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Originally Posted by The Bid
I think Personal Ensign, Zarkava, Goldikova, all great racemares. I think Diva, was a very good horse, and I think w/ Ruffian its just impossible to say. I think Zenyatta is better horse than all of those, yes. Based on her accomplishments. Based on beating the best boys of her time period, and missing by a nostril after being visably better than any of the boys on the dirt. Having the modern record for string wins. Her consistancy, durability, failure to ever give a bad effort. I mean Cannon there are a lot of things that make her a great racemare.
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So Makybe Diva winning three consecutive melbourne Cups doesnt trump a Classic win and a 2nd?
So Goldikova's three consecutive mile wins all over boys and 8 overall victories against males doesnt trump Zenyatta's?
So Personal Ensign basically doing the same thing as Zenyatta (beating males once, winning streak over three years) on a leg with 17 screws in it isn't as good as Zenyatta?
In 1983 All Along won the Arc on October 2. On the 16th she won the gr1 Rothmans by 2. On the 29th she won the Turf Classic by 8. On the 12th she won the DC International by 3. She was voted Horse of the year. Zenyatta hasnt accomplished in her career what that mare accomplished in 7 weeks.
The thing is that the boys Zenyatta beat hardly stack up, she isnt undefeated and she has very few races on her card that were anything other than beating up on weak horses. Her consistency was commendable and a great credit to Sheriffs and the consecutive streak was nice but when you take into consideration the context of accomplishment, there she is just one of many really good mares that have run in recent times.