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Originally Posted by Revidere
Zenyatta should have been Horse of the Year last year. Curlin won the "Horse of the Year lifetime achievement award". It was the Olympic Ice Skating Campaign. Tried something out of the box twice, rewarded for failure twice.
His ONLY win of merit was in Dubai.
You guys are a trip. You're killing Zenyatta's competition. Besides Einstein and Well Armed, who did Curlin beat last year? Divine Park? Past the Point?
He received accolades for losing on Turf because "they tried something special". He was lauded in defeat for losing the Breeder's Cup because it was run on "plastic".
Which begs the question, which HOY in the last 10 years had the weakest competition? Favorite Trick? St. Liam? Ghostzapper? Azeri? Charismatic? Mineshaft?
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Can't argue with this at all. Curlin was a disgusting choice for HOY last year to me. As for the question of who had the weakest competition, it would be Favorite Trick but by technicality, he doesn't qualify since that was more than 10 years ago. I would say it would be Charismatic or Mineshaft. Mineshaft only faced one other horse that was considered among the top seven horses in his division that year and he lost that one race. He won HOY without defeating a single other horse that was top seven in his division. That's incredible to me.
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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
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