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Re: The 1915 Kentucky Derby (1012 Views)
Posted by: teekay (IP Logged)
Date: May 09, 2002 02:12PM

dear PGGM,I used to feel the same way with Forego ,who won races against top class comp while carring enormous amounts of weight ,Spectacular Bid ,was another who I thought was great .For some reason I didn't respect Affirmed as much ,I think that if Alydar could have changed leads he would have beaten Affirmed .I really don't see that cailber horse in recent times ,I thought Easy goer came close and I thought that your namesake Point given was another. Horses may be running faster these days but they don't have the same durability ,for instance if you ever get to see the PP's of older horses like Bold Forbes ect.. notice how many races they ran prior to thier Derby bid .BF ran (I do this off off memory ) at least a dozen times in Puerto Rico before going to Laz Barrera ,he then ran through a bunch of preps leading up to the derby .Your typical derby runer ran at least 15 to 20 times and had faced his main adversaries several times .I think Affirmed and Alydar raced each against each other 6 or 7 times before thier Derby. I enjoyed the track from a fans standpoint much more back then .thanks for your response.



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