Five thousand people packed Federation Square and stayed up at 2AM to watch Black Caviar's ultra gutty if unimpressive win in a Group 1 at Royal Ascot.
Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwVmLPGsKkc
Isn't that supposed to be what this stupid award is about?
If the award was supposed to be about performance ... Rapid Redux wouldn't have come close. He was running in all Nickle starter races in the mid-atlantic for God sakes.
If you want to say the award isn't about foreign horses ... why the hell is Frankel nominated?
Frankel was the best horse in the world ... but his campaign simply wasn't that interesting and he didn't have anything close to the popularity Black Caviar did when it came to passionate fans.