Questions for Zenyatta Fans. . .

[Port Conway Lane]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

1. If Zenyatta is always "toying" with her vastly inferior opponents, then how did she win this year's Apple Blossom by such a convincing margin?

I don't think she's toying with anyone. She has got to be the luckiest racehorse that ever lived not to have lost at least one of her races.

It's very complex. On one hand she is at a pace disadvantage in many of her races. On the other hand the surface she runs on supposedly enhances a horse with her running style.

Some people believe synthetic surfaces make "good" dirt horses look bad and "bad" dirt horses look good. If you believe this then the explaination for her performances against crappy horses is the surface. If she ran on a "real" surface she would blow away these nags. She's actually bred for turf which is supposed to be beneficial for horses who run on synthetic. That theory of course can be destroyed on a case by case basis as there are no absolutes.

The competition in the races she has run in this year has been pathetic. Somewhere along the line you would think that because she barely beats these pathetic horses that one of them could simply step it up and she would be in trouble. After all, what horse is lucky enough to eek out 1 1/4 length< victories time after time against the same horses without one of them turning the tables. If she's not blowing these horses away in any of her races then it stands to reason that she's not that much better than them.

The AB was one of the most ugly G1 dirt races run this year. If RA had shown up I simply can't envision how Zenyatta could have possibly won. Only the luckiest horse in the world could have.