Easy Goer Was Better than Sunday Silence

[Thunder Gulch]

Originally Posted by smartbid09

Was Easy Goer better than Sunday Silence?

If the reason a horse ranks higher than another on a list is based on the amount of times they beat another horse than every list would rank Alsab above Whirlaway and Noor would rank above Citation. Alsab beat Whirlaway 2 of the three times they met on the track; And Noor beat Citation 4 of the 5 times they met. They seemed to agree with me because on their list Alsab (#65) ranks lower than Whirlaway (#26) and Noor (#69) ranks lower than Citation (#3). So I assume that the blood horse list didn't rank Sunday Silence above Easy Goer simply because he won 3 of the 4 times they met.
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The analogy of Citation and Noor is a terrible comparison. Noor beat Citation way after Citation's prime. As a 2yo and 3yo, Citation was as good as any horse that ever ran in America. Injuries sat him out for his entire 4yo season before he came back a shell of himself at 5, when Noor beat him multiple times.
By comparison, Sunday Silence and Easy Goer's most important races were run against each other, and SS got the best of it.