Nashoba's Key races

[The Indomitable DrugS]

$300,000 Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap (gr. I, Race 9, 4:30 p.m.), Fillies & Mares 4 & Up, 1 1/8 Miles (All Weather)
PP. Horse, Weight, Jockey
1. Sweet Belle (KY), 114, Tyler Baze
2. Double Trouble (BRZ), 117, Rafael Bejarano
3. Good Mood (IRE), 113, Michael C. Baze
4. Say You Will (IRE), 114, Joseph Talamo
5. Dawn After Dawn (FL), 116, Victor Espinoza
6. Zenyatta (KY), 116, David R. Flores
7. Down (MD), 113, Martin Garcia
8. Nashoba's Key (CA), 122, Garrett K. Gomez

This was actually the last time David Flores would ever be named to ride Zenyatta. A few weeks later Zenyatta ran in the Apple Blossom on the same day that Flores mount El Gato Malo was favored to win the Santa Anita Derby.

[richard]

Quite the commanding presence over that surface . Even with her unorthodox ride at Delmar she just dominates . She seemingly intimidates her opponents too by setting up right off them , letting them know what's in store .

[10 pnt move up]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

This was actually the last time David Flores would ever be named to ride Zenyatta. A few weeks later Zenyatta ran in the Apple Blossom on the same day that Flores mount El Gato Malo was favored to win the Santa Anita Derby.

I thought it was Bob Black Jack he rode but yea it was the SA Derby.

Flores only got the initial mount by luck anyways when Smith was on vacation (think that was it), they wanted a route race to go at HP and it did not fill so they went 7/8ths a week later. Mike had worked her for a long while before the first race.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

I thought it was Bob Black Jack he rode but yea it was the SA Derby.

The Mig rode BBJ in the SA Derby.

The worst part is that I don't think Flores retained the mount on El Gato Malo when he won his next start after the SA Derby in the Lone Star Derby.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

The Mig rode BBJ in the SA Derby.

The worst part is that I don't think Flores retained the mount on El Gato Malo when he won his next start after the SA Derby in the Lone Star Derby.

Nope he didn't, Bejarano rode him at LS.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

I'm sure Flores has to feel really good about that.

The amusing thing about the Nashoba's Key VS Zenyatta match-up that wasn't - was that I was all prepared to root for Zenyatta like a loud rowdy 9-year-old girl would. I would have pulled for her with every fiber of my being. I loved Shirreffs as a trainer, my E-mail and some passwords are old horses he trained about ten years ago - I really liked her first three wins and most of all Nashoba's Key's fans annoyed the living hell out of me and Zenyatta didn't have a single annoying fan yet that I witnessed.

Those two would have taken turns beating each other. Zenyatta would have probably taken a few more even though stylistically NK would have been a match-up problem and seemed to like Del Mar better than Z.

Just the gridlock it could have caused dividing those fans would have been wonderful.

[asudevil]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Nope he didn't, Bejarano rode him at LS.

It's ironic because The Mig was second on Cerin's horse named Leonides. He rode a great race.

[miraja2]

Nobody says "Zenyatta isn't that good and is ridiculously overrated" quite as skillfully (and indirectly) as DrugS.

[smuthg]

When did Joe T. lose the mount on Nashoba's Key?

[letswastemoney]

Originally Posted by smuthg

When did Joe T. lose the mount on Nashoba's Key?

When she lost a race sometime in January 2008. It was a turf race and the pace was slow. Nashoba's Key couldn't overcome the slow fractions for this one (I forget the winner's name) and finished 2nd. Gaines wasn't happy.