I don't see how the Triple Crown winner cannot be Horse of the Year. I go back to the days before the Breeders' Cup was inaugurated and the Triple Crown is still the engine that fires this game. Justify did all that he needed to do to prove to me that he was the Horse of the Year. The Eclipse Awards are tough. I've had several that I thought deserved the accolade and didn't get it. If they don't win it with Accelerate, I'm going to know how John Sadler feels. In 2012, we had Little Mike who won the Breeders' Cup Turf, the Arlington Million and the Woodford Reserve at Churchill. It just so happened he did that in the same year that Wise Dan came along and beat us. For us, there was no other award we could get other than turf champion. At least Accelerate will be older male champion. I don't like to talk about other people's horses, but I will say they were both great horses. It's just that I'm a little more old school and, to me, the power of winning the Triple Crown is impossible to overcome.
Dale Romans does not have an Eclipse Award vote
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