Re: Preakness......rubber meets the road (584 Views)
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magicnight (IP Logged)
Date: May 11, 2007 01:58PM
I love how this argument will last forever.
P-Dub, by "completely his own way" you mean ... what, exactly? 12 furlongs? How many lengths did SS lose by that day? Seem to remember a fella by the name of Whittingham saying something about EG "being the real mile-and-a-half horse".
Why do people always have to trash one or the other? I loved EG but that doesn't mean I have to disparage SS. On the contrary. I'm happy that they were both fortunate enough to wind up in the best of barns and make it through their 3YO seasons OK. Had either one taken a wrong step anywhere along the road to CD the other would have been an easy triple crown winner. I'm happier that we got the mixed, more compelling result.
There have been 11 TC winners. But how many racing rivalries have been anywheres near compelling as the four races between those two? We - and racing history - are both richer for the rivalry.