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... making three changes to the Eclipse Awards.

What are they?

A point system is applied to determine winners.

1. Stop giving them out.
2. Expunge all records of past Eclipse Awards.
3. See number 1.

Agreed.

1. Lobotomize and neuter Smooth Operator. Though come to think of it, he doesn't need to be lobotomized.

2. Make it mandatory for any Eclipse voter to take an IQ test, and a logic course. If their IQ is 80 or less, they don't get to vote.

3. Somehow include strippers into the process.

Move the Eclipse Awards to the East Coast where they belong. :rolleyes:

1. Get rid of the "Handicapper of the Year" award.

It seems like a slap in the face to people who do this for a living...

Maybe it's me.

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I'm wondering about the Award of Merit.

Just thinking out loud so don't jump on me (!) but, hypothetically, can a horse win this?

They don't give it out every year... what happened those years that they didn't?

An occassional lifetime achievement award... is that such a bad idea?

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Agree!

Get people with common sense to vote and define the awards criteria as singular year awards to the most accomplished horse for the given year, not the most popular or most publicized.

Also agree

quit giving them. it's a sham, with voters who don't even know participants having a say-so on the winners.

Didn't Tale of Ekati get a vote for champion something a few years ago?