BEYER: Defining Zenyatta's historical role

[Port Conway Lane]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

What's kind of amusing - is that all of Zenyatta's Beyer figures this year have been unquestionably inflated.

I'm not talking 1 or 2 points - more like 4 to 8. You've got races where everything behind her is running a new lifetime top and thats what it takes to get her to 100.

I've never seen anything like it.

To be more accurate the entire field in the Santa Margarita ran a new beyer top except for the last place finisher and Switch ran a new top. Other than that no horse she has run against has been given a top lifetime figure.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by Port Conway Lane

To be more accurate the entire field in the Santa Margarita ran a new beyer top except for the last place finisher and Switch ran a new top. Other than that no horse she has run against has been given a top lifetime figure.

Rinterval got a lifetime top for the Hirsch.

[Port Conway Lane]

thx, that is correct.

[Port Conway Lane]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Rinterval got a lifetime top for the Hirsch.

So if the beyers are accurate the last two fillies who finished second to her ran the race of their lives.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Port Conway Lane

To be more accurate the entire field in the Santa Margarita ran a new beyer top except for the last place finisher and Switch ran a new top. Other than that no horse she has run against has been given a top lifetime figure.

Just from her last race at Del Mar - Rinterval and Princess Taylor both were.

St. Trinians broke into the side of the gate - got a horrid ride - lost a shoe - and still equalled her lifetime top - which was a race like 5 back.

Gio Ponti hasn't come within 9 or 10 points of his BC Classic fig this year.

Obviously - none of that has anything to do with her figures being inflated. There are other routes on these cards.

[Port Conway Lane]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Just from her last race at Del Mar - Rinterval and Princess Taylor both were.

St. Trinians broke into the side of the gate - got a horrid ride - lost a shoe - and still equalled her lifetime top - which was a race like 5 back.

Gio Ponti hasn't come within 9 or 10 points of his BC Classic fig this year.

Obviously - none of that has anything to do with her figures being inflated. There are other routes on these cards.

Sry, missed Princess Taylor too. Gio Ponti has nothing to do with this years races. St. Trinians is another example of a horse who finished second to her and supposedly ran the race of her life.

[hockey2315]

Maybe a little bit of her greatness just rubs off on everyone around her.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

Maybe a little bit of her greatness just rubs off on everyone around her.

Not on her fans on the internet.

[nomad]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Not on her fans on the internet.

Now THAT was funny.

Gotta say I'm a big Z fan, seen her 3x and never fails to amaze & thrill me. There are no numbers or stats for that.
I think she will win the BC classic again. The question is...who will be second?

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by nomad

I'm a big Z fan, seen her 3x and never fails to amaze & thrill me. There are no numbers or stats for that.

Okay, and if Andy Beyer writes a column claiming that you haven't seen her three times, or that she sometimes fails to amaze and thrill you....he would probably deserve harsh criticism.
However, pretty much everything he said in this piece happens to be true.