View Single Post
  #79  
Old 02-25-2009, 08:46 PM
King Glorious's Avatar
King Glorious King Glorious is offline
Atlantic City Race Course
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Beaumont, CA
Posts: 4,614
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Danzig
yeah, that's true.
but i think we'll continue to see horses that probably don't belong in there-because what alternative is there, other than to see none inducted in future? i don't even get much excitement at the thought of tiznow going in-he had his moments, but he doesn't have an overwhelming career.
isn't that what they should have?
Unfortunately, that's what we are looking at happening because not too many from this era deserve it. It's sad because it's not the fault of the horses because they don't chose to be raced five times a year and retired after their 3yo seasons.

Maybe there should be a new wing added. Or an asterisk applied and call this the "modern era" and have the pre-1980 horses on one side and the post-1980 horses on the other. I wouldn't even do that though. I'd just list all of the eligible horse and anyone of them that gets 90% of the vote goes in. Instead of lowering the standards, how about raising them.
__________________
The real horses of the year (1986-2020)
Manila, Java Gold, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Go for Wand, In Excess, Paseana, Kotashaan, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alphabet Soup, Formal Gold, Skip Away, Artax, Tiznow, Point Given, Azeri, Candy Ride, Smarty Jones, Ghostzapper, Invasor, Curlin, Zenyatta, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Havre de Grace, Wise Dan, Wise Dan, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Arrogate, Gun Runner, Accelerate, Maximum Security, Gamine
Reply With Quote