Highs include Curlin's backing me up for claiming in March that by year's end, he'd be the best horse in the country; seeing the top 3yo's slug it out through the end of the main racing season; the return of Pat Valenzuela; the exciting prospect of watching War Pass become a hall of famer; the brilliance of Magnificience; the scintillating stretch running of Crossing the Line; Patrick Biancone being suspended (I'll never forgive him for running Lion Heart in the Preakness); people saying Baffert couldn't train anymore cause he couldn't win on that junk in Cali and then him going to NY and tearing it up and winning two BC races to further prove that it's the tracks that suck out here.
Lows include the entire older male division; the entire 2yo male and female divisions, save for War Pass and Indian Blessing; all the people saying that this average group of 3yo's were great (they weren't, they only looked that way because the older males were horrible); Crossing the Line, Rags to Riches, Notional and Magnificience being injured; the mass introduction of synthetic racing, especially that junk they race on at Del Mar.
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The real horses of the year (1986-2020)
Manila, Java Gold, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Go for Wand, In Excess, Paseana, Kotashaan, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alphabet Soup, Formal Gold, Skip Away, Artax, Tiznow, Point Given, Azeri, Candy Ride, Smarty Jones, Ghostzapper, Invasor, Curlin, Zenyatta, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Havre de Grace, Wise Dan, Wise Dan, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Arrogate, Gun Runner, Accelerate, Maximum Security, Gamine
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