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Originally Posted by CSC
I'm glad you asked that Danizg, I was in a hurry posting this afternoon and I may have been misunderstood.
Let me start in saying RA is a fantastic horse, when I referred to one dimensional I didn't mean her running style, in which she has shown a high crusing speed and the ability to kick on. Really I haven't seen many horses that have this innate ability. It's a special talent.
What I was referring to was she hasn't shown the dimension to win on Synth(other than a non stks Keeneland race) as she has on dirt. Until she does this is what I mean't by one dimensional. Like it or not we are in a new age of racing on 3 surfaces. I don't expect all horses to be great on both turf and dirt when Cigar was mentioned in comparison to RA, it is true he was no great shakes on turf, but it was somewhat an unfair comment to criticize him in the same vein as I critiqued RA since there was no poly around when he raced why should he be held accountable for this?
The fact is we are in a new age of racing and horses may have to adapt to both poly and dirt to be considered great, which explains my assertion that atleast Zenyatta has shown she can win on both. So when I said superior I only mean't she was superior in this way, not that she was a better horse.
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zenyatta won once on dirt, rachel once on poly. so, i don't quite get your 'atleast Zenyatta has shown she can win on both' statement, since you seem to completely ignore the fact that rachel has the same 1/1 record on polycrap that zen has on dirt.
if you don't think a main track horse has to run on turf, why would you think a poly horse has to run on dirt, or vice versa? dirt is not synonomous with poly by any means. the fact that rachel can win on any type of dirt track, fast, good, sloppy, and at a multitude of tracks, in a variety of ways, should show you all the dimensions you should require of a horse.