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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
At the risk of agreeing with Jason Shandler, who, as far as I know, has never been right about anything, I'm going to be really upset if Benny the Bull doesn't win this one.
Then again, I expect that he won't win it, and a few weeks from now, I won't care anymore because it's just a stupid award for everyone who sees 1:07 on the board and creams their pants over Midnight Lute.
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As much as Midnight Lute's 1 win this year bothers me (and normally I love me some ML) it would bother me more if Benny the Bull got it. Without his Dubai win he wouldn't be in this position with 2 G2s in the US and if we're considering outside the US wins for Eclipse awards, heck give Zarkava her due or at least Goldikova if you insist on a US win to bridge the relevancy. ML's BC Sprint win did face all comers that were still in one piece and he's the returning champ. He was too darn big for the gate in the Pat O'Brien and would've won the race if he hadn't stepped all over himself. He quite simply was the most magnificent US sprinter in terms of pure talent so the main argument against him is the number of wins, a perfectly valid concern. The only horse to actually beat Midnight Lute this year was Midnight Lute. He screwed himself up.
If ML doesn't get it, and Benny can't either (the Golden Shaheen doesn't count in the US sprint championships and since when is that the world championship of sprinting?) who do we go to... well off the top of my head--Street Boss had 2 G1s in the US so he's got Benny beat. Problem is, ML beat Street Boss in the Sprint. So now what? I'll try to think of another alternative. (ETA ok so having trouble finding anyone other than Street Boss as a viable alternative to ML and SB did finish 3rd in the BC Sprint so there ya go for now)