Alydar's 10-length win against older in the Whitney

[Calzone Lord]

Great video of a great 3-year-old:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0zYBc-Z7yo


Fellow 3-year-old Buckaroo (getting an 11 pound weight break from Alydar) was also 2nd in the race ... Buckaroo, was the sire of the freak Spend A Buck.

The older horses that year weren't much at all save Seattle Slew -- and the 3-year-old crop of '78 was one of the deepest ever.. but that was still very impressive.

Alydar's record as a 3-year-old was 10-7-3-0 ... his only 3 defeats all coming in the triple crown series races ... where each time he ran a number that would win said race more than maybe 90% of the time.

If Affirmed wasn't around that year -- you're looking at Alydar 10-for-10.

And finishing the year by winning the Preakness by 7.5 lengths, sweeping the Triple Crown in the Belmont by 13 lengths, winning the Arlington Classic by 13 lengths (giving signicant weight all around) winning the Whitney by 10 against the older horses, and winning the Travers by 3.75 lengths to cap a 10-for-10 season of still all huge figure performances.