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[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

I think the problem here is that most people way over estimate the abilities of Street Sense, Hard Spun, AGS and Curlin.

They actually achieved stuff.

You're going to get the same reaction that you would get if you said Jeff George was the best QB or Bo Jackson or Marcus Dupree was the best RB.

[rpncaine]

Jeff was the best QB....at Warren Central HS.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by rpncaine

Jeff was the best QB....at Warren Central HS.

A lot of the most reputable scouts have said he was the best high school quarterback of all-time...and that if there ever was such a thing as the Quarterback Olympics -- in his prime he would have beaten anyone else in there prime.

He just didn't advance well as things became more complicated -- with running backs and race horses it's pretty much injures and physical setbacks that stop them instead of mental things.

Bo Jackson was pretty damn good...just distracted.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

They actually achieved stuff.

You're going to get the same reaction that you would get if you said Jeff George was the best QB or Bo Jackson or Marcus Dupree was the best RB.

I guess me saying on ability only, not accomplishments was missed?

[Danzig]

it's very hard to quantify ability without accomplishments. we've all seen our share of amazing performances-but without accomplishments, how well can you really judge talent?
tiz wonderful might have just been a very precocious but ultimately unsound horse. danzig was mentioned-he seems to have had ability, but three races really isn't enough to give a true measure of how good he was. there's no real record to go on. and there's plenty of others out there like that, who showed a lot of promise, who might have been the top member of their crop-but there's no way really to know for sure. and it's part of being a really good horse being able to prove it?