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Originally Posted by johnny pinwheel (Post 703551)

i did not even mention zenyatta. she does not even run at saratoga. so, you probably think i don't know what i'm talking about. even though my "job" is pretty much betting. but heres what i see. the horse is giving all she can and LOSING. cruising in the beldame was not a given...the horse that won (life at ten) was in there. another horse that beat rachel was in there. in all reality she could of very well lost again and i think her camp was not willing to allow that. like i said she looked awful running her guts out at saratoga...no, she was not up the track. but she lost to an inferior horse and rachel was walking at the end...i love that horse. for your information, i rented a car in virginia and drove 3 hours to see her win the preakness. why does zenyattta come up every time someone talks about rachel? those are the ones that don't know what they are talking about. by the way i thought rachel deserved horse of the year too.....

Not to pick on you, because others have made similar statements, but....ummm....didn't she win some races too?
The way some people are writing about her this year I'm starting to wonder if the Fleur de Lis I thought I watched was really just a dream.

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell (Post 703622)

winning the Beldame and Distaff would have been a great ending to a tremendous career. Simply bowing out for no real reason other than owners enormus ego really is not a fitting ending for a horse like her.

:tro:

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell (Post 703625)

I completely agree on the different point but to me the game is less interesting than it has ever been. No rivalries are ever created because in the rare occurance that two top horses meet, the loser almost invariably slinks off to grade 3 land and the winner's connections expect to be coronated. About the closest thing we have to a rivalry is Havre de Grace and Blind Luck.

I agree Chuck and I didn't mean interesting in a good way.

Headed to Churchill Downs, eh?

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Originally Posted by slotdirt (Post 703903)

Headed to Churchill Downs, eh?

Appears to be the case yes..

You don't think they.......... nah......

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Originally Posted by slotdirt (Post 703903)

Headed to Churchill Downs, eh?

Hopefully it's a Brett Favre type comeback to try to grab attention and look sporting.

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Originally Posted by slotdirt (Post 703903)

Headed to Churchill Downs, eh?

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Originally Posted by Arletta (Post 703924)

Appears to be the case yes..

You don't think they.......... nah......

No way.

DRF|Reflecting on Rachel Alexandra's next chapter

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Scott Blasi, who has been with Rachel Alexandra nearly every day since she joined Steve Asmussen’s barn in May 2009, said Rachel is tentatively scheduled to be shipped to Churchill Downs on Tuesday.

“We’ll let her down a little bit there,” Blasi said. “We haven’t made any plans yet to get her to the farm. She’s done going to the track. We’ll walk her a few times a day, and take her off her vitamins and stuff. Without her being in training, she won’t need the quantity of feed she’s used to getting, but we’ll do it gradually.”

Sometime in the coming weeks, Rachel Alexandra will board a horse van at Churchill not bound for another racetrack but for the Stonestreet Farms of Jess Jackson and Barbara Banke, on Old Frankfort Pike in Lexington. Substitute paddock turn-outs for 1 1/2-mile gallops. Instead of rivals on the racetracks, there will be field companions. No more racing boys, but mating with them: A date with Curlin has been scheduled for the upcoming breeding season.

Sumitas has been hired as sexual therapist to prep Rachel for her next stage in life.

“We’ll let her down a little bit there,” Blasi said. “We haven’t made any plans yet to get her to the farm. She’s done going to the track. We’ll walk her a few times a day, and take her off her vitamins and stuff."

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell (Post 703625)

I completely agree on the different point but to me the game is less interesting than it has ever been. No rivalries are ever created because in the rare occurance that two top horses meet, the loser almost invariably slinks off to grade 3 land and the winner's connections expect to be coronated. About the closest thing we have to a rivalry is Havre de Grace and Blind Luck.

Turning into a fun one too! I just think that BL is best at longer races than the Cotillion. She nails HDG with a little more distance.