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Not a big horse race fan. But its just about time for Zenyatta and her Jock (Mike Smith) to do their ACT
A American Horse, she wins today, she will be the greatest ever
Come on Girl
Not a big horse race fan. But its just about time for Zenyatta and her Jock (Mike Smith) to do their ACT
A American Horse, she wins today, she will be the greatest ever
Come on Girl
Just waited to long to make her move, lost by a nose
Off to the game
Just waited to long to make her move, lost by a nose
Off to the game
Don't think she waited too long, just started too far back. No favorite should be that far off the lead to start the race. IMO it looked to me as if they wanted to prove she could come from a long way back and it backfired. In the last race of her career they should have turned her loose and let her blow away the field.
Don't think she waited too long, just started too far back. No favorite should be that far off the lead to start the race. IMO it looked to me as if they wanted to prove she could come from a long way back and it backfired. In the last race of her career they should have turned her loose and let her blow away the field.
I agree with that much talent in the field the game plan was confusing to have her so far out at the 3/4 pole.
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
??” Thomas Jefferson
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I agree with that much talent in the field the game plan was confusing to have her so far out at the 3/4 pole.
At the watering hole I was at, when the race started everyone was laughing at a horse being so far behind that early, not knowing it was her. Used to go to Arlington and the other Chicago tracks at least once a month and never saw a horse have to come from that far back.
At the watering hole I was at, when the race started everyone was laughing at a horse being so far behind that early, not knowing it was her. Used to go to Arlington and the other Chicago tracks at least once a month and never saw a horse have to come from that far back.
Debussy came close in the Million this year.
... At the end, of the storm, there's a golden sky. And the sweet silver song of the lark. Walk on, through the wind, walk on, through the rain, though your dreams be tossed, and blown. Walk on, Walk on with hope in your hearts, and you'll never walk alone!
I'm behind you 100% Bradley Braves, You'll Never Walk Alone! BEAT STATE!
Don't think she waited too long, just started too far back. No favorite should be that far off the lead to start the race. IMO it looked to me as if they wanted to prove she could come from a long way back and it backfired. In the last race of her career they should have turned her loose and let her blow away the field.
It's very normal for her to be 12-18 lengths off the leader at any point in a race. The problem was that when she began to make her move at the 3/4 pole, she was not in her usual spot. She likes to start the stretch 3-5 wide on the grandstand side, but she got caught on the rail. It took her that extra half a second she needed to win to take advantage of a gap on the outside to even come close to winning. Good move by Mike Smith given the circumstances and she is still undefeated in my book. (Also, the commentators would state and Smith would later confirm that a possible reason she began the Classic SO far off this time because she was getting dirt kicked up in her face. She wasn't used to this, and it threw her off pace in the early stages. Around the 1/4 pole, Smith had to ask her to pick it up, something he has never had to do until he lays into her in the final 1/4.)
... At the end, of the storm, there's a golden sky. And the sweet silver song of the lark. Walk on, through the wind, walk on, through the rain, though your dreams be tossed, and blown. Walk on, Walk on with hope in your hearts, and you'll never walk alone!
I'm behind you 100% Bradley Braves, You'll Never Walk Alone! BEAT STATE!
I also read that she seemed a little off from the start! Happens to the best. She still ran one heck of a race! She'll have some major stud fees coming her way. Imagine her and John Henry's sire!
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
??” Thomas Jefferson
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Would be interesting to see her and Gio Ponti's as well!!
... At the end, of the storm, there's a golden sky. And the sweet silver song of the lark. Walk on, through the wind, walk on, through the rain, though your dreams be tossed, and blown. Walk on, Walk on with hope in your hearts, and you'll never walk alone!
I'm behind you 100% Bradley Braves, You'll Never Walk Alone! BEAT STATE!
She drinks Guinness after a good workout! My kind of girl!
Bradley 72 - Illini 68 Final
???It??™s awful hard,??™??™ said Illini freshman guard D.J. Richardson, the former Central High School guard who played prep school ball a few miles from here and fought back tears outside the locker room. ???It??™s a hometown thing. It??™s bragging rights.??™
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