Curlin in race #5 at Nad Al Sheba on Thursday!

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by herkhorse

If this thread was on The Gong Show, I would have rang the bell a while back.

yet you muddled thru, getting in the game with post #191!! welcome to crazyville.

[Linny]

If Curlin is physically like any of the greats it's Affirmed.

[prudery]

Originally Posted by Linny

If Curlin is physically like any of the greats it's Affirmed.

Disagree ... Affirmed had a more finely wrought head and leaner neck and was not as muscle bound ... Overall he was less bulked up and butch ... Undoubtably the reference was to Secretariat, coy as it was ....

[Linny]

Affirmed had a bigger heartgirth and weighed more than Secretariat.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by Linny

Affirmed had a bigger heartgirth and weighed more than Secretariat.

Secretariat was 16'2, 1200 lbs and had a huge heart girth. Affirmed must have been some kind of monster.

[Danzig]

74.5-affirmeds girth size, who stood at 16.1, with alydar at 16.1 1/2 and the same size girth as affirmed-this at the end of their 3 yo season-from the t'bred legends book.
secretariat had a 75" girth according to an article from time. edit--that article was also when secretariat was three, before the belmont i believe. the two above were measured at the end of their 3 yo season, according to the book.

[Linny]

I'll ask the person who gave me the info. I think he got it from Richard Stone Reeves.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by Linny

If Curlin is physically like any of the greats it's Affirmed.

I didn't think Affirmed was a very big horse.