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Ravens Pass for me. Going over to America and beating their wonderhorse curlin and theres nothing better then beating the yanks!
Duke of marmalade, i knew 2yrs ago this horse would win over 11/2m.
I don’t see how him winning over 1 1/2 miles (from that superstar Papal Bull) makes him horse of the year over Raven’s Pass and Zarkava.
Anyway, his best form was over 1 1/4 miles.
Good to see some votes for Raven’s Pass.
It’s a good Cinderella story. When the shoe fitted, he won the QEII and then stepped up in distance, in a race where Giant’s Causeway, Sakhee, Galileo, George Washington among others have failed, and won pretty convincingly. Well done.
Yeats for me – admirable continuity in the racing code that’s less predisposed towards it.
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Duke of marmalade, i knew 2yrs ago this horse would win over 11/2m.
I don’t see how him winning over 1 1/2 miles (from that superstar Papal Bull) makes him horse of the year over Raven’s Pass and Zarkava.
Anyway, his best form was over 1 1/4 miles.
The point i was making was to emphasise his versatility.
Easily the most difficult category. Henry, RP and NA all travelled widely and encountered a variety of conditions in which to test their mettle. Zarkava discounted on this score. RP just nudges Henry as his profile was rising as the season progressed. But NA just gets it, despite his wonderful trainer embarrasing himself a couple of times, he had a variety of challenges, looked as stong in October as he had in May and his Derby victory was dramatic and brilliantly executed.
Only one winner, Zarkava, didn’t think she would stay 12 furlongs in her horse box, how wrong I was and how happy I was to be proved wrong, best filly i’ve ever seen or am likely to ever see.
You get no prizes for guessing which horse I voted for
She hadn’t met the colts yet, she wouldn’t beat her elders were the cries of the doubters.
She destroyed everything in her path with one of the most amazing turn of foot ever seen on a racecourse and all so effortless.
"If there can be only one" "The one is Zarkava"
Zarkava is definitely hard to argue with but it was Ravens Pass for me, had him earmarked all season to be 1m2f material, and from goodwood onwards to be breeders cup classic material, he kept finding more, and threw in a performance in the BCC that was right up there with the best we seen all season. Zarkavas arc performance was amazing but I cant help but feel that ravens pass had a much more solid division and still came out on top, he may not be remembered for how good he was in time, but by god was he good…
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