Baffert, McAnally & Co. on Zenyatta

[The Indomitable DrugS]

I have as much respect for Baffert's handicapping opinions as he has for my training opinions.

Here's RA's Kentucky Oaks win: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNkBuJtds58

She won it under even less urging than Zenyatta needed in the Apple Blossom.

Now ... instead of taking repeated looks back and "gearing down" RA .. lets say that Borel had hit RA with the whip 25 times through the stretch and he was riding her all-out with desperation.

Do you think that would have made her run any more than say maybe 1/5th of a second faster? Of course not.