There\'s not much for me to say that hasn\'t already been said, but I will add (to P-Dub, especially) that if she wins the BC Classic this year, she won\'t be considered an all-time great, she\'ll be the greatest racehorse that ever stepped on a racetrack. Period. (I already think she is one of the all time greats, no issue there). No other horse could ever come close to matching her record of top class efforts year after year -- however you wish to measure it. A six year old still racing in this day and age, where most (even the best) are done by 3 or 4? Never losing? All those grade I\'s? Winning the BC classic on synthetic and dirt, two years in a row? You could go on and on, but no other horse (in ages past or today)comes close to those accomplishments. You want to discuss brilliant horses who ran a few amazing races in their careers (Rachel being a great example), fine, but to win over that many years and surfaces -- it\'s not rare, it\'s impossible. I\'ve been one of her biggest fans, and I didn\'t think she would win last year, and I think this year\'s field will be much better, so I have no clue really what she\'ll do. I almost wish she wouldn\'t even run in it, because she has nothing to prove to me. As far as Beyer, look, he was really cutting edge about 20 years ago, you know? Seriously. Does anybody really care at this point what he says? To say she is a synthetic specialist is complete lunacy. No one who knows anything at all about racehorses could say that with a straight face. Perhaps, the cushion track at Hollywood kept her sound (for whatever reasons) over the years -- you want to say that, fine, makes some sense to me, but to say she\'s a synthetic specialist when she\'s run her best races on dirt?? I mean you can write that crap and get paid for it? What a country we live in! If we\'re still at the point of debating or denigrating Z\'s virtues as Beyer seems to be, we\'ve missed everything. The carnival came to town and went and we haven\'t even gotten out of bed.
