The concept of Zardana ducking Zenyatta or visa-versa is just silly ...

Life Is Sweet ran against Zenyatta unsucessfully several times and won the BC Ladies Classic . She also hit the board against males--and all this on Zenyatta's alleged favorite surface ...

It is unreasonable to think that this is going on, when another Shireffs filly --and probably a better one---has already done this multiply ...

Rachel clearly didn't run as well as she did in '09, but I don't think that should diminish the race Zardana ran. She ran a good race and appears to be a fairly quality runner on dirt. All of her dirt races have been good.
On non-dirt surfaces she appears to struggle.

You may be right. Mr. Shirreffs is so set on keeping Zenyatta undefeated he put her in the BCC to face males and run 1 1/4 miles for her first time at both.

He waited all year, never doing anything different in So Cal, until he ran her in that one interesting race.

Half the field didn't have a chance in that race because they were dirt horses.

Put her in a decent campaign in a wider variety of places against quality horses, and see what happens. She would have great wins, but she wouldn't be invincible.

Do you have an 800 number I can call to have you tell me my future? :D

Let's talk in the present tense then, 2009 is in the past, that debate has been discussed to death. if the Apple Blossom goes off with Zenyatta in it, in your opinion who is taking more chances thus far in 2010 and secondly who is protecting their reputation now?

Did the BC Classic runners happen to finish 1-2-3 in the Dubai World Cup?

I know what you're getting at, but the difference is current form. From her 2010 race, Rachel Alexandra is not the same horse she was last year. Simply put, Zenyatta would dust her at this point in time. As any objective race fan would wish, both horses should be 100% for a matchup with this much ridiculous build-up.

The gripe with Zenyatta has been that she's been at the top of her game and taken more conservative routes. To some degree this is because the BC was at SA the last two years (some of it probably has to do with her unbeaten record, too), but when her connections start sounding off about her "other worldly" abilities and set up a massive spin machine, inevitably people want to see these proclaimations verified on the racetrack.

The Vanity-Clement Hirsch-Lady's Secret Triple Burger King Paper Crown doesn't quite cut it.

This. Exactly.

That avatar is soooo cute!

Zetch must've enjoyed watching his mare take down that paper champion at FG so much that he wants to try to do it again in the Troienne.

Do you think the paper champ will show for that CD contest … or will she duck little z now?????

Do you pat yourself on the back after every one of these clever posts of yours?