Personal Ensign is one. Excellent Meeting. Royal Heroine. A lot of Europeans. Safely Kept. Very Subtle. Xtra Heat. Honest Lady. Eight Belles.
Figures you'd name sprinters and more Europeans. And for the record, Excellent Meeting and Eight Belles are not strong examples, given their careers after facing colts. Same goes for Rags To Riches.
Yes, Personal Ensign was one-in-a-million. I don't have Zenyatta in that category just yet.
The Summer Colony argument is not even close to the same thing. You might as well have said Lorenzoni should have gotten it over Easy Goer since he beat him.
That's BS. Summer Colony had all the credentials to be a champion that year. In addition to the La Canada, she also took down the Personal Ensign (not to be confused with the Zenyatta) and the Delaware Handicap. She also placed in the Beldame.
That's not what I'm saying at all. We are talking about comparable records in top class races between two talented mares. I'm not saying that Zenyatta's one win should give her the automatic advantage. It could have been an off day for Ginger Punch. But why should GP beating her to even the score, on a synthetic track at that, mean that she's the champion? Same here. Zenyatta shouldn't have to beat GP twice to win a title when it would only take one win for GP to be the champ.
I don't watch college football.
And I never mentioned Ginger Punch specifically. What about Hystericalady? Has she lost to Zenyatta? All 3 have the necessary credentials to win the Eclipse should any of them win the Distaff. If Zenyatta goes in the Classic and loses, while one of the other 2 wins the Distaff, who do you think is winning the Eclipse?
My point about the number of starts thing is that in years past, even those males wouldn't have been asked to do as much as they did so soon in their careers. But it's a different game now. The same things that horses used to be asked to do 8-10 races into a career, they are now being asked to do 3-5 in. In years past, horses raced 30+ times over multiple seasons so there was no rush to do things. Now, when you're looking at a 10-15 race career max, the timetables are pushed way up.
Not with this filly obviously. You realize they didn't bring her out for her first career start till late in her 3yo year, right? If it took this long to get her to the races, why would they try to fry her in just a few starts? If anyone's not in a rush, its Zenyatta's connections.
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