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Old 01-21-2010, 10:23 AM
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Default The Icon Project Vote WAS an error

Told ya it was a hanging chad!

Put down the pitchforks and torches: That lone Eclipse vote for Icon Project over Zenyatta turns out to have been a simple case of human/mechanical error.

The DRF editor who cast the errant vote meant to select Zenyatta in the Older Filly or Mare category -- he in fact did vote for her as Horse of the Year. But when putting in his choices in the online balloting on deadline, he inadvertently typed his second choice into the first-place box and his third choice into the second-place box.

"I'm so sorry," the voter said. "There is no way I meant to do anything but put Zenyatta on top."

Given the voter's obvious (from his HOTY vote) intention to cast his ballot for Zenyatta, the Eclipse Award Steering Committee is in the process of re-certifying the results so that history will properly record that Zenyatta was in fact a unanimous selection as the champion Older Filly or Mare of 2009.
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