brilliant account from across the pond
 

a must read for anyone who witnessed the drama on saturday


http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/r...t-2128089.html

"A gift from God" should be the HOY . A miraculous filly , 30 lengths back , unbeaten in her career except for a long nose in the greatest of all races this year .

Haynesfield, 22 3/4 L behind the leaders at the finish of the BC, beat Blame by 4L in the JCGC . Blame is 13-9-2-2 lifetime . 5-4-1 this year. The defending BC champion Zenyatta loses her only race ever by a nose to Blame coming from 30L back . 20-19-1 lifetime, 6-5-1 this year . Clearly Zenyatta is HOY .

Wonderful read, thanks for posting.

(although I think the part about her submitting to Blame for breeding sounds like Sumitas wrote it)

I was just going to comment on that.
I almost threw up a little in my mouth after reading that paragraph.

So, a horse that has won no open Grade 1s all year, and is beaten on the track by another horse that is now 3 out of 4 in open Grade 1s this year, should be HOY ahead of him. Remember, each horse has lost only one race this year.

If the name was not Zenyatta, no horse racing fan in their right mind would make this argument. This is cultish behavior. Act like frigging adults already.

She lost by a nose and Blame lost by 4 L to the horse that finished 22 3/4 L behind both in the BC .

Kris S is the broodmare sire of Zenyatta and the grandsire of Blame .

And she would have lost that same race by 15 lengths on that lone-f pace scenario. You can't possibly be as big an idiot as you pretend to be, not if you still know how to breathe.

geez..
 

the original post was for everyone to enjoy the prose put forth by Luck
It was not intended to become ANOTHER battlefield for pro con Zenyatta.

By the way the inbreeding pattern looks ok

Whose inbreeding, richard's?

Lovely prose is a fine thing, so long as it is not a mask for illogic. Just move on already.

thanks spock

OK, we'll decide things like racing is a petting zoo contest.

Which animal is our most favorite, boys and girls?

Ohhhh, ohhh, I know this one!!

Indian Charlie!

Yes, he is very pretty when his groom ties a ribbon on his tail.

Oh wait--you mean the horse.

I agree...this logic is even dumber than most of the Pro-zenyatta threads (and I'm not a basher at all, just a realist).
Using this same logic, how wide of a margin do you think Blame would crush Rinterval or or any of the other allowance-level fillies that Zenyatta squeaked by this year? It's all irrelevant.

Bob Dylan would be proud.

Nice one.

Inadvertent, sorry. I have loved that song since I was about 14 (when it came out), so it is deeply ingrained, I guess.

Forgive me, Zimmerman!

Greatest song and well used in my opinion.

Now she was 30 lengths back? Stick to posting about Finger Lakes and Golden Missile.

Some bidiot guy on here said she lost seven lengths when she steadied!!!

She was 50 lengths back. Went 20 wide. Up the hill. Both ways. In the snow. Against 100 mph winds.......

and the guy who took a swing at Artax returned to the "ring" and tried to suckerpunch her at the 1/8th pole.

Not only did she have to go against 100 mph headwinds, but everyone else got a 100 mph tailwind at the same time!

... and she was blindfolded.

I can't believe you MORONS forgot that part.

Easy Gooey.... This is a family show.

... but I was doing my best impersonation of TFM. :wf :p

Not enough vitriol.

It was a good first try though!

Thank you!

I'll work on it.

Hey maybe we could have a contest where once a week...

Nah. Forget it.

Hey, why not?

We already have an unofficial contest among the Zenyattards as to who can come up with the stupidest post of the minute.

I said this elsewhere so I'm just going to say it... I hated the piece.

Pretentious, affected and wanna-be intellectual...

No thanks.

:D

I'd ask who is winning but I think I'd rather guess and leave it at that.

The thing is MMSC, there aren't any winners. Just whiners and losers.

They are sure trying their stupid little hearts out though.

I guess you had to be at Churchill on Saturday.

Actually, isn't it sort of the opposite? Shouldn't emotion be taken out of it?

Don't get me wrong, it was obviously a great racing moment, and while you didn't have to be at Churchill to feel it, I'm sure it was exponentially more electric being there. .

"God has spoken" and Zenyatta is the chosen one . Priaise the Lord .

They also spun her around, put a piñata up at the finish line, and gave her a stick to carry in her teeth during the race. To win, she not only had to finish first, she had to knock out all the candy.

so her close second outweighs all the bs racing she did the rest of the year? if she doesn't get hoy, it isn't her fault. that responsibility lies squarely on her owners shoulders.

Obviously. They put all their chips on red and it came up black. It isn't much harder than that to understand.