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[QUOTE="Orangutan, post: 2749154, member: 4946"]
I feel like Pharoah could have beaten quality horses but to have done that he'd had to have raced at 4.  As I recall, the Classic field was not considered especially strong that year and the horse expected to be his toughest competition, Liam's Map, entered (and won) the Mile instead.  And there's so much money in breeding that there's no way a Triple Crown winning colt is ever going to race at 4.  So we'll never know.

And if you're trying to win a Triple Crown, there's no incentive to run fast times in any given race.  In every race up until the Belmont, just do enough to win and leave whatever you can in the tank for next time.  Pharoah did have to go all out to win the Derby but I feel like in his other races he perhaps could have been pushed more if a great time was the objective.

So yeah, I think we'll never know if he was truly a great horse and we'll probably never know with Justify either.

At any rate, I'm sure you forgotten more about racing than I'll ever know, so forgive me if any/all of the above is bunk :)
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