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Originally Posted by King Glorious
Let's just make it a hall of good horses then. Forget making it the elite of the elite. Put Open Mind and Sky Beauty in the same sentence with Personal Ensign and Lady's Secret. Put Best Pal in the same hall with Spectacular Bid. There's virtually no difference.
The thing that your aren't getting is that they aren't all CLEARLY hall of famers. If they were, nobody on here would be debating it. If Spectacular Bid is on a ballot, do you really think anyone would say "no"? Would we really have to break out his past performances and go over his record? Would anyone need to make a convincing argument on his behalf? That's the point I'm making. You may clearly believe that all three of those mares deserve to be in. That's fine because it's all subjective anyway. But if you can't get 90% of the people to agree on it with you, then I just don't believe they should be in there.
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Well if you got your way the trip through the hall would be really short because there would be about 12 horses in there.
Those horses are all clearly hall of famers based upon the current standards. If you dont like the standards that is your problem. But to look at these horses records and say they dont deserve to be in basically means that after 2000 no other filly will ever get in because name a filly that has a record near theirs.
Using your example if Curlin was on the ballot versus Spectacular Bid he would have no chance to get voted in. Yet he clearly belongs based upon his accomplishments but when compared to perhaps the best horse in 30 years he has no chance. It would be like saying that John Stockton shouldnt be in the hall of Fame because he isnt as good as Micheal Jordan.