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There is no point of winning a race by 20 lengths if you have to ride the living hell out of a horse to do it.
The thing is Master Minded like Arkle before him, when meeting opposition at level weights, did it with virtually no effort against fairly decent indiviudals.
It is that ability that separates great horse from very good horses.
All Ruby had to do tobeat VPU and Petite Robin was give the horse a squeeze and he instantly stepped up a gear.
Those two would be much more talented individuals than the few horses Moscow Flyer beat by those kind of distances.
He was better than any of his rivals and a true champion I would rate up there but slightly behind Dunkirk, Drinnies Double, Badsworth Boy, Barnbrook Again and Crisp
I omit Flying Bolt from the list as he was agood 2 mile winner but a great 3 mile chaser.
Not a bad lot of names to be associated with in anyones book but this Master Minded like Flying Bolt before him, could shortly be talked about in the same breath as the Mighty A, something MF never was.
There is no point of winning a race by 20 lengths if you have to ride the living hell out of a horse to do it.
The thing is Master Minded like Arkle before him, when meeting opposition at level weights, did it with virtually no effort against fairly decent indiviudals.
It is that ability that separates great horse from very good horses.
All Ruby had to do tobeat VPU and Petite Robin was give the horse a squeeze and he instantly stepped up a gear.
Those two would be much more talented individuals than the few horses Moscow Flyer beat by those kind of distances.
He was better than any of his rivals and a true champion I would rate up there but slightly behind Dunkirk, Drinnies Double, Badsworth Boy, Barnbrook Again and Crisp
I omit Flying Bolt from the list as he was agood 2 mile winner but a great 3 mile chaser.
Not a bad lot of names to be associated with in anyones book but this Master Minded like Flying Bolt before him, could shortly be talked about in the same breath as the Mighty A, something MF never was.
My point Im not sure that Moscow ever beat any horse by those distances. He just didnt seem to see the bother of doing it. Therefore its actually quite difficult to say just how good he was…. Thats all Im saying.
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There is no point of winning a race by 20 lengths if you have to ride the living hell out of a horse to do it.
The thing is Master Minded like Arkle before him, when meeting opposition at level weights, did it with virtually no effort against fairly decent indiviudals.
It is that ability that separates great horse from very good horses.
All Ruby had to do tobeat VPU and Petite Robin was give the horse a squeeze and he instantly stepped up a gear.
Those two would be much more talented individuals than the few horses Moscow Flyer beat by those kind of distances.
He was better than any of his rivals and a true champion I would rate up there but slightly behind Dunkirk, Drinnies Double, Badsworth Boy, Barnbrook Again and Crisp
I omit Flying Bolt from the list as he was agood 2 mile winner but a great 3 mile chaser.
Not a bad lot of names to be associated with in anyones book but this Master Minded like Flying Bolt before him, could shortly be talked about in the same breath as the Mighty A, something MF never was.
FoF, what is it with you and these Clive Smith horses?
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