Like Sightseek, I've seen a lot of articles using superlatives to describe Zenyatta's challengers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/sp...enyatta&st=cse
("As she was awaiting the start of the Breeders’ Cup Classic, against the best male horses in the world at a distance she had never run, did she suddenly not want to race?")
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/mo...ition_in_.html
("So it was Zenyatta against the boys Saturday, a terrific bunch, a 13-horse field, 10 Grade I winners (that means they've had at least one good day).")
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009...n-breeders-cup
("The end is the only place to start when considering the Breeders' Cup card at Santa Anita today. The Classic, with a purse of $5m, is, as the Americans put it, the "deepest" for years, in terms of the sheer number of high-class horses declared to run in the race.")
I saw a few deeper, deepest, strongest ones, too, but I can't find them easily.
Ah, the media. It's not enough that she was the first female to win it, and the first horse to win two different Breeders Cup races, and won Saturday after a pretty sucky start, you have to plump up the field's credentials, too?
