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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
I'd be VERY hard pressed to imagine anyone putting up a list with Curlin and Zenyatta first and second ... and Mineshaft, Bernardini, Medaglia D' Oro, and Congaree all not included in the top 17.
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Steve Crist saw fit to put Curlin 2nd in his best-of-decade list, and said Zenyatta would probably have been somewhere between 4th and 7th if he had made a full top-10. He also indicated that a good argument could be made for making Curlin #1.
Medaglia D' Oro and Congaree got no mention at all, though Bernadini did get 3rd best 3-yr-old of the decade. (Well, Crist isn't perfect either.)
Here's what Crist wrote about Curlin:
2. Curlin in many ways deserves top billing. He was the champion of the decade's strongest 3-year-old crop, returned with a championship season at 4, became the first two-time Horse of the Year since Cigar, and became the first horse to earn $10 million. In terms of quantifiable accomplishments, Curlin was the Horse of the 2000's - but I think there might have been just one better racehorse:
(bold emphasis added)
--Dunbar