Jerry Brown's letter to TDN on HOY discussion

[Merlinsky]

Nick Zito weighs in: http://blog.timesunion.com/horseraci...lexandra/3700/

Of course the calls of 'he's a NY trainer, and we all know he hates synthetic, of course he's biased' are bound to come in. Pretend I already pointed that out (oops no need to pretend) and proceed onward in the discussion.

I can't find where someone mentioned the DRF poll on HOY and said Z was ahead by a 2 to 1 margin. I checked it out again having voted awhile back and frankly given that it's a popular poll with easy-to-do ballot stuffing means any fan with time on their hands (apparently a lot of us) can dig in and puff up whoever they want. A NY Times poll had RA ahead awhile back (it's got RA with 69%). I'm glad this is not by popular vote cuz sorry, Barbaro didn't technically deserve HOY and you know he'd have gotten it. Maybe a 'fan favorite' Eclipse could alleviate some of that pressure.