Re: LEFT BANK / JERRY BROWN (901 Views)
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Michael D. (IP Logged)
Date: August 04, 2002 01:51PM
No horse that has ever run would have beaten Secretariat that day. Giving any horse a number within three or four points of Secretariat in a mile and a half race is simply a mistake. The horse was a freak of nature, with a heart a much bigger than anything else we have seen since. One of these days we may see another horse like that, most likely through AP Indy or Storm Cat blood, but as of yet, we have not. The numbers Left Bank have received, however, have been backed up time after time. Today's horses with Northern Dancer and Mr Prospector blood can run sprints and middle distance races faster than they could twenty or thirty years ago. I do not think Secretariat could have run with Left Bank in a sprint, and it would have been a battle in a middle distance race. You are 100% correct though, going a mile and a half, we have seen nothing even close to Secretariat.