Finley on Eclipse Awards...

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Bill Finley makes my head hurt.

He says....

I'm all for coming down hard on drug cheats. But anyone who thinks Asmussen should be denied an Eclipse Award in this instance is way off the mark. A lidocaine positive isn't that big of a deal and it doesn't mean Asmussen is a cheater. When a horse tests positive for a relatively innocuous drug like lidocaine it's almost always because there was a slip up and not because the stable was trying to juice a horse to win a race.

though his premise is probably right in this case this is coming from the guy who thinks Lasix is some evil drug. Conduit has to be male turf horse simply because the male turf horses in the US last year were very weak. Forever Together has far greater credentials for her division than Grand Cout or Einstein has.

I think I would vote for Einstein based on the fact that he ran four good races here on the turf this year instead of just one.
Either way though, there aren't really any good choices in this category.