Crist: The great distaffers..

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Originally Posted by HomerS

I wouldnt Zenyetta with the all time classic horses (and I woudlnt put Cigar in either but thats another discussion ha ha) but within her own sex for sure. Not even saying superior to those but in the discussion. One of the reasons I think Rachel did deserve HOY since it was so close, is because she won grade ones on several different tracks under differing conditions. What made is so close was winning the Classic, weak field or not. That was a historic win from the mare angle.

I too thought RA deserved the HoY because the sum of her accomplishments were greater than Zenyatta's which were almost all tied into one race. The closeness of the vote was probably due to the fact that many of the voters are witless and the fact that Zenyatta's race was much more recent when they cast their votes. If you unemotionally look at the pp's for the 2 horses last year it is hard to make a case that Zenyatta had a better year or accomplished more than RA did.