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Right now I would almost certainly bet on Quality Road and Rachel Alexandra in a dirt race against Zenyatta. Beyond that? Who knows. The 3yo crop sure doesn't look like much, but it is always possible that somebody in the crop (Ice Box? Super Saver? somebody else?) continues to improve and therefore turns into a legitimate 9f+ horse. |
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Just more nebulous nonsense from BBB |
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![]() What's wrong with Quality Road at 9f?
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![]() The way Pletcher's horses are running, nothing. The question is can he keep it up the rest of the year?
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![]() He is the only one I see that has run on dirt with real ability, and that includes super saver. I could be wrong about that horse but I think he got lucky to get 10 furlongs last week.
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"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"...Voltaire |
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Must be boatloads of RA lovers out there who want to see Z slip up SOOOOOOOOO bad I'm enjoying this TO THE FULL. ![]() |
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Like others have stated, most owners have zero interested in running on a joke of a surface at HP. Zenyatta has proven she loves synthetic 14 times.....yay. She is a great synthetic horse. Running a 15th time in The Vanity is borderline ridiculous and weak. If she was to retire now she will go down in history as a horse who was very good on a surface a majority of the good horses don't take to. How many turf horses does the world really remember? Not many. That's where her legacy is heading. As far as RA vs Rachel? Obviously RA isn't the same horse she was when she had her historic campaign to win HOY in 2009. So far in 2010 Zenyatta is the better horse. She has won two races she was supposed to win...unlike RA. RA's reputation is far from tarnished....that's pretty hilarious to say as she ran two good races and got beat at the end. Hopefully The Moss's just run one more pretend race in So-Cal and head out to Saratoga this summer. If she were to at least run somewhere else myself and others would have a lot more respect for her (even if she loses). Run on the same surface as the BC. Do something DIFFERENT.....otherwise running at Hol and Dmr this summer will be more of the same old boring campaign which cost her HOY last year. |
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![]() I don't expect to see Z race outside of SoCal a third time. Shirreffs has already expressed his fear of shipping Z over the Rockies, and we know she will likely be scratched again if she faces an off track. Shirreffs isn't going to waste flying her over the Rockies again just to find an off track at one of those real dirt courses. He is going to need an ironclad guarantee of dry weather before he puts her on a plane again, and we all know there are no ironclad forecasts, especially in the weather business.
So this will be her schedule for the rest of the year: Vanity, parade at Hollywood, Clement Hirsch, parade at Del Mar, Zenyatta Hcp, parade at Oak Tree, retirement announcement the week of the BC, post-retirement parade at Hollywood.
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![]() We get along fine. Plus, disdain for you is a great and easy uniter.
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![]() Have started thinking about what to say if she wins her 17th. Any suggestions?
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look out, pepper's pride?
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![]() This one will not be topped.
And the timing was tremendous.
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![]() "Zenyatta romps again by a measured 1/2 length...do the names of the others matter?"
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![]() "No need to ask she's a Smooth Operator...ZENYATTAAAAAAAAAA!!"
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Or, F. U. Stone Gossard! Or, does anyone here have amphetamines to help wake me up? Or, she has the speed of Ruffian, the class of Personal Ensign and the will to win of Peppers Pride? |
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