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View Poll Results: Who is the Horse of The Year
Rachel Alexandra 114 52.78%
Zenyatta 102 47.22%
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Old 11-11-2009, 10:51 AM
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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.

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We can talk for days regarding greatness, one thing I don't agree with is the citing of beyers as the definitive rule for how good a horse is, they are useful and are great from a conversational viewpoint but they should never be the absolute in determining that one horse can beat another when comparing horses.

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