My Dan
Patch winners for 2013
Horse of the
Year: Bee A Magician
Trotter of
the Year: Bee A Magician
Pacer of the
Year: Captaintreacherous
Two-Year-old
Colt Trotter: Father Patrick
Two-Year-Old
Filly Trotter: Shake It Cerry
Two-Year-Old
Colt Pacer: He’s Watching
Two-Year-Old
Filly Pacer: Precocious Beauty
Three-Year-Old
Colt Trotter: Royalty For Life
Three-Year-Old
Filly Trotter: Bee A Magician
Three-Year-Old
Colt Pacer: Captaintreacherous
Three-Year-Old
Filly Pacer: I Luv The Nitelife
Older Horse
& Gelding Trotter: Market Share
Older Mare
Trotter: Maven
Older Horse
& Gelding Pacer: Foiled Again
Older Mare
Pacer: Anndrovette
The choices
are pretty obvious this year. The only one up for grabs, as I see it, is the award for the
best older pacing mare. Anndrovette won the most money but Rocklamation wasn’t
far behind and she had more stakes wins. Since there wasn’t a whole lot
separating them I went with the incumbent.
JF
3 comments:
Looks about perfect to me....
Captaintreacherous is no lock for pacer of the year. After Foiled Again's performance tonight I actually believe he is deserving of this award over the Captain. The Captain may prevail in the voting, but it will be very close either way.
Foiled may be voted POY as a tribute to his legacy, but he doesn't deserve that award. He won three stakes races this year, the TVG final, the BC and the Franklin. Not enough. Foiled lost 62% of his 2013 starts, many of them to marginal competitors. The POY can't lose that many races.
The Captain, who made fewer starts, lost 19% of his starts. He won the BC, Pace, NA Cup, Tattersalls Pace, Cane, Hempt, Bluegrass and Am-Nat. That's a much more impressive season long record.
If Pet Rock had won the TVG last night there's a good chance he would have won the Older H&G Pacer division. You can't be POY if you're that close to losing your own division coming into your last start of the year.
POY is an award for a single season; it's not a lifetime achievement award.
JF
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