5/29-30 (BEL): Vagrancy (G2); NYB Stakes; Met (G1), Sands Pt. (G2)

[Travis Stone]

This should be interesting... Quality Road is hands-down the leader for Horse of the Year at this point. Now there's plenty of time to go, and yes, he's not a 10f horse, but lots of funky scenarios could manifest themselves between now and the end to help elevate the interest level with the whole Rachel/Zenyatta thing losing steam.

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

This should be interesting... Quality Road is hands-down the leader for Horse of the Year at this point. Now there's plenty of time to go, and yes, he's not a 10f horse, but lots of funky scenarios could manifest themselves between now and the end to help elevate the interest level with the whole Rachel/Zenyatta thing losing steam.

Quality Road will be the leader for Horse of the Year when he crosses the Rockies again.

[letswastemoney]

The Mosses are wasting a lot of time running Zenyatta in the Vanity if they want HOTY.

If their goal is to just relax and hold the streak record though, kudos to the Mosses.

[Smooth Operator]

Didn't catch the Met

How did QR's effort stack up against the gold standard performance (GZ) for the race?



Never mind … think we already know the answer…

[booner]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

Didn't catch the Met

How did QR's effort stack up against the gold standard performance (GZ) for the race?



Never mind … think we already know the answer…

Hard to match Ghostzapper's performance. One of my favorite races.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

Didn't catch the Met

How did QR's effort stack up against the gold standard performance (GZ) for the race?



Never mind … think we already know the answer…

You're right, Ghostzapper is totally going to beat out Quality Road for HOY now.

I'm as big of a GZ fan as anyone, but since you didn't see the race, QR was absolutely terrific today. He battled through a contentious pace, completely broke the heart of Warrior's Reward around the turn and still had more than enough to hold off the perfect-trip Musket Man in 1:33.11. Face it, your girl's actually going to have to come run in some real races if Shirreffs wants HOY over this monster.

With all of that said, I don't think QR wants to run a step further than nine furlongs, so if he makes it to the BCC as the favorite, I'll be betting against him.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

Didn't catch the Met

How did QR's effort stack up against the gold standard performance (GZ) for the race?



Never mind … think we already know the answer…

It was damn close.

And I'm a huge Ghostzapper guy.

For what it's worth- it should be a 121 Beyer.

[Smooth Operator]

The usual post-race tard-fest over at TC


So MM gets a 118 or so, phil?

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

The usual post-race tard-fest over at TC


So MM gets a 118 or so, phil?

Correct... although I wouldn't be surprised if they revise the number down because it was a closer margin, even though they shouldn't.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by philcski

Correct... although I wouldn't be surprised if they revise the number down because it was a closer margin, even though they shouldn't.

They absolutely shouldn't. Musket Man is a nice horse and he ran a huge race.

NT