{"id":2829,"date":"2009-12-17T04:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2009-12-17T04:35:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:35:08","slug":"2009-final-aqha-racing-horseplayerpro-com-weekly-top-10-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/2009-final-aqha-racing-horseplayerpro-com-weekly-top-10-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 FINAL AQHA RACING & HORSEPLAYERPRO.COM WEEKLY TOP 10 POLL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal, December 16, 2009<\/em> \u2013 Freaky\u2019s dominating performance in last Saturday\u2019s Champion of Champions (G1) secured his position as the undisputed No. 1-rated performer in the season\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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 \u201cDeuce.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

NATIONAL RANKINGS, 2-YEAR OLDS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNNING BROOK GAL (89)
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 TEMPTING DASH (82)
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 FIRST KLAS FRED (70)
\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 GOOD REASON SA (57)
\n5.\u00a0\u00a0 THE PARTYS ON FIRE (44)
\n6.\u00a0\u00a0 STREAKIN LAQUINTA (43)
\n7.\u00a0\u00a0 FIRST PRIZE LEESA (37)
\n8.\u00a0\u00a0 SHEZA FIRST RATIFY (28)
\n9.\u00a0\u00a0 ZOOMIN WITH EASE (18)
\n10. PEACE FIRE (12)\n<\/p>\n

Jumpn Beduino (9), First Corona Call (6), Ragazzo (4), Apolitical Jess (3), Favorite Cartel (1)<\/p>\n

NATIONAL RANKINGS, 3-YEAR OLDS & UP:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 FREAKY (90)
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 INSEPERABLE (71)
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 FOOSE (66)
\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 FIRST MOONFLASH (55)
\n5.\u00a0\u00a0 JESS YOU AND I (51)
\n6.\u00a0\u00a0 FIGHTER ON FIRE (47)
\n7.\u00a0\u00a0 STOLIS WINNER (35)
\n8.\u00a0\u00a0 TERRIFIC ENERGY (26)
\n9.\u00a0\u00a0 STYLISH JESS BR (25)
\n10. SEPARATE BET (14)\n<\/p>\n

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)<\/p>\n

The nine voters are:<\/p>\n

Ed Burgart (Los Alamitos announcer\/handicapper)
\nMartha Claussen (writer\/handicapper)
\nMike Cusortelli (writer\/handicapper)
\nTom Dawson (network television producer)
\nDale Day (Remington Park announcer\/handicapper)
\nMike Joyce (TVG analyst)
\nJeremy Plonk (ESPN.com contributor)
\nTerry Turrell (HorseplayerPRO.com handicapper)
\nTy Wyant (writer, Daily Racing Form and AQHA)\n<\/p>\n

Poll results are also available at\u00a0aqharacing.com <\/a><\/em>and\u00a0HorseplayerPRO.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0aqharacing.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

AQHA news and information is a service of AQHA publications. For more information on\u00a0The American Quarter Horse Journal, The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal<\/em> or\u00a0America\u2019s Horse<\/em>, visit\u00a0<\/em>www.aqha.com\/magazines<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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