Re: Setting Standards for Greatness and Immortality (474 Views)
Posted by:
Michael D. (IP Logged)
Date: July 02, 2007 03:24PM
jimbo66 Wrote:
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> Alright Richie,
>
> I will give you Bellamy Road and his negative 5
> falling way short of great!! That was easy.
>
> As I look at the thorographs for Wednesday's
> Belmont card and see that Commentator has run four
> negative 5's, I am struck that as far as TG
> figures go, Commentator is probably the fastest
> horse in history. I guess he has 4 of the top 7
> or 8 figures ever given out.
>
> So, how do we classify horses like that. I don't
> vote for "great", but he has to be better than
> "good".
He hasn't dusted the best of his generation Jim. Three of the superfigs were in state bred company, and one of them was a wire job over the old Kee surface (sloppy track no less). He's faced very good horses four times, and got buried three.
Somewhere between good and great sounds ok to me.