Rip holding the key to Stars rating
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
... Arc rivals, particularly the proximity in seventh of 500-1 shot Le Boum, mean his Irish Champion Stakes win is regarded as superior. The Longchamp effort is rated 131, meaning he and 2008 heroine Zarkava, with her 3lb sex allowance, would dead-heat.His best (135) is still 6lb short of 1986 Arc hero Dancing Brave, who has been top dog since International Classifications were introduced in...