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[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Travis, I don't care how long people have been "ranking" these horses, the fact that Barbaro and Zenyatta are working their way towards the top 10 and Count Fleet is mired in the 80's, not to mention I still can't find Twilight Tear anywhere, says pretty much all I need to know about the average idiot who votes on online polls.

Feel free to log on and vote... it's a process. The rankings are sent through a statistical formula to help regulate those who received loads of votes versus those who didn't... much like the Top 250 on IMDB. So since it's early in the voting (very early, some horses don't even have a vote), it'll take a while to get everything in somewhat logical order.

We're not finding horses for the Hall of Fame with this list, we created something new and hopefully ultimately pretty cool for horse racing fans to enjoy the sport more now and into the future.

[Sightseek]

I love the comment that Smarty's stud fee will go way up if Backtalk wins the Derby.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

Feel free to log on and vote... it's a process. The rankings are sent through a statistical formula to help regulate those who received loads of votes versus those who didn't... much like the Top 250 on IMDB. So since it's early in the voting (very early, some horses don't even have a vote), it'll take a while to get everything in somewhat logical order.

We're not finding horses for the Hall of Fame with this list, we created something new and hopefully ultimately pretty cool for horse racing fans to enjoy the sport more now and into the future.

In the case of an IMDB Top 250 - people have a lot better access to viewing movies than they do access to the needed information and material to make any kind of educated guess on the rating of horses from different generations.

It's much easier for a fan of movies to critique Lawrence of Arabia than it is for a fan of racing to critique Tom Fool.

It is a neat concept. I realize it's probably too much work to do a page write-up on the thousand or so most worthy horses - however, why not use that box on the right to put in your sites own brief comment? Why rely on dopey readers to put down moronic garbage?

If I ever stumble across this IMDB Top 250 thing you talk about - I'd rate 'I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell' and 'Trailor Park Boys' the two greatest movies of all-time ... because, in my opinion, they are.

[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

t is a neat concept. I realize it's probably too much work to do a page write-up on the thousand or so most worthy horses - however, why not use that box on the right to put in your sites own brief comment? Why rely on dopey readers to put down moronic garbage?

This is a good point... I'll bring it up with the others. Thanks!

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

If I ever stumble across this IMDB Top 250 thing you talk about - I'd rate 'I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell' and 'Trailor Park Boys' the two greatest movies of all-time ... because, in my opinion, they are.

Your vote won't sway anything, but feel free to vote your conscience. They weight things so people can't go in there, say "OMG, Dude Where's My Car is the best film ever!! It's totally a 10 !!11!1!" and change the point average. You'd have to rank a lot of movies without lowballing a bunch of high-ranked classics or 10'ing a bunch of stinkers as previously ranked by frequent-voters.

Here's the list http://www.imdb.com/chart/top Some of the more recent movies get a bunch of fanboy ratings at once, then they start drifting down where they belong. I doubt Inception will always be above Casablanca or Black Swan above Lawrence of Arabia, for instance.