Horse of the World

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Alabama Stakes

if Swain was so good at passing hosses, how come he got beat in there

Outside of her win in the BC Classic on the Pro-Ride at SA over Gio Ponti -- Zenyatta passed a bunch of relative garbage in all of her wins.

She had no raw speed and was very mediocre inside of 9 furlongs. She was not campaigned in a sportsmanlike fashion nor was she assigned true handicaps with weight spreads. A few different races were even stripped of handicap and changed to stakes condition events.

In the Breeders Cup Classic at Churchill Downs she got the dreamiest pace setup a race horse could ever hope for and Smith rode a good race to keep the big slug from losing contact with the field and not getting her momentum stopped as she picked her way through the pack in arguably the weakest BC Classic dirt edition of all-time. The freaking BC Juvenile went only 3 points slower. It was the sad sun-dial collapse-fest Classic.

Anyone who thinks Zenyatta was as good a racehorse as Swain is painfully stupid.