There are horses who come along about every five or ten years who are severely underrated. They are genuine group 1 winners who are not quite rated up with the best of their generation. When I first started watching racing a horse like Planet Ruler was like that, then we had Shaftesbury Avenue, All Our Mob, Grand Armee, Desert War, Racing To Win,, Defier, Shogun Lodge, Happy Clapper, Cascadian and others and this guy falls into that category. A group 1 winner in four nations, won group 1's from 1400m to 2400m, was rated at one time as the best miler in the world and defeated good horses all through his career.
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Yeah agree Starcraft was underrated but guess is due to not winning the big races in Aust. as a 4 & 5 year old. Can add Elvstroem to that list plus, as you said, others. From that list of top-class performers, think Shaftesbury Avenue is best together with Starcraft and they are similar style of horses - big in size & stride and sadly for them the tight circuit of Moonee Valley didn't suit so their respective Cox Plate races didn't go so well.