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[Smooth Operator]

Originally Posted by Danzig

as for the classic win, an historic moment, in a renewal that was lacking top synthetic horses. other than zenyatta that is.

Um, for the 67th time, Euros dominated the race in '08 … beautifully and gloriously exposing the overrated Curlin.

Seeing that success, they brought over a couple more pretty good ones (TO, RVW) for the '09 edition … in an attempt to steal our big race again … and Z stepped up and made them all look like donkeys.

[Travis Stone]

Saying Curlin was overrated and exposed in the BCC is weak. He was clearly fading-out of top form, plus it's synthetics, which matters not when talking about fast dirt horses.

[classhandicapper]

I'm a huge Ghostzapper fan and think he was among the greatest horses I've seen in my lifetime, but he had one of the softest life time campaigns imaginable.

His entire reputation was made earning inflated Beyer figures (yes IMO a few were too fast, but it's a long discussion) while beating up total non entities racing a few times a year.

Then he was life and death against St Liam before he had even hit his best ride.

Then he won a great Classic, but while controlling the pace from the rail.

Of course I can make a better case for why he was great, but the point is you can't love Ghostzapper and also trash Zenyatta's campaigns over 3 years.

[randallscott35]

I think Curlin was an impressive horse. No idea why he got brought into this.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

Um, for the 67th time, Euros dominated the race in '08 … beautifully and gloriously exposing the overrated Curlin.

Seeing that success, they brought over a couple more pretty good ones (TO, RVW) for the '09 edition … in an attempt to steal our big race again … and Z stepped up and made them all look like donkeys.

Gio Ponti made them look like donkeys as well.