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Grasshopper,<br> On figures from 2002, Toyota spent more money on their cars than any other team in F1.
Hasn’t Best mate already shown how good he is in a handicap? I seem to remember him getting turned over by Wahiba sands. <br>I can understand the people bored by the comparisons with Arkle, but as has already been pointed out, it was Terry Biddlecombe who stated that Best mate was better than Arkle. <br>Giving away the same amount of weight, Arkle would have paralysed Wahiba sands.<br>Best mate has won 3 Cheltenham gold cups, and so has Cottage rake, but that’s where the similarity with Arkle ends.<br>
i think the only way Best Mate will EVER be remembered listening to some of you on here will be for him to enter something like the King George at Ascot in July, get him to race off 12st over 1 1/2m on firm ground and see him trounce the Derby winner (Yeats) by half the track. Then, prepare him to run in the National, again conceding weight to all, on a bog. Maybe the other jockeys could be armed with sticks to poke the horse and Jim Culloty when they go round.
The horse has won three gold cups. I think his legacy is well intact whether or not he runs in handicaps, helps set up a hospital for the blind in Bangladesh, or even kills Jim Lewis in a bizarre smothering incident.:o
Nobody is saying that Best Mate isn’t a very good horse, there just saying that Arkle was better.<br>It’s a bit like poining out that although our best 1500 metre runner at the moment is very good, Sebastian Coe was better. :biggrin:
Quote: from kcollinsuk on 7:49 pm on Mar. 18, 2004[br]
Quote: from jilly on 7:45 pm on Mar. 18, 2004[br]I am with you all the way on this one KJ.<br>Those that disagree with us are a bunch of clueless feckers. :biggrin:
<br>Hi Coksukin ll [anag] You call me childish again an i’ll hit you with my rattle!All this talk of Best Mate v Arkle Is pointless anyway. Just enjoy BM while we have him. He is the best of his time,people who think that Dessie was better are severly deluded,but we could go on about opinions forever,havn’t you lot got anything better to do?<br>I have to disagree with that childish comment on the basis that an opinion cannot be wrong or "clueless".<br>
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