Trainer Wesley Ward and jockey Irad Ortiz celebrate after winning the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint with Golden Pal
Finalists were named last week for the 2021 Eclipse Awards in the various human and equine categories, and it should come as no surprise that there are differences of opinion about which horses and people were snubbed by voters and should have made the top three.
In this week’s edition of the Friday Show, Paulick Report bloodstock editor Joe Nevills is joined by news editor Chelsea Hackbarth and horse racing writer and handicapper Andrew Champagne to review some of the candidates they think should have received more support among voters representing the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters, Daily Racing Form and National Thoroughbred Racing Association/Equibase.
Nevills believes Dr. Schivel should have been a finalist in the Sprint category. Hackbarth asks, “Who did he beat?” Nevills and Champagne both think G1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Golden Pal should have been a finalist, either in the sprint or male turf division. He didn’t make either list.
Nevills said he abstained from voting in the steeplechase category, insisting it isn’t his area of expertise. Hackbarth reminded Nevills that she expanded Paulick Report’s horse racing coverage to include major North American steeplechase races in 2021.
Champagne mostly wants people to agree to disagree respectfully.
On that we can all agree.
Watch this week’s Friday Show, presented by the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association, below:
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