I'm in my forties actually, and I agree BLU was a great racehorse but not many horses can race 3 wide in a WFA race like Northerly and still win with ears pricked. Some horses have sheer brilliance, others just grind horses into the dirt. Northerly is like the second lot.
Nobody ever mentions Phar lap when comparing horses. With todays training and feeding methods, how do you think he would have gone? It is very difficult to compare horse of different eras because tracks change, times are different each year because of conditions on the day etc.
How do you compare the performance of a winner that sits three wide all the way but maybe runs half a second slower than a horse that sits under cover on the rails and waits for the speedster up front to die on its run.