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Originally Posted by Boomman
I won't go as far as to say Funny Cide should have won the triple crown, but I have often wondered if things would have been different had he not been put through that insane 57:0 flat 5F work a couple of days before the Belmont. I also can't help but thinking that Barclay Tagg would have gone ballistic over that work if it hadn't been his girl friend in the irons.........just food for thought...........
Boomer
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I don't think FC could have gotten the 12f AND beaten a fresher Empire Maker in 10 tries. But I'm the wrong guy to ask because I think aside from those two weeks in May, Funny Cide wasn't that great of a racehorse.
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