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![]() If Best Pal and Point Given are in the hall of fame then Bet Twice and Lost Code should be in as well.
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![]() Why not Java Gold? Forty Niner? Chiefs Crown? Spend a Buck? Ferdinand?
Would anyone have taken Best Pal in a race against any of these non-hall of fame horses? If you are going to elect Smarty jones and company you better go back and reevaluate these horses |
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On paper, he was one of the most accomplished 2yos of recent memory and he was definitely in a zone as a 4yo in an abbreviated season. That said, I don't think he should be in the HOF if some of the others you mentioned aren't. |
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Eclipse winners years that he ran 2 yo -Fly So free 3 yo -Hansel Older male (4) -Pleasant Tap Older male (5) - Bertrando Older male (6) - The Wicked North Older male (7) - Cigar Cigar notwithstanding, he never had a good enough single season to win a national award, losing to some of the worst winners since the awards were instituted in 1971. He was elected because of his longevity, not in spite of it. The other problem that we have is that the voters are generally clueless as a group, with few having much of a grasp of the sports history prior to Cigar. |
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![]() have to say no.
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![]() "Joey" wasn't even close to being the worst thing they were calling him at Miss. St. when he went up in the stands after some people.
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"Let the whiners and lazy cry about how impossible "they've" made it to win at this game." - Steve Byk |
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![]() He was a gem
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