Horse of the Year?

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Originally Posted by Cardus

You get Ginger Punch, because Zenyatta beat her on dirt. However, Zenyatta beat Hystericalady on synthetic (twice), a surface on which she never ran as well as she ran on dirt. She beat Music Note and Cocoa Beach on synthetic as well ( a surface over which neither had previously competed), so I wouldn't tout those horses in Zenyatta's "quality of the horses she has beaten compared to Curlin" column.

I'll accept the point that Hystericalady is not the same filly on synthetic, but Cocoa Beach and Music Note both ran their respective races in the BC, and Zenyatta ran over them. They are both seriously good fillies, and they certainly compare favorably in their divisions to the horses that Curlin beat in the Foster, Woodward, and JC Gold Cup.