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Now that most of us who really remember him are dead it has become fashionable to suggest he wasn’t as good as they said he was. Given that they had to change the handicap scale to accommodate him and that however much weight they lumped on him above 12st he still seemed to cope despite not being a big horse and from what those of us who are not dead still remember, it’s possible he was even better than they said he was. I don’t expect to see his like again. No one at the time thought he was merely 2lb superior to Flyingbolt but they just had to put a ceiling on Arkle somewhere. If I read about this horse without seeing him I wouldn’t believe it either.

[QUOTE="SteveM, post: 2368514, member: 64943"] Now that most of us who really remember him are dead it has become fashionable to suggest he wasn’t as good as they said he was. Given that they had to change the handicap scale to accommodate him and that however much weight they lumped on him above 12st he still seemed to cope despite not being a big horse and from what those of us who are not dead still remember, it’s possible he was even better than they said he was. I don’t expect to see his like again. No one at the time thought he was merely 2lb superior to Flyingbolt but they just had to put a ceiling on Arkle somewhere. If I read about this horse without seeing him I wouldn’t believe it either. [/QUOTE]

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