Zenyatta to the Beldame after Saturday

[Smooth Operator]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

She ran an 8 race campaign last year at 7 different tracks against all kinds of company. I wouldn't exactly call not going to a race on a thrid surface ducking out on the rest of the year.

LOL ... RA ran against one kind of company last year ... BAD

[10 pnt move up]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

LOL ... RA ran against one kind of company last year ... BAD

are you trying to tell me Mine That Bird is not top flight competition...cmon. Calvin Borail would beg to differ!

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

LOL ... RA ran against one kind of company last year ... BAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Rachel Alexandra would have been smoked in the BC Classic. She's the wrong type of horse for that race .. her running style is horrible for it .. and her trainers stats are absolutely beyond brutal in synthetic races.

Life Is Sweet ... who was a very mediocre Eastern turf horse till she was transformed by Shirreffs ... she would have beat the living piss out of RA over a synthetic track in the Distaff.

I never said that I thought she would win. I just feel that you can't say she was ducking anybody based on the schedule she did run. It would be a lot easier sell for the Z camp if the BC was held on a dirt track.

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

LOL ... RA ran against one kind of company last year ... BAD

Comical.........Oh yeah best of luck this weekend.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

I never said that I thought she would win. I just feel that you can't say she was ducking anybody based on the schedule she did run. It would be a lot easier sell for the Z camp if the BC was held on a dirt track.

I know and I agree. I don't blame the RA camp for not keeping her in training and shipping out there after a hard year in a race where she was almost certain to run dramatically below her dirt form.

[Crown@club]

Originally Posted by CSC

I've had this discussion before, contrary to belief I have moved on. But if others want to beat this topic to a pulp, this is fine by me.

Doesn't seem like it.

Originally Posted by Scav

Obviously there are strays within data, but if you take some surveys and attached it to age, my belief is you would see that the younger generation has no problem with synthetics, and probably prefers it.

I'm not 40....yet...and i can't stand this fake crap. This coming from a person who use to post Hollywood Pick4's on Friday Nights before they installed the rubber. Now I just look to see what they have on turf, unless i find a certain first time maiden.