Jerry Brown's letter to TDN on HOY discussion

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Originally Posted by freddymo

Agree with most of these thoughts.. 1 question name any horse that ran this year that could have successfully navigated the Wood described above? Name the horse that was capable of running the Preakness or Haskel she ran? IMO there isn't a horse that could have accomplished what she did. Zenyatta's race is always going to difficult to judge because it was on rubber.

Probably none, which is reflective of racing in 2009.

I think several of the horses that I previously listed above would have won either the Preakness or Woodward more impressively, had they contested that sort of race with similar pace dynamics and similar quality of opponents. While I think Rachel had several things in her favor in the Haskell, her performance in that race is now pretty hard to knock.