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To expand on this, it's interesting to see how they clearly 'found' something at the Kyoto Kinen and that's when they really began to become the monster we remember them as. According to Ryuji Wada, glory began when he stopped trying to take control and allowed Opera to decide how they'd run. But it does seem as though even that could only last for so long before everything came to it's end. The classic tale of the ability of a prodigal athlete beginning to wane.