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02-09-2011, 11:36 PM
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The real horses of the year (1986-2020) Manila, Java Gold, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Go for Wand, In Excess, Paseana, Kotashaan, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alphabet Soup, Formal Gold, Skip Away, Artax, Tiznow, Point Given, Azeri, Candy Ride, Smarty Jones, Ghostzapper, Invasor, Curlin, Zenyatta, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Havre de Grace, Wise Dan, Wise Dan, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Arrogate, Gun Runner, Accelerate, Maximum Security, Gamine 
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02-10-2011, 08:51 AM
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I was commenting on how difficult it is to read a big block of text that isn't broken up with proper line spacing.
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02-10-2011, 09:58 AM
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As I said earlier, I find no fault in the schedule Mineshaft had. It was the type of schedule a HOY is supposed to have and they couldn't control who came to face them. They certainly didn't duck anyone and I agree, there was no other horse that put up a strong enough record to make anyone say "that horse should be HOY" over him. Each of the others had their flaws. My point was more about how I feel that voters and fans get caught up in looking at the names of races and the grades of them and don't really look beneath the surface. There are people out there that voted Zenyatta this time because she had more grade one wins than Blame. I also feel that horses need to stop being penalized so heavily for losses, especially to other good horses. It's not fair to Skip Away and Formal Gold that they took on each other several times and were both good enough to beat the other while Favorite Trick didn't have to take on anything close to them but won all of his starts so he got HOY. I've always felt that it was better to judge a horse by how good he was in his best wins rather than looking at his losses, especially if the losses came in obvious prep races. To me, the problem is that they've gotten too far away from looking at the quality of the competition and just going by the names of the races.. By the way, if I was a voter, I'd have voted for Candy Ride as the HOY that season. I've been very clear in my opinion that as long as the rules are the way they are and one race is good enough to earn horses championships in other divisions, it's good enough to win them in all divisions. I have also stated that I don't believe that the one race has to be in the BC. In 2003, the single most impressive race I saw was the Pacific Classic. Considering how good Medaglia d'Oro was and to see Candy Ride treat him like a claimer sold me. Throw in a stakes record on the grass while beating a grade one winner on it and there was no doubt in my mind that Candy Ride was the best horse I saw that year. He didn't have the greatest resume but I thought his talent advantage overcame any record disadvantage.
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The real horses of the year (1986-2020) Manila, Java Gold, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Go for Wand, In Excess, Paseana, Kotashaan, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alphabet Soup, Formal Gold, Skip Away, Artax, Tiznow, Point Given, Azeri, Candy Ride, Smarty Jones, Ghostzapper, Invasor, Curlin, Zenyatta, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Havre de Grace, Wise Dan, Wise Dan, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Arrogate, Gun Runner, Accelerate, Maximum Security, Gamine
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02-10-2011, 11:04 AM
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02-10-2011, 11:07 AM
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