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Originally Posted by gales0678
drugs i still think if you put mike smith on Gio Ponti and Dominguez on Zenyatta she doesn't win the race
smith gave her an perfect textbook ride for the pro surface as he should because he's a west coast based jock . ramon, a big a inner dirt specialit made the cardinal mistake of not getting his horse over to the best part of the track for the stretch drive - not only did he lose becuase he was on the deader part of the track , gio ponti never saw zenyatta and never had a chance to look her in the eye , if ramon could have gotten outside of her , we could have seen a different result
jermey rose made the same mistake in the derby , he was too far inside on derby day with afleet alex and mike smith hit the best part of the track on that day 10 wide with the 50/1 shot
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While Smith's ride was professional even Chantal would have gotten Zenyatta up. What makes you believe Zenyatta wasn't capable of starting her run a quarter of a mile sooner on the outside and winning by the same length.
She is a terrific mare it was an awesome race, clearly not some Classic that goes down in history as an all time race but it certainly was great theather and a fine way for a great horse to out in style.
Look all story's cant be as wonderful and have the terriffic ending that Zensational did..Now that was the final chapter of an immense champion.lol