2013 Eclipse Finalists

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by Kasept

How closely the voters were following racing all year is clearly reflected in the utter embarrassment that Authenticity failed to appear on enough ballots to finish as a finalist. Because her PP's were mistakenly omitted from the Older Fillies & Mares stats, oblivious ballots didn't include her. As Jay Privman said last week on ATR, it's a litmus test on who takes the process seriously.

Not saying Authenticity didn't deserve to be on the ballot (consistency of quality ought to be acknowledged and her level and volume of races at that level are more than clear with not only graded wins but regular G1 appearances and placings against horses like Beholder), but people argue Honor Code shouldn't be a nomineee because he didn't win a G1 in 2013, so could they have conceivably been so stuck on that G1 winning achievement that they just went 'didn't win a G1, not gonna vote for her'? Maybe they did think of her despite the lack of PPs and didn't take the process seriously in a different way than you thought.