Ok so I voted for Zenyatta in this poll, I thought Saturday locked up HOY for her. I beleive she would have blown Rachel away in the Woodward and in the BCC had they hooked up, but the award is HOY not whos better or who would have won.... IMO now the numbers do not lie and Rachel Deseves it.
# of Grade 1 wins this year....Rachel 5--Zenyatta 4
# of times facing "beating" the boys....Rachel 3--Zenyatta 1
Average Beyer, per start this year....Rachel 107--Zenyatta 103 "Rachel also ran 3 more times and one could argue she held her form longer and took it with her to 7 different tracks"
Average Field Size, per start this year....Racehel 7.25-- Zenyatta 7.60 "remember Rachels Acorn she only faced 2 other fillies, if not for that race she would be around 7.8 per race" I feel this is important because of the quality of horses Zenyatta beat all year, besides Life Is Sweet she beat no one, till the Classic.
# of different tracks run at... Rachel 7-- Zenyatta 3 I think this proves whos campaign was harder.
Again I think Zenyatta head-head at 1 1/4 would defeat Rachel but the Tale of the Tape does not lie, Rachel deserves HOY hands down IMO.
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