7/4 (HOL): Flawlessly; Oaks; Vanity; Triple Bend; Mile; ++

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

I have no clue what was up with zenyatta but she looked terrible in the post parade and really got tired, though she moved to soon trying to race ride the 5.

Without getting lectured (in poesy) by pgrden on the finer points of the horse genome, Zenyatta takes after 1/2 sister, Balance in a few ways. The main one being she reportedly is a very bad moving horse in the mornings. Note she was scratched twice at SA this winter (officially for "other" reasons), nearly missed the Milady with a "foot" ailment, and also didn't debut until her late 3yo year.

A lot of what I saw today, IMO, however, was the step up to 9f, given her running style, was not in her favor (though perhaps the pace scenario confounds that). In that regard, going 10f against males is doubly dicey...

[CSC]

The French horse Satan's Circus ran a very nice race yesterday at 14-1, Ioritz Mendizabal is a top jockey from France and when he made the trip you sort of had to believe he thought she had a very good chance, just sorry she didn't win. She was the overlay of the day I thought.