Forget AP Indy let Haskins and Davidowitz bang Zenyatta first

Not really........

Here is Ellen Parker's website. http://www.reines-de-course.com/

That woman is so delusional she needs thorazine.

It wouldn't be so bad if she were just another crackpot blogger in need of attention, but she actually submits votes for the Eclipse Awards. She didn't even back up so much as one of her opinions with any facts. Of course, she can vote for whichever horse she wishes, but she should at least support her views without sounding like she took the brown acid.

Here's my favorite part:

There will never be an end to this argument, that much is certain. But we stood willing and ready to resign from the NTWAB if Zenyatta had not finally been given her long overdue gold trophy.

Congratulations, NTWAB. You've given the honor of submitting an Eclipse Awards ballot to someone whose two qualifications are having internet access and an axe to grind.

Over the past two months, I have read a much quoted statement made by Joe Hirsch: "Horse of the Year can be anything you want it be." Yet, somehow, I can't help but think he might be turning over in his grave from this nonsense.

I disagreed with everything she said, but my point was that it's scary that someone so "off-the-deep-end" has a vote.

Is it possible that she plagiarized that from a 4th grader?

The HoY means very little in the grand scheme but this is a great example of the flaming incompetence that exists in this sport. How a person with a view of the game like this delusional woman (and presumably her husband as well) can have a say in the determining of our sports year end champions is a disgrace.

Next time Steve has Haskin or Jon White on, I need to remember to call in. This can't be ignored.

Interesting that Beverly Smith thought that Edward Evans deserved her vote as third best trainer

If this was a fan only vote who wins?

If this was a media only vote who wins?

If this was vote limited to Jockeys,trainers and owners only - who would win?

If this was limited to handicappers only vote who would win?

This is what someone had to say about Parker on the pedigreequery forum several years ago:

"The only person who considers Ellen Parker an authority on breeding racehorses is Ellen Parker.

You can go to her site and read about some of the matings she found “really exciting” several years ago and then look up those resulting foals today and you see results like “unraced, unplaced, and unraced”."

http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/v...bd139483bf6fce

The list confirms the fact that the awards have turned into a joke.How is anyone to take this seriously with the losers they have given voting power to?
Why don't they just give every horse an HOY trophy? Kinda like those "Participant" ribbons that are given out at school sporting events so no one feels left out.

I read Ellen Parker's website a bit yesterday. Unqualified doesn't even begin to describe her. And while Haskin gets a vote, why aren't guys like Crist and Watchmaker on the list? People who actually follow horse racing and not pretty ponies for a living.

I think that was just the horse writers votes, not the drf and ntra

I agreed with you but not that poor excuse for a "turfwriter".

She must have pictures of someone !@#$)(* farm animals.