Thor's Echo

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

No one deserved it last year......

Discreet Cat seemed to get a lot of protest votes....but, you should have to actually run in a stake at a sprint distance to be considered.

If you had a four horse field, at any sprint distance, consisting of Discreet Cat, Thor's Echo, Bordonaro, and Henny Hughes....DC would be an odds on favorite in the betting. Probably 4/5 at six furlongs...and probably 1/2 or 3/5 at 7 furlongs.

I think that was the appeal the protest voters saw in him.

Those odds may or may not be right. However, Discreet Cat would have scratched because of a sore toe or a slight fever, and Thor's Echo would have won the race.

My point being that the Eclipse winner should be the horse that actually ran and won some top sprints.

--Dunbar