'Zig..
Don't know if you had a chance to hear it live, but last week we had both Ed Bowen (HOF Prez, Grayson Found., famed race/pedigree book author) and Steve Crist on "At the Races"...
Bowen was very disheartened about how things turned out and pledged a change..
Crist was more pointed in his comments, obviously, and said it was simply pathetic that horses as good as Sky Beauty and SBD, etc., couldn't get 75% of the votes... He said there should be an en masse induction of the backlog of horses and humans (Maple.. Perret.. Leatherbury.. many more) over the next few years and then they can return to the one (or more) system in each category...
Check the ATRAB archives to hear those segments and the GREAT John Nerud interview..
http://www.attheracesandbeyond.com
Steve