BEYER: Defining Zenyatta's historical role
 

Andy Beyer with a pretty definitive fleshing out of Zenyatta's context.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...092903591.html

I just read that not 5 minutes ago... Hope he has body guards :)

This is exhausting. I hope she retires after this weekend.

Yawn.....does this have anything to with his inability to properly produce speed figures for synthetic surfaces that mean anything? Also, isn't her Oaklawn number on dirt one of the best of her career? Whatever Andy.

No need. I'm sure the people most likely to go after him just had their head implode. Is there anybody left standing in California?

beyer
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...110703043.html

Well, I'm still upright :D

I admit I'm a Zenyatta fan, but I'm a fan of any horse that can impress and entertain me, and Zenyatta does both. It does her a disservice to try to pin the label of "one of the all time greats" on her. She's very good at what she does, she entertains the spectators and makes it exciting by closing like she does but she should have had a more challenging career if her handlers truly wanted to have her labeled "all time great". She's no Secretariat but it's not fair to say she's the California equivalent of Peppers Pride.

I'm looking forward to seeing her this weekend, she puts on a great show... But I'm also looking forward to seeing Richard's Kid :o

Very good article as usual. Citing the poor record of dirt horses running on synthetic in the BC has nothing to do with the ability of synthetic horses to run on dirt.
His opinion is that in the one race where she faced decent horses the competition was compromised by the surface. What nobody really knows is she could be the one who is being compromised. The million dollar question.

DC...have a great time :tro:

I laughed.

He had a year to think about it, and he retracted his article. So now when Zenyatta wins this years classic, he can refer to the 2009 article in which he said she was great. Politics in the future Andy?

No.

pathetic

Pathetic is the most recent Hovdey blog.

Ateam - her first race at Oaklawn on the dirt is not one of her best beyers? Where does it rank? I don't have all of her races in front of me but for some reason I am thinking that was one of her best.

so did i. didn't you know horses win 18 races straight all the time? including the breeders cup classic. wait a minute alot of these horses don't even run that many times anymore. boy, she stinks....lol. thanks for the article its a real eye opener. theres two or three really good horses racing in the whole country.....i guess shes not one of them andy. your supposed to be so good with your crappy numbers....do something useful and tell me who is going to beat her. i took history in school and history never cashed me a ticket.....lol. in fact, i think that involves looking ahead......i don't need your stupid "history" lesson.

Here are some amusing quotes from the wonderful world of facebook about this column ...

NY Times Molly Jo Rosen:


Bruno De Julio:

The guy's strategy for the BC was to throw out all the dirt horses, yet he still couldn't come up with Zenyatta as the winner. I guess he's consistant.