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Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985
I am of the belief that in any aspect of life consistency should count for something. Work, home, personal, sports and especially horse racing. The sport that we all love, who has ever been this consistent, over this long a period of time? I don't care if shes running on dirt, turf, synthetic, or literally running on ****... She has got there 19/20 times, and I truly believe she ran her A race today and was best. Like in any other race, for handicapping purposes we look at trips, and the entire race... I believe she was best today, she simply ran a better race then Blame. Blame pulled the better trip, got the jump on her and ran hard and beat her. It should take nothing away from Zenyatta. Fine she is not one of the best ever, fine... She is easily the most consistent. Blame did not show up in the JCGC, Quality Road had not shown up multiple times already. Rachel was beaten multiple times.... Ghostzapper lost, Point Given lost... Further back Cigar and Skip Away lost. I believe that Zenyatta connections cost her any chance at being an ALL TIME GREAT, by not shipping her around this year. She had already won 2 BC races... This year should have been a tour... She should have run in the Donn-Foster-Whitney-Woodward-JCGC and Classic. I'm confident she would have won at least 3 of those 5 races, she would have been very likely second in the other 2 and would absolutely be HOY, something that might evade her now. I think even the Z haters need to realize now she is as good if not better on dirt and the connections should be ashamed of themselves. I can only hope they run her again this year, if not bring her back for another campaign next year. Run her until she doesn't fire, when that day comes then retire her. There is nothing wrong with that.
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I agreee with you that Zenyatta would have won today with a better trip. But as I said before, when you come from 15-20 lengths back in a 12 horse field, you're not going to always get a great trip.
Blame actually may have had an excuse in his last race (the JCGC). He was supposed to fly in on Thursday but there was a problem with the plane and he didn't end up flying in until Friday (the day before the race). There is a reason why horses don't fly in the day before the race. The reason is that they rarely run well when they do. That is why Tex Sutton never schedules flights the day before the race. Nobody wants to come in the day before because horses usually need a day to recover from the trip. Anyway, that might have been the reason that Blame through in the clunker in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.