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[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I'd be VERY hard pressed to imagine anyone putting up a list with Curlin and Zenyatta first and second ... and Mineshaft, Bernardini, Medaglia D' Oro, and Congaree all not included in the top 17.

Steve Crist saw fit to put Curlin 2nd in his best-of-decade list, and said Zenyatta would probably have been somewhere between 4th and 7th if he had made a full top-10. He also indicated that a good argument could be made for making Curlin #1.

Medaglia D' Oro and Congaree got no mention at all, though Bernadini did get 3rd best 3-yr-old of the decade. (Well, Crist isn't perfect either.)

Here's what Crist wrote about Curlin:

2. Curlin in many ways deserves top billing. He was the champion of the decade's strongest 3-year-old crop, returned with a championship season at 4, became the first two-time Horse of the Year since Cigar, and became the first horse to earn $10 million. In terms of quantifiable accomplishments, Curlin was the Horse of the 2000's - but I think there might have been just one better racehorse:

(bold emphasis added)

--Dunbar