When you consider the Easy Goer / Sunday Silence races a couple things stand out.

One of course is the margins of victory. They certainly paid the Whittingham connections 1st place in two of the close ones, but a jump past the wire in both of those races Easy Goer was three lengths clear.

Sunday Silence was the clearly superior horse in one race. Easy Goer was the vastly superior horse in another, then there were two very close events. Add up the beaten lengths and Easy Goer was the clear victor, yet on the scorecard after 4 rounds it said 3-1 for Sunday Silence. Any knowledgeable viewer of racing has to know that circumstances can always alter the outcome of a race, yet the superior animal is apparent to the practiced eye. Sunday is fortunate it wasn't a nine inning game. When you add up Triple Crown Misses, Sunday missed his by more than Easy Goer did.

Speaking of Triple Crowns, anyone think Street Sense needs another rail ride to win round 2?

CtC

magicnight Wrote:
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> 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.