Quote Originally Posted by strong persuader View Post
Can't remember his name, but he was the owner or part owner of Grinfromeartoear and when he was out in Aus promoting the stallion he did an interview on In The Gig.

The subject of times came up and he said that times were really irrelevant as even moderate horses in the US could run 1:50 at the time. He said that when discussing horses, the only criteria he used was how much it had won and who it had beaten.
That was Tom Crouch of Kentuckiana Farms, if my memory is still working. I reckon he was right, too, because we have horses running 1:50 at Menangle in restricted classes.

In my day, hoses would only do that standing in a float!