Zenyatta-Outstanding

[Silver Charm]

One minute you think she is beat and then another think Mike Smith and her toyed with them the whole way......

[TGJB]

Toying schmoying. Everything else aside, that was a pretty good horse race.

Weight, weight, weight. Bet they don\'t try that again. I wouldn\'t.

So we\'re back where we were. Who\'s gonna put up the money for the race? Love to see it happen at Saratoga. They\'re on the same schedules now, it could happen.

[sighthound]

A great race to watch!

I don\'t want a match race.  Can\'t match up two horses with such different running styles.

[richiebee]

I got goose bumps...

[Silver Charm]

2nd that emotion

[TGJB]

Vic got them on his vocal chords.

[jimbo66]

Silver,

For a guy who has been on this board for years and years, you still have trouble diagnosing what you see.

Zenyatta ran another excellent race.  She ran down a horse who got first jump and got 9 lbs on her and who is a pretty damn good synthetic horse.  But Mike Smith was not \"toying\" in the stretch.  That might be the most often I have seen him hit Zenyatta, he stopped with the whip about 20 feet from the wire, when he knew it was measured.  (far from a \"toying\")

I don\'t know, I give up predicting Zenyatta to lose.  I thought the weight and tactical ability of St. Trinian\'s would be too much for her.  Zenyatta is just the rare horse that runs her race every single time.  She doesn\'t have bad races.  All the rumors about how badly she was training were either false or irrelevant.  

I still think Rachel is more brilliant than Zenyatta, but perhaps Zenyatta\'s consistent form is its own form of brilliance.

Time to get the big fillies together.  I think waiting for the Breeders Cup will be anti-climactic as I don\'t believe either filly can beat Quality Road.  One coming 2nd to QR while the other runs 3rd, won\'t mean much.  Prefer to see a race where the big girls go at it without QR.   There are 2 or 3 big races at Saratoga for mares, I believe.  

Let\'s see the matchup while they are both in form.

[covelj70]

That was unreal.....holy cow.

[jbelfior]

WOW!!!

I got beat by a legend!!!  No excuses. St. Trinians ran her eyeballs out carrying 9 less pounds and the great one ran her down anyway.


That\'s why this is the greatest sport. How about a million dollar purse for the Go For Wand? Let\'s get it on!!!!.....Zenyatta 130......Rachel 126....


Good Luck,
Joe B.

[Dana666]

No doubt! One of the greatest ever, and the best horse I\'ve seen in my life next to Secretariat. She was particularly amazing today. I\'m sure it was the fastest number of her life -- the track was dead today, she was 5 wide, and carried 129 LBS -- a mile and 1/8 in 1:49 flat! No words can describe her. I\'m glad I\'m alive to see such a horse run.

[MO]

A rare treat. Kudos to TVG for great coverage.

[jack72906]

That was fun....and chilling. What a race!

@jimbo...Does QR want 10f? Anything under that he\'s the best IMO. Not sure he wants to go that far.

[Silver Charm]

Jimbo it was Quarter Horse race down the stetch. She away big weight and a 2 length headstart and won wrapped upin the last 50 yds!!

[TGJB]

Yeah, wrapped up. What race were you watching?

This was a pretty good ride by Smith, by the way. Didn\'t go wide until the end of the turn, and it made the difference.

[jimbo66]

Jack,

I know a lot of people, including some of this board\'s best handicappers, think that Quality Road wants no part of 1 1/4.  I am not convinced.  yes, he lost twice at that distance last year, but both races were on wet tracks where he appeared to not like it and in one of the races was stuck down inside, not the spot for a big long strider like him.  He is salty at any distance.

But this weekend is for the girls.  Two big performances.  Not sure what the numbers will show, but to my eye, I am still not thinking Rachel is all the way back.  She blew the first turn to a degree, again.  Something i don\'t remember seeing her do at all last year (but she has done it in all three races this year).  

Hopefully they schedule it this summer, it would be the highlight of summer racing.  Have to believe that it would be the most awaited race in the past 20 years, at least more than any race I can think of.