3/14 seed shockers! Bold Ruler tops Barbaro, Citation fells John Henry
 

Those are the two big "upsets" in round #1 of the voting for most popular horse in Internet history.

I botched the thread title.

I can't do anything correct today.

Someone test me for Bath Salts.

These results smell fishy. Current/recent wonderhorses Frankel, Black Caviar, Goldikova, IHA, Shackleford all lose?

I know. Big Brown failed as the 6th seed as well.

Afleet Alex did at least beat Silver Charm...but other than that, the right horse won in a surprisingly high number of instances.

The person from the Paulick Report who choose the top 64 horses and made the seedings looks more dopey than the Internet voters.

The entire premise is bizzare or stupid or both

I think the premise is to find out how Zenyatta would do against other names from different generations and countries.

Yeah should we just pencil her in? Kinda amazing that Alysheba lost to War Admiral, but I guess folks voting for Seabiscuit couldn't resist setting that up. I like War Admiral, I just think "the People's horse" should've come out ahead.

how many fingers am i holding up?

Better?

You should be a headline writer, Steve.

Superb job.

Zenyatta will defeat Personal Ensign in the quarter-finals, proving for the Zidiots that Z was the better horse.

We really should work together as a message board on this, and make sure Afleet Alex wins it all.

Think about this ... if not for Afleet Alex, Giacomo wins the Kentucky Derby, Scrappy T. blows them out in the Preakness and Andromeda's Hero edges the maiden Nolan's Cat in the Belmont.

That's a good one, Doug. I know you mean Afleet Alex not being there at all. But think about this....Afleet Alex is there, and he doesn't recover from the "incident". Scrappy T wins, and is the quickest DQ that any of us have ever seen. That would have made Giacomo the Preakness winner.

We need to thank Afleet Alex not just for being there, but for his heroics in that Preakness. If he hadn't done what he did, Giacomo would have been going for the Triple Crown in the Belmont, and that 3 weeks and those asterisks would have been pretty difficult to deal with.

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Definitely both.

Excellent points on all counts on Afleet Alex. My appreciation has grown for the horse in spades by the two minutes it took to read this thread.

Rachel vs Buckpasser is going on now. It's fun trying to guess who of the Buckpasser voters genuinely prefers him as opposed to the ones who are bitter about a certain 2009 HOY contest. He deserves fans, and I'm one of them, but let's not kid ourselves. There's tactics going on here.