Most Absurd Things Said by 'Respected' Journalists About Zenyatta

[hockey2315]

I'm sure we can compile a pretty impressive list. . .

[hockey2315]

Jay Hovdey:

The mundane details of her eventual mating in the coming year are still being ironed out – much the same ado was made over the marriage of Queen Victoria –but the idea that Zenyatta could replicate herself by the mere act of insemination and foal birth is nuts. There was never, and never will be again, a Thoroughbred quite like Zenyatta.

http://drf.com/news/zenyatta-legend-takes-her-final-bow

[hockey2315]

Jay Hovdey:

In the meantime, take or leave this opportunity to say goodbye to one of the mostest hosses of a lifetime, and figure that Dylan was singing about her when he wrote the last part of "Eternal Circle" --

As the tune finally folded/
I laid down the guitar/
Then looked for the girl/
Who'd stayed for so long/
But her shadow was missin'/
For all of my searchin'/
So I picked up my guitar/
And began the next song

http://drf.com/blogs/aloha-zenyatta

[hockey2315]

Steve Haskin:

Many of us who cast our thoughts and opinions down on paper for a living have unashamedly left behind the pragmatic world of reason and logic and entered the sentimental world that Zenyatta inhabits. Once there, the compulsion to gush in public and paint scenes of flowering hills and colorful characters from My Little Pony is too strong to resist.

http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/horse...rney-ends.aspx

[hockey2315]

Joe Drape (I could probably quote every line he's written about her):

The New York Times has a policy of not allowing reporters to vote for awards, but if I had a vote, I would cast it with the more than 72,000 people who gave Zenyatta a warm and raucous reception as she returned to the grandstand with a tearful Mike Smith on her back. . .

My vote is with the people. Zenyatta is not only Horse of the Year. She’s the Horse of a Lifetime.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/sp...&ref=joe_drape

[hockey2315]

I'd post something from Pricci, but his website doesn't work.

[pointman]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

Jay Hovdey:

The mundane details of her eventual mating in the coming year are still being ironed out – much the same ado was made over the marriage of Queen Victoria –but the idea that Zenyatta could replicate herself by the mere act of insemination and foal birth is nuts. There was never, and never will be again, a Thoroughbred quite like Zenyatta.

http://drf.com/news/zenyatta-legend-takes-her-final-bow

Sounds like he wants to personally do the insemination. Does he go by Smooth Operator on this forum?

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by pointman

Sounds like he wants to personally do the insemination. Does he go by Smooth Operator on this forum?

Wow, I just had a Sumitas moment.

Okay well I don't know if this will count as it's not by journalist.

It is, however, by David Milch.

Respectfully, maybe not absurd but just a tad over the top? Teensy bit?

It’s the same sort of illusion felt if we are lucky enough to be blessed with children. When you see a baby you feel that whatever tragedy will ensue, at that moment tragedy is a stranger. The longer we are able to sustain that sense of a horse’s uncompromised, unqualified, transcendent excellence the more we become aware that it is an illusion, and every time that the horse seems to transcend the limits we know ultimately will express themselves, the more deeply we feel simultaneously joy and the sense ultimately that joy, for all its genuineness, is predicated on a sense of being and feeling which life will not sustain.

http://www.drf.com/news/final-and-deepest-gift-zenyatta

[ateamstupid]

On another note, as long as the lie that there is a Horse of the Year 'debate' is being propagated, Zenyatta and her reality blurring effect on otherwise smart people are still relevant.