I believe they have - and he is Jay Hovdey.

Easy, the attendance for Zenyatta's last race was about identical to the attendance for Rachel Alexandra's.

The attendance for Mission Impazible's last race was much higher than the both of them.

Yeah, you would think a bobblehead giveaway would be a lot more popular than a t-shirt giveaway.

this just makes me appreciate the upcoming race with blame and quality road that much more.

To be fair, the card at PID this weekend is probably more interesting than what Del Mar is running.

yeah,o.k.

PID isn't your cup of tea? Ok, try MNR. That Saturday card might be the best betting card in the country this weekend.

Rather than come east, she's gonna go into hiding in a convent, teaching a group of misfit nuns to dance. A bunch of marketing guys from Belmont find out where she is and try to horse-nap her, but she escapes, drawing the Pope for a final grand performance at a packed cathedral and causing the crowd to proclaim that Zenyatta is evidence that God exists. Can I get an amen? ;)

why does she HAVE to go east? why can't anyone come west? It is a grade 1 that's unrestricted, you know

False.

which part?

Definitely not "unrestricted" as I don't believe Zenyatta's gentlemen callers are allowed to participate in the Hirsch.

um.. okay.. obviously unrestricted was the wrong term.. Any FILLY OR MARE 3yo or up could enter..

Ummm....because no one wants to run on synthetic in California unless it's the Breeders Cup?

Almost all of the best Eastern dirt horses who went out there for the two Breeders Cup races struggled with it... most of them ran too bad to be true.

But look at a race like the Pacific Classic.

* 2009: A deep closing router with a turf sire - Richard's Kid .. took forever to get through his conditions racing on the dirt at LRL and Philly Park - he goes out there and wins the Pacific Classic.

* 2008: Go Between ... an Eastern turf horse from a stictly European female family - he made his first dozen or so starts in the East. He goes out and wins the Pacific Classic.

* 2007: Student Council ... an Eastern based horse sired by Kingmambo who made his first 20 or so starts in the East goes out there and wins the Pacific Classic.

All 3 Pacific Classics on synthetic have been won by slowpoke Eastern horses with turf pedigrees.... but those aren't the kind of Eastern horses that get any respect. The dirt horses that go out to Cal and bomb are the ones who get the respect.

Horses like Richard's Kid, Student Council, and Go Between would have been murdered by So. Cal dirt horses if they shipped out to try the Pac Classic before Poly was put in.

:tro::tro::tro:

I just find this argument a little shallow, when it was on dirt I cant recall a shipper the last decade.

Ecton Park, Perfect Drift, Medagla D' Oro.

What about Good Reward (06), Perfect Drift (04-05), Colonial Colony (04), Medaglia d'Oro (03), and Bonus Pack (02)?

They were all eastern-based at the time they ran in the Pacific Classic pre-synthetic.

NT

Waiting for the 10 pt. argument redirection in 3, 2, 1...

I laughed.

the clement hirsch, wow who knew....no one ships out west for THIS race so the fact no one did this year supports nothing.

Guess again.

The immortal Rinterval shipped out West for the race.

It was just last year when I watched her get smoked at PID.

dont remember her, was she any good?

Oh, so you were referring to the Hirsch, a race which included an eastern shipper as the 2nd place finisher in its last running on conventional dirt!

NT

She's in against Zenyatta .. Bejarano up.

So the answer to his question is no.

Sure, she won the G1 Sarcasm Handicap.

is that at PID?

Yes. Happy Ticket prepped in it before shipping West and running 2nd in the Hirsch.

Happy Ticket, I do remember her.

Who won that race?

Healthy Addiction. A Sadler horse who bombed in the Distaff.

I had actually forgot about the race till NTamm mentioned it.

Guess who rode Healthy Addiction at one time ...?

Mikey Smith!!!! Yayyyyy!!!

was she the 32k claim that wore brown and yellow silks? i remember now.

Love the way she teases all you maggots.

And then proceeds to beat the mighty Rinterval by a desperate head. Surely she was thinking "ZOMG this'll totes get the Rachelites hopez up LOL" the whole stretch. In addition to her dance moves, she also has a sharp sense of humor too!