the cheers move to tears on nov 6 ?

Just wow....

Beyer today

Zenyatta now has to prove that she can win at the highest level of the sport.

Going from synthetic to dirt (see Zardana, et al)

Had perfect prep race after being on shelf for two months

Fresh, fit, and moving from less than ideal distance (8.5f) to ideal distance (10f)

Trained by a guy who owns big score at CD.



You guys do realize that Z could be sitting on a big one here … right?

If someone 5 or 10 years ago told me that people would be rating a mare that is all out to beat creampuffs on a fake dirt track in CA in the same class as Seattle Slew and Citation, I would have held an intervention for them.

Are you trying to convince us or yourself?

That "big one" is a career top of a 104 on dirt against a shaky field where the other horse in the race who wasn't much to begin with ran like crap anyway. Gonna take a whole lot better than a 104 to beat Blame, Quality Road, etc.

She hasn't exactly been facing the highest level of the sport lately. And this is a watered down version of the highest level.

She might have been sitting on a big one all year had they taken the training wheels off.

The irony is that Blame and Quality Road are hardly good horses in a historical sense. Neither would currently break into the top 100.

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It's not ironic....it's legit and sad.

Where do you have Macho Again and Bullsbay on that top 100 list, Cannon?

Pretty good post … you have a problem with it?

Hmmm, where do I have Washington on the College Football Top 25 polls? Better yet, where does everyone else?

Somewhere between Rutgers and South Florida

No, but your hedging is pretty amusing. When she's off the board in the Classic your excuse is all ready.

Right below Washington

Phil....TULANE???

I wonder why no one ships in for a couple of hundrend g's to beat the big mare? Can it just be that they are so against synthetics that they wouldnt dare come race on principle alone. Is it the owners who dont want to try it or the trainers? Her races on dirt show alot more turn of foot than her races on synthetic of course this just my opinon but I just dont get why a 5k plane ride and some hotel rooms for help doesnt attract more people to come and try and beat her. Its gotta be the synthetic principle, call b ullshit but dont show up to prove it.