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12-05-2012, 03:40 PM
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The Penny Chenery Award
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. 
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12-06-2012, 01:36 AM
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I voted for Zenyatta.
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12-06-2012, 12:21 PM
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12-06-2012, 12:22 PM
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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12-06-2012, 02:31 PM
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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.
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12-06-2012, 05:08 PM
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It was meant to be a special award for Zenyatta to get after she lost the BC Classic to Blame and appearantly any shot at Horse of the Year.
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12-06-2012, 05:10 PM
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans
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12-06-2012, 05:11 PM
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Tweet of the Day?
Ed DeRosa @EJXD2: I hope it's not too late to add Pulpit to the list of Vox Populi nominees
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans
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12-06-2012, 05:42 PM
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And, I'm pretty sure his full brother Wise Dan or Zenyatta in her prime wouldn't have a chance with him on Alysheba day. When, In outstanding time, he completely overpowered a no-excuse 2nd and no-excuse 3rd place finishers who broke open the BC Classic together later in the year.
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12-06-2012, 05:52 PM
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The day they start nominating outstanding "cheaper" horses perhaps starter allowance ponies who venture into the right alw conditioned spot and do seven of ten wins, Is the day a poll will matter to me .
Oh and by cheaper, I mean cheaper, the kind the average man or group could get together with a trainer , maybe on deal or maybe paying the full freight on there own. The 6,250 (where did that number come from), 10,000 or 12,500 but not much higher
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12-06-2012, 06:27 PM
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