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Old 01-07-2008, 08:44 PM
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What about a horse like Left Bank. Multiple Graded wins and track records at 2 different distances?
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Old 01-07-2008, 08:47 PM
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What about a horse like Left Bank. Multiple Graded wins and track records at 2 different distances?
Track records are highly overrated. They are too much a function of track condition and not enough of a function of the horse's brilliance.
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For me, it's the ability to not just compete but win the majority of times that a horse faces the highest levels of his/her competition while either running fast times or earning high figures or preferrably both and doing it under a variety of different circumstances. I look at horses that travel well and horses that run on different kinds of surfaces and give them extra credit.
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What about a horse like Left Bank. Multiple Graded wins and track records at 2 different distances?
Left Bank had a very good couple of months and a very disappointing couple of years.
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