Brilliant miler Canford Cliffs retired to stud

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Mr. Calzone, I have a few questions for you. They run a 10f race at Churchill and one horse wins by a nose in 1:58 3/5 with the third horse 20 lengths back. Both horses ran great races right? Well, let's say that one of them would have broken down at the eighth pole and the other went off to win by himself in that same 1:58 3/5. Is his effort somehow less because the other horse got hurt?

No. It's not.

However, in this hypothetical example - you have no mention of a lot of different factors that impact how you view a performance.


The rest of your question has me dizzy and confused.

I can rattle off a dozen or more horses from Europe - only going back to Giant's Causeway and Dubai Millenium's time - who have beastly forms like Frankel.

Frankel and CC are not our equivlant of an Easy Goer/Sunday Silence or Affirmed/Alydar.