Zenyatta Has Earned Horse of the Year

Originally Posted by SilentScreen

Aside from reminding us what a true champion is like, she garnered the "positive" attention of millions of people throughout the year and was responsible for BC attendance, handle and ratings records.

The BC attendance, handle and ratings would have been exactly the same had she finished 7th beaten 16 lenghths.

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

The BC attendance, handle and ratings would have been exactly the same had she finished 7th beaten 16 lenghths.

imagine the argument is - if she wasn't there, it would be less

I thought she would run no better than 3rd...

[johnny pinwheel]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

imagine the argument is - if she wasn't there, it would be less

I thought she would run no better than 3rd...

yeah, and if Mr. Ed was there....it would of brought in 100 more people so , mr. ed should be horse of the year. i kind of thought you should win to get the most votes. zenyatta came east twice, not once like someone here posted. she left her comfort zone twice ...its not her fault the "other" horse chicken sh!tted out for 5 mil. but still blame beat all comers in all the right races.........i'm guessing he wins by at least 30%.

[slotdirt]

I say again, do people realize the horses that have been running in the last 40 years? Does anybody really think folks are more jazzed up in 2010 about horse racing than they were in 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, or 1979? The Washington Post, a generally solid newspaper in terms of racing coverage, had a tiny blurb about Zenyatta on page C7 or so in last week's sports section. I'm guessing the author of that blog post/Silent Screen think that Secretariat's Marlboro Cup or Spectactular Bid's walkover Woodward would have received similar coverage? I need my way-back machine because I'm pretty certain those races probably received front-freaking-page stories in their day. That horses like Affirmed, Ruffian, Alydar, and Seattle Slew - Seattle Slew!!!! - were somehow less important to horse racing than the manufactured career of an awesome, albeit flawed, mare who couldn't get past Blame in the biggest race of her life?

Come on, people who post things like that just can't be taken seriously.

And another thing, anytime I see someone who's like 42 says they have "40+ years of racing experience," they're probably lying.

[slotdirt]

P.S. - having now actually read the blog post, I've reached the sad, but true conclusion that smartbid actually makes a much more salient argument for Zenyatta as HOTY than the person who wrote that blog. Just awful, awful dreck.

[Thoroughbred Fan]

OP has 18 posts and has probably only been watching racing for 18 days.

Can't believe we let people start a thread on here without at least 100 posts to their credit. We need rules around here or we'll keep getting useless threads.