Silver;

There is no better time to agree with you than when you are disagreeing with the Klown.

Klown "wrote" 'Between Citation and Secretariat 25 years went by without a triple crown winner. Then there were 3 Triple Crown Winners in 6 years.'

Yes. And in those years Native Dancer and Northern Dancer did OK, as I recall. Whatever happened to them? I guess 2 out of 3 makes you a bum and 3 for 3 makes you Bucephalos? (not in spell check, damnit!). Was there supposed to be a point in there?

"There is nothing wrong with the Current Triple Crown spacing that a good horse and a little luck won't overcome."

Yeah, it's great the way the TC chews up the best legs of each generation. It's nice we don't need to watch these horses (Silver's namesake and Victory Gallop being the "recent" exceptions) as 4YOs, even if their owners were otherwise obliged to be "sports". Hell, they can barely make it to the Travers or the BC already!

Silver, your point about spacing is spot-on. The TC is easier now because all the best horses take their shots in KY, skip the Preakness (unless they win the Derby), and maybe they show up in NY 3 weeks later. They have plenty of spacing in the British Triple Crown, and no one has won that three-fer in decades BECAUSE IT'S TOO DAMN HARD!

Making something - arguably - less difficult does not make it easy. In what other race does a trainer take his best horse, and run him/her in Grade Ones two weeks apart? Does running the Wood two weeks earlier make the TC easier?

I'm done. Thanks for letting me vent!