Who Is Horse Of The Year?

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What I said all along was unless someone stepped up at the BC, RA was the HOY. I think Steve summed it up perfectly on his show I am paraphrasing but we were so conditioned to believe that Zenyatta's 90's beyers were the correct measure of her that we fail to realize races are run on the track and not on paper, I was one of those that underestimated her that when she ran her race, it totally knocked me over when you saw what she did.

Of note Jon White had a great explanation of the process of choosing HOY, it really is an open ended process without any specific critaria where the voter has the freedom to choose whoever they deem as worthy, so if people want to choose RA, I can certainly see why and I wouldn't call someone crazy if they do, I don't agree with those who say it would be a travesty of Zenyatta would get the nod and in all seriousness I can respect what both horses have done to see it both ways. But to me the BC Classic was the 'game changer' that I don't think many saw coming and that was enough to make me change my mind on her.