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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
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.
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Your first 2 sentences is my point... She has always overcome it, and you can argue, even in defeat she did again today.