[quote name='King Glorious' timestamp='1263876122' post='394297']
People don't realize the importance luck plays in these things. It's almost as important as how good a horse actually is. If there was no Sunday Silence, Easy Goer would have been 3yo champion and HOY with wins in the:
Swale, Gotham, Wood Memorial, Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont, Whitney, Travers, Woodward, JCGC, and BC Classic. Hell, he would not only have been the champion but he would be in the same convo with Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, and Dr. Fager as the best horse ever.
If there was no Easy Goer, Sunday Silence would have been a TC winner himself. They both had the bad luck of coming up against each other. This year, as good as Rachel was, if not for Jackson coming and making the offer for her, we wouldn't have seen any of this because her previous owner thought females shouldn't face males.
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KG
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The real horses of the year (1986-2020)
Manila, Java Gold, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Go for Wand, In Excess, Paseana, Kotashaan, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alphabet Soup, Formal Gold, Skip Away, Artax, Tiznow, Point Given, Azeri, Candy Ride, Smarty Jones, Ghostzapper, Invasor, Curlin, Zenyatta, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Havre de Grace, Wise Dan, Wise Dan, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Arrogate, Gun Runner, Accelerate, Maximum Security, Gamine
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