Divisional best by decade since 1900

[RockHardTen1985]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

This is preposterous.

Mineshaft- 9 starts.
Congaree- 9 starts.
Medaglia D'Oro- 5 starts.
Pleasantly Perfect- 4 starts.
Milwaukee Brew- 4 starts.
Candy Ride- 3 starts.

Congaree was dusted in the Met Mile and beaten on the square in both the Kentucky Cup and the Breeder's Cup.

Pleasantly Perfect and Milwaukee Brew were opportunists at best.

Perfect Drift wasted starts on turf and was no factor in the BC.

Medaglia D'Oro beat the exact same horses Mineshaft did (ie Olmodovar, Evening Attire, Volponi, etc.), but lost both his starts at 10f including the BC Classic.

Candy Ride won a single main track race in a 3-horse field which included a horse that was retired 24 hours later with an injury, and he himself was never heard from again.

Maybe the way he is saying it is wrong, using words like ducking but the facts behind the argument are strong. Mineshaft beat no one at all. He lost to Perfect Drift who at some point turned into a giant hanger. The money he cost me when he hung in the Whitney, OMG. No facts to back this up just my opinion, but Im fairly certain Candy Ride would have beat Mineshaft, at any distance. I wont comment about anyone else on the list.

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

Maybe the way he is saying it is wrong, using words like ducking but the facts behind the argument are strong. Mineshaft beat no one at all. He lost to Perfect Drift who at some point turned into a giant hanger. The money he cost me when he hung in the Whitney, OMG. No facts to back this up just my opinion, but Im fairly certain Candy Ride would have beat Mineshaft, at any distance. I wont comment about anyone else on the list.

What I actually said is that when you run in the races that Mineshaft did, nobody can accuse you of ducking. I don't think anyone ducked him either. It was just a case were there were plenty of opportunities around and for whatever reasons, Mineshaft was fortunate that things worked out for him where he didn't have to face other top horses. The fact is that even if one were to think he was the best of all horses that year, he won ZERO races against top competition.