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Originally Posted by miraja2
They both had the same # of graded stakes wins and they both won the Derby, the Preakness, and their last Derby prep. So in that way they are the same, and some other criteria must be used. Outside of those races, Smarty Jones won 3 stakes races and Charismatic won zero. Were races like the Southwest graded? No, but I am willing to bet that it was a better race than the claiming races that Charismatic was competing in.
Now maybe you are right and that wasn't his fault and his connections just hadn't figured him out. But in judging something like HOY you have to go with the results on the track and you can't realistically say that Smarty didn't have a better year overall. He accomplished everything that Char did, + more. Maybe it wasn't a ton more, but it was more nonetheless. Therefore he had a better overall year than Char. If you look at wins, stakes wins, $ earned, overall record....Smarty beats him in all of those things. To me that makes for a better year.
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Charismatic ran in the SA Derby as well...
How can you include overall wins for a HOY? I believe the criteria the committe would use would be Graded Stakes, that they are equal...