Timeform rate Sea The Stars the best horse in the world

General / Tony Calvin / 07 July 2009 / Leave a Comment

Eclipse win impresses the ratings dons who make Oxx's three-year-old top of the pile.

Timeform have given Saturday's Coral Eclipse winner, Sea The Stars, a rating of 133p, which sees him ranked as the best horse in the world.

Such an exalted rating means Sea The Stars is the highest rated Eclipse winner since Nashwan, the last horse to complete the 2000 Guineas, Derby and Eclipse treble back in 1989.

Kieran Packman, Timeform's spokesman, commented: "Sea The Stars was already top of an above-average three-year-old tree, but this Eclipse performance takes him to new heights and it unquestionably stamps him as the very best around, elevating him to the top-rated horse in training even on the bare form achieved, not to mention the slight extra he's value for.

"The calibre of his performance on Saturday is also backed up by the timefigure, which is an excellent 132. Sea The Stars' whole demeanour is outstanding and it goes without saying that he'll be extremely hard to beat going forward.

"It will certainly be interesting if connections attempt to match Nashwan's next step in the Betfair King George at Ascot (Nashwan won by a neck at odds of 2-9)."