Horse of the Year

[mbahadur]

Originally Posted by Danzig

as for people talking about zenyatta in the classic, don't get your hopes up. and as for beating 'the birds', mine that bird hasn't won since may-just how good is he really, when he's yet to back up what is looking more and more like a fluke win? and beating summer bird and mine that bird puts you on par with rachel, not ahead of her.

Zenyatta's main competition in the Classic will come from European horses with strong turf form, not from "the birds". Zenyatta could easily finish further ahead of Mine That Bird in the Classic than Rachel did in the Preakness. I would take Einstein (who has proven synthetic form and won the Big Cap at Santa Anita) to finish ahead of "the birds".