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View Poll Results: Who wins HOY? Accelerate or Justify?
Accelerate wins HOY 119 42.35%
Justify wins HOY 162 57.65%
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Old 12-16-2018, 08:43 AM   #211
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My standard for the injury is "would it have forced the retirement of a cheap claimer?". The answer to that is obviously "no", so Justify's injury should be considered a contrivance for HOTY voting.
Why does it need to lead to retirement? Don't some injuries require extended periods of time off?

I've seen both champions and low-level claimers get 6-12 months off before returning to race.

Just because the connections chose to retire Justify doesn't mean he didn't require time off for his injury. Justify was retiring at the end of the year one way or the other.
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Old 12-16-2018, 11:45 AM   #212
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Why does it need to lead to retirement? Don't some injuries require extended periods of time off?

I've seen both champions and low-level claimers get 6-12 months off before returning to race.

Just because the connections chose to retire Justify doesn't mean he didn't require time off for his injury. Justify was retiring at the end of the year one way or the other.
If Justify were coming back at 4, he could of course win HOTY at 4.

The retirement for reasons that harm the sport (greed and the parasites who breed elite horses) basically disqualifies him from winning it at 3 when we had an accomplished older horse who won all the right races.
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Old 12-16-2018, 11:48 AM   #213
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That is an impossible standard that no sane owner should or would ever follow.
They can do whatever they want.

But racing should punish parasitic behavior, not reward it.

And also, there's only one standard for whether a horse is safe to run. If Justify's injury is considered "real", the sport should be banned. Seriously. Because we are running "injured" horses every day because they are cheap and we treat them as disposable.

Justify's injury is as fake as his Belmont win, for my purposes.
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Old 12-16-2018, 11:55 AM   #214
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That is an impossible standard that no sane owner should or would ever follow.
It's just beyond...

If anything, these so-called cheap claimers should be handled 'upward', not the other way around.
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Old 12-16-2018, 01:06 PM   #215
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It's just beyond...

If anything, these so-called cheap claimers should be handled 'upward', not the other way around.
I would be fine with that.

The problem is in saying a cheap claimer's life is worthless whereas a strategic retirement of a 3 year old with the same injury by owners who are too chicken to risk a loss is treated as a humanitarian gesture to protect the horse.
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Old 12-16-2018, 02:02 PM   #216
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Audible is just the latest runner from Justify’s 3-year-old Kentucky Derby class who proved unable to defeat older rivals. Only one, Promises Fulfilled, has managed to do so — and that victory came sprinting, not against the type of competition where much could be gleaned when it comes to Justify’s talent relative to the other main Horse of the Year contender, Accelerate.

Pitting sophomores against fully developed elders is an expected mismatch. But without seeing Justify take them on himself, voters are forced to wonder what if when considering how the Triple Crown winner might have fared.


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If the older division was so weak Justify's connections didn't need to duck it.

They ducked it because they are a bunch of parasitic chickens who wanted to protect their overrated colt's phony undefeated record of 5 for 5 against restricted competition plus a 6th win achieved by cheating in the Belmont.
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Old 12-16-2018, 03:00 PM   #218
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What did Charismatic do after the Belmont? I remember him being in bad shape after that race.

I don't believe in hard rules for something like HOTY. You want it to be something that will bring attention to the game at minimum. There is a legitimate reason to support Accelerate, but Justify winning wouldn't be any kind of a crime to howl about, and would be more recognizable and accepted by casual fans, IMO. The last thing this industry should do is demean the 3yo classics. They are far and away the most recognizable races in the country. More people are aware of the Preakness than are aware of the BCC.
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One thing this thread has made clear to me - the Eclipse awards are meaningless.
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They are for the "club" bunch in the industry.
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If Justify were coming back at 4, he could of course win HOTY at 4.

The retirement for reasons that harm the sport (greed and the parasites who breed elite horses) basically disqualifies him from winning it at 3 when we had an accomplished older horse who won all the right races.
Greed and parasites? Unbelievable. What if you, your family or a close friend was fortunate to breed such a wonderful horse? Then after winning a Triple Crown you decided to take the hundreds of million dollars that retirement would bring? Does that make you a greedy parasite?

Most owners and breeders in this business lose money. Many continue to pour it in because of pure love for the horses and sport.
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One thing this thread has made clear to me - the Eclipse awards are meaningless.
The two I've been awarded mean the world to me.
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Greed and parasites? Unbelievable. What if you, your family or a close friend was fortunate to breed such a wonderful horse? Then after winning a Triple Crown you decided to take the hundreds of million dollars that retirement would bring? Does that make you a greedy parasite?

Most owners and breeders in this business lose money. Many continue to pour it in because of pure love for the horses and sport.
Vic, the Hills and the Taylors, upper middle class people, raced their stallion, one of the most valuable in history, as a 4 year old after winning the TC while undefeated and with a far better record than Justify, despite the fact he had real injuries, unlike Justify.

The ultra-wealthy folks at Winstar are parasites: they make a big profit and feel they owe the game nothing

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Vic, the Hills and the Taylors, upper middle class people, raced their stallion, one of the most valuable in history, as a 4 year old after winning the TC while undefeated and with a far better record than Justify, despite the fact he had real injuries, unlike Justify.

The ultra-wealthy folks at Winstar are parasites: they make a big profit and feel they owe the game nothing
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Vic, the Hills and the Taylors, upper middle class people, raced their stallion, one of the most valuable in history, as a 4 year old after winning the TC while undefeated and with a far better record than Justify, despite the fact he had real injuries, unlike Justify.

The ultra-wealthy folks at Winstar are parasites: they make a big profit and feel they owe the game nothing
Coincidentally Seattle Slew won the HOY award as a 3yo Triple Crown winner despite not racing the last half of the year or facing his elders (like Justify).
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