Again, I must say that I'm glad she's not trained in America or by John Shirreffs. She would have surely gone in the Opera today if he had her. Top horses do special things that others can't. That's why they are top horses. Shots at historical things don't come around every year. That's why you've got to take them when they come. You've got to love the owner/trainer of Zarkava. We keep hearing excuse after sorry excuse about how Zenyatta is so lightly raced and there's no need to push her, etc. Well, this filly is also lightly race and there was no need to push her to win the world's best race. But they did and they were rewarded. I hope the Zenyatta people were watching that and can take a shot of balls and do the same with Zenyatta. If Curlin does run in the BC and Zenyatta races against and beats him and Big Brown, I think that she, not Zarkava would go down as the best female runner in the world.
I don't know if the competition she's facing is really that great but Zarkava just put her name on the list of top Euro females. She's a special horse.
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The real horses of the year (1986-2020)
Manila, Java Gold, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Go for Wand, In Excess, Paseana, Kotashaan, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alphabet Soup, Formal Gold, Skip Away, Artax, Tiznow, Point Given, Azeri, Candy Ride, Smarty Jones, Ghostzapper, Invasor, Curlin, Zenyatta, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Havre de Grace, Wise Dan, Wise Dan, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Arrogate, Gun Runner, Accelerate, Maximum Security, Gamine
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