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Originally Posted by Danzig188
ok...now you bring that up to prove that voting DOESN'T take the whole year into consideration?? which is it?? you just said they did. neither of those ran past june.QUOTE]
Voting does consider the length of the entire year. In those years that Smarty and Alex won the Eclipse Award, they were clearly better than all the other horses that ran. They accomplished more in the spring than any of the other three year olds accomplished throughout the entire year. Alex beat out Flower Alley who didn't have near the resume that Alex did despite the fact that Flower Alley raced all year, and Smarty Jones beat out Birdstone who was also a very good horse winning big races. Still Smarty Jones accomplished more by going on a great win streak. While Birdstone's races were good in the summer, he didn't do very much toward the end of the year.
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that's all true...but the voters can be a fickle bunch....and we all (most fans do i think) give a lot of weight to a 3 yo beating older, but then tiznow loses to point given after winning the bcc....no way of knowing WHAT they'll do...just ask the two year old afleet alex!