Rachel confirmed for Personal Ensign

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Originally Posted by Danzig

but....it's true.


keep reading from those with a zenyatta bias how she travelled to the ab to take on rachel as tho it was a brave act. john shirreffs is a smart man, and a savvy trainer. he hasn't enjoyed the successes he's achieved by being otherwise. what better time to take on a good horse than after a long layoff? shirreffs had every advantage going in, and he knew that. he had a horse that hadn't missed a beat, who hadn't had a tough season the previous year. everything was right for him, and wrong for rachel-it's so obvious.
the fact they haven't done anything different with the mare since, and won't, is also abundantly clear. she won't leave california. i'll be surprised at this point if she leaves before becoming a broodmare.

But now, after Azeri's been retired, those same east coast elite acknowledge Azeri's greatness and say maybe those fields she beat were not so bad after all. They will eventually with Zenyatta too -- it just will be years after she is retired.