Shared Belief

Rupert Pupkin · #14 07-10-2014, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Perfect Drift ended his career on a 19-race losing streak, even dropping three allowance races. Under no circumstances was he better than Commentator.

Commentator had injury issues. But when he was on his game, he was incredible.

Lava Man was incredibly overrated. Aside from his strong run in parts of 2005 and 2006, he was ordinary and has enjoyed an inflated standing by people all over the internet. Maybe it was because he was "the originals rags to riches."

That's just a few. I'll pull more PPs.

Perfect Drift actually made $4.7 million. He made over double what Commentator made. Commentator only made $2 million. Not only that, but 6 of Commentator's 14 wins were against New York breds.

In addition, I don't think it's fair to judge Perfect Drift off his last few years of racing. He was running as a 9 year old. He wasn't nearly as good of a horse during his 7,8, and 9 year old seasons as he was as a 4 and 5 year old.

Don't get me wrong, I think Commentator was a better horse. When he ran his best race, he was not going to lose to Perfect Drift. But if we are going to compare them, we need to compare them when they were both in top form. Who cares what Perfect Drift did as an 8 and 9 year old when he was over the hill.

Lava Man made $5.2 million. My big knock on him was that he couldn't win anywhere but Southern California. But when he was in top form in Southern California, there weren't too many horses that could beat him. Plus he did it on every surface- regular dirt, synthetic, and grass. He won a total of 7 grade I races. Commentator only won two. You guys like to look at speed figures. How many graded stakes wins did Lava Man have where he ran a 105 Beyer or higher? The answer is 9. How many did Commentator have? The answer is 3.

It's pretty hard to knock Lava Man's overall stats. When you look at the amount of money he won, the number of grade I races he won, how fast he ran, and all the different surfaces he did it on, it's pretty hard to knock him.