Who Is Horse Of The Year?

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by CSC

As of right now there is no critaria for selecting HOY, it is simply who each voter thinks Horse of the Yr is as White explained last night. With this you can expect open intrepretations who that is. I posted this morning that Steve was right on when he said we are so conditioned with beyers these days that alot of us underestimated her going into the Classic, winning 13 races on synth regardless if one believes the competition is bad is not as easy on the surface as it may look. Look at Richard's Kid, the results can be random...I can own up to maybe erroring on my opinion of her prior to the BC Classic and getting sucked into the void of that she was beating inferior fillies on a junk track. Regardless what she did on Sat was special, when you look at the way it all played out, no pace, losing a pace threat a min prior to post, flat footed start, and then the ease she won coming down the lane, it was a game changer and I think it's sad that people let what was a conservative campaign until the Classic get in the way of recognizing greatness.

Because greatness should not/cannot be proven in one race in my opinion. Greatness is doing something beyond the ordinary once and then again, maybe even a few more times.

The difference between a campaign like Ghostzapper's and that of Zenyatta's was that his showed brilliance stretched over three different distances, even if it was only four races (of course she only ran five). He also squashed a much better Classic field.

NT