Eclipse ballot spreadsheet

[HaloWishingwell]

Forget AP Indy let Haskins and Davidowitz bang Zenyatta first

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Originally Posted by DaTruth

Hopefully a more qualified group votes for the Hall of Fame. Or am I just getting my hopes up.

Not really........

[letswastemoney]

Here is Ellen Parker's website. http://www.reines-de-course.com/

[Puddle Jumper]

Originally Posted by letswastemoney

Here is Ellen Parker's website. http://www.reines-de-course.com/

That woman is so delusional she needs thorazine.

It wouldn't be so bad if she were just another crackpot blogger in need of attention, but she actually submits votes for the Eclipse Awards. She didn't even back up so much as one of her opinions with any facts. Of course, she can vote for whichever horse she wishes, but she should at least support her views without sounding like she took the brown acid.

Here's my favorite part:

There will never be an end to this argument, that much is certain. But we stood willing and ready to resign from the NTWAB if Zenyatta had not finally been given her long overdue gold trophy.

Congratulations, NTWAB. You've given the honor of submitting an Eclipse Awards ballot to someone whose two qualifications are having internet access and an axe to grind.

Over the past two months, I have read a much quoted statement made by Joe Hirsch: "Horse of the Year can be anything you want it be." Yet, somehow, I can't help but think he might be turning over in his grave from this nonsense.

[Puddle Jumper]

Originally Posted by merasmag

but u havta this:

" For all of you who voted for Blame – shame on you! When are you going to get it into your heads that good horses run everywhere, and that Zenyatta logged more flying miles last year than Blame ever did? Or that you are more enamored with the names of the races he won than the nothing horses he ran against in those races? "

go ahead...ban me for posting the confederate silks travesty...dis lady isanut and i want 2 be as far away from her as humanly possible...
fu&*in zenyattadatta momos(TM)

I disagreed with everything she said, but my point was that it's scary that someone so "off-the-deep-end" has a vote.

[Cannon Shell]

Is it possible that she plagiarized that from a 4th grader?

The HoY means very little in the grand scheme but this is a great example of the flaming incompetence that exists in this sport. How a person with a view of the game like this delusional woman (and presumably her husband as well) can have a say in the determining of our sports year end champions is a disgrace.

[ateamstupid]

Next time Steve has Haskin or Jon White on, I need to remember to call in. This can't be ignored.

[Cannon Shell]

Interesting that Beverly Smith thought that Edward Evans deserved her vote as third best trainer

[eajinabi]

If this was a fan only vote who wins?

If this was a media only vote who wins?

If this was vote limited to Jockeys,trainers and owners only - who would win?

If this was limited to handicappers only vote who would win?

[DaTruth]

This is what someone had to say about Parker on the pedigreequery forum several years ago:

"The only person who considers Ellen Parker an authority on breeding racehorses is Ellen Parker.

You can go to her site and read about some of the matings she found “really exciting” several years ago and then look up those resulting foals today and you see results like “unraced, unplaced, and unraced”."

http://www.pedigreequery.com/forum/v...bd139483bf6fce

[Left Bank]

The list confirms the fact that the awards have turned into a joke.How is anyone to take this seriously with the losers they have given voting power to?
Why don't they just give every horse an HOY trophy? Kinda like those "Participant" ribbons that are given out at school sporting events so no one feels left out.

[slotdirt]

I read Ellen Parker's website a bit yesterday. Unqualified doesn't even begin to describe her. And while Haskin gets a vote, why aren't guys like Crist and Watchmaker on the list? People who actually follow horse racing and not pretty ponies for a living.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

And while Haskin gets a vote, why aren't guys like Crist and Watchmaker on the list? People who actually follow horse racing and not pretty ponies for a living.

I think that was just the horse writers votes, not the drf and ntra

[Puddle Jumper]

Originally Posted by merasmag

my cat has determined that people's comprehension has 0 to do with HOW i write

I agreed with you but not that poor excuse for a "turfwriter".

[Puddle Jumper]

Originally Posted by merasmag

so who'd she sleep with to get a vote?

She must have pictures of someone !@#$)(* farm animals.