I've seen that all before.........
http://www.chef-de-race.com/articles...ck_for_hoy.htm
Favorite Trick being named Horse of the Year as a 2-year-old, over the strongest group of older males to race in the decade of the 90's, was pure lunacy.
He wasn't 1/10th the horse that the letter made him out to be.
He beat some terrible horses in his many 2yo stake wins--the 2nd place finisher to him in the Breeders Cup Juvenile was a Canadian turf horse named Dawson's Legacy...that wasn't much at all. The horse who finished 3rd in the Breeders Cup Juvenile, behind Favorite Trick, was a horse named Nationalore. He ran 26 times in his career, and never even broke his maiden!