The issue that I have with the Hall of Fame is that it pits Open Mind, Sky Beauty and Silverbulletday against each other when they all are clearly Hall of famers regardless of what King says.
Why not put the horses and people on the ballots and vote on them. In or out. We dont need a jockey category to know that Alex Solis is a jockey. The current system allows a candidate to be compared to other candidates instead of the standard that is set by the current members ALREADY IN the Hall of Fame. And unlike other sports, a horses career is much shorter, even in the glory days where they raced more than 2 years. Add to the fact that there are both male and female horses in many different categories (turf, dirt, sprint, etc) and there are approximately 35k born a year makes it stupid to vote the same amount of people and horses in any given year.
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