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Eclipse Horse of the Year
There's a general consensus that it comes down to these two so I'm doing the same...who you got?
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
You think Enable will win European horse of the year? Again(or at least I think she won last year?)
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
She won it last year and while she may be the best horse going right now, I'm not sure 3 wins will get it done even with 2 of them being the Arc and BCDylan Christensen wrote: ↑5 years ago You think Enable will win European horse of the year? Again(or at least I think she won last year?)
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
Guess we will have to wait and see, I hope she gets it because, wow. I’m still in awe of the fact that i was within literal feet of her.
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
The line up is a little bit like our two party preferred system, in my opinion if those are the only two options, then it’s a no brainer. Accelerate won more often and has more G1’s for the YEAR... Jusify had a great HALF year.
The problem with this scenario, is your really only judging between a TC or BC Classic winner and discounting the rest of the seasons races.
The problem with this scenario, is your really only judging between a TC or BC Classic winner and discounting the rest of the seasons races.
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
It's a no brainer for some but as you can tell from the voting it's not that way for everyone. My vote went to Accelerate too but a lot of the arguments I see is that Justify is getting dinged because American Pharoah just won the TC a few seasons ago. If Justify would've been the first to do it in 40 years I think it might've been a no-brainer in the opposite direction.Kaine Saracen wrote: ↑5 years ago The line up is a little bit like our two party preferred system, in my opinion if those are the only two options, then it’s a no brainer. Accelerate won more often and has more G1’s for the YEAR... Jusify had a great HALF year.
The problem with this scenario, is your really only judging between a TC or BC Classic winner and discounting the rest of the seasons races.
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
I think most of us automatically assume that Horse of the Year means the horse's resume over the whole year where it could mean the horse who produced the more spectacular performance or who had the most incredible feat during the year. I would actually personally vote for Justify because he won only one less Grade 1 (4) than Accelerate (5) and he won in 4 states compared to Accelerate's 2. However, I also acknowledge the counter argument that Justify did not face older horses whilst Accelerate ended up beating all the best horses in the division in the year end championship race.
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
Accelerate has my vote.
I just can't justify voting for a horse that didn't even finish out his 3 year old season, even if he did win the Triple - it is an accomplishment that is difficult, but not impossible to do. Still, he never faced older horses and especially important... is he never faced the best the world had to offer in a race like Accelerate had to do to win the BC Classic.
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I just can't justify voting for a horse that didn't even finish out his 3 year old season, even if he did win the Triple - it is an accomplishment that is difficult, but not impossible to do. Still, he never faced older horses and especially important... is he never faced the best the world had to offer in a race like Accelerate had to do to win the BC Classic.
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
I’d be pretty surprised if Justify didn’t win, I looked it up and only one of the triple crown winners (Omaha) has not won or unofficially won HotY the year they won the triple crown. But I don’t know much about RL racing, just starting to learn stuff
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
Both are great horses and for me it is hard to choose between the two because each has done something to merit earning the award. That being said history is on the side of Justify, and even though winning the Triple Crown is not "impossible" it is still an incredibly difficult thing to do; especially for a horse who only started his career in February.
Discovery winning "Horse of the Year" over Omaha is interesting because there wasn't really an official award for Horse of the Year, at least not as we know it. The year after the Daily Racing Form formed a more formal award which lasted until the Eclipse awards. Discovery was also a BEAST of a horse in 1935, lugging high weights and winning 11 of 19 races.
Discovery winning "Horse of the Year" over Omaha is interesting because there wasn't really an official award for Horse of the Year, at least not as we know it. The year after the Daily Racing Form formed a more formal award which lasted until the Eclipse awards. Discovery was also a BEAST of a horse in 1935, lugging high weights and winning 11 of 19 races.
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
I don't see Justify losing but I could make a strong, strong case for Accelerate. Getting a horse from debut to TC winner in 112 days is spectacular and hard but keeping a horse in form for nearly a year to win Grade 1 races in every season he raced this year (Spring, Summer, Fall) and only lose one race in seven starts throughout that year is harder imo.
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Re: Eclipse Horse of the Year
I like to walk both sides of the walk. I was very pro Enable losing to Roaring Lion, because he had the overall better year and stayed in form all year. So that made me happy.
But I am even more pro Justify beating Accelerate, because I think the Triple Crown should just always win. It's hard. He was special. He didn't get to choose his retirement.
But I am even more pro Justify beating Accelerate, because I think the Triple Crown should just always win. It's hard. He was special. He didn't get to choose his retirement.
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I would vote for Justify because I don't think we will ever see a Triple Crown winner that had his type of career ever again. I mean, horses like Curlin couldn't even pull off what Justify did, and Curlin was no slouch. We have seen numerous Accelerate types though.
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