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Originally Posted by HomerS
Actually if you go by conditions of the race tracks couldnt have come up with better lab. Four different tracks. One off track. Warm days on other three.
I dont give a horse extra credit for winning by alot of lenghts
Easy Goer clearly loved wide turns
Would be first to say if they ran 4 times at Belmont, SS would have been hard pressed to win even two
Easy Goer was a homer. Was great in NY, especially at Belmont.
But to me part of greatness is taking your A game on the road. The greats always do. Alysheba did that
To win when you dont necessarily have best trip
People discount SS because of his running style. It didnt look as fast visually but was every bit as fast- as evident by his wins. He stayed out of trouble. Was more athletic. Got into his fast gear much quicker. Took EG a long time to get his motor running. When he did he was real fast also. Not denying that.
But when all is said and done when consider head to head. When consider EG five biggest races its pretty easy for me to say SS was better
Unfortunately today horses will meet once or sometimes not at all. And when one horse wins its automatically concluded that horse is better off one race. Which is again unfortunate. But unlike so many recent discussions comparing horses we can easily settle this one. Since they raced four times. That is a very fair body of work to me.
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You know I'm starting to get a better sense now of why SS was considered to be a little bit better than Easy Goer...
I never thought about the whole bringing your game on the road part...
I appreciate your insight
