The BC is going to tell the entire story. For him to be considered a great colt, by people who truly have a qualified opinion, he's going to have to win and win decisively. Impressively. No, not the teletimer. It's not going to be how fast he does it, but how he does it. He's going to have to win and dominate in order to be considered a great colt. Not the way he won the Hambo. That victory did not make him a great colt. It didn't even make him # 1 in the class. He looked great to many at 2, but to me that's because he was so far ahead of the rest of the crop. He looked, visually, so dominant, people jump and say great, will be one of the GOAT, and so on. This year, the rest of the class caught up to him. Maybe he didn't get any better. Maybe he regressed relative to the rest of the crop.
Since the Hambo, getting beat by Dame Good Time in the KYSS final did not do his so called greatness any service. DGT tripped out and won the Zweig, and won the KYSS final, both at close to 20-1. Those two victories were worth $350,000 of his $400k earnings this year. To me, he is nothing more than a face in the crowd, a lucky one, but still just a face in the crowd. He's not a top colt. Karl is lucky he finished 2nd. So, Karl losing to him was simply not good. Karl's performance in the KY Futurity didn't look good either, but I'll buy the claim that he bled.
So, for me, as they said a long ago.....it all comes down.....to the Breeders Crown. LOL.
Karl turns around and wins big. He's restored himself, his reputation, and it would make him 3yotc of the year. I don't know if that would make him a great colt. I've just seen too much so-so, mediocrity, lucky, etc. Great to me is how you do it, easy, dominate, decisive, substantially better than the rest, the best by far, and doing that way. Great, OK, maybe to some. But again, not one of the GOAT. Not even in the same universe.
