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Old 10-13-2010, 03:08 PM
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Old 10-13-2010, 03:31 PM
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What is she going to eat each day leading up to the announcement that they are passing on the Breeders Cup?
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Old 10-13-2010, 03:58 PM
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What is she going to eat each day leading up to the announcement that they are passing on the Breeders Cup?
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Old 10-13-2010, 04:10 PM
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Is anyone else as taken with the white in her ears as I am ?? It makes her look as magical as she really is...
They DO know that's cotton in her ears, right? Right?
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Old 10-13-2010, 04:18 PM
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They DO know that's cotton in her ears, right? Right?
That's what so many people don't get, as to why I harp on and on about idiots.

It must be stopped!!
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Old 10-13-2010, 04:37 PM
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Looks like that site is actually operated by Breeders Cup. When do you think they're going to come out with Haynesfield2010.com?
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Old 10-13-2010, 04:41 PM
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They DO know that's cotton in her ears, right? Right?
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Old 10-13-2010, 06:43 PM
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I refuse to look at this site until the draw.
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Old 10-13-2010, 06:38 PM
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What is she going to eat each day leading up to the announcement that they are passing on the Breeders Cup?
In my heart of hearts, I agree.

I just don't think she'll be going...
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Old 10-13-2010, 07:56 PM
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In my heart of hearts, I agree.

I just don't think she'll be going...
I hear people say that, and I'm not entirely clear why. I think they believe she's better on dirt than synthetic and are looking forward to proving it in a dirt BCC. I don't think traveling once is a problem, but I'd be nervous if she'd just come from the Beldame. It's just a feeling I get that she'd not handle it well, and maybe that's why they didn't take her around after all. Wasn't the first race post-Apple Blossom this year a squeaker? We get that she likes the distance. Why would they bail? I don't think they think she's gonna lose. Is there something that looks less than great about her that I've missed out on? I don't get how they get HOY if one of the other contenders wins it, and she doesn't bother to show.
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Old 10-13-2010, 09:54 PM
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i'm figuring that holly park and oak tree will come up with some special race to send her off in. that the mosses will say they're cali thru and thru, and they want zenyatta to end her career there. that she's won a bcc, she owes no one, and they want to treat her fans to seeing her one more time, blah blah blah. she'll win some bs race against more pseudo competition, win her 20th...

and then the mosses and her fans will bitch and moan when she doesn't win hoy for all her efforts this year.

that's my prediction.


i'd imagine they're hoping for an upset in the classic. if quality road and blame don't win, she's got a shot at hoy without showing. she shows, and loses? there goes hoy, and there goes the record for wins at the same time. they want that record more than anything.
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Old 10-13-2010, 10:46 PM
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That would be a heartbreaking annoncement on the website Zenyatta2010.com if they announce she's not running.

"We...uhh....are sorry to say that...there was no point to this website after all...."
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Old 10-14-2010, 02:19 AM
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i'm figuring that holly park and oak tree will come up with some special race to send her off in. that the mosses will say they're cali thru and thru, and they want zenyatta to end her career there. that she's won a bcc, she owes no one, and they want to treat her fans to seeing her one more time, blah blah blah. she'll win some bs race against more pseudo competition, win her 20th...

and then the mosses and her fans will bitch and moan when she doesn't win hoy for all her efforts this year.

that's my prediction.

i'd imagine they're hoping for an upset in the classic. if quality road and blame don't win, she's got a shot at hoy without showing. she shows, and loses? there goes hoy, and there goes the record for wins at the same time. they want that record more than anything.
This seems "spot on."
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Old 10-14-2010, 12:32 AM
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I hear people say that, and I'm not entirely clear why. I think they believe she's better on dirt than synthetic and are looking forward to proving it in a dirt BCC. I don't think traveling once is a problem, but I'd be nervous if she'd just come from the Beldame. It's just a feeling I get that she'd not handle it well, and maybe that's why they didn't take her around after all. Wasn't the first race post-Apple Blossom this year a squeaker? We get that she likes the distance. Why would they bail? I don't think they think she's gonna lose. Is there something that looks less than great about her that I've missed out on? I don't get how they get HOY if one of the other contenders wins it, and she doesn't bother to show.
I can only answer this for myself my dear...

It's just a feeling.

Maybe it's the cynic in me... the pessimist.

It's easy for all of us to say well I can see them thinking this and that but hey we are here to discuss things, right?

I can see them being afraid. They changed their mind(s) about retirement... I can see them changing it about this too.

Fear that she will lose, that her luck will run out... it's funny cause i AM a fan of hers and yet i realize that saying these things can be taken in a sarcastic way.

I mean no disrespect or anything...

I can just see them not wanting to push it and any little thing being used as a reason for retirement.
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Old 10-14-2010, 01:12 AM
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I can only answer this for myself my dear...

It's just a feeling.

Maybe it's the cynic in me... the pessimist.

It's easy for all of us to say well I can see them thinking this and that but hey we are here to discuss things, right?

I can see them being afraid. They changed their mind(s) about retirement... I can see them changing it about this too.

Fear that she will lose, that her luck will run out... it's funny cause i AM a fan of hers and yet i realize that saying these things can be taken in a sarcastic way.

I mean no disrespect or anything...

But maybe they are also just full of bullshit

I can just see them not wanting to push it and any little thing being used as a reason for retirement.
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