The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal, December 16, 2009 – Freaky’s dominating performance in last Saturday’s Champion of Champions (G1) secured his position as the undisputed No. 1-rated performer in the season’s final AQHA Racing-HorseplayerPRO.com Weekly Top 10 Poll. Meanwhile, juvenile filly Runnning Brook Gal closed the 2009 polling season atop the national 2-year-old rankings, a position she maintained since winning the All American Futurity (G1) on Labor Day.
The Champion of Champions certainly had a major impact on the season-ending poll for older horses, even with its odds-on winner in Freaky. Chasing the second-fastest Champion of Champions winner ever proved a tall order for horses like Foose, though his second-place finish Saturday night jumped him up two spots in the final poll of the season to No. 3. Inseperable, the champ of the Grade 1 All American and Rainbow derbies who was forced to miss the Champion of Champions and recently retired, earned the No. 2 ranking for the season from pollsters.
On the 2-year-old front, multiple Texas futurity winner Tempting Dash finished a narrow second in the balloting, 89-82, to Runnning Brook Gal after a tremendous autumn campaign. Last Friday’s Los Alamitos Two Million winner, Good Reason SA, also proved formidable as a late-season force, rising all the way to No. 4 after scoring the “Deuce.” Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9361
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