tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801337795495652051.post1191727940456381410..comments2009-10-11T19:45:43.436-04:00Thoroughbred Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505501317110881454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801337795495652051.post-30771757067540658102009-10-10T00:55:32.745-04:002009-10-10T00:55:32.745-04:00To Knight Sky: Rachel lover are we?<br /><br />Maybe you are not aware that east coast great Personal Ensign (ranked #49 top greatest racehorse) hardly ever traveled out of her homebase. On her last year, top mares avoided PE like the plague just like the top mares are avoiding Zenyatta this year.<br /><br />As far as getting fooled, you probably believe that the 2009 Woodward was really a grade 1 race eh? DeTara, Macho Again, Bullsbay...yeah LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801337795495652051.post-8401989858481505212009-10-07T13:33:19.872-04:002009-10-07T13:33:19.872-04:00Zenyatta is a great race mare. I&#39;m really surprised that you would question that.<br /><br />She has faced the very best in her division. I&#39;m a strong proponent of the idea that you can&#39;t duck races outside your division.<br /><br />Xtra Heat was a great sprinter. She didn&#39;t need to face Flute around two turns to prove that.<br /><br />Likewise, Zenyatta doesn&#39;t need to face Summer Bird to prove she&#39;s a great race mare. She races in Grade 1 company, and that&#39;s enough for me.<br /><br />I agree that if we&#39;re talking about other worldly transcendence, then she needs to beat males, but her accomplishments are legitimate.Eddie D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13554792681227665669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801337795495652051.post-15598750333296284892009-10-07T12:06:26.372-04:002009-10-07T12:06:26.372-04:00Celebrating &quot;perfection&quot; is fine and dandy for a blog piece Ed. But the public has come to their senses this year - especially east of the Rockies. And they&#39;re not fooled.<br /><br />Perfection does not equal greatness.<br /><br />The consensus around the web these days is that as long as Zenyatta stays out west, avoiding racing against the best of her colleagues, her perfect record will be tainted with a an asterisk. <br /><br />That asterisk has a question attached to it:<br /><br /><b>*</b> <i>What might have been had she faced the very best? </i>The_Knight_Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497100877439699363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5801337795495652051.post-87798579209348775352009-10-05T21:40:58.566-04:002009-10-05T21:40:58.566-04:00Great article! (:Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com