Zenyatta Has Earned Horse of the Year

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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.