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 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.”
The 2010 AQHA Racing Weekly Top 10 Poll will return the first Wednesday in March with a preseason ranking as the stakes action gears up at tracks like Los Alamitos and Remington Park.
NATIONAL RANKINGS, 2-YEAR OLDS:
1. RUNNNING BROOK GAL (89)
2. TEMPTING DASH (82)
3. FIRST KLAS FRED (70)
4. GOOD REASON SA (57)
5. THE PARTYS ON FIRE (44)
6. STREAKIN LAQUINTA (43)
7. FIRST PRIZE LEESA (37)
8. SHEZA FIRST RATIFY (28)
9. ZOOMIN WITH EASE (18)
10. PEACE FIRE (12)
Jumpn Beduino (9), First Corona Call (6), Ragazzo (4), Apolitical Jess (3), Favorite Cartel (1)
NATIONAL RANKINGS, 3-YEAR OLDS & UP:
1. FREAKY (90)
2. INSEPERABLE (71)
3. FOOSE (66)
4. FIRST MOONFLASH (55)
5. JESS YOU AND I (51)
6. FIGHTER ON FIRE (47)
7. STOLIS WINNER (35)
8. TERRIFIC ENERGY (26)
9. STYLISH JESS BR (25)
10. SEPARATE BET (14)
Alice K White (8), Fantastic Corona Jr (3), Streakin Cherry (2), Little Bit Of Ah Ha (2), Noconi (2), Little Bit Of Baja (1), Charal Kid (1), Saturday Nite Fever (1)
The nine voters are:
Ed Burgart (Los Alamitos announcer/handicapper)
Martha Claussen (writer/handicapper)
Mike Cusortelli (writer/handicapper)
Tom Dawson (network television producer)
Dale Day (Remington Park announcer/handicapper)
Mike Joyce (TVG analyst)
Jeremy Plonk (ESPN.com contributor)
Terry Turrell (HorseplayerPRO.com handicapper)
Ty Wyant (writer, Daily Racing Form and AQHA)
Poll results are also available at aqharacing.com and HorseplayerPRO.com.
Fans can watch live American Quarter Horse racing throughout the year by subscribing to Q-Racing Video. Subscribers have unlimited live access to almost every Quarter Horse simulcasting signal in the United States, plus unlimited access to archived race video. For more information, visit aqharacing.com.
AQHA news and information is a service of AQHA publications. For more information on The American Quarter Horse Journal, The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal or America’s Horse, visit www.aqha.com/magazines.
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