Oak Tree renames the Lady's Secret the Zenyatta

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Originally Posted by ateamstupid

If you could figure out how to use the quote button, I might know what point you were referring to. You do realize Macho Again beat Einstein in the Foster right? Kind of flies in the face of your otherwise ironclad "Einstein beat Macho Again today so Zenyatta is better than Rachel Alexandra" corollary.

The point is now, what kind of horse is MA. After RA was all out to beat him, he has been blasted by SB, and off a freshening where he was the favorite a well beaten horse today. He was also beaten by a horse that has run decent races on poly and just happened to be a distant loser to Z. Now are all these races absolutely true efforts, probably the answer is yes and no on this one, but even allowing for 1 off effort by both neither has come back to run a race worthy of a Whitney winner or a horse that was held to a higher rep for pushing RA to the limit. Whether one wants to see this or not, today's Clark flattered Z more than it did RA, even if it was arguably a small win.