Zenyatta sure to be wronged by vindictive number nerds

[The Indomitable DrugS]

The Beyers aren't out for yesterday's SA races yet - but Zenyatta ran 6 points faster than Sidney's Candy did in his San Felipe victory.

The longshot maiden Stephen's Got Hope - who was 7th in a MSW race last time out - finished 5th beaten 5 lengths behind Sidney's Candy.

Erebia finished dead last of 7 in Sidney's Candys race - beaten all of 5.75 lengths. His previous lifetime best figure is 80.

Lets assume Erebia ran well enough while finishing last to equal his best lifetime number of 80 - that would give Sidney's Candy a 90 and Zenyatta a 96.

Dance To My Tune would get a 94 for running 2nd to Zenyatta - which would be the best figure of her life in career start #30.

In fact, Pretty Kathrine would get a 86 for finishing 7th. That would mean that she also ran a lifetime best number - by open lengths - in career start #16 - while only managing to beat a single horse in a field of eight.

In other words ... it's pretty impossible to justify Zenyatta getting anything more than a 96. Even that number is really stretching it.

She's obviously going to get a lower number in that glorified workout than the 100 RA got yesterday in defeat. I can only imagine the outrage.

John Shirreffs is a God.