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[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by tiggerv

Drugs - I know you made the cutoff 1970, but do you have PPs for Dr. Fager? It was before my time, but I always thought that Dr. Fager had the best 4yo season ever in 1968.

I have PP's for horses like Dr. Fager, Citation and Native Dancer - but I don't have any way to gauge horses like that. I don't have access to chart books or results charts from that time - have no idea what their Ragozin figures look like - what their Beyers might look like - I don't have PP's of the competition they faced... so I feel totally in the dark about those horses.

I'm sure Dr. Fager was an all-time great - but it gets tricky to even guess without the aid of a lot of stuff.

Look at the Seattle Slew defeat to Exceller above - after watching that performance you'd think Seattle Slew was the greatest. However, I happen to think Seattle Slew might have only been the 5th or 6th best 3-year-old of the 70's. I've seen a lot of stuff that supports that belief.

He did however run some truly awesome races at age 4...albeit his 4yo season is hardly the stuff of legend in terms of accomplishment... unlike his 2yo and 3yo season.