[quote=Danzig188]ok...now you bring that up to prove that voting DOESN'T take the whole year into consideration?? which is it?? you just said they did. neither of those ran past june.QUOTE]
Voting does consider the length of the entire year. In those years that Smarty and Alex won the Eclipse Award, they were clearly better than all the other horses that ran. They accomplished more in the spring than any of the other three year olds accomplished throughout the entire year. Alex beat out Flower Alley who didn't have near the resume that Alex did despite the fact that Flower Alley raced all year, and Smarty Jones beat out Birdstone who was also a very good horse winning big races. Still Smarty Jones accomplished more by going on a great win streak. While Birdstone's races were good in the summer, he didn't do very much toward the end of the year. Smarty was great the entire length of his three year old career although it ended prematurely. He and Alex (except in the Rebel due to the lung infection) never ran a bad race unlike Birdstone and Flower Alley (KD derby, losing the Arkansas Derby to Alex by eight lengths, JCGC although he did have a legitimate excuse as well).
Last edited by kentuckyrosesinmay : 08-28-2006 at 08:20 PM.
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