Zenyatta HOY

[BB]

Silver, I tried to find the results online and failed. However, Skip Away only won the one HOY, in 1998, not two. He probably should have won in \'97, but he didn\'t win that many races in an aggressive campaign, and Favorite Trick won HOY that year as a 2YO. By the time \'98 wrapped up it had become pretty clear that Skip Away had been jobbed the previous year, so, perhaps this time he did get the benefit of the \"makeup\" call. But he did have a hell of a year in \'98, winning graded races all over the place from Winter in Florida (Donn, Gulfstream Park H\'Cap), to Spring in Maryland (Pimlico Special) and California (Hollywood Gold Cup), to late Summer in New York (Woodward). Awards are funny things. Sometimes, it seems like they are awarded to the right individuals, but at the wrong time. See Scorsese, Martin.

[Silver Charm]

I do not know the specific splits in the Ballots but I found a story that said \"Skip Away was a unanimous winner\".

He opened the yr with 7 consecutive wins then I think was 3 in the JCGC and 6th in the Classic.

Awesome Again won the Foster beating Silver Charm, while getting significant weight. Won the Whitney handily, skipped the JCGC to prep at Hawthorne and nailed everyone in the Classic. He was undefeated that yr.

I am very surprised at how badly Blame beat Zenyatta in one Voting block and how close the overall totals were. Skip Away carried the Torch the entire yr, began to fade a little and found himself running his last race on a Track he probably didn\'t like.

Zenyatta found herself running her last race on Blames home track.

[TGJB]

BB-- also Newman, Paul.

[richiebee]

Newman was nominated for Best Actor 8 times, winning once for \"The Color of Money\".

Cant imagine a better performance than Newman\'s alcoholic attorney in \"The Verdict\"
in 1982, but Ben Kingsley\'s \"Gandhi\" had more mass appeal.

[TGJB]

That he got it for The Color Of Money tells you that aside from being a make-up call, movies have gone way downhill since The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, and Hud.

Harper is one of the great private eye movies, too.

[magicnight]

Like the lady said (courtesy of Billy Wilder), \"it\'s the pictures that got small\".

Just a week or two ago I saw \"Luke\" on Netflix and was (once again) reminded of how great he was. Also, a few years after \"Harper\" he played the same character in a similarly underrated movie called \"The Drowning Pool\".

And, I didn\'t mean to insult \"The Departed\". It\'s a fine movie. It\'s just that, if someone didn\'t know what films got the awards, and you had them watch the ten best movies Scorsese made, I believe the general response would be \"he got the oscar for THAT ONE?\"

This is why I no longer care about awards of any kind, including all the halls of fame.

[TGJB]

There was a third one in that Ross McDonald series, too. But Harper was the best of the three. Best thing Robert Wagner has ever done, too.

[HP]

Read the book version of \"The Hustler\" by Walter Tevis.  Incredible insight on competition and human nature.  Fantastic stuff.

[moosepalm]

TGJB Wrote:
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> There was a third one in that Ross McDonald
> series, too. But Harper was the best of the three.
> Best thing Robert Wagner has ever done, too.

You\'re going to win a trivia contest with the answer to that one because I couldn\'t even cheat with wikipedia and come up with it, other than a made for TV movie with Peter Graves in the Archer role.

Agreed on Hud, Hustler and Luke as superior to his work in \"Money.\"  From the early stuff, \"Cat\" was pretty impressive, too.  Later on, I thought he killed in \"The Verdict,\" and \"Nobody\'s Fool,\" which, to not lose sight of this being a horse racing board, is based on a terrific novel by Richard Russo, set in a town supposedly based on Ballston Spa, outside of Saratoga, and has some marvelous OTB references.

[HP]

Two of his Archer stories were made into theatrical films, both starring Paul Newman: Harper (1966), based on The Moving Target; and The Drowning Pool (1975). The Underground Man was adapted (loosely) into a made-for-TV feature in 1974, starring Peter Graves, and a year later, Brian Keith played Lew Archer in a short-lived American TV series called, simply, Archer.

HP

[TGJB]

I thought Twilight (which also had James Garner) was based on the same character, no?

[TGJB]

To answer my own question, private eye yes, same character no.