No one deserved it last year......
Discreet Cat seemed to get a lot of protest votes....but, you should have to actually run in a stake at a sprint distance to be considered.
If you had a four horse field, at any sprint distance, consisting of Discreet Cat, Thor's Echo, Bordonaro, and Henny Hughes....DC would be an odds on favorite in the betting. Probably 4/5 at six furlongs...and probably 1/2 or 3/5 at 7 furlongs.
I think that was the appeal the protest voters saw in him.
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