A Sad Day For Racing

[LARHAGE]

Originally Posted by dean smith

Last year, when Zenyatta did win the BC Classic, a lot of you East Coast-biased fans kept repeating, "the HOY is NOT decided at the Classic."

Ironically, this appears to be the only solid case for why Blame was "robbed."

By the way, had Blame won, he would have been just about the weakest, most quickly-forgotten HOY ever. So what if the 2010 HOY was Zenyatta's "The Departed"?

I don't get this denigrating of Blame as the weakest, all it does is underline how average Zenyatta was than to be beaten by him.

[10 pnt move up]

I would love to see the voting breakdown by gender.

[Gate Dancer]

It's supposed to be 'Horse of the Year' not 'Horse of a Career'. Frankly, I think a bunch of the voters for Rachel last year felt guilty (which they shouldn't) since she came back this year and was not as spectacular so they wanted to right a 'wrong' in Zenyatta's favor. She is a great mare but her campaign (body of work in 2010) is just not worthy of being voted ahead of Blame.

I suppose now we'll be subjected to years of clammering for Zenyatta as 'Broodmare of the Year' ..........................