Shared Belief

[RockHardTen1985]

Originally Posted by Port Conway Lane

Lava Man is only "incredibly overrated" if you hold internet opinion in high regard. The betting public determines whether a horse is over or underrated.
In the pps shown Lava Man was a beaten favorite 5 times as was Commentator. In Lava Man's last 7 races it took the public 3 races in a row to realize he was no longer the horse to beat. The bottom line is that Lava Man returned more to the betting public than either of the other two.

There is no disputing that Commentator was incredible when he was on his game. That is how I will remember him. Lava Man was one of the great claims in racing and he failed outside of California. Perfect Drift was one of the memorable ex/tri/super keys at the highest level.

Using Student Council as the only barometer the 3 have in common Commentator gets the edge. If BSF are used to measure who was better then Commentator was best. If graded races are used then Lava Man was best.
It's a tough call. The quality of competition Lava Man faced should be scrutinized to some degree. I could say that if you remove the Whitney from his resume Commentator only won one graded stakes race. I could also say that he only ran out of the money once in all of his graded stakes appearances when routing.

One thing I got a kick out of in the pps was how the chartcaller had Commentator 47 1/2 lengths in front of the 4th horse in the Woodward.

Not the under attack? Because that's literally what happened.