
I love Jay Hovdey, but his statement above was driven by the "today", and, in making that statement, he forgot a few horses that might have made Big Brown an afterthought.
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