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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
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! |
Who said anything about Horse of the Year? I thought this thread was about two year old years? You can say he beat bad horse all you want. Is it the horses fault who lines up against him in the starting gate? ( Coronado's Quest, Cape Town and Grand Slam were a few of the horse he beat.) How many horses go 8 for 8 in a year, with 7 of the 8 being stakes?
Who cares who finished second and third in the Breeders Cup. If long shots come in behind the winner that somehow diminishes the winner? He ran the race in record time which still stands today and up until last year he had the largest margin of victory.