Sea The Stars - BBC Sports Personality of the the Year

[Maroon Heaven]

Big rumour going about on a few knowledgable betting forums that Sea the Starts may be one of the 10 Athletes up for the Phone vote on the night. This is a very strong credible rumour from what I gather from sources inside BBC.

As a result in last few mins Totesport have Sea the stars at 25-1

Interesting then for RTE's Sports personality of the year where O'Driscoll is 1/10 on or 1.11 on BF. Surely a Lay

[Rudigar]

Is he the mane contender?

[ballinaman]

Is he the mane contender?

Ya, heard he is going to race to an early lead.

[Rudigar]

Is he the mane contender?

Ya, heard he is going to race to an early lead.

Personally I think it has neigh chance.

[AFS]

Is he the mane contender?

Ya, heard he is going to race to an early lead.

Personally I think it has neigh chance.

Would stirrup a fair bit of controversy if it did win.

[ballinaman]

Is he the mane contender?

Ya, heard he is going to race to an early lead.

Personally I think it has neigh chance.

Would stirrup a fair bit of controversy if it did win.

Going to have to jockey for a good position in the studio......

[Olaf]

Is he the mane contender?

Ya, heard he is going to race to an early lead.

Personally I think it has neigh chance.

Would stirrup a fair bit of controversy if it did win.

Going to have to jockey for a good position in the studio......

They should have a gallup pole to see if people see this to be a likely outcome.

[Rudigar]

Lads, just to back up the original post, a source tells me it is a horseshoe-in.

[ziggysego]

Quit horsing around

[AFS]

Lads, just to back up the original post, a source tells me it is a horseshoe-in.

Might not like being saddled with the favourite's tag.

[ballinaman]

Lads, just to back up the original post, a source tells me it is a horseshoe-in.

Might not like being saddled with the favourite's tag.

Probably will try to keep a level head without blinkers on.....

[Rudigar]

Lads, just to back up the original post, a source tells me it is a horseshoe-in.

Might not like being saddled with the favourite's tag.

Probably will try to keep a level head without blinkers on.....

Hope he wins it, he has wanted this award furlong time.

[Caid]

Might not like being saddled with the favourite's tag.

Bit of a nightmare alright. 

If David Hay attends with Sea The Stars try to eat him?

[red hander]

This is gonna cause a hell of a lot of confusion if Sue Barker is presenting the show ... how are we to tell them apart if Sea The Stars walks on stage to accept its prize

[Donnellys Hollow]

Sea The Stars isn't British so he'd have to be included in the international category! His best hope would be the Irish version:

Punters back Sea The Stars for Irish Sports Personality of the Year

Bookie Paddy Power has been forced to install Sea The Stars into this year's Irish Sports Personality of the Year betting following requests from punters on the champion horse.

Such is the demand for John Oxx's colt the bookie has made the horse second favourite to win the award at 11/4.

Whilst it remains to be seen if competition rules will allow RTÉ to enter the horse for their annual award it would appear that such is the popularity of arguably the greatest horse ever seen that there may be a backlash from its thousands of supporters if they restrict the competition to two legged entrants only.

With Ireland winning their first rugby Grand Slam for 70 years and Leinster the Heineken Cup, the ever popular Brian O'Driscoll is understandably a hot favourite at 1/4 followed by Sea The Stars. And much like his season, the champion horse is a country mile ahead of all the other challengers.

Beyond those two champions, Kilkenny manager Brian Cody is the nearest challenger at 16/1 whilst star of this year's Cheltenham Festival Ruby Walsh is 28/1.

Paddy Power said: 'Sea The Stars has been well requested today since his historic 2000 Guineas, Derby, and Arc treble forcing us to make him a very live contender at 11/4. It's pretty much a two horse race - and it's the first time you can say, for once, that 50% of that old phrase is actually true!'

Horses have fared well in sports awards before with Bob Champion and Aldiniti winning Team of the Year in the BBC's 1981 honours.

RTE Irish Sports Personality of the Year
1/4 Brian O'Driscoll
11/4 Sea The Stars
16/1 Brian Cody
20/1 Olive Loughnane
28/1 Ruby Walsh
33/1 Tommy Walsh
33/1 Katie Taylor
50/1 Robbie Keane
80/1 BAR

Source: http://www.rte.ie/sport/2009/1006/paddypower_isp_seathestars.html

He was taken out of the betting a few days after this story was released and PP had put Kinane and Oxx into the betting instead of him. RTÉ must have put their foot down