Was that win for Gladiatorus a fluke?

Question

There was nothing flattering about the performance in the Duty Free with a winning time that was over a second faster than the track standard and the visual proof that those horses, Archipenko, Vodka and Jay Peg, who had tried to lie up with the early pace finished well down the field. It’s hard to merely dismiss this as a freak performance because two months earlier, and following a 15-month absence, Gladiatorus had broken a track record off a handicap mark of 108, and then won a Group Two by five and three-quarter lengths.