Horsey All Decade Team

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Point Given gives nothing at all away to Smarty Jones on competition faced IMO.

He was an absolute ox ... and I'd surely give him an edge over SJ at 10fs and beyond.

PG wasn't as tactically gifted though ... you look at him running 5th by 11 lengths in the Derby ... and that race had a lot to do with him being taken out of his game and way closer to a very fast pace then he needs to be against that quality of speed horses that were in that years Derby.

I'm confident Point Given would have had a great deal of trouble beating SJ at 8.5 furlongs and probably even 9f in a fairly run race.

Tiznow finished his 3yo season with Beyers of 115-114-119-116 ... while traveling from Del Mar, La Downs, Santa Anita, Churchill.

He didn't break his maiden until after the Preakness in his 3rd try. I think he's a clear-cut #1 choice if you show that built in bias to the 2nd half of the season... but way too many 3yos are burned out from tough early campaigns.

[Smooth Operator]

LH was nothing special.

SJ was very good, but the never-faced-older thing hurts him a bit.

May not have even hit the board in that '04 BCC

[miraja2]

DrugS, how soon can we expect to see a similar all-decade team from you for horsey-board posters?
Coming up with the various divisions like you did here might be tough, but we know you can do it.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by miraja2

DrugS, how soon can we expect to see a similar all-decade team from you for horsey-board posters?
Coming up with the various divisions like you did here might be tough, but we know you can do it.

Not to go all James Taylor on everyone...but over the decade ....

I've seen tards and I've seen trolls,
I've seen crappy posts that I thought would never end

I've seen a lot.

Some of the best posters are no-brainers - a few of the others are kind of like Jim Thorpe types... a strong horsey board poster that the vast majority has never seen .. and probably will never see again.

I won't even attempt to make categories and rate such things - cause obviously you can't support those ratings with statistical facts...only amusing stories and personal opinion.

The real fun would be not rating the decade's best - but rather the decades worst and or most outrageous. The Horsey Board Hall of Shame.