Pero llegó última. Eso es un carreron?

@@christianhernandez2359 tuvo problemas en la carrera no te dejes llevar por eso

@@christianhernandez2359 creo que no captaste su sarcasmo

Para eso la pusieron, para ser conejillo de India

It's an apples vs. oranges comparison. Affirmed competed against much tougher opponents overall than Bid did. Affirmed competed in 14 races against horses ranked in the top 100 horses of the 20th century whereas Bid only competed in 1 horse of that caliber. It's also an apples-vs-oranges comparison comparing Bid to horses like Forego, Dr. Fager, Citation, Kelso, Round Table and many more. Each of those horses accomplished things that Bid never did and very likely never could.

@@sl-rt5kv Your apples to oranges comparisons are ridiculous. You obviously know NOTHING about Spectacular Bid's history. Flying Paster, General Assembly, and Golden Act were ALL great racehorses who provided The Bid with PLENTY of competition, in 1979 AND 1980. Other than Alydar, what other racehorse did Affirmed have to beat in 1978? As for your other comparisons, Dr. Fager was a miler. Forego and Kelso did not become notable until they became handicap horses. Citation and Round Table were from a completely era of horseracing. How many track records and stakes records did The Bid set? How many track records and stakes records did Affirmed set? Spectacular Bid won 26 of his 30 races. Affirmed won 22 of his 29 races. I am a big Affirmed fan too, but your trashing of Spectacular Bid shows your lack of overall horseracing knowledge.

@@TheProfessorOfLife You are missing the point. My claim that comparisons between great horses are apples-vs-oranges comparisons is not ridiculous because that is what they are. That’s why, unlike you, I never claim that any great horses like Bid, Citation, Kelso, Dr. Fager, Secretariat, Affirmed, Seattle Slew, Forego, Round Table etc. are “better“ than any of the others. Flying Paster, General Assembly, and Golden Act were excellent horses, but none of them were Hall of Famer’s and they are absolutely not ranked in Bloodhorse’s top 100 horses of the 20th century. In fact, most people would consider Affirmed’s adversaries in 14 races - Seattle Slew, Alydar, Exceller, and Spectacular Bid himself - to be more formidable opponents than those 3 competitors of Bid who you cite. As an aside, Affirmed did win the triple crown competing against Alydar while Bid failed to do so against lesser opponents. Bid may have run 1 1/4 miles 0.6 seconds faster than Affirmed, but he also carried 6 pounds less than Affirmed when he did it. Another apples-vs.oranges comparison. You don't know that Bid was “better” than Affirmed. Your characterization of Dr. Fager as just “a miler” ignores the fact that most of the races he ran at ages 3 and 4 were over one mile. Fager never got the chance to compete at 1 ¼ miles on speedy West Coast tracks the way Bid did, but he did run that distance in under 2 minutes on three separate occasions on slower East Coast courses. He did this once as a three-year old and twice at age 4, carrying 132 and 135 pounds, respectively. Bid never came close to running 1 ¼ miles in under 2 minutes on East Coast tracks and only finished under 2 minutes once on a fast west coast track. Bid only carried 126 pounds when he set his world record. This brings up another point of difference between Fager and Bid. As 4-year olds, Dr. Fager carried an _average_ of 4 1/2 pounds more per race than what Spectacular Bid carried. That’s the kind of weight differential that older horses are commonly assigned when competing against 3-year olds. In 1980 Bid did have a chance to run against Winter’s Tale, probably the hottest horse in the nation besides Bid at the time, in the Marlboro Cup. However, after Bid got assigned 136 pounds, they scratched him from the race. Bid was definitely not the second coming of Forego or Dr. Fager when it came to carrying huge imposts to victory against the best horses. It’s also worth noting that as a 4-year old Dr. Fager won all 4 championships: Horse of the Year, Champion Grass Horse, Champion Male Handicap horse, and champion Sprinter. That’s the only time any horse ever won all 4 championships in a single season. You don't know that Bid was better than Dr. Fager. Your claim that Kelso didn’t become notable until he was a handicap horse is false. In fact, he won the first of his 5 consecutive Horse of the Year championships at age 3. He was also named Champion 3-year old that year. Also at age 3, Kelso won the first of his 5 consecutive Jockey Club Gold Cups, smashing the world record for 2 miles. In that race the younger Kelso defeated hall of fame older horse, Bald Eagle. Kelso would go on to break his own 2-mile world record two more times in his subsequent JCGC wins. He also set a world record for 1 1/2 miles on grass of 2:23.8. That's a full second faster than Secretariat ran that distance on grass. By contrast, Bid never won a race at any distance greater than 1 1/4 miles. Kelso also was name Champion Older Male Horse for 4 consecutive years. You don't know that Bid was better than Kelso. Discounting the achievements of Round Table and Citation simply because they competed 20 years and 28 years, respectively before Bid is illogical. You could just as easily apply the same “reasoning” to discount the achievements of Bid because he raced 35 years before American Pharoah or 25 years before Ghostzapper. In fact, Round Table won 34 races in the same time frame that Bid won 26. Altogether Round Table won 43 races in 4 years and carried between 130 and 136 pounds to victory 17 times. There is no reason to believe that Bid had the talent required to win 43 races in four years. Round Table also set 14 track, US, and world records and ran 1 ¼ miles in under 2 minutes on five separate occasions. Bid ran 1 ¼ miles under two minutes just once. Many people consider Round Table to be the greatest grass horse of all time even though he was also a great dirt horse. I see no evidence that Bid was good on grass. You don’t know that Bid was “better” than Round Table. Finally, Citation won the triple crown whereas Bid did not. Citation also defeated older hall of fame older horses as a 3-year old, something Bid did not do. He also won 16 races in a row, something that Bid never did. Furthermore, Citation had already won 27 times by the conclusion of his 3-year old season. That is is more victories than Bid achieved in his career. You don't know that Bid was better than Citation.

@@sl-rt5kv You're an INCREDIBLE "back-tracker". All you're doing is embarrassing yourself, by first DENYING many of the EARLIER points you tried to make, THEN providing meaningless statistics that seemingly SUPPORT your earlier points! Do you live in some sort of parallel universe? How old are you? Mid-teens, perhaps? "Casual" horseracing fans like you PRETEND to be "experts" by using your Wikipedia skills to give everybody else the appearance that you actually know what you're talking about. Your pathological hatred of Spectacular Bid is very strange, at best. I'll bet you also believe that Man o' War is better than Secretariat, too. Funny, and sad, at the same time. Off you go, youngster. Let the REAL horseracing people talk.

@@TheProfessorOfLife *How many track records and stakes records did The Bid set* If setting records is the measure of a horse, Swaps would be ranked ahead of Spectacular Bid. Swaps set 5 world records at 5 different distances in a single season. One of those world records still stands today, 68 years later. Swaps carried 130 pounds when setting four of those world records whereas Bid only carried 126 when he set his lone world record. It's also interesting to speculate on how fast Swaps might have run if they didn't have the brakes on in the later stages of so many of his record setting races. The official comment line in four of his record breaking races reads" "Eased final 16th", "Never to a drive, Eased up", "Eased up late", "Eased final stages" etc.