The Penny Chenery Award

[Calzone Lord]

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...oms?source=rss

Every year it gets funnier.

This time, the esteemed panel nominated five horses for it.

This upset certain pockets of the Internet.

An outcry among pretty horsey/sick horsey lovers was heard ... and Shackleford and Paynter are added.

Oddly, a foreign horse (the great Frankel) is on the list. But the foreign horse with the most passoniate fan base (Black Caviar) isn't.

Looking forward to see who takes the torch of last years winner, Rapid Redux.

Actually, I'm not.

[letswastemoney]

I voted for Zenyatta.

[GenuineRisk]

Five horses who generated headlines for their feats in 2012 have been nominated for the third annual Secretariat Vox Populi ("Voice of the People") Award.

If news articles have to explain what the name of the award means, it's a bad name.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

If news articles have to explain what the name of the award means, it's a bad name.

[Calzone Lord]

Five thousand people packed Federation Square and stayed up at 2AM to watch Black Caviar's ultra gutty if unimpressive win in a Group 1 at Royal Ascot.

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwVmLPGsKkc


Isn't that supposed to be what this stupid award is about?

If the award was supposed to be about performance ... Rapid Redux wouldn't have come close. He was running in all Nickle starter races in the mid-atlantic for God sakes.

If you want to say the award isn't about foreign horses ... why the hell is Frankel nominated?

Frankel was the best horse in the world ... but his campaign simply wasn't that interesting and he didn't have anything close to the popularity Black Caviar did when it came to passionate fans.

[Invasor]

I'm confused. This is supposed to be a voice of the people award but the winner is chosen by a committee?