Quote Originally Posted by Maorisidol View Post
My bad, 53.8 last HALF...
And i dont think MOST horses could do that at all...not outside the top 10 FFA horses in NZ/AUS combined, especially under race conditions.
Lol I know.
I think the horse is definitely top 10 in Australasia.

What got me though back when he was a 3yo and a 4yo wasn't the horses fault, but if you believed everything you read this bloke was 10 lengths better than Courage Under Fire and Christian Cullen - this wasn't long after the Kiwis tried to tell us the 4yo mare Mainland Banner was better than her sire as well!
I was very critical of the Reactor back then, he would run 1.54 going halves in 60 and 54 and beat up on no names. What makes a good horse, imo, is running 1.54 by going 58 and 56 and he couldn't do that back then. What he has done since returning from America I'm a fan (I use that term loosely, I could never cheer for a NZer ) now the relentless media beat up and 'picket fence' bandwagoners have dropped off.