MAYBE single performance. Maybe.
But he sure milks a lot out of this one race to be exalted by so many as greatest ever.
Not that he didn’t prove a lot, but he also had quite a few chinks.
Milks a lot of of one race? Quite a few chinks? Agree to disagree on that one.
His records for all three Triple Crown races still stand after all these years.
He wasn’t perfect, nope. He lost the Wood Memorial and had an abscess in his mouth. Not only was he in pain, that infection was raging in his system. No real good reasons for losses in the Woodward and Whitney.
He set a world record for 1 1/8 miles in the inaugural Marlboro Cup.
In addition to his record-setting races on dirt, he won two turf races, including beating a world-record holder in the Man o’War. There aren’t too many horses who can run equally well on both surfaces.