Now he " didn't try ".
He was outrun.
I gotta say, I have enjoyed reading this thread, and am strongly on the side of the posters who claim he was never as good as his unearned reputation and is now being exposed. Hey, I give a lot of credit to his connections, he danced every dance last year ( save perhaps the Vosburgh ) and shipped back and forth across the country. He ran in all the big 3YO races and it is hardly his fault the competition sucked ( and sucked it did ). But, it is a very dangerous thing to evaluate horses by being overly result oriented.
The truth is out now and the Emporer has no clothes.
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