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Old 04-16-2019, 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by knickslions2 View Post
Winning 33 straight at any level is quite the feat especially since most of the field sizes were 8 and above. Not sure how it compares to US but 24 of the 33 were Grade 1 races out there. Here is the overview on this horse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winx_(horse)
Agreed. She won about $10M Aus$, which is about $7M US$, so she wasn't running for peanuts. Yeah, I, too, wish she'd traveled to Europe or the US, but those international flights run in both directions, so anyone thinking she and her competitors were lightweights had ample opportunity to test her.
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Curlin and Hard Spun finish 1,2 in the 2007 BC Classic, demonstrating how competing in all three Triple Crown races ruins a horse for the rest of the year...see avatar
photo from REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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