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Originally Posted by smuthg
Isn't there only one call that really matters in racing, the one that has 17 straight "1"s in it for Zenyatta.
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Pepper's Pride had 19 straight 1's and retired sound and undefeated.
Difficulty of schedule and quality of performance both matter a whole lot more to me than results. It's not hard to look visually impressive when you're going by pathetic horses like Dance to My Tune and Taptam in the late stages of a race. A Euro reject who really loves rubber tracks almost beat her despite racing for the first time off of a 3 month layoff and losing a shoe on the far turn in her most recent race.
Obviously Zenyatta would crush the hapless Pepper's Pride, but she's mostly stayed home and dined on cupcakes for much of her career. The few times she's really needed to deliver a somewhat respectable performance to win she has done it, and her trainer is the best out there at pointing for a goal and getting the peak effort.
I don't have a whole lot of respect for our turf horses and synthetic horses. They're junk in relation to whats in Europe and probably no better than a lot of countries where Americans hardly know racing even exists. Our dirt horses are almost always so wildly superior to other countries that it isn't even funny. Zenyatta, Nashoba's Key, Informed Decision, Ventura they are truly our all-time great rubber females. They are the four prettiest girls in the entire history of Camp Fat. To Zenyatta's credit, she's had two wins when she's left her fat camp stomping grounds ... the problem was neither performance was that inspiring and her competiton wasn't even close to being on par with the attached Grade 1 status.