Invasor - World Champ!

[brockguy]

Not as flashly as others, but hard to knock him..

from sportinglife http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/n..._Rankings.html

Invasor just pipped Bernardini and Discreet Cat for the title of the best horse on the planet after the unveiling of the World Thoroughbred Rankings.

The Uruguayan-bred horse, now trained in the USA by Kiaran McLaughlin, was given a rating of 129, a pound lower than the mark given to Hurricane Run 12 months ago.

Invasor rapidly progressed in his first season in North American and rounded off the season by beating Bernardini by a length in the Breeders' Cup Classic in November.

Preakness winner Bernardini was rated just a pound lower on 128 along with Godolphin's progressive Discreet Cat.

Aidan O'Brien's brilliant but enigmatic English 2000 Guineas winner George Washington and Rail Link, who won a strong Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe for Andre Fabre, were close behind on 127, the same rating achieved by Japanese sensation Deep Impact and American gelding Lava Man in the older division.

Deep Impact was disqualified from third place in the Arc and the run was not taken into consideration.

The European Two-Year-Old rankings were also published, with Jim Bolger's Teofilo coming out top on 123. The son of Galileo was unbeaten from five starts and was just ahead of O'Brien's 122-rated Holy Roman Emperor, who he beat in both the National and Dewhurst Stakes. Next best on 121 was Peter Chapple-Hyam's dual Group One scorer Dutch Art.

Interestingly, French mare Pride was rated the best mare or filly in the world, with a mark of 123, one ahead of British heroine Ouija Board.